Frank, Tenney: letter

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 AL209
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: Frank, Tenney: letter
Date(s)	: 1922
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 2 sheets
Name of creator(s)	: Frank | Tenney | 1876-1939 | classical scholar and ancient historian

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Tenney Frank was born in Kansas in 1876. He was educated at the University of Kansas and the University of Chicago, receiving his PhD from the latter in 1903. He was Professor of Latin for many years at Bryn Mawr College and subsequently Johns Hopkins University. Frank's research into Roman history and classical literature was influential. He died in Oxford, England in 1939.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from Frank Tenney of the American Academy in Rome, Porta S Pancarzio, Rome (29), Italy to Sir Herbert Warren, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1 Nov 1922. Thanking him for his generous letter, occasioned by the publication of and commenting on Frank's Vergil: a biography (1922). 'I have now settled down for a few months at the American Academy and shall have time to think about Vergil and repent the too hasty publication of that book'. Referring to 'our friend, Professor [W P] Mustard' [Professor of Latin at Johns Hopkins University and Frank's colleague], who drew his attention to Warren's Essays of Poetry and the Poets (1909). Autograph, with signature.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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Conditions governing access:

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Finding aids:

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Archival Information

Archival history:

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Found inserted in a copy of Frank's Vergil, formerly belonging to Warren and annotated in Warren's hand - classmark: Bb [Virgil - Appendix - Frank]

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Aug 2008