Charles Anthon manuscripts, 1830-1875

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Series I: Letters and Manuscripts



Box 1 Letter to Joseph Green Cogswell, 1861 September 14, 1 pages; a.l.s.


Box 1 [Note], 1861 June 24, 1 pages; n.p., a.n.s.


Box 1 [Chapter Synopses], undated, 2 pages; n.p., n.d. a.ms.

Transferred from Columbiana, 1977


Box 1 "Allow a stranger, lovely one and dear", 1837 July 5, 1 pages; m.s. (poem)

Gift of Miss Winifred A. Myers, 1970 September 21


Box 1 Excerpt from lectures on Homer and Wolff's theory, [1864?], 2 pages; New York, a.ms. 2p., with presentation sheet attached, dated April 1863.

Gift of Helen Hope Williams, 1938


Box 1 Titi Livi Ab urbe condita, libri I, II, XXI et XXII, undated, 3 pages; n.p., n.d. a.ms. 3p. (notes on Book I chapters 11 and 12)

Includes notes by Charles Anthon and Hugh Craig

Series II: Notes on Classical Authors


Box 1 Notes on Latin Authors, 1 Volumes; approximately 250 leaves


Box 1 Commentary on Seven Plays by Euripides, 1 Volumes; approximately 260 leaves


Box 1 Lectures Notes, 1 Volumes; approximately 140 leaves

Series III: Books and Commentaries by Anthon



Box 2 Charles Anthon. A system of Greek prosody and metre, for the use of schools and colleges; together with the choral scanning of the Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus, and the Ajax and Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles. To which are appended remarks on Indo-Germanic analogies. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838


Box 2 Charles Anthon. A System of Latin Versification: In a Series of Progressive Exercises, including Specimens of Translation from English and German Poetry into Latin Verse, for the Use of Schools and Colleges . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855


Box 2 Charles Anthon. A Greek Reader, Selected Principally from the Work of Frederic Jacobs, Professor in the Gymnasium at Gotha, Editor of the Greek Anthology, &c., &c. With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, A Metrical Index to Homer and Anacreon, and a Copious Lexicon. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857

Transferred from Columbiana


Box 2 Charles Anthon. Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War; With the First Book of the Greek Paraphrase; with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Plans of Battles, Sieges, Etc., and Historical, Geographical, and Archaeological Indexes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852

Transferred from Columbiana


Box 2 Charles Anthon. Select Orations of Cicero, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and Historical, Geographical, and Legal Indexes. A new edition, with improvements. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858

Transferred from Columbiana


Box 2 Charles Anthon. The First Six Books of Homer's Iliad with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, A Metrical Index, and Homeric Glossary. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875

Transferred from Columbiana


Box 2 Charles Anthon. The Works of Horace, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory. A new edition, corrected and enlarged, with excursions relative to the wines and vineyards of the ancients, and a life of Horace by Milman. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860

Transferred from Columbiana


Box 2 Charles Anthon. The Anabasis of Xenophon, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, a map arranged according to the lastest and best authorities, and a plan of the battle of Cunaxa. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857

Transferred from Columbiana


Box 2 Charles Anthon. The Germania and Agricola, and also Selections from the Annals, of Tacitus, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860

Transferred from Columbiana


Box 2 Charles Anthon. The Germania and Agricola, and also Selections from the Annals, of Tacitus, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854

Transferred from Columbiana