Nicholson (Watson) Papers, circa 1903-1921

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Summary

Title:
Watson Nicholson Papers
Dates:
circa 1903-1921
Creators:
Nicholson, Watson
Extent:
4 Linear Feet (8 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Watson Nicholson Papers (M0157), Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

Literary manuscripts, research notes, copies of research material, clips, lectures, essays, printed material. Predominantly research material and manuscripts of published works on British theatre. Some unpublished material. Other subjects include; censorship, Victorian era, Thackeray, Defoe's JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR, and various English literature topics.

Biographical / historical:
Missing Title
Date Event
1866, Sept. 23
student through junior year at Indiana U.
born, Pendleton, Ind., son of Abraham and Maria (Davis) Nicholson.
1884 - 1887
teacher in Indiana schools
1892
A.B., Stanford
1892 - 1894, 1897 - 1901
teacher in California schools
1895
M.A., Harvard Graduate School
1895 - 1897
teacher at Harvard
1897, Sept. 1
married Florence Emily Beaver
1903
Ph.D., Yale
1903 - 1905
engaged in university extension teaching
1905 and 1907
traveled and studied in Europe
1905 - 1908
instructor, English Literature at Sheffield Scientific School (Yale)
1910 - 1915
Clubs: Authors' (London); Stanford, Fortnightly, Harvard, Yale
Author: A Syllabus of Six Lectures on American Literature with bibliography, 1903; The Struggle for a Free Stage in London, 1906; discovered all the sources of Defoe's famous Journal (1913), previously regarded as fiction, published as Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year, 1919; Anthony Aston, Stroller and Adventurer, 1920.
worked in British Museum
Member: Harvard Teachers' Association, A.A.A.S., American Academy of Political and Social Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Chi.
Hon. Member: Mark Twain Society
1951, Dec. 2
died - last address: Michigan
Custodial history:

Gift of W. Nicholson, ca. 1950.

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About this collection guide

Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2019-02-26 09:52:11 -0800 .

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Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item] Watson Nicholson Papers (M0157), Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Department of Special Collections, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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