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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Arthur Garfield Kennedy papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0044
Physical Description:
39 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1903-1954
Summary: Personal and
professional correspondence, notes, reviews, notebooks, bibliography of writings on the
English language, and other papers. Material relates to specific works of Dr. Kennedy on
English philology and current use of English, Stanford University during World War II,
scholarly groups to which Kennedy belonged, Stanford groups, and official Stanford agencies.
Correspondents include Hardin Craig,, Helge Kökeritz, Lucia B. Mirrieless, Clark S.
Northrup, Louise Pound, John S. P. Tatlock and Philip Sheridan.
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Kennedy family, 1968.
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.
Arthur Garfield Kennedy Papers (SC0044). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of English Philology at Stanford (1914-1945; emeritus 1945-1954) and Chairman of
the English Department (1941-1945).
Arthur Garfield Kennedy was born on June 29, 1880, in Weeping Water, Nebraska. He received
his A.B. from Doane College in 1902, and his A.M. degree from the University of Nebraska in
1905. He taught high school English and German until 1912 at which time he came to Stanford
where he received his Ph.D. in English Philology in 1914. He began his career of teaching at
Stanford in 1914 as an instructor, and advanced steadily in the department to the rank of
Professor of English Philology in 1929. From 1941 until his retirement in 1945 he was
executive head of the department. He died on April 21, 1954.
Dr. Kennedy's several books include a
Bibliography of Writings on
the English Language
(1927);
A Concordance to the Complete
Works of Chaucer
, with J.S.P. Tatlock (1927);
Current
English
(1935);
English Usage (1940); and
A Concise Bibliography for Students of English (1940)
The contents of this collection consists primarily of Dr. Kennedy's correspondence with
academic colleagues, though some personal letters are included. Of special interest is his
wartime correspondence with Philip Sheridan, one of his graduate students, which contains
accounts of Stanford and the English department during the war years. Also included in the
collection are materials dealing with Dr. Kennedy's various published works, copie sof his
earliest publications on grammar, some grade books from his years as a teacher, and copies
of
A concise Bibliography for Students of English and
Bibliography of Writings on the English Language.
Personal and professional correspondence, notes, reviews, notebooks, bibliography of
writings on the English language, and other papers. Material relates to specific works of
Dr. Kennedy on English philology and current use of English, Stanford University during
World War II, scholarly groups to which Kennedy belonged, Stanford groups, and official
Stanford agencies. Correspondents include Hardin Craig,, Helge Kökeritz, Lucia B.
Mirrieless, Clark S. Northrup, Louise Pound, John S. P. Tatlock and Philip Sheridan.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- Stanford.
English literature -- Study and teaching.