Alice Bache Gould Correspondence
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Alice Bache Gould (1868-1953) was an American mathematician and historian of early European explorers of the Americas. She taught at a number of universities in the United States, endowed scholarship funds and left her research material to institutions in Spain and the United States. The Alice Bache Gould Correspondence consists of Gould's correspondence with her trustee, Samuel Vaughn, and Spanish government officials in the United States. Materials date from 1937 to 1946.
Biographical Note
Alice Bache Gould was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1868. She was raised in Quincy and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1889 and continued her education in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. She was hired as a faculty member in mathematics at Bryn Mawr. In 1903, her scholarly interest changed from mathematics to the study of the earliest voyages of Europeans to the Americas. She spent seven years in Puerto Rico and most of four decades in Spain studying early European explorers. She taught at a number of universities in the United States, endowed scholarship funds and left her research material to institutions in Spain and the United States. She died on July 25, 1953 at her home in Simancas, Spain.
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Scope and Contents
The Alice Bache Gould Correspondence consists of Gould's correspondence with her trustee, Samuel Vaughn, and Spanish government officials in the United States. Materials date from 1937 to 1946, and most are from the period when she was living in Spain. The letters deal primarily with Gould's finances and with personal matters.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open to researchers. Please contact the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives for more information and to schedule an appointment, tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.
Use Restrictions
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), were transferred to New York University in November 2000 by the ALBA Board of Governors. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. For more information, contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Alice Bache Gould Correspondence ; ALBA 043; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Custodial History
The Alice Bache Gould Papers were donated to the Spanish Civil War archives at Brandeis University by Augustus P. Loring, a nephew of Samuel Vaughn, in 1973. Additional letters were donated by Mr. Loring in 1985. This collection came to New York University in January 2001 with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive collections, formerly housed at Brandeis University.
