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Correspondence, 1930-1972

This series consists primarily of professional correspondence, which documents Bergin's career in academe for the years 1930-1972. The files are arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent and may include letters to or from a third party, but all such letters relate in some manner to the primary individual or institution named. Correspondence in other series has been cross-referenced.

  1. Yale University -Manuscripts and Archives
  2. Thomas Goddard Bergin papers, 1930-1974

Thomas Goddard Bergin papers, 1930-1974 5.77 Linear Feet

Bergin, Thomas Goddard, 1904-1987
The papers contain correspondence; lectures; photographs; writings; and administrative, research and subject files documenting the professional life of Thomas Bergin, eminent scholar of Italian literature and authority on Boccaccio, Dante, and Petrarch. The papers mainly document Bergin's academic career and relate to his involvements with scholars, institutions, and publishers. The papers highlight Bergin's activities to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth and his administrative roles at Yale.
  1. Yale University -Manuscripts and Archives

Writings, 1937-1974

This series is divided into three sections: lectures and addresses, published writings, and unpublished writings. The bulk of the writings are from the twenty-five years that Bergin spent at Yale as a professor of romance languages, 1948-1973. The series does not document all of Bergin's scholarly writings during this period nor his extensive publications on Yale.

  1. Yale University -Manuscripts and Archives
  2. Thomas Goddard Bergin papers, 1930-1974