Scope and Contents
CONTENTS OF BOXES
Box 1 -- 2 Scrapbooks, containing press cuttings, 1870-1953
5 Letters to Simpson Misc. Memorabilia from Awards of Honorary Degrees
Box 2 -- Notebooks 1-6
Box 3 -- Notebooks 7-14
Box 4 -- Folder 1 Off-prints of articles published by Simpson 1896-1953
-------- Folder 2 Off-prints of reviews by Simpson
-------- Folder 3 Off-prints of Simpson's colleagues
-------- Folder 4 Misc. printed matter
Box 5 -- Folder 1 Notes on proofreading and punctuation
-------- Folder 2 Notes, facsimiles, correspondence related to proofreading
-------- Folder 3 20th-Century theater programs
-------- Folder 4 "Monthly Letters" of William Poel
Box 6 -- Folder 1 Photostats for "paradoxes and problems"
-------- Folder 2 Photostats of Jonson texts
-------- Folder 3 Misc. photostats and facsimiles
-------- Folder 4 Notes on Jonson
-------- Folder 5 Notes for "Love's Martyr"
-------- Folder 6 Notes, correspondence relating to Jonson portraits
-------- Folder 7 Notes on Jonson's library
-------- Folder 8 Plates, proofs for "Masque of Queens"
-------- Folder 9 Notes on Lucy, Countess of Bedford
-------- Folder 10 Notes on Shakespeare plays
-------- Folder 11 Notes for "Shakespearean Punctuation"
-------- Folder 12 Typescript of "Shakespeare's Latin"
Box 7 -- Folder 1 Notes for teaching of Greek, 1883-84
-------- Folder 2 Lecture notes for course in Bibliography, 1913-19
-------- Folder 3 Notes, lecture notes on Matthew Arnold
-------- Folder 4 Personal items
-------- Folder 5 Bibliographical Society and Oxford Bibliographical Society materials, 1915-53
-------- Folder 6 Misc. notes by Simpson
-------- Folder 7 Notes on Chapman's Homer
-------- Folder 8 Notes on Huchon(?)
-------- Folder 9 Notes on Corpus Christi (Oxford) MS 325
-------- Folder 10 Notes on Phillips MS 9624 (Brodbent)
-------- Folder 11 Tutor play fragment (Wadham College, Oxford)
-------- Folder 12 Notes of Trinity College (Cambridge) MS B.14,22
-------- Folder 13 Notes on Cicero
-------- Folder 14 Materials from Oriel College (Oxford) Sexcentury, 1926
-------- Folder 15 Misc. typescripts
Boxes 8-10 -- Correspondence
Dates
- 1870-1953
Creator
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The Percy Simpson Papers are the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For further information, consult the apropriate curator.
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Extent
5 Linear Feet (15 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
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Abstract
Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and printed material documenting aspects of the scholarly career of Percy Simpson, particularly his edition of Ben Jonson's Works (1925-52) and his professional relationships with his colleagues, especially C. H. Herford, R. W. Chapman, William A. Jackson, Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford, and Eugénie Sellers Strong.
- Abraham, Charles John, 1814-1903
- Bang, W. (Willy), 1869-1934
- Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever), 1866-1954
- Chapman, R. W. (Robert William), 1881-1960
- Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
- Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937
- Garrod, H. W. (Heathcote William), 1878-1960
- Greg, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959
- Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold), 1853-1931
- Jackson, William A. (William Alexander), 1905-1964
- Jenkinson, Hilary, Sir, 1882-1961
- Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Learning and scholarship -- Great Britain
- Masefield, John, 1878-1967
- Milford, Humphrey Sumner, Sir, 1877-1952
- Raleigh, Walter, 1861-1922
- Scholars -- Great Britain
- Simpson, Percy, 1865-1962
- Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943
- University of Oxford -- Faculty
- University of Oxford -- Intellectual life
- Title
- Guide to the Percy Simpson Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Beinecke Staff
- Date
- 1993
- Description rules
- Beinecke Manuscript Unit Archival Processing Manual
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
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New Haven, CT 06511
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