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A. Marshall Elliott papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0142
Scope and Contents
The collection of Johns Hopkins professor of Romance Languages, A. Marshall Elliott, is formed largely by the holographic copies of manuscripts of Marie de France assembled by Professor Elliott from libraries in Europe. The papers are the research for his proposed work on the 12th-century French poet whose writings and background were not well known in the late 19th century/early 20th century. The fables and lays [lais] are written in French and include mostly manuscripts from the...
Dates:
1898-1909
Found in:
Special Collections
Eleanor Turnbull papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0055
Abstract
Eleanor L. Turnbull was a poet and translator born in Baltimore in 1875. The Collection consists of correspondence, translations of Spanish poetry, notes, and personal items. Most of the collection dates from the 1930s through the 1950s, and deals with Turnbull's work as a translator.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1874 - 1960; 1874 - 1992
Found in:
Special Collections
William Kurrelmeyer papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0002
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of over 1600 items of correspondence and manuscripts of 18th and 19th century German literary figures, as well as seven manuscripts from the 15th century. Of particular importance are the letters of Christoph Martin Wieland, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and a letter of Friedrich von Schiller.Numerous letters are addressed to Hermann Costenoble of Jena whose publishing house handled the works of Gutzkow, Gerstucker and much of the relationship between author...
Dates:
1400-1913
Found in:
Special Collections
William Wallace Whitelock papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0234
Abstract
William Wallace Whitelock, poet and author, was born in Mt. Washington, Maryland in 1869. The papers consist of four, bound scrapbooks and fourteen notebooks dating from 1885-1939.
Dates:
1885-1939
Found in:
Special Collections