Stanford Special Collections Visit Instructions

We will be journeying to Stanford's Special Collections on Thursday, April 6. The meeting begins at 12:30 and concludes at 1:30. That means you need to be in Special Collections, ready to take notes at 12:30pm. This visit will result in your Annotation Lab Report (due 4/12 by 5pm). You will be required to work from a photo of 1 or 2 pages from a single text. Be sure to also write down the citation information for this text (it's not available online).

Transportation:

Location: Green Library; enter via the Bing Wing (closest to the Oval)

Driving Time: 30 mins SJSU to the Oval (or aim your GPS for Galvez St & Memorial Way for the parking lots)

See Stanford maps Links to an external site.to help navigate once you park. Or caravan with us.

Harris Carpool:

  • 4 passengers
  • meet me at Just Below (MacQuarrie Hall) at 11:30am; we roll from there at 11:35am
  • I will drop everyone off at the Stanford East Oval and park the car in one of the lots at Galvez St & Memorial Way.
  • If you'd like to caravan to Stanford in multiple cars, meet all of us at Just Below at 11:30am, ready to walk to your car at 11:35am. Park in the 7th St. garage for quick access to your car.

Other Options:

Abigail Droge will plan to meet us at the East Oval at 12:10pm. The entrance that would be best is the Bing Wing entrance of Green Library (this is the entrance facing the main quad, with Memorial Church in it) - it's also the entrance closest to the Oval. If you get lost, call Ms. Droge (843-754-8919).

Protocols for Special Collections

Rebecca Wingfield, British literature specialty librarian

  • Students can bring in bags to the library classroom
  • Food or drink are strictly prohibited in the library (even in your bags)
  • Wash your hands before touching materials (before you arrive at 12:30pm
  • Notes should be taken in pencil or electronically (laptops allowed)
  • The library will supply pencil & paper for note taking; your own paper and pencil won't be allowed
  • Taking photos is ok on your phones as long as they will not be published on social media (Canvas for an assignment is fine, though)

Topic of the Visit (assembled by Abigail Droge)

The goal is to demonstrate the different forms that fiction could take in Victorian print culture. A range of materials have been assembled to give a kind of "life cycle" of a novel - from manuscript, to parts, to volume form, to cheap reprint, to cultural afterlife. Below is a list of these materials; they are not in full citation form, just for reference so that the you may understand the bare bones of what you are seeing.

You may want to look through this list prior to our visit to assess if there's anything in particular that you're interested in studying for this third lab report, Annotating a Page from the Stanford Visit (due 4/12, 5pm).

Archival Materials

  • Wilkie Collins, The New Magdalen, original manuscript, ca. 1871.
  • Charles Dickens, Bleak House, in parts, 1852-3
  • Charles Dickens, Hard Times, in Household Words, April 1-August 12, 1854
  • All the Year Round, ed. Charles Dickens, Nov 26, 1859. (This issue includes the last number of Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities, and the first number of Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White.)
  • Stuart C. Cumberland, A Fatal Affinity: A Weird Story, 1889 (Author’s proof copy)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher, in the Pall Mall Christmas Extra, 1884.
  • Jane Eyre: an autobiography, in 3 volumes, 1847
  • Announcement for the appearance of Charles Dickens at the Theatre Royal in Montreal, May 28, 1842.
  • Kate Field, Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens’s Readings, taken from life, 1868. (American)
  • John Brougham, Dombey and Son, dramatized from Dickens’s novel, 1850s. (American)
  • Charles Dickens, Bleak House, single volume, 1853
  • Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Household edition, 1873.
  • Charles Dickens, Hard Times, ca. 1880. (American reprint – rare circulating library copy)
  • Parts 31 and 32 of The works of Charles Dickens: 500 illustrations from designs by Cruikshank, Darley, Nast, Sheppard, Worth, Rienhart, and other eminent artists, 1873. (reserialized American version)
  • Characters from Charles Dickens, a game, 1858.
  • Phebe A. Hanaford, The Life and Writings of Charles Dickens: A Woman’s Memorial Volume, 1871. (American)
  • John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, with forty illustrations, 1872.
  • The Illustrated London News, 1842 (from first issue) and 1889.

 

Thank you to Ms. Droge for setting up this visit and unique experience!