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The Behâristân (Abode of spring) : a literal translation from the Persian

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    Persian translations

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    The collection contains records that were compiled or created by the Readers of the Huntington Library. The papers of Hensley Woodbridge contain his correspondence and drafts for his bibliography of Jack London, published in 1966. J. Kent Clark's dissertation on Jonathan Swift was begun at Stanford University, delayed by the Second World War and finished while he was working at Caltech. Beach Langston's draft of his book Faulkner, Tradition and Christian Myth contains notes in the margin on how to improve the work and two different drafts of chapter one. The magnetic and VHS tapes contain talks given by readers, including talks for the Friends of the Huntington Library, a membership organization supporting the Library.

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    Potter, Robert. Translations from the Persian Language : [a quotation]

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