manosca40 Caroline Brown Bourland Papers, 1893-1949 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Gayla B. Spaulding. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Smith College Archives
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 Collection Overview Bourland, Caroline Brown, 1871- Caroline Brown Bourland Papers1893-1949 RG 42 1 box (.45 linear ft.) Smith College Archives
Northampton, MA
Professor of French and Spanish. Contains biographical materials, correspondence, lecture notes, photographs, and publications. English. Biographical Note

Caroline Brown Bourland was born in Peoria, Illinois on June 4th, 1871. She was an 1893 graduate of Smith College, and continued to study at Bryn Mawr and the Sorbonne, earning her Ph. D. from Bryn Mawr in 1902. Between graduating from college and studying for her doctorate, Caroline Brown Bourland accepted a position teaching English Literature and General History at Pueblo High School in 1893-1894, and another teaching French and Latin at Peoria High School in 1896-1897.

Bourland returned to Smith in 1902, as a professor of French and Spanish. She helped to build the reputation of the Spanish Department, and was instrumental in establishing it as a separate department. In 1913, Bourland switched to teaching Spanish full time, and did so until her retirement in 1939. She hoped that her American students would learn to love Spain as much as she did, and orchestrated an exchange program between Smith and a school in Madrid. Bourland was at least trilingual (not including Latin), and could comfortably read in at least five languages. Caroline Brown Bourland died on February 28, 1956 in Wisconsin.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Caroline Brown Bourland Papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, lecture notes, information on the Hispanic Society of America, article written for the National Encyclopedia, photographs, poetry, publications, tributes and student recommendations spanning her career as a faculty member at Smith College.

Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

The papers are open for research according to the regulations of the Smith College Archives without any additional restrictions.

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the documents must be requested from the Smith College Archives. Smith College owns copyright to any published material relating to college events and activities. Provenance and copyright ownership of other materials is unknown and researchers are responsible for determining any question of copyright.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Caroline Brown Bourland Papers, Box #, Smith College Archives.

 History of the Collection

The Caroline Brown Bourland Papers were donated over a period of time to the Smith College Archives from a variety of sources.

Processed by Gayla B. Spaulding.

 Search Terms Bourland, Caroline Brown, 1871- Smith College--Faculty. 687 1 Biographical Material 1902 - 1940, n. d. 687 2 Correspondence: General 1921 - 1923 687 3 Correspondence: William Allan Neilson 1934 - 1936 687 4 Correspondence: Personal 1904 - 1949, n. d. 687 5 Diary 1916 687 6 Grant - in - Aid 1938 687 7 Hispanic Society of America n. d. 687 8 Lecture Notes 1931, n. d. 687 9 National Encyclopedia: Correspondence and Articles 1935 687 10 Tributes n. d. 687 11 Photographs 1893, n. d. 687 12 Poetry 1895, n. d. 687 13 Publications List 1928, n. d. 687 14 Publications: Boccaccio and the Decameron and Vida y Hazanas de Juan Belmonte 1905, 1939 687 15 Publication: The Short Story in Spain in the Seventeenth Century 1927 687 16 Publications: Assorted 1909 - 1951 687 17 Retirement 1939 687 18 Poetry by Arthur Seelye 1893, n. d. 687 19 Student Recommendation 1908, 1916