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During\n         this period, while convalescing from a Civil War battle wound,\n         he met and later married Elizabeth Fisher Colston (1846-1930);\n         they raised two children, Raleigh Colston (1869-1944) and Emma\n         Louise (1872-1954).","In 1875, Gildersleeve left pastoral Charlottesville for\n         Baltimore to serve as the first faculty appointment and Greek\n         chair at the newly established Johns Hopkins University.\n         During a 40 year tenure at Hopkins, he achieved worldwide\n         academic distinction as a classical scholar, renown as a\n         master of Greek syntax, and recognition as a major contributor\n         to the \"university\" system in American education. He founded\n         the \n         American Journal of Philologyin 1880 and raised it to international influence by\n         the force of his written contributions and editorship; he was\n         elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters and\n         later to the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he served\n         twice as president of the American Philological Association;\n         and, in 1905, was the first American to receive a doctorate of\n         letters from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities.","Gildersleeve continued in academic work until his\n         retirement in 1915 at age 83. He died on January 9, 1924 and\n         is buried in University Cemetery in Charlottesville,\n         Virginia.","Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities","The collection contains ca. 860 items (2.5 shelf feet) and\n         consists primarily of a variety of keepsakes and memorabilia\n         that reflect on the life and work of Gildersleeve and that\n         appear to have been personally gathered and saved by him and\n         by \n         \n         Elizabethand, in later years, by his daughter, \n         Emma(Mrs.\n         Gardiner M. Lane) and his granddaughter, \n         Katharine Lane Weems. The scattered\n         assortment of letters, notes, diaries, books, reprints,\n         newsclips, published articles, obituaries, photographs,\n         diplomas, mementoes, and other memorabilia that make up the\n         collection have been arranged in four groupings:","Correspondence--A large portion\n         of the correspondence consists of personal letters and poetic\n         notes that Gildersleeve wrote to his wife over the span of\n         their married life. The remaining correspondence includes a\n         handful of letters to him from friends and colleagues and a\n         miscellaneous group of letters that are addressed to other\n         family members. Noteworthy are: an 1866 \n         Robert E. 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During\n         this period, while convalescing from a Civil War battle wound,\n         he met and later married Elizabeth Fisher Colston (1846-1930);\n         they raised two children, Raleigh Colston (1869-1944) and Emma\n         Louise (1872-1954).","In 1875, Gildersleeve left pastoral Charlottesville for\n         Baltimore to serve as the first faculty appointment and Greek\n         chair at the newly established Johns Hopkins University.\n         During a 40 year tenure at Hopkins, he achieved worldwide\n         academic distinction as a classical scholar, renown as a\n         master of Greek syntax, and recognition as a major contributor\n         to the \"university\" system in American education. He founded\n         the \n         American Journal of Philologyin 1880 and raised it to international influence by\n         the force of his written contributions and editorship; he was\n         elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters and\n         later to the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he served\n         twice as president of the American Philological Association;\n         and, in 1905, was the first American to receive a doctorate of\n         letters from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities.","Gildersleeve continued in academic work until his\n         retirement in 1915 at age 83. 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The scattered\n         assortment of letters, notes, diaries, books, reprints,\n         newsclips, published articles, obituaries, photographs,\n         diplomas, mementoes, and other memorabilia that make up the\n         collection have been arranged in four groupings:","Correspondence--A large portion\n         of the correspondence consists of personal letters and poetic\n         notes that Gildersleeve wrote to his wife over the span of\n         their married life. The remaining correspondence includes a\n         handful of letters to him from friends and colleagues and a\n         miscellaneous group of letters that are addressed to other\n         family members. Noteworthy are: an 1866 \n         Robert E. 