Gilbert Highet papers, 1929-1978

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Series I: Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1940-1976


Catalogued Correspondence, 1940-1976



Box 1 Anderson, Maxwell, 1950 February 9


Box 1 Auslander, Joseph, 1963 February 3


Box 1 Barr, Alfred Hamilton, Jr., 1962 February 1


Box 1 Barr, Alfred Hamilton, Jr. to Hellen Margaret Ellwanger Hanford (Mrs. James Holly Hanford), 1962 October 10


Box 1 Barzun, Jacques, 1950 April 5-1972 April 18


Box 1 Blackwell, Basil, 1941 July 10-1974 July 24


Box 1 Carter, Elliott., 1966 March 1-circa 10


Box 1 Cerf, Bennett Alfred, 1956 October 18


Box 1 Clifford, James L, 1951 February 17-1960 August 22


Box 1 Durant, Will, 1976 June 22


Box 1 Durrell, Lawrence, circa 1960 March 15


Box 1 Fadiman, Clifton, 1955 February 4-1970 September 18


Box 1 Fast, Howard, 1958 January 4


Box 1 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1954 November 15


Box 1 Flexner, Abraham, 1950 August 5


Box 1 Gauss, Christian, circa 1950 August 6


Box 1 Gill, Brendan, 1974 September 3


Box 1 Hadas, Moses, 1951 June 18-1955 July


Box 1 Herriot, Edouard, 1951 October 10


Box 1 Humphries, Rolfe, 1957 March 5-18


Box 1 Jaeger, Werner Wilhelm, circa 1947 December-1957 March 23


Box 1 Jarrell, Randall, circa 1960


Box 1 Javits, Jacob K., 1974 August 21


Box 1 Knopf, Alfred A., 1950 March 6-1974 November 20


Box 1 Laughlin, James Lawrence, 1948 December 29


Box 1 Lindsay, John V, 1972 July 5


Box 1 Loomis, Roger Sherman, circa 1947 November 16


Box 1 Loveman, Amy, 1954 October 10


Box 1 Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1951 October 1


Box 1 McCord, David, 1955 February 16


Box 1 Manchester, William, 1966 August 21-circa 1967 October


Box 1 Masefield, John, circa 1960 April 6-August 28


Box 1 Michener, James A., 1965 November 1


Box 1 Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1971 March 2


Box 1 Morley, Christopher, 1955 February 19


Box 1 Murray, Gilbert, 1956 May 29-1957 March 26


Box 1 Nash, Ogden, 1954 February 17


Box 1 O'Brien, Justin, 1947 June 13-1959 June 19


Box 1 Rowse, Alfred Leslie, circa 1966 May-1971 November 14


Box 1 Scherman, Harry, 1954 March 31-1957 February 18


Box 1 Sinclair, Upton, 1955 March 9


Box 1 Sullivan, Frank, 1953 April 16


Box 1 Thurber, James, 1953 March 19-1954 March 1


Box 1 Van Doren, Mark, 1940 August 15


Box 1 White, Elwyn Brooks, 1954 February 19-26


Box 1 Wilson, Edmund, 1949 November 7


Box 1 Wright, Ernest Hunter, 1947 September 21


Manuscripts, 1951-1963


Box 1 Auslander, Joseph, The ghostly moment (poem), circa 1963


Box 1 Auslander, Joseph, On last looking into his Poets in a landscape (poem), 1962 October 29


Box 1 Highet, Gilbert, [Diaries of Italian trip], 1956

(brief notes kept while researching for his book, Poets in a landscape)


Box 1 Highet, Gilbert, Diary, 1951

(brief entries in a pocket calendar)


Box 1 Humphries, Rolfe, Among the Paeligni (variation on a theme by Gilbert Highet), 1957 March 13


Arranged Files, 1954-1978


Box 1 Personal Correspondence, 1956-1978


Box 1 Lecture Engagements Correspondence, 1954-1977


Box 1 Bibliographies of Highet's writings


Box 1 Biographical Data



Oversize Folder 1 Memorabilia

(Degrees, diplomas, honors in one board portfolio)



Box 1 Notes


Box 1 Photographs


Box 1 Clippings


Box 1 Publications by Highet

(includes correspondence & related materials)


Columbia University, 1953-1977



Box 2 Colleagues, 1967-1976


Box 2 Library, 1972-1977


Box 2 Retirement and Sabbaticals, 1953-1977


Box 2 University Seminars, 1968-1971


Students


Box 2 General, 1964-1977


Box 2 Individual Files, 1964-1977, 2 folders

(includes Frank Sypher's notes of G. H. course: Aeneid 1964-1965 and reprints by students)


Book of the Month Club



Box 3 Correspondence, 1954-1977


Box 3 Selection Files, 1954-1977, 2 folders


Encyclopedia Britannica Sound Seminars, Inc., 1962-1972



Box 4 Correspondence, 1962-1972, 2 folders


Box 4 Articles, Scripts, Notes


Box 4 Myths - Correspondence, Scripts, Notes, 1966-1970, 2 folders


Box 4 Printed Materials


Box 4 Royalty Statements


Box 4 "Talks on Aeneid" recordings, 2 Reels


Box 4 "Talks on Caesar" recordings, 2 Reels


Horizon Magazine, 1955-1977



Box 5 Correspondence, 1955-1977, 3 folders


Articles by Highet

(correspondence, manuscripts and related materials)


Box 5 Breugel's Rustic Wedding


Box 5 Hieronymus Bosch


Box 5 Ludovico de Luigi


Box 5 The Pupils of Jesus


Box 5 Serenity & Repose


Box 5 Miscellaneous


WQXR Radio Talks, 1952-1976


Correspondence



Box 6 BBC


Box 6 Christmas Keepsake: "The Old Gentleman"


Box 6 Jeffrey Norton: Reissue of Talks on Tape, 1974-1975


Box 6 Other Publishers


Box 6 Other Stations


Box 6 Oxford University Press


Box 6 Photographs


Box 6 U.S. Navy - To Use Tapes, 1970


Box 6 WQXR


Box 6 Typescripts and Manuscript Notes for Talks

(incomplete)


Box 6 Printed Talks: nos. 1-188, 3 folders

(with alphabetical list of titles)

Series II: Books, 1941-1977


The Art of Teaching, 1950



Box 7 Correspondence, General, 1949-1952


Correspondence


Box 7 Alfred A. Knopf, 1950-1956


Box 7 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1949-1957


Box 7 Comments from Readers, 1950-1974


Box 7 Foreign Editions, 1954-1976


Box 7 Metheun & Co., 1951-1957


Box 7 Permissions from Highet, 1950-1951


Box 7 Suggestions from Colleagues, 1949-1951


Box 7 Financial Records & Contracts


Box 7 Notes

(with related printed materials)


Box 7 Reviews


The Anatomy of Satire, 1962



Box 8 Correspondence, 1941-1971, 3 folders


Box 8 Corrections for 2nd Edition


Box 8 Illustrations


Box 8 Notes

(with related printed materials)


Box 8 Reviews


The Classical Tradition, 1949


Correspondence



Box 9 Comments from Readers, 1950-1955


Box 9 Suggestions from Colleagues, 1947-1948


Box 9 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1947-1957


Box 9 Italian Edition, 1950-1957


Box 9 Oxford University Press, 1947-1950


Box 9 Permissions for Highet, 1948


Box 9 Permission from Highet, 1949


Box 9 Spanish Edition, 1951-1952


Box 9 Corrections



Box 10 Notes, 6 folders



Box 11 Notes, 4 folders


Box 11 Related Printed Materials


Box 11 Reviews


A Clerk of Oxenford, 1954


Correspondence



Box 12 Comments from Readers, 1954-1957


Box 12 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1954-1955


Box 12 Oxford University Press, 1954

(contact and financial records)


Box 12 Permissions for Highet, 1954


Box 12 Notes


Box 12 Reviews


Box 12 Typescript with corrections, 2 folders


Explorations, 1970


Box 12 Correspondence, General, 1970-1971


Correspondence


Box 12 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1970-1971


Box 12 Oxford University Press, 1970-1971

(with contract)


Box 12 Permissions for and from Highet, 1970-1975


Box 12 Notes


Box 12 Reviews


Talents and Geniuses, 1957


Box 12 Correspondence, General, 1957-1963


Correspondence


Box 12 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1955-1959


Box 12 Oxford University Press, 1956-1957


Box 12 Financial Records, 1957-1960


Box 12 Notes


Box 12 Reviews


The Immortal Profession, 1976



Box 13 Correspondence, General, 1974-1976


Correspondence


Box 13 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1975-1977


Box 13 Permissions for and from Highet, 1975-1977


Box 13 Weybright and Talley, 1975-1977


Box 13 Notes


Box 13 Reviews


Box 13 Typescript, 2 folders


People, Places, and Books, 1953


Correspondence


Box 13 Comments from Readers, 1952-1956


Box 13 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1952-1955


Box 13 Oxford University Press, 1953


Box 13 Permissions for and from Highet, 1952-1956


Box 13 Financial Records


Box 13 Reviews


Juvenal, the Satirist, 1954



Box 14 Correspondence, General, 1948-1961


Box 14 Correspondence, Oxford University Press, 1948-1968


Bibliography


Box 14 Full Bibliography, 2 folders


Box 14 For Juvenal (1), 2 folders


Box 14 For Juvenal (2), 2 folders


Box 14 Outline with related notes



Box 15 Notes, General, 2 folders


Notes: Survival and influence of Juvenal


Box 15 Antiquity and Dark Ages


Box 15 Middle Ages


Box 15 Renaissance and Modern Age, 2 folders


Notes and Abstracts


Box 15 Life and Character


Box 15 Style, Manuscripts, Scholia


Box 15 Names of Persons


Box 15 Notes on the Satires


Box 15 Sources


Man's Unconquerable Mind, 1954


Correspondence



Box 16 Columbia University Press, 1953-1977


Box 16 Comments from Readers, 1957-1976


Box 16 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1953-1954


Box 16 Franklin Publishing Inc., 1957


Box 16 Oxford University Press, 1954-1962


Box 16 Permissions for Highet, 1953


Box 16 Schori Press, 1972-1974


Box 16 Notes


Box 16 Reviews


The Migration of Ideas, 1954


Box 16 Correspondence, General, 1951-1954


Correspondence


Box 16 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1951-1954


Box 16 Franklin & Marshall College, 1953-1956


Box 16 Other Colleges, 1952-1954


Box 16 Other Publishers, 1954-1963


Box 16 Oxford University Press, 1952-1967

(with contract)


Box 16 Notes


Box 16 Reviews


The Powers of Poetry, 1960



Box 17 Correspondence, 1958-1960


Box 17 Notes


Box 17 Reviews


Poets in a Landscape, 1957


Correspondence


Box 17 Alfred A. Knopf, 1954-1975


Box 17 Bagnani, Gilbert, 1956-1957


Box 17 Comments from Readers, 1955-1957


Box 17 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1956-1975


Box 17 Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1954-1959


Box 17 Other Publishers, 1957-1959


Box 17 Permissions for and from Highet, 1956-1973


Box 17 Financial Records


Box 17 Notes


Box 17 Reviews



Box 18 Catullus - Olive Twigs from His Farm


Photographs

(taken by Highet)


Box 18 Catullus


Box 18 Horace


Box 18 Juvenal


Box 18 Ovid


Box 18 Propertius and Tibullus


Box 18 Vergil


Box 18 Italy


Box 18 Rome


Box 18 Sicily, South


Box 18 Used in Book


The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid, 1972



Box 19 Correspondence, General, 1966-1977


Box 19 Correspondence, Princeton University Press


Box 19 Notes, Chapters 1-6


Box 19 Notes, Chapters 7-9



Box 20 Notes, Chapters 10-12


Box 20 Notes, General


Box 20 Notes and Bibliography not used in book


Box 20 Addenda


Box 20 Appendix


Box 20 Statistics


Box 20 Reviews

Series III. Subject Files

These files contain notes, some related correspondence, some manuscripts for articles, essays, lectures and speeches, and much printed materials. The headings of selected folders are marked with symbols to indicate: 1. extensive files of notes (N); 2. some related correspondence (C); 3. manuscripts (M).


Subseries III.1: Greek Authors



Box 21 Aeschines


Box 21 Aeschylus


Box 21 Agathias


Box 21 Apollonius Rhodius


Box 21 Aratus


Box 21 Archilochus (C)


Box 21 Aristophanes (C) (M)


Aristotle


Box 21 Ethica


Box 21 General


Box 21 Logica


Box 21 Metaphysica


Box 21 Poetica


Box 21 Politica


Box 21 Rhetorica (N)



Box 22 Bacchylides


Box 22 Callimachus


Box 22 Cassius Dio


Box 22 Demosthenes (N)


Box 22 Dinarchus


Dio


Box 22 Bibliographica (N)


Box 22 Correspondence (C)


Box 22 Lecture


Box 22 Notes for Article (N)


Box 22 Notes on Speeches: l-20 (N)


Box 22 Notes on Speeches: 21-80 (N)



Box 23 Notes on Text (N)


Box 23 Von Arnim


Box 23 Diocles of Carystus


Box 23 Dionysius Halycanarssus


Box 23 Euripides


Box 23 Gorgas


Box 23 Greek Anthology


Box 23 Herodas


Box 23 Herodutus


Box 23 Hesiod



Box 24 Homer (C)


Box 24 Isocrates


Box 24 Julian


Box 24 Justin Martyr


Box 24 Libanius


Box 24 Longinius (M)


Box 24 Lucian


Box 24 Lycurgas


Box 24 Iysias – Lectures (N)(M)


Box 24 Lysias and Plato


Box 24 Melito


Box 24 Neo Platonists


Box 24 New Testament


Box 24 Philostratus


Box 24 Pindar



Box 25 Plato (N)


Box 25 Plato - Reprints


Box 25 Plutarch


Box 25 Polybius


Box 25 Presocratics


Box 25 Sextus Empiricus


Box 25 Sophocles


Box 25 Theocritus, Moschus, Musaeus


Box 25 Theophrastus (N)


Box 25 Thucydides


Subseries III.2: Greek Themes



Box 26 Byzantium


Box 26 Gnosticism


Box 26 Greek Art


Box 26 Greek Grammar and Syntax (R)


Box 26 Greek History


Box 26 Greek Law


Box 26 Greek Life (N)



Box 27 Greek Literature


Box 27 Greek Oratory (M)(N)


Box 27 Bibliographica


Box 27 Offprints


Box 27 Summaries of Book (N)


Box 27 Greek Philosophy


Box 27 Greek Prose Composition (N)


Box 27 Greek Religion



Box 28 Greek-Roman Music (M)


Box 28 Greek Verse (N)


Box 28 Koine (N)


Box 28 Lexica and Indices


Box 28 Linear B


Box 28 Modern Greek (C)


Box 28 Mythology


Box 28 Names


Box 28 Numismatics


Box 28 Oxford Classical Dictionary (M)(N)(C)


Box 28 Papyrology


Box 28 Papyrus

(with 4 water color drawings on 20th century papyri & 2 papyri stems)


Box 28 Rhetorici Graeci


Subseries III.3: Latin Authors



Box 29 A


Box 29 B


Box 29 C


Box 29 Caesar (N)


Box 29 Catullus (N) (C)


Box 29 Cicero (N)(M)


Box 29 G (C)



Box 30 H


Horace


Box 30 Carmina (N) (M)


Box 30 Iambi (C)


Box 30 Letters (N)


Box 30 Generalia and Sermones: Bibliographica (N) (C)


Box 30 Sermones - Notes on Text (N)


Juvenal


Box 30 Articles by Highet (M) (C)


Box 30 Catalogue of Books donated by Highet to Columbia University Libraries (C)



Box 31 General Lecture Notes (N)


Box 31 Notes on Individual Satires (N)



Box 46 Printed Materials: Dissertations and Articles



Box 47 Printed Materials: Dissertations and Articles



Box 31 Livy


Box 31 Lucan - Bibliographica


Box 31 Lucan - Text (N)


Box 31 Lucilius



Box 32 Lucretius and Epicurus (N) (C), 3 folders


Box 32 M


Box 32 N


Box 32 Ovid


Box 32 P


Box 32 Panegyrici


Box 32 Persius (C)



Box 33 Petronius - Bibliographica (C)


Box 33 Petronius - Text (M) (N)


Box 33 Pliny


Box 33 Propertius


Box 33 Quintilian (N), 2 folders


Box 33 R



Box 34 S


Box 34 Sallust


Box 34 Seneca


Box 34 Statius (N)


Box 34 Tacitus (N)


Box 34 Tibullus (M) (N) (C)


Vergil


Box 34 Bibliographies


Box 34 Bucolics


Box 34 Georgics



Box 35 Offprints


Box 35 Speeches and Narrative (N)


Box 35 Speeches - Offprints


Box 35 Speeches - Summaries of Articles (N)


Subseries III.4: Latin Themes



Box 36 Christian Latin (N)


Box 36 Collisive Alliteration (N)

(Two consonants "collide" when the same consonant ends one word and begins the next.)


Box 36 Colloquial Latin (N)


Box 36 Latin Composition (N) (C)


Box 36 Latin Linguistics (N)


Box 36 Latin Literature - History (N), 4 folders



Box 37 Latin Meters (N)


Box 37 Latin Style - Figures of Speech (N)


Box 37 Latin Style - Vocabulary (N) (C)


Latin Syntax


Box 37 General (N)


Box 37 Nom.; Adj.; Adv.; Conj; Prep. (N)


Box 37 Sentence Structure (N)


Box 37 Verbs (N)


Box 37 Middle and New Comedy (N), 2 folders



Box 38 Middle and New Comedy - Menander's The Curmudgeon (N) (C) (M), 3 folders


Box 38 Modern Latin


Box 38 Pompeii (N)


Box 38 Roman Art


Box 38 Roman Comedy - Plautus and Terence (N)



Box 39 Roman Comedy - Plautus and Terence (N), 4 folders


Box 39 Roman History



Box 40 Roman Law


Box 40 Roman Money


Roman Oratory


Box 40 General (N)


Box 40 Bibliographica (N)


Box 40 Correspondence - Oxford University Press (C)


Box 40 Offprints


Box 40 Summaries of Books and Articles; Texts (N)


Box 40 Roman Religion


Box 40 Roman Social Life


Box 40 Reman Satire (N) (C)


Box 40 Thesaurus Linguae Latinae - Correspondence (C), 1954-1968


Box 40 Translations (M) (C)


Subseries III.5: General Subject Files



Box 41 Ancient Medicine and Psychiatry


Box 41 Articles for Periodicals (M) (C)


Box 41 Articles, Stories, Ideas, Early Books (M) (C), 1943-1977


Box 41 Author and Publisher (C)


Box 41 Cassette Talks (C)


Box 41 China and the West


Box 41 Christianity


Box 41 Classical Societies and Propaganda (M) (C)


Box 41 Classical Tradition



Box 42 Computers


Box 42 Epigram (M) (C)


Box 42 Epigraphy


Box 42 Forms of Literature (N)


Box 42 Greek-Roman Education


Box 42 Greek Films


Box 42 Harpers Magazine (Reviews by Highet), 1952-1954


Box 42 Housman, A. E. (C)


Box 42 Humor and Eccentricity


Box 42 Ideas - Classical (N)


Box 42 Ideas - Non-classical


Box 42 Introduction to Classical Studies (N)


Box 42 Japan (C)



Box 43 Modern Oratory (M)


Box 43 New Essays (M) (C)


Box 43 Occult


Box 43 Oxford University Press (C), 1952-1956


Box 43 Paleography (N)


Box 43 Poems and Good Prose



Box 44 Politics and Law


Box 44 Psychology


Box 44 Puzzles (C)


Box 44 Reviews


Box 44 Rome and the Gods (N)


Box 44 Satire


Box 44 Slavery



Box 45 Stylistic Studies (N)


Box 45 Talks - Miscellaneous (M) (C)


Box 45 Textual Criticism (N)


Box 45 Uberlieferunggeschichte (N) (C)


Box 45 Utopia


Box 45 Works in Progress (M) (N)

Series IV: Addition, 1984


Manuscripts



Box 48 Appointment Book 1975, 1975


Box 48 Greek Notebooks


Box 48 Greek Themes Notebooks


Box 48 Notes on Books and Journals with Library Locations


Box 48 Poems by Highet


Box 48 Jaeger, Werner. Paideia, translated by Highet (reviews)


Printed Materials



Box 49 Memorabilia, books, articles and reviews by Highet



Box 50 Books by Highet



Box 51 Books and reprints inscribed and signed to Highet