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Charles H. Foster Papers, 1958-1981
0.2 linear feet
Catalog Number:
M246
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Agency History / Biographical Note:
Charles Howell Foster was graduated from Amherst in 1936, received his
A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and taught at several colleges
and universities including the University of Colorado, Grinnell, and the
University of Minnesota. From 1958-1972 he served as an editor of the
New England Quarterly. Foster was a visiting professor of English
at Bowdoin from 1964-1965. While at the College he edited his grandfather's
journals, published by the University of Maine at Orono Press in 1975
as Down East Diary.
Scope and Content:
Consists mainly of correspondence, 1958-1981, between Charles H. Foster and
Herbert Ross Brown, and correspondence, 1965-1969, between Foster and Louis
Coxe, regarding academics, scholarship, and Bowdoin affairs. Both Brown and
Coxe were long-standing Bowdoin English professors.
Microfilm copies of the original Benjamin Browne Foster journals are
available.
Cite as:
Charles H. Foster Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special
Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library.
Access Restrictions:
None
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