Guide to the Percival Hunt Papers, 1918-1968 UA.90.F25
Repository
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Title
Percival Hunt Papers
Creator
Hunt, Percival
Collection Number
UA.90.F25
Extent
1.25 Linear Feet(4 boxes)
Date
1918-1968
Abstract
This collection contains the professional and personal papers of Dr. Percival Hunt, Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh from 1921 to 1948.
Physical Location
Thomas Boulevard, 2nd Floor, University Archives Stacks 9/8/7.
Language
English
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Author
Marianne Kasica.
Publisher
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Address
University of Pittsburgh Library System Archives & Special Collections Website: library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections Contact Us: www.library.pitt.edu/ask-archivist URL: http://library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections
Previous Citation
Percival Hunt Papers, 1918-1968, UA.90.F25, University Archives, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Preferred Citation
Percival Hunt Papers, 1918-1968, UA.90.F25, University Archives, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
Copyright
The University of Pittsburgh holds the property rights to the material in this collection, but the copyright may still be held by the original creator/author. Researchers are therefore advised to follow the regulations set forth in the U.S. Copyright Code when publishing, quoting, or reproducing material from this collection without the consent of the creator/author or that go beyond what is allowed by fair use.
Separated Material
The Minutes of the Educational Clinic, 1925-1928, were removed and put into Chancellor Bowman's files: UA.2.10, 1921-1945, Box 19, FF 146.
Acquisition Information
Per Professor Hunt's instructions, his papers were collected from his residence by Ruth Crawford Mitchell and deposited with the University. This was done at some point after his death in July of 1968 (see Univeristy Archives Personal Files).
Biography
Percival Hunt was a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh from 1921 until his retirement in 1948. He was chair of the English Department from 1922 until 1941 and built it into one of the country's foremost.
Hunt was born on January 9, 1878 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the son of Henry Clay Hunt and Helen Marr Garrison Hunt. He was a graduate of the University of Iowa and began teaching English at that university in 1904. He was in charge of the English Department at Iowa when he resigned in 1921 to come to the University of Pittsburgh. During his tenure, he instituted and taught freshman composition, short story writing, poetry, description and narration, and Shakespeare.
Upon his retirement from the University of Pittsburgh in 1948, he turned his efforts to writing books. Samuel Pepys in the Diary was published in 1959, Fifteenth Century England appeared in 1962, The Gift of the Unicorn, essays on writing was well received in 1965 and To What Green Altar? was privately published posthumously in 1969.
Percival Hunt died on July 8, 1968 at the Home for Aged Protestants in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Marianne Kasica on November 17, 2009 based on an inventory done by archives staff at the time of acquisition.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Scope and Content Notes
This is a collection of the personal and professional papers of Dr. Percival Hunt, a professor in the English Department of the Univesity of Pittsburgh from 1921 until his retirement in 1948. Several files deal with the drafts and publication of his books, Samuel Pepys in the Diary and 15th Century England. He also wrote books about the teaching of composition and those are reflected in the collection as well. Of particular interest is a diary that Hunt kept on his trip around the world.
Subjects
Corporate Names
University of Pittsburgh -- Faculty
Personal Names
Morrisey, John
Jameson, Storm
Beaver, Harold
Hunt, Percival
Pepys, Samuel
Hunt, Percival
Genres
Diaries
Memorabilia
Clippings (Information artifacts)
Correspondence
Postcards
Other Subjects
Voyages around the world
Authors, American -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
English teachers -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
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