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Creator
Marchand, Leslie A., 1900-1999
Call number
Pforz Ms
Physical description
6 linear feet
Preferred Citation
Leslie A. Marchand papers, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
Repository
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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Leslie Alexis Marchand (1900-1999), a leading authority on Lord Byron, was born and grew up in central Washington state, graduating from the University of Washington in 1922. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1940, and spent most of his academic career at Rutgers University. His most noteworthy publications are his three-volume Byron: a Biography (1957), and a twelve-volume edition of Byron's personal writings, Byron's Letters and Journals (1973-1982). This collection consists of a typescript memoir, various correspondence, working papers, and Byron-related memorabilia.

Scope and arrangement

This collection consists of a typescript memoir, various correspondence, working papers, and Byron-related memorabilia.

In the memoir (405 p.), Marchand describes his early years in the Pacific Northwest, his experiences as one of the first faculty members of the University of Alaska in the early 1920s, travels, especially his first visits to Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, graduate school, his teaching career, his research on Byron's life and work, professional activities, interactions with colleagues, and other topics. There are also a color photograph of Marchand, taken in 1983, and a copy of the galley proof of his biographical sketch for the 1997 Who's Who in America.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift, Marchand, Leslie, 1996

Related Material

Papers concerning Marchand's friendship with Frederic W. Goudy (1865-1947), the type designer and printer, are in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library

Using the collection

Location

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

Access to materials

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