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Call Number: SC0478
Creator:
Weymouth family.
Creator:
Weymouth, Frank W. (Frank Walter),
1884-1963.
Title: Weymouth family papers
Dates: 1891-1964
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear feet
Summary: These papers include correspondence, lectures, articles, student
essays, poetry, and short stories of Frank Weymouth, Alice Jenkins Weymouth, Oliver P.
Jenkins, and others. Photographs and negatives in the collection include images of
family members, beach scenes, crabbing activities in Anacosta, Washington, clamming in
the San Francisco Bay area, and Mt. Rainier expeditions.
Papers of Frank Weymouth include letters from his parents while he was a student at Stanford, 1906-1912; his letters to Alice Jenkins prior to their marriage; Stanford student memorabilia; pocket diary for 1905; lectures for comparative biology, 1934; professional correspondence with Donald C.G. MacKay, 1932-46, concerning their mutual interests in crabs, MacKay's work with Julian Huxley, and other matters; and letters from friends, 1905-63. Correspondents include Stanford classmate Ernest G. Preisker; and friends George Brammer and Elsa Dresbach, some of whose letters mention Kathleen Norris. Papers of Alice Jenkins Weymouth include compositions from English classes at Stanford, 1906-10, botany notes and drawings, 1904-05, and several letters. Papers of Oliver P. Jenkins include several commencement addresses, lecture notes on physiology, and a short story he wrote for his granddaughter.
Papers of Frank Weymouth include letters from his parents while he was a student at Stanford, 1906-1912; his letters to Alice Jenkins prior to their marriage; Stanford student memorabilia; pocket diary for 1905; lectures for comparative biology, 1934; professional correspondence with Donald C.G. MacKay, 1932-46, concerning their mutual interests in crabs, MacKay's work with Julian Huxley, and other matters; and letters from friends, 1905-63. Correspondents include Stanford classmate Ernest G. Preisker; and friends George Brammer and Elsa Dresbach, some of whose letters mention Kathleen Norris. Papers of Alice Jenkins Weymouth include compositions from English classes at Stanford, 1906-10, botany notes and drawings, 1904-05, and several letters. Papers of Oliver P. Jenkins include several commencement addresses, lecture notes on physiology, and a short story he wrote for his granddaughter.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Weymouth Family Papers (SC0478). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
These papers largely pertain to Frank Weymouth, his first wife Alice Jenkins, and other
members of the Jenkins family. Frank Weymouth was educated at Stanford University,
earning his a.b. in zoology in 1909, his M.A. in physiology in 1911, and his doctorate
in 1923. He joined the faculty of the physiology department in 1910, was appointed
Professor in 1931, and served as head of the department from 1938-1949. At his
retirement in 1949, he was appointed Professor Emeritus. He died in 1963. In 1912 he
married Alice Mabel Jenkins, who earned her a.b. in physiology at Stanford in 1911. Her
father, Oliver P. Jenkins, was a member of Stanford's first faculty and the first
chairman of the physiology department. Alice Jenkins Weymouth died in 1933; in 1943
Frank Weymouth married Mary Balsbough Deirup.
These papers include correspondence, lectures, articles, student essays, poetry, and
short stories of Frank Weymouth, Alice Jenkins Weymouth, Oliver P. Jenkins, and others.
Photographs and negatives in the collection include images of family members, beach
scenes, crabbing activities in Anacosta, Washington, clamming in the San Francisco Bay
area, and Mt. Rainier expeditions.
Papers of Frank Weymouth include letters from his parents while he was a student at
Stanford, 1906-1912; his letters to Alice Jenkins prior to their marriage; Stanford
student memorabilia; pocket diary for 1905; lectures for comparative biology, 1934;
professional correspondence with Donald C.G. MacKay, 1932-46, concerning their mutual
interests in crabs, MacKay's work with Julian Huxley, and other matters; and letters
from friends, 1905-63. Correspondents include Stanford classmate Ernest G. Preisker; and
friends George Brammer and Elsa Dresbach, some of whose letters mention Kathleen Norris.
Papers of Alice Jenkins Weymouth include compositions from English classes at Stanford,
1906-10, botany notes and drawings, 1904-05, and several letters. Papers of Oliver P.
Jenkins include several commencement addresses, lecture notes on physiology, and a short
story he wrote for his granddaughter.
Brammer, George.
Dresbach, Elsa, 1907-
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975.
Jenkins, Oliver P. (Oliver Peebles),
1850-1935.
MacKay, Donald C. G.
Norris, Kathleen Thompson, 1880-1966.
Preisker, Ernest G.
Stanford University--Curricula.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford University--Students.
Weymouth family.
Weymouth, Alice Jenkins, 1883-1933.
Weymouth, Frank W. (Frank Walter),
1884-1963.
Anacosta (Wash.) --Photographs.
Clams --California --San Francisco Bay.
Lectures.
Photoprints
Rainier, Mount (Wash.) --Photographs.