RARE “American Academic\" Barrett Wendell Hand Written Letter Dated 1899 For Sale

Up for sale "American Academic" Barrett Wendell Hand Written Letter Dated 1899.

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Barrett Wendell (23 August 1855 – 8 February 1921)

was an American academic known for a series of textbooks including English

Composition, studies of Cotton Mather

and William Shakespeare, A Literary History

of America, The France of Today, and The Traditions of European

Literature. He was born in Boston, the son of Jacob and Mary Bertodi Wendell. He

graduated from Harvard

in the class of 1877 with Abbott Lawrence Lowell who was later a

president of Harvard. In 1880 was appointed Instructor in English at Harvard.

He later became an Assistant Professor of English from 1888 to 1898, and a

Professor of English from 1898 to 1917, after which he was a professor

emeritus. He was also elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers. In 1904 to

1905 he travelled overseas, and lectured at Cambridge University in England,

the Sorbonne in Paris, and other French universities. After this visit he wrote

"The France of Today". He was a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum, a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society,

and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

in 1916. He received honorary degrees from Harvard, Columbia University, and an LL.D. from the University of Strasbourg in France. He

died in Boston.