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The scattered\n         assortment of letters, notes, diaries, books, reprints,\n         newsclips, published articles, obituaries, photographs,\n         diplomas, mementoes, and other memorabilia that make up the\n         collection have been arranged in four groupings:","Correspondence--A large portion\n         of the correspondence consists of personal letters and poetic\n         notes that Gildersleeve wrote to his wife over the span of\n         their married life. The remaining correspondence includes a\n         handful of letters to him from friends and colleagues and a\n         miscellaneous group of letters that are addressed to other\n         family members. Noteworthy are: an 1866 \n         Robert E. 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He was\n         the second of seven children of Benjamin Gildersleeve\n         (1791-1875), a prominent Presbyterian minister, and Emma\n         Louisa Lanneau (1805-59). His early education was provided by\n         his father and was steeped in the study of Latin, Greek, and\n         the classics. He began his formal schooling at the College of\n         Charleston and later enrolled at Princeton from where, in 1849\n         at age 17, he graduated fourth in a class of seventy-nine.","In 1850, Gildersleeve traveled to Germany to pursue more\n         intensive classical studies in Berlin, Bonn, and at Gottingen\n         University from which he received a Ph.D. (1853). Returning\n         home to Richmond, he engaged in several literary and\n         journalistic activities until his election in 1856 to a\n         professorship at the \n         University of Virginiawhere he would\n         spend the next twenty years teaching Greek and Latin. During\n         this period, while convalescing from a Civil War battle wound,\n         he met and later married Elizabeth Fisher Colston (1846-1930);\n         they raised two children, Raleigh Colston (1869-1944) and Emma\n         Louise (1872-1954).","In 1875, Gildersleeve left pastoral Charlottesville for\n         Baltimore to serve as the first faculty appointment and Greek\n         chair at the newly established Johns Hopkins University.\n         During a 40 year tenure at Hopkins, he achieved worldwide\n         academic distinction as a classical scholar, renown as a\n         master of Greek syntax, and recognition as a major contributor\n         to the \"university\" system in American education. He founded\n         the \n         American Journal of Philologyin 1880 and raised it to international influence by\n         the force of his written contributions and editorship; he was\n         elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters and\n         later to the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he served\n         twice as president of the American Philological Association;\n         and, in 1905, was the first American to receive a doctorate of\n         letters from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities.","Gildersleeve continued in academic work until his\n         retirement in 1915 at age 83. He died on January 9, 1924 and\n         is buried in University Cemetery in Charlottesville,\n         Virginia.","Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities","The collection contains ca. 860 items (2.5 shelf feet) and\n         consists primarily of a variety of keepsakes and memorabilia\n         that reflect on the life and work of Gildersleeve and that\n         appear to have been personally gathered and saved by him and\n         by \n         \n         Elizabethand, in later years, by his daughter, \n         Emma(Mrs.\n         Gardiner M. Lane) and his granddaughter, \n         Katharine Lane Weems. The scattered\n         assortment of letters, notes, diaries, books, reprints,\n         newsclips, published articles, obituaries, photographs,\n         diplomas, mementoes, and other memorabilia that make up the\n         collection have been arranged in four groupings:","Correspondence--A large portion\n         of the correspondence consists of personal letters and poetic\n         notes that Gildersleeve wrote to his wife over the span of\n         their married life. The remaining correspondence includes a\n         handful of letters to him from friends and colleagues and a\n         miscellaneous group of letters that are addressed to other\n         family members. Noteworthy are: an 1866 \n         Robert E. 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The scattered\n         assortment of letters, notes, diaries, books, reprints,\n         newsclips, published articles, obituaries, photographs,\n         diplomas, mementoes, and other memorabilia that make up the\n         collection have been arranged in four groupings:","Correspondence--A large portion\n         of the correspondence consists of personal letters and poetic\n         notes that Gildersleeve wrote to his wife over the span of\n         their married life. The remaining correspondence includes a\n         handful of letters to him from friends and colleagues and a\n         miscellaneous group of letters that are addressed to other\n         family members. Noteworthy are: an 1866 \n         Robert E. 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