Recollections and reminiscences of life in the Bay Area from 1920 onward
Subtitle: and related material
By: B.H. Lehman; tape recorded interview conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1964-1968. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1969 :
Contributors: Riess, Suzanne B.; Parkinson, Thomas Francis, 1920-; Miles, Josephine, 1911-1985.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1964
Subjects: Santayana, George, 1863-1952.; Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916.; Copeland, Charles Townsend, 1860-1952.; Anderson, Judith, Dame, 1898-1992.; Parsons, Marion Randall.; Damon, Bertha Clark.; Ellis, Elizabeth Warder.; Phelan, James D. 1861-1930.; Sullivan, Noël, 1890-1956.; Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944.; Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974.; Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of English.; Loyalty oaths -- California -- Berkeley.; Berkeley (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: Education at Harvard and recollections of George Santayana, Josiah Royce and Charles T. Copeland; teaching career at University of California, Berkeley, from 1920, and administrative duties on library and budget committees, on President's advisory committee and as chairman of the English Department; the beginnings of the Department of Dramatic Art; the loyalty oath controversy; Judith Anderson and interest in theater; Berkeley social life, with comments on Marion R. Parsons, Bertha Pope Damon, Elizabeth W. Ellis and others; friendships with James D. Phelan, Noël Sullivan, Charles E.S. Wood, Sara Bard Field, Robinson Jeffers and others. Photographs inserted.

Appended: essay portrait of Noël Sullivan by William Justema; and poems by Thomas Parkinson and Josephine Miles.