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Percy Simpson papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 8

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

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

For further information, please consult the appropriate curator.

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

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.simpson

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.

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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Location

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