W.H.D. Rouse, 1918 - 1936
Scope and Contents
Correspondence in the hand of British classicist W.H.D. Rouse. 9 items total: 2 letters of a personal nature on Perse School letterhead addressed to English editor and publisher A.H. Bullen (1857-1920), one dated 30 March 1918. The remaining 7 letters are all addressed to a “Miss Lister” – this is almost certainly the H. Lister who was once a teacher at the Manchester High School for Girls and published on Classical literature. Rouse’s first three letters to Lister (dated February through December 1920) are also written on Perse letterhead and concern the death of Bullen, apparently a mutual friend. Rouse expresses concern about the future of “the press” – presumably the Shakespeare Head Press, established by Bullen in Stratford-upon-Avon 1904 in the tradition of William Morris’ Kelmscott Press. Rouse need not have worried: following Bullen’s death the press was continued by a partnership that included Oxford bookseller and publisher Basil Blackwell, and in fact is still active as an imprint of Wiley-Blackwell. The final four letters, dated between June and July 1936, are on letterhead from Rouse’s residence at Histon Manor and concern matters related to the meaning and translation of ancient Greek poetry.
Dates
- 1918 - 1936
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Biographical / Historical
William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950) was a British teacher of Latin and Greek, and a founding editor of the Loeb Classical Library.
Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
From the Collection: Danish
From the Collection: Swedish
From the Collection: Spanish
From the Collection: German
From the Collection: Norwegian
From the Collection: Persian
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Russian
From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu