Item 1 Date Created Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 1 item #
Date October 1920 - 1927?
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient
Location Athens
Material Type journal # of Pages
Subject Journal of finds and references.
Keywords excavation; Pylos; Amorgos; Paros; Syra; Phylakopi; Mycenaean Notes Item 2 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 2 item #
Date 1/12/1925
Author R. B. Seager
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Singapore
Material Type postcard # of Pages 1
Subject Description of Seager's travels in Asia.
Keywords Asia Notes Item 3 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 3 item #
Date 4/13/1925
Author Richard Seager
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Sakhara
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Seager inquires if Blegen or Hill are returning to the United States that summer and when. Seager mentions the shooting of one of Blegen's students near Arta.
Keywords Crete; Greece; Bert Hodge Hill; Alan J. B. Wace; Kendrick Notes Item 4 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 4 item #
Date 9/10/1926
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient William K P
Location Corinth
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Hill describes his problems with Edward Capps about the Gennadeion Library and other ASCSA directorship issues.
Keywords ASCSA; Gennadeion Library; Notes includes portions of earlier correspondence between BHH, E.Capps, and J.R. Wheeler Item 5 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 5 item #
Date 12/22/1926
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New York
Material Type other # of Pages 15
Subject Brochure entitled "For the information of the Managing Committee" about Hill's actions as director of ASCSA.
Keywords ASCSA; Bert Hodge Hill; Gennadeion Library; Scoggin Notes Item 6 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 6 item #
Date 1/10/1927
Author [...] Secretary of Yale University
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Offer of honorary M.A. degree from Yale to Blegen.
Keywords Yale Notes Item 7 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 7 item #
Date 1/19/1927
Author Hutchins
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Information about offer of honorary M.A. Degree from Yale to Blegen.
Keywords Yale Notes telegram Item 8 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 8 item #
Date 1/23/1927
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Hutchins
Location Athens
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen's acceptance of honorary M.A. degree from Yale.
Keywords Yale Notes typed copy of cable sent Item 9 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 9 item #
Date 2/19/1927
Author Edward Capps
Recipient Dr. K. Kourouniotis, Ministry of Education, Athens, Greece Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Capps writes about the preparations being made for the American excavation of the Agora. Also Capps states that the American School should be issuing excavation permits to American archaeologists.
Keywords Agora Excavation; ASCSA; excavation Notes Item 10 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 10 item #
Date 3/2/1927
Author William T. Semple, Head of Department of Classics Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Semple offers of academic position to Blegen at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple; Bert Hodge Hill; Notes Item 11 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 11 item #
Date 2/3/1927
Author William T. Semple, Head of Department of Classics Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Semple offers of academic position to Blegen at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple Notes telegram Item 12 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 12 item #
Date 3/3/1927
Author Louis J. More, Dean of Graduate School
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject More discusses information about academic position at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple; Notes Item 13 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 13 item #
Date 3/17/1927
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen describes the progress of Nemea excavations to Semple.
Keywords Nemea; University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple; Edward Capps Notes unsigned copy of letter Item 14 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 14 item #
Date 3/20/1927
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Clare W. Mendell, Dean
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen advises Mendell not to resign from the School and talks about his summer fieldwork at Corinth and the Argive Heraion.
Keywords ASCSA; Yale; honorary degree; Argive Heraion Notes unsigned copy of letter Item 15 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 15 item #
Date 3/25/1927
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen states his conditions for taking academic position at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple Notes 2 unsigned copies of letter Item 16 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 16 item #
Date 3/26/1927
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Louis T. More, Dean of Graduate School
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen states his conditions for taking academic position at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati Notes 2 unsigned copies of letter Item 17 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 17 item #
Date 3/27/1927
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient George Warrington
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen thanks Warrington for mentioning his name for professorship at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati Notes unsigned copy of letter Item 18 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 18 item #
Date 3/28/1927
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen accepts professorship at University of Cincinnati with the special arrangement for fieldwork.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple Notes written copy of cablegram Item 19 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 19 item #
Date 4/29/1927
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Semple suggests working in Corinth for University of Cincinnati excavation that summer to Blegen.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple; Corinth Notes telegram Item 20 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 20 item #
Date 4/6/1927
Author Clarence W. Mendell
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Mendell expresses delight that Blegen will be taking position at UC
Keywords honorary degree; Yale; University of Cincinnati Notes Item 21 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 21 item #
Date 4/14/1927
Author Louis T. More
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinannati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject More describes terms of academic position at University of Cincinnati and mentions meeting for ASCSA.
Keywords University of Cincinnati Notes Item 22 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 22 item #
Date 4/18/1927
Author George H. Warrington
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Warrington describes terms of academic position at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati Notes Item 23 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 23 item #
Date 4/19/1927
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Semple discusses terms of academic position at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati Notes Item 24 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 24 item #
Date 5/11/1927
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient [....]
Location Greece
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen describes progress of Corinth excavation.
Keywords Corinth; excavation; University of Cincinnati Notes written copy of cable? Item 25 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 25 item #
Date 6/30/1927
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Semple outlines possible courses that Blegen would teach.
Keywords University of Cincinnati, William T. Semple Notes Item 26 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 26 item #
Date 7/13/1927
Author Louis T. More
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Essex, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject More suggests meeting with Blegen since both summering in New York.
Keywords University of Cincinnati Notes Item 27 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 27 item #
Date 7/28/1927
Author Arthur Evans
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Youlbury, Berks, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Evans inquires after Blegen's work at Argive Heraion and mentions his research about chamber tombs.
Keywords excavation; chamber tomb; Mycenaean Period Notes Item 28 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 28 item #
Date 11/20/1927
Author James T. Helen
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Berkeley, CA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Helen discusses Blegen's resignation from ASCSA and sends best wishes for University of Cincinnati position.
Keywords Agora Excavation; excavation; Greece Notes Item 29 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/9/2003 folder # 29 item #
Date 4/25/1928
Author K. Kourouniotis
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Kourouniotis explains why he and Blegen can not excavate Eleusis together.
Keywords Eleusis; excavation; ASCSA Notes written in Greek; note on back side about permit Item 30 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 30 item #
Date 7/18/1928
Author K. Kourouniotis
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Kourouniotis explains conditions under which a foreigner can excavate in Greece. Tells Blegen the permit should have a Greek archaeologist on it.
Keywords excavation; excavation permit Notes written in Greek; copy of original letter Item 31 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 31 item #
Date 2/12/1929
Author Louis T. More
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Appointment of Blegen as representative of University of Cincinnati at Archaeological Institute of Berlin anniversary.
Keywords Archaeological Institute of Berlin; University of Cincinnati Notes Item 32 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 32 item #
Date 6/18/1929
Author Louis T. More
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject More announces that Blegen's salary will be increased for the next year, then discusses his current research and family news.
Keywords University of Cincinnati Notes Item 33 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 33 item #
Date 8/20/1929
Author Louis T. More
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Pointe-an-Pic, Quebec
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject More suggests meeting in New York and discusses University of Cincinnati news.
Keywords University of Cincinnati Notes Item 34 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 34 item #
Date 9/9/1929
Author Louis T. More
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Essex on Lake Champlain, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject More discusses possible courses to be offered at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati Notes Item 35 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 35 item #
Date 6/24/1930
Author Louis T. More
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati,OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject More discusses Blegen's salary increase in 1930/1931 school year and new endowments given to University.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; Louise Taft Semple Notes Item 36 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 36 item #
Date 1930
Author Dr. Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Dörpfeld thanks Blegen for his article on Akrocorinth and then states his opinion on Phoenician presence at Corinth based on pottery.
Keywords excavation; Corinth; Phoenician; pottery classification; Carthage Notes written in German Item 37 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 37 item #
Date 10/3/1932
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Mr. Ambassador [C.H. Sherrill]
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen tries to arrange transportation of coins from Turkey to the United States.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes attribution of letter based on response in item 38 Item 38 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 38 item #
Date 10/10/1932
Author C.H. Sherrill
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Washington, D.C.
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Sherrill states that coins can not be transported from Turkey via diplomatic pouch.
Keywords Troy; excavation; coins Notes Item 39 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 39 item #
Date 11/14/1932
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient E.F. Hodgson Co.
Location [Cincinnati, OH]
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Blegen discusses portable house sent by company and their dissatisfaction with how it was shipped and windows. Mention of motion film taken by Semples of building erection.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes Item 40 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 40 item #
Date 11/26/1932
Author A. Asizl
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Istanbul, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Asizl explains why coins could not be transported from Turkey by diplomatic pouch to Blegen.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes written in French Item 41 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 41 item # a
Date 12/26/1933
Author Maarif Vekaleti
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Ankara, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Vekili states the price for an excavation permit in Turkey.
Keywords excavation; Turkey; Troy Notes written in Turkish Item 41 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 41 item # b
Date 1933
Author Maarif Vekaleti
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Ankara, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Vekaleti announces that Blegen has received permission from the Turkish government to work at Troy in 1934 and asks for the date of his arrival.
Keywords excavation permit; Troy Notes written in French Item 42 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 42 item #
Date 8/21/1934
Author Hans Henning
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Long Island, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Henning poses questions about Troy materials.
Keywords Troy; excavation; pottery Notes Item 43 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 43 item #
Date 12/1/1934
Author S. Kandemir
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Ankara, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Kandemir describes work on inscriptions in Turkey at Nevsehir and Tauros. News about the Turkish government.
Keywords excavation; Turkey Notes written in French Item 44 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 44 item #
Date 1/27/1935
Author Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Leukas, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Dörpfeld outlines his intended visit to the Troy excavations. Dörpfeld discusses his views about buildings before the Parthenon on the Acropolis and his upcoming publications.
Keywords excavation; Troy; Athens; Acropolis; Parthenon; William B. Dinsmoor; Notes written in German Item 45 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 45 item #
Date 2/25/1935
Author Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Leukas, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Dörpfeld describes his travel plans to Turkey. And an update on who will accompany him.
Keywords excavation; Troy; Notes written in German Item 46 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 46 item #
Date 3/9/1935
Author Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Leukas, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Dörpfeld describes his fieldwork in Turkey.
Keywords excavation; Troy Notes written in German Item 47 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 47 item #
Date 3/11/1935
Author Louis E. Lord
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oberlin, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Lord asks for Blegen's help in securing an endowment for the American Journal of Archaeology.
Keywords AJA; Carnegie Corporation; AIA Notes Item 48 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 48 item #
Date 3/13/1935
Author R. K. Hack
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Hack thanks Blegen for his gifts to the Hack family
Keywords Notes Item 49 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 49 item #
Date 3/22/1935
Author Louis E. Lord
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oberlin, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Lord wishes that Blegen had suggested Hill for Norton Lectures earlier and discusses journals published by AIA.
Keywords AIA; Bert Hodge Hill; Norton Lectures Notes Item 50 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 50 item #
Date 5/12/1935
Author Prof. Kurt Miller
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Göttingen
Material Type postcard # of Pages 1
Subject Miller comments about the new Troy excavation and how important it has been for clarifying the chronology of Troy.
Keywords Troy; excavation; pottery dating; chronology Notes written in German Item 51 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 51 item # a
Date
Author Lincoln MacVeagh
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject MacVeagh expresses regret that he cannot visit excavation at Troy that summer.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes Item 51 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 51 item # b
Date 5/26/1935
Author Lincoln MacVeagh
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject MacVeagh expresses regret that he cannot visit excavation at Troy that summer.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes Item 52 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 52 item #
Date 6/2/1935
Author Minnie T. Duvaletelli and Bessie G. Alivisato
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Duvaletelli and Alivisato ask Blegen to join Board of Trustees of The Hill School in Athens.
Keywords Hill School Notes Item 53 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 53 item #
Date 6/6/1935
Author Jerome (Jerry) Sperling
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Paris, France
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Jerry expresses regret that he has to leave fieldwork unfinished that summer due to personal emergency and recounts state of projects.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes Item 54 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 54 item #
Date 6/20/1935
Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cambridge, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Wace describes his fieldwork in Turkey and Greece.
Keywords Troy; Knossos; Nemea Notes Item 55 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 55 item #
Date 6/27/1935
Author Kurt Bittel
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Istanbul, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Bittel comments on the excavation at Troy and thanks Blegen. He sends his best wishes on to Mr. and Mrs. Semple and Marion Rawson.
Keywords Troy; excavation; William T. Semple; Louise Taft Semple; Marion Notes written in German Item 56 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 56 item # a
Date 7/3/1935
Author Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Schobull bei Husum
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Dörpfeld discusses his Autumn travel plans in Germany and back to Greece. Dörpfeld gives his opinion chronology at Troy and offers copies of his book "Alt- Olympia" to Blegen and the Troy excavation.
Keywords Wilhelm Dörpfeld; Troy; excavation; Corfu; chronology; pottery Notes written in German Item 56 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 56 item # b
Date 7/4/1935
Author Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Schobull bei Husum
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Dörpfeld describes how plans and field notebooks from the 1893 and 1894 German excavation of Troy are in the German School in Athens. Dörpfeld discusses his views on Bronze Age dating.
Keywords German School in Athens; Troy; excavation; Bronze Age; Notes written in German Item 57 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 57 item #
Date 8/6/1935
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Location Essex Co., NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Blegen expresses his appreciation for Dörpfeld's offer to send him a copy of this Publication "Alt Olympia" and suggests meeting at Troy that summer to further discuss dating of Troy VI and VII.
Keywords excavation; Troy; Mycenae Notes Item 58 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 58 item #
Date 7/7/1936
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Nemea, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 11
Subject Hill discusses current fieldwork in Greece.
Keywords excavation; Acropolis; Nemea; Homer A. Thompson; Dorothy Notes Item 59 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 59 item #
Date 8/18/1936
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Corinth
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Hill discusses schedule of Norton lectures and possible lecture topics.
Keywords AIA; Nemea; Norton Lectures Notes Item 60 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 60 item #
Date 12/5/1936
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Dr. Hamit Kosay
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen discusses current fieldwork at Troy.
Keywords excavation; Troy; AJA Notes Item 61 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 61 item #
Date 1/30/1937
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient William T. Semple
Location New York City, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Blegen suggests candidates for visiting professor at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple Notes Item 62 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 62 item #
Date 2/4/1937
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Semple says that Karo couldn't accept visiting professorship at University of Cincinnati for 1937, but will offer to Woodward.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple Notes telegram Item 63 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 63 item #
Date 2/9/1937
Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
Location Cambridge, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Wace describes Bert Hodge Hill's upcoming lecture at Oxford.
Keywords Bert Hodge Hill; Oxford; John Beazley Notes Item 64 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 64 item #
Date 3/11/1937
Author Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Leukas, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Dörpfeld asks when the excavation at Troy will begin its season. Dörpfeld describes his travel plans to Turkey in the spring and his upcoming plans for publication.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Pergamon; Smyrna; T. Leslie Shear; Acropolis; Notes written in German Item 65 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 65 item #
Date 4/9/1937
Author Revue des Etudes Anciennes
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Bordeaux, France
Material Type postcard # of Pages 1
Subject Gives notice about newly published book on religion and about contents of May issue.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Notes written in French Item 66 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 66 item #
Date 4/10/1937; continued 7/25/1937 Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location on board the Sphinx off Egypt
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Wace describes conference in Egypt.
Keywords Egypt; Troy; excavation Notes Item 67 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 67 item # a
Date 5/6/1937
Author John (Jack) L. Caskey
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject financial statement for excavation
Keywords Troy Notes Item 67 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 67 item # b
Date 6/6/1937
Author John (Jack) L. Caskey
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject financial statement for excavation
Keywords Troy Notes Item 67 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 67 item # c
Date 7/5/1937
Author John (Jack) L. Caskey
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject financial statement for excavation
Keywords Troy Notes Item 67 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 67 item # d
Date 7/22/1937
Author John (Jack) L. Caskey
Recipient
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject financial statement for excavation
Keywords Troy Notes Item 67 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 67 item # e
Date 8/3/1937
Author John (Jack) L. Caskey
Recipient
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject financial statement for excavation
Keywords Troy Notes Item 68 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 68 item #
Date 5/15/1937
Author Nils Gustaf Gejvall
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Istanbul, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Gejvall thanks Blegen for opportunity to visit Troy and work with faunal remains.
Keywords excavation; Troy; faunal remains Notes Item 69 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 69 item #
Date 5/21/1937
Author P. Kanderring
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location ?
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Kanderring mentions Besika-tepe problem and visit of General to the area.
Keywords Turkey Notes written in Turkish Item 70 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 70 item #
Date 6/6/1937
Author Betty ??? [name unreadable]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Turkey?
Material Type postcard # of Pages 1
Subject ??? describes travel.
Keywords Notes Item 71 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 71 item #
Date 6/15/1937
Author R. O. A.
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Ankara, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Congratulates Blegen for work at Troy and offers assistance with Turkish government. Describes work on citadel at Ankara and gives news about other excavations in Turkey.
Keywords Troy; excavation; pottery Notes written in French Item 72 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 72 item #
Date 6/22/1937
Author George Karo
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Nauplia, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Karo discusses fieldwork in Greece and Turkey.
Keywords excavation; Troy; Neolithic Period; Poliochni; Aegina; Tiryns Notes Item 73 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 73 item #
Date 6/22/1937
Author Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Schobull uber Husum
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Dörpfeld thanks Blegen for hospitality at Troy. Dörpfeld explains his view on Troy chronology.
Keywords Troy; excavation; chronology; Homer A. Thompson; T. Leslie Shear Notes written in German Item 74 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 74 item #
Date 7.6.1937
Author George Karo
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location on board the "Rodi"
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Karo discusses fieldwork in Greece and Turkey.
Keywords Lemnos; excavation; Neolithic Period; Poliochni; Bronze Age; Notes Item 75 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 75 item #
Date 7/7/1937
Author William T. Semple [assumed]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Napoli, Italy
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Semple describes his travel from Troy to Greece.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes Item 76 Date Created 9/23/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 76 item #
Date 3/26/1937
Author Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
Recipient F.H. Bacon
Location Turkey
Material Type postcard # of Pages 1
Subject Invitation to tea at the French Institute.
Keywords Troy Notes Item 77 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 77 item #
Date 9/2/1937
Author Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
Recipient F.H. Bacon
Location Turkey
Material Type postcard # of Pages 1
Subject Letter will be sent shortly and thanks for book on Rhodes.
Keywords Troy Notes Item 78 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 78 item #
Date 9/25/1937
Author George H. Chase
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cambridge, MA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Chase explains arrangements for publication of ASCSA books, including Blegen's on Prosymna.
Keywords Prosymna; excavation; ASCSA; University of Cincinnati Notes Item 79 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 79 item #
Date 9/29/1937
Author J. H. Bacon
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Chanakkale
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Bacon describes news from Turkey.
Keywords Troy; Athens; excavation; Wilhelm Dörpfeld Notes Item 80 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 80 item #
Date 11/24/1937
Author Alan J. B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cambridge, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Wace discusses his publications and conference papers.
Keywords Troy; Mycenaean Period; pottery dating; Notes Item 81 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 81 item #
Date 11/26/1937
Author Alan J. B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cambridge, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Wace sends thank you for prints Blegen sent.
Keywords Troy Notes Item 82 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 82 item #
Date 3/4/1938
Author Gerhardt Rodenwaldt
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Berlin, Germany
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Rodenwaldt thanks Blegen for his information and Troy and discusses George Karo's problems in Germany.
Keywords excavation; Troy; George Karo Notes written in German Item 83 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 83 item #
Date 3/8/1938
Author F.W. Goethert
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Berlin, Germany
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Goethert thanks Blegen for invitation to work at Troy, but explains why he is unable to accept offer.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Marion Rawson; Dorothy Rawson; Jack L. Caskey Notes written in German Item 84 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 84 item #
Date 7/1938
Author ?
Recipient ?
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 3
Subject Inventory of boxes sent to Istanbul.
Keywords excavation; Troy Notes Item 85 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 85 item #
Date 8/19/1938
Author Asizl Ogan
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Istanbul, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Ogan refuses to send boxes of faunal remains found at Troy out of Turkey for study.
Keywords Troy; excavation; faunal remains; N. G. Gejvall Notes written in French Item 86 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 86 item #
Date 5/5/1939
Author Axel Boethius
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Goteborg
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Boethius's reaction to news about Linear B tablets discoverary at Pylos.
Keywords Linear B; Pylos; excavation Notes Item 87 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 87 item #
Date 9/29/1939
Author H. Kuney? [name unreadable]
Recipient
Location Ankara, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Notice that Hellenistic objects from certain layers in Troy excavation were being sent to Istanbul at Carl W. Blegen's expense.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes written in Turkish Item 88 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 88 item #
Date 5/12/1939
Author Macmillian & Co., Ltd
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location London, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Macmillian offers to publish book about Palace of Nestor by Blegen.
Keywords Pylos; Palace of Nestor; excavation Notes Item 89 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 89 item #
Date 5/17/1939
Author F.W. Goethert
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Berlin, Germany
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Goethert thanks Blegen for letter and describes his summer travel plans.
Keywords Notes written in German Item 90 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 90 item #
Date 5/29/1939
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient H.E. Hasan Ali Yucel
Location Ankara, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Blegen describes completion of Troy Excavations and tries to arrange transportation of materials for study.
Keywords excavation; Troy; Notes Item 91 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 91 item #
Date 5/31/1939
Author K. Ziffel
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Karyseri
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Ziffel comments on Blegen's work at Pylos and gives him advise on dealing with Turkish officials in Ankara and Istanbul.
Keywords Pylos; Troy; excavation; Notes written in German Item 92 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 92 item #
Date 5/31/1939
Author George E. Mylonas
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location St. Louis, MO
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Mylonas sends congratulations about Pylos excavation progress.
Keywords excavation; Pylos Notes Item 93 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 93 item #
Date 6/1/1939
Author R.K. Hack
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Hack sends congratulations about Pylos excavation progress.
Keywords Pylos; excavation Notes Item 94 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 94 item #
Date 6/7/1939
Author "The Editor" The Illustrated London News
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location London, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Thanks for article and pictures on Pylos excavation.
Keywords Pylos; excavation Notes Item 95 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 95 item #
Date 6/8/1939
Author John (Jack) L. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Caskey describes news from Cincinnati.
Keywords Pylos; Palace of Nestor; University of Cincinnati; Lapithos Notes Item 96 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 96 item #
Date 6/13/1939
Author W.A. Hewiller
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location ?
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Hewiller sends congratulations about Pylos excavation progress.
Keywords Pylos; Excavation; Mycenaean Period; Ithaca Notes Item 97 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 97 item #
Date 6/19/1939
Author Albert G.Ingalls, Editor for Scientific American
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New York City, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Ingalls offers Blgen an article in Scientific American about Pylos excavation.
Keywords Palace of Nestor; excavation Notes Item 98 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 98 item #
Date 6/20/1939
Author H. Lumerkan
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Lumerkan discusses an upcoming visit to Istanbul and a meeting with a professor from Ankara.
Keywords Turkey; excavation Notes written in Turkish Item 99 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 99 item #
Date 6/26/1939
Author Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location London, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Macmillian offers to publish book about Palace of Nestor by Blegen.
Keywords Pylos; excavation; Palace of Nestor Notes Item 100 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 100 item #
Date 7/8/1939
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Semples describes concerns about University of Cincinnati Classics department.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; Pylos; Troy Notes Item 101 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 101 item #
Date 7/18/1939
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Ida [Hill]
Location Navarino Bay, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Hill describes his travel in Greece.
Keywords Athens; T. Leslie Shear; Palace of Nestor Notes Item 102 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 102 item #
Date 7/23/1939
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Ida
Location near Corfu
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Description of Hill's travel in Greece and visit on British warship.
Keywords Olympia; Ithaca; Notes Item 103 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 103 item #
Date 7/28/1939
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient "Dearly Beloved" [Ida]
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Description of Hill's travel in Greece.
Keywords Notes Item 104 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 104 item #
Date 7/29/1939
Author Godfrey Whittall
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Dardanelles
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Whittall describes storage options for Troy materials at Chanak Huyuk.
Keywords Troy Notes telegram Item 105 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 105 item #
Date 8/17/1939
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Hill sends news from Athens.
Keywords Corinth; tablets Notes Item 106 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 106 item #
Date 8/25/1939
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Hill describes work in Agora and preparations in case of war.
Keywords Agora; tablets; Notes Item 107 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 107 item #
Date 8/25/1939
Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Mycenae, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Wace describes the state of his fieldwork in Greece at Mycenae.
Keywords excavation; Mycenae; Notes Item 108 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 108 item #
Date 9/1/1939
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Ida, Elizabeth, and Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject News from Athens and preparations in case of war.
Keywords Athens; tablets Notes Item 109 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 109 item #
Date 10/27/1939
Author Nils Gustaf Gejvall
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Stockholm, Sweden
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Gejvall describes his work so-far with faunal remains from Troy and states preliminary results.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes Item 110 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 110 item #
Date 12/15/1939
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Aziz Ogan
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen discusses delay in transportation of Troy materials to Sweden due to outbreak of war.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes Item 111 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 9/24/2003 folder # 111 item #
Date 1939
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 4
Subject Pylos Bank Account
Keywords Pylos; excavation Notes Item 112 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 112 item #
Date 3/2/1940
Author K. Nifakos
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Nifakos, the mayor of Chora, asks when Blegen will arrive so the town can make preparations.
Keywords excavation; Pylos; Palace of Nestor Notes written in Greek Item 113 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 113 item #
Date 3/18/1940
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Benjamin D. Merritt
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 5
Subject Hill discusses dating of GPS inscription.
Keywords inscription; tribute list Notes Item 114 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 114 item #
Date 3/26/1940
Author John Myre
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oxford, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Myre discusses pottery chronology of the Bronze Age.
Keywords pottery; Mycenaean Period Notes Item 115 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 115 item #
Date 4/30/1940
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Benjamin D. Merritt.
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Hill discusses dating of GPS inscription.
Keywords inscription; tribute list Notes Item 116 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 116 item #
Date 6/22/1940
Author Clarence Whittlesey Mendell
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Mendell discusses misunderstanding about fellowship.
Keywords Notes Item 117 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 117 item #
Date 6/25/1940
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient Ida, Elizabeth, and Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Hill sends news from Athens.
Keywords Athens Notes Item 118 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 118 item #
Date 6/15/1940
Author K. Kourouniotis
Recipient Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Kourouniotis thanks Blegen for putting his name on the excavation permit for the Palace of Nestor and explains that he will now be able to work there. He has prepared Blegen's papers to be published in Greek, but is still trying to find a journal to publish them in. News about WWII.
Keywords excavation; excavation permit; Palace of Nestor; Pylos; National Notes written in Greek Item 119 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 119 item #
Date 8/12/1940
Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Wace sends Blegen news from Greece.
Keywords Mycenenae; excavation; Bert Hodge Hill; Tiryns Notes Item 120 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 120 item #
Date 12/1/1940
Author Martin Nilsson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Lund
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Nilsson offers Blegen membership in Royal Society of Letters of Lund.
Keywords Notes Item 121 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/9/2003 folder # 121 item #
Date 12/15/1940
Author K. A. Romaios
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Romaios is sending two published papers to Blegen. Describes how the Greeks are fighting in WWII.
Keywords WWII; publication Notes written in Greek Item 122 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 122 item #
Date 12/16/1940
Author Archbishop Athenagoras; Spyros P. Skouras; Harold S. Vanderbilt Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New York City, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen is offered membership in National Citizens Committee of the Greek War Relief Association.
Keywords Notes Item 123 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/3/2003 folder # 123 item #
Date 12/16/1940
Author Edward Capps
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Capps relates work on Hymettus at outbreak of war.
Keywords inscription; Athens Notes Item 124 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 124 item #
Date 2/15/1940
Author K. Kourouniotis
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Kourouniotis will have Blegen's paper on Pylos published and will try to give a lecture on the topic. Reaction to death of Gillieron. Kourouniotis describes how WWII hasn't touched Greece yet.
Keywords Pylos; Palace of Nestor; excavation; Gillieron; Eleusis; WWII Notes written in Greek Item 125 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 125 item #
Date 1/14/1941
Author George Karo
Recipient Carl Blegen
Location Oberlin, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Karo describes his travel plans to Cincinnati and asks Blegen to write testimonial about the importance of Karo's research project.
Keywords Notes Item 126 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 126 item #
Date 3/9/1941
Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient "Gov"
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Wace sends news from Greece.
Keywords Mycenae; Argive Heraion; Corinth; Bert Hodge Hill; Notes Item 127 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 127 item #
Date 4/25/1941
Author John A. Miller, secretary American Philosophical Society Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Philadelphia, PA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Notification that Blegen has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Keywords American Philosophical Society Notes Item 128 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 128 item #
Date 5/1/1941
Author Robert G. Sproul
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Berkeley, CA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Sproul invites Blegen to give lectures at Berkeley.
Keywords Sather Lectures Notes Item 129 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 129 item #
Date 5/13/1941
Author Robert G. Sproul
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Berkeley, CA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Sproul invites Blegen to give Sather Lectures at the University of California.
Keywords Sather Lectures; Notes Item 130 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 130 item #
Date 6/3/1941
Author Axel Persson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Berkeley, CA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Persson describes his visit to the US and requests a chance to compare Blegen's new Linear B material from Pylos.
Keywords Axel Persson; Berkeley; Sather lectures; Mycenaean; Minoan; Linear B; Notes Written in Swedish Item 131 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 131 item #
Date 8/12/1941
Author Louis E. Lord
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oberlin, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Lord discusses possible funding for George Karo to write books including the Oberlaender Trust.
Keywords George Karo; Oberlaender Trust Notes Item 132 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 132 item #
Date 8/13/1941
Author Alan J. B. Wace
Recipient "Gov"
Location Cairo, Egypt
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Wace describes his fieldwork in Greece and Egypt.
Keywords Cairo; Bert Hodge Hill; pottery Notes Item 133 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 133 item #
Date 8/26/1941
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Louis. E. Lord
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen writes about funding for George Karo, including Oberlaender Trust.
Keywords Oberlaender Trust Notes Item 134 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 134 item #
Date 10/13/1941
Author Barba Jorgo
Recipient Carl Blegen
Location Oberlin, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Jorgo invites Blegen to stay with his family when Blegen goes to Cleveland to give a lecture.
Keywords Notes Item 135 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 135 item #
Date 10/17/1941
Author Gisela M. A. Richter
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New York, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Richter asks permission to have Cycladic figurines Blegen had lent to Metropolitan photographed.
Keywords Cycladic; statuettes; Metropolitan Museum of Art Notes Item 136 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 136 item #
Date 11/6/1941
Author Louis E. Lord
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oberlin, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Lord requests help finding funding for George Karo's work.
Keywords Notes Item 137 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 137 item #
Date 11/12/1941
Author Tliuyarstong? [name unreadable]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Chicago, IL
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Author of letter sent Blegen reports and a pottery sherd.
Keywords pottery classification Notes Item 138 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 138 item #
Date 11/25/1941
Author George Karo
Recipient Kouriparos
Location Oberlin, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Karo describes his plans for travel to Cincinnati.
Keywords Notes Item 139 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 139 item #
Date 12/1/1941
Author Gisela M.A. Richter
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New York, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Metropolitan Museum is sending casts of Cretan tablets.
Keywords Crete; tablets Notes Item 140 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 140 item #
Date 12/11/1941
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Gisela M.A. Richter
Location Cincinnati
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen thanks Richter and the Metropolitan Museum for sending casts of Cretan tablets.
Keywords Crete; tablets Notes Item 141 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 141 item #
Date 1941
Author George Karo
Recipient Kouriparos [Carl Blegen]
Location Oberlin, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Karo sends thanks for time in Cincinnati.
Keywords Notes Item 142 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 142 item #
Date 6/3/1942
Author William H. Hessler
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Notification that Blegen was elected to membership in The Literary Club.
Keywords Notes Item 143 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 143 item #
Date 6/21/1942
Author Ashton Sanborn
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cambridge, MA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Sanborn describes intended travel plans to New Hampshire and asks for news about Bert Hodge Hill.
Keywords Bert Hodge Hill Notes Item 144 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 11/4/2003 folder # 144 item #
Date 6/22/1942
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Wallace
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen describes aid to Greece being arranged during war through the Red Cross.
Keywords Red Cross; Greek War Relief Notes Item 145 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 145 item #
Date 7/2/1942
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Semple discusses options for sending payment to Turkey.
Keywords Troy Notes Item 146 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 146 item #
Date 7/3/1942
Author John (Jack) L. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Caskey describes news from Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati Notes Item 147 Date Created 9/24/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 147 item #
Date 7/5/1942
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient William T. Semple
Location [New York]
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen discusses paying bills related to the Troy excavation.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes calculations on back of paper Item 148 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 148 item #
Date 7/13/1942
Author John (Jack) L. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Caskey describes his job in Washington with the OSS.
Keywords OSS; WWII; William T. Semple; Troy Notes Item 149 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 149 item #
Date 8/24/1942
Author Lacy Davis Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Boston, MA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject L.D.C. discusses storage of papers from Bert Hodge Hill.
Keywords Bert Hodge Hill; Jack L. Caskey; Cedric Boulter; Boston Museum of Notes Item 150 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 150 item #
Date 8/24/1942
Author Bruce Chapman
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New York, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Question from The Answer Man radio program about the height of the walls at Troy.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes notes and calculations on bottom of page about height of walls at Troy during various phases Item 151 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 151 item #
Date 8/31/1942
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Bruce Chapman
Location [Lake Placid, NY]
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Answer to Chapman about the height of Troy's walls.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Wilhelm Dörpfeld Notes Item 152 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 152 item #
Date 9/15/1942
Author L.D.C.
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Boston, MA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Transportation of Bert Hodge Hill's papers to Blegen. Reference to letter from Loring to Mrs. Sears.
Keywords Bert Hodge Hill; Mrs. Sears; William C. Loring; ASCSA; Jack L. Caskey; Notes Item 153 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 153 item #
Date 9/22/1942
Author George Karo
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oberlin, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Karo describes his upcoming visit to Cincinnati.
Keywords George Karo; University of Cincinnati - library; WWII Notes Item 154 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 154 item #
Date 10/22/1942
Author Mary H. Swindler
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Bryn Mawr, PA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Swindler shares results of the votes of the AIA and APA about postponing the annual meetings due to war. News about ASCSA and Agora excavation.
Keywords AIA; APA; ASCSA; Agora excavation; Coulter; Edward Capps Notes Item 155 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 155 item #
Date 10/23/1942
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Mary ?
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Blegen discusses possibility of postponing or cancelling annual AIA/APA meeting. Blegen refuses to be nominated for president of AIA.
Keywords AIA; APA; ASCSA; Agora Excavation; Edward Capps Notes Item 156 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 156 item #
Date 11/29/1942
Author John L. Myers
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oxford, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Relation about publishing of Sir Arthur Evans' papers after his death. Discussion about current work in Linear A and B, including mention of Michael Ventris.
Keywords Sir Arthur Evans; Knossos; Agia Triada; Pylos; tablets; Linear A; Linear Notes Item 157 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 157 item #
Date ?/23/1942
Author Rodney Young
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Relation of Rodney's work on inscriptions in Attica, particularly from Mt. Hymettos.
Keywords inscription; Mt. Hymettos; WWII; Hesperia; Rhys Carpenter; Mr. Notes Item 158 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 158 item #
Date 1/6/1946
Author Homer A. Thompson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Toronto, Canada
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Thompson asks Blