Box 30
Container
Contains 8 Results:
P-Q
File — Box: 30, Folder: 11
Identifier: Folder 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Edward B. Irving (1923-1998), was a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania from 1960 to 1993. He also taught at Yale University. He specialized in medieval literature, but could lecture on a variety of topics from Shakespeare to James Joyce. He was a member of both the Medieval Academy of America and the Modern Language Association of America. He published several books, among them An Introduction to Beowulf which was included in Prentice-Halls’...
Dates:
1930-2001; bulk 1940-1998; Other: Date acquired: 1998
Several letters from the University of Pennsylvania regarding an opening on the faculty, 1959-11-19
Item — Box: 30, Folder: 11
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
Several of Irving?s former classmates and old friends helped with recommendations and information about the position, 10 pages
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959-11-19
Two letters from Pennsylvania State University, 1958-03-11
Item — Box: 30, Folder: 11
Identifier: Item 2
Scope and Contents
regarding teaching positions in the medieval studies courses, 2 pages
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1958-03-11
Three letters written by Irving to the Dean of the college complaining about a student named Ralph J. Plotkin, 1964-03-09
Item — Box: 30, Folder: 11
Identifier: Item 3
Scope and Contents
Irving strongly recommends that he be expelled from the college, 3 pages
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-03-09
Personal letters from John Collins Pope, 1960-12-26
Item — Box: 30, Folder: 11
Identifier: Item 4
Scope and Contents
a friend of Irving's, 31 pages
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960-12-26
Several letters of correspondence from Dan Popp, 1960-08-25
Item — Box: 30, Folder: 11
Identifier: Item 5
Scope and Contents
a former student of Irving?s who wrote both personal and business oriented letters (letters of recommendation), 17 pages
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960-08-25
Some letters from the English department at Princeton University in New Jersey, 1953-05-13
Item — Box: 30, Folder: 11
Identifier: Item 6
Scope and Contents
regarding an opening in the faculty, 4 pages
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1953-05-13
Correspondence between Irving and the Princeton University Press, 1964-08-28
Item — Box: 30, Folder: 11
Identifier: Item 7
Scope and Contents
regarding drafts of the Beowulf book Irving was working on, 4 pages
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-08-28