%eadnotat; ]> PUBLIC "-//Stanford University::Libraries::Dept. of Special Collections::Manuscripts Division//TEXT (US::CSt::M0243::Anderson Family Papers)//EN" "m0243.sgm"Guide to the Anderson Family Papers, 1809-1933Department of Special Collections

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Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, 1999 June 1.Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Steven Mandeville-Gamble.Finding aid is written in English.Guide to the Anderson Family Papers, 1809-1933Collection number: M0243Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CaliforniaContact InformationDepartment of Special CollectionsGreen LibraryStanford University LibrariesStanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.eduURL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/Processed by:Special Collections staffDate Completed:1973

Descriptive SummaryAnderson Family Papers, 1809-1933Special Collections M0243Anderson, Melville Best, 1851-1933.2.5 linear ft. (500 items).Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.Administrative InformationAccess Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Provenance

Gift of Mrs. Robert Van Vleck Anderson, 1973.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Anderson Family Papers, M0243, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical Note

Family of Scottish-English origins which came to the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The family settled on the East Coast, later moving West; the Andersons contributed to society in the fields of theology, education and literature. Melville Best Anderson was an author, translator and teacher whose particular interest was the work of Dante. From 1891-1910, he taught in the English Department at Stanford University, serving as first chairman of the department.

Scope and Contents

The Anderson Family Papers is a collection of the papers of Melville Best Anderson. Most of the material is related to Anderson's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. The material consists of: 1) correspondence to and from Anderson, 2) typescripts and manuscripts of poems, 3) miscellaneous typescripts and manuscripts re: Dante's Divine Comedy, 4) newsclippings, magazine articles and books and 5) other miscellaneous items.

Container List11Correspondence to and from Melville Best Anderson - 1909, 1913, 1915-1910, 1918-1922, 1924, 1926, 1929.12Correspondence to and from Melville Best Anderson - 1931-1933 and no date.13Correspondence between Anderson and Dr. John H. Nash re: revision of Anderson's translation of Divina Commedia. 14Miscellaneous poems, some re: Dante's Divine Comedy, typescripts and manuscripts.15Typescripts of poems, some re: Dante's Divine Comedy, alphabetical by title (A-O).16Typescripts of poems, some re: Dante's Divine Comedy, alphabetical by title (P-Z).17Typescripts and manuscripts of poems, alphabetical by 1st line (A-Z).18Typescript of Anderson's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, includes and introduction(?): “England and Florence in the Time of Dante.”19Miscellaneous poems and verses, typescript and manuscript, no order.110-12Typescripts of parts of Dante's Divine Comedy with manuscript notes.213Final revision of Date's Divine Comedy. 214Miscellaneous typescripts and manuscripts, includes a review by Anderson re: Dante's Divine Comedy - review mentioned in correspondence, Dec. 17, 1926.215Miscellaneous typescripts.216Pamphlet re: Dante (in Italian?).217Miscellaneous1) biography of Melville Best Anderson,2) leaflets, pamphlets - printed ephemera,3) Paget Toynbee: Some Personal [UNK] 218Newsclippings, magazine articles, etc.