J. Douglas Bruce Letters to Professor Albert C. Baugh
This collection consists of three letters written from the years 1917-1918 by University of Tennessee professor of English, Dr. J. Douglas Bruce. All three letters are directed to Dr. Albert C. Baugh, a renowned English professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In the letters, Dr. Bruce discusses his work as well as Dr. Baugh's work in the field of English Literature.
Dates
- 1917 August 5-1918 July 9
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection consists of three letters written from the years 1917-1918 by University of Tennessee professor of English, Dr. J. Douglas Bruce. All three letters are directed to Dr. Albert C. Baugh, a renowned English professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In the letters, Dr. Bruce discusses his work as well as Dr. Baugh's work in the field of English Literature.
Biographical/Historical Note
James Douglas Bruce was born on December 9, 1862, in Staunton, Virginia. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1883, and then studied at the Universities of Berlin and Stassburg from 1886 to 1888. From John Hopkins University, Bruce received his PhD in 1894. He taught Modern Languages at Centre College in Kentucky (1890-1891), English and philology at Bryn Mawr (1891-1900), and English at the University of Tennessee (1900-1923). He was head of the Department of English at the time of his death on February 19, 1923, after suffering a stroke the previous week during a class lecture.
Bruce wrote numerous books, articles, and reviews. He was a member of several societies, including the English Association of Great Britain, Keats-Shelby Society of New York, Delta Kappa Epsilon, American Dialect Society, and International Chaucerian Society.
Dr. Albert C. Baugh was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and received both his master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Baugh would go on to teach there for nearly half a century. He also served as president of the Modern Humanities Research Association of Cambridge, England (1948-1950) and president of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (1960-1963). He is most known for his A History of the English Language.
Arrangement
This collection is in three folder and the items are arranged chronologically.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository