Scope & content
The Harcourt Brown papers contain correspondence, course materials, and office files dated from circa 1940 to 1957. Series I, Brown files, includes course materials and information regarding students, especially graduate students, in the Department of French and the Department of Romance Languages at Brown University. Series II comprises correspondence with Hunter Kellenberger and David Kossoff. The third series, French plays, contains materials regarding the play Amphitryon, including student papers about the play, and the playwright Virgilio Scapin. Series IV, Annals of Science, contains correspondence, arranged alphabetically. Brown was the Associate Editor of Annals of Science from 1935 to 1974. The final series, Additions, contains a range of unsorted materials appended to the collection.