Emily Sanford Professorship of Comparative Literature and English

The Emily Sanford Professorship of Comparative Literature and English is a professorship at Yale University. It was established in 1893 as the "Emily Sanford Professor of English Literature", after Edward C. Billings, a Yale graduate from 1853, left a sum of $70,000 in his will for a position in teaching English literature. He named the position after his wife, Emily Sanford.[1]

References
  1. Stokes, Anson Phelps (1917). Yale Endowments: A Description of the Various Gifts and Bequests Establishing Permanent University Funds. New Haven. pp. 39–40.
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