Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Bradford Allen Booth Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1936-1968
Collection number: 507
Creator: Booth, Bradford Allen, 1909-
Extent:
15 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Bradford Allen Booth (1909- ) was a professor and chairman of the Department of English at UCLA. He was the editor of
Nineteenth-Century Fiction and wrote many books. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Bradford Allen Booth Papers (Collection 507). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Booth was born on April 9, 1909 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; BS, Allegheny College, 1930; MA (1932) and Ph.D (1935), Harvard
University; instructor, University of Tennessee, 1935-36; instructor (1936-40), assistant professor (1940-48), associate professor
(1948-54), professor in 1954, and chairman of the Department of English in 1965, UCLA; founded and became editor of
Nineteenth-Century Fiction in 1945; published works include
A Cabinet of Gems (1938),
Trollope's Autobiography (1947),
Letters of Anthony Trollope (1951),
Trollope's North America (1951), and
Anthony Trollope: Aspects of His Life and Art (1958).
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Booth, Bradford Allen, 1909- --Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles--Dept. of English--Faculty--Archival resources.