Harcourt Brown (1900-1990), a professor of French at Brown University, was born in Toronto, Canada, on May 30, 1900. He received his B.A. degree in modern languages in 1925 and his M.A. degree in French in 1926, both from the University of Toronto. He taught at Queen's College in Kingston, Ontario, and at Brooklyn College and the University of Rochester in the United States before earning his Ph.D. degree at Columbia in 1934. He taught at Washington University from 1935 until 1937, when he came to Brown as a professor of French language and literature. He became interested in the history of science, and his first book, written while he was at Columbia, was
The Harcourt Brown papers contain correspondence, course materials, and office files dated from circa 1937 to 2009. 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 is comprised of correspondence. The third series, Annals of Science, contains correspondence, arranged alphabetically. Brown was the Associate Editor of
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Harcourt Brown papers, OF-1UF-B4, Brown University Archives.
The Harcourt Brown papers have been orgainzed into the following series:
Series I. Brown files Series II. Correspondence Series III. Annals of Science Series IV. French Plays
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