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Series I: Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1940-1976
Series II: Books, 1941-1977
Series IV: Addition, 1984

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