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Robert Kilburn Root Papers
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Robert K. Root was a Chaucer scholar and fourth dean of the faculty at Princeton University.
The collection consists of Root's manuscript and notes for his annotated edition of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (1926), as well as six diaries he kept between the years 1914 and 1920. Also includes numerous correspondence between Root and members of Princeton faculty and faculty at other Universities.
This collection was a gift from Mrs. Evelyn Ringler in 1990 (AM 1990-104) with additional gifts from Mrs. Ringler in 1991 (AM 1992-31) and 1993 (AM 1993-127).
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This collection was processed by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.
No appraisal information is available.
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2009
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The collection is open for research.
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Some notes are written in Latin.
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Regarding Application for Federal Employment, including Root's original application, filled out.
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Card is in Latin and contains typed print on one side and autograph notes on the reverse.
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Includes correspondence from Yale University Department of English and Yale Daily News review of lecture.
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Also includes autograph manuscript essays on 18-century English.
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First half is typed and remainder is autograph.
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"Poeta Nascitur Non Fit: Some Notes on the History of an Aphorism" and "The First Phase of the Elizabethan Attack on the Stage, 1558-1579"
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Includes "A Planetary Date for Chaucer's Troilus," "The Date of Chaucer's Medea," and "Chaucer's Legend of Medea."
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"A Report to the University Faculty by the Committee on the Course of Study"
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Also includes "Plan of Study Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts."
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One chapter describes a memorial service for President Wilson and another describes a memorial service for Princeton students and alumni who died during WWII.
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Root most likely meant "Daily" but instead wrote "Dialy" since he was only ten years-old at this time.
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Also includes a photograph of an unidentified nude man hunched over.
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Includes passport, documents appointing Root to Major in U.S. Army, War Department Certificate of Identity, and Officer's Record Book.
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Invitation to the Inauguration Ceremony for President Woodrow Wilson.
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Invitation for Inauguration Ceremony of Governor Woodrow Wilson.
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Includes letter from Woodrow Wilson to Root as well as invitation to Eleanor Randolph's (Wilson's daughter) wedding.
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Includes correspondence from the Board of Trustees, Princeton Tower Club, the Whig-Clio Society, and faculty members.
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Includes "Princeton Program for Servicemen" by Root.
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Diary is of someone close to Robert Root, possibly wife or girlfriend (?).
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Includes funeral arrangements, brief resume of Dean Root, and some correspondence.
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Includes notices of increased salary, election as Dean of Faculty and Professor of English, and granting leave of absence during war.
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Regarding History of Army Training Units at Princeton University during WWII.
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Includes photographs of Root as a 4-year-old, a child, an undergraduate at Yale, and Dean of Faculty at Princeton.
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Includes "The Pre-Christmas Antiphons," "A Discourse Delivered in the Congregational Church in North Branford by Judson A. Root," and "Description of the Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45"
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"From the Nine Unprinted MSS. of Chaucer's "Troilus" and From Caxton's and Thynne's First Editions"
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Written in "The Old Farmer's Almanack"
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Includes autograph notes by Robert Root.
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"Compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato Translated by William Rossetti"
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Contained in envelope from The Curtis Institute of Music, addressed to Mr. Alfred Brinkler.
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Manuscripts are possibly works by Chaucer. Parts and line numbers are written on the reverse side of each photograph.
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