LECTURES

Summary: The series LECTURES contains extant records of Griffis's lectures in the form of published texts, typescripts, notes and ephemeral material. William Elliot Griffis had a long and busy career as a public lecturer on all subjects which interested him, often supplementing his lectures with exhibitions of artifacts or projection of lantern slide illustrations. This series represents only a fraction of his work as a lecturer: for the most part holdings are limited to MS volumes in which Griffis recorded early lectures (of biographical importance and therefore selected out despite their America/Europe subject matter); published transcripts of a few lectures and addresses; and notes or scripts (those that have survived date mainly from the 1926-1927 trip to Japan). In addition, this series contains some ephemera and publicity materials for lectures by Griffis. Newspaper accounts of lectures may be found in the BIOGRAPHICAL FILE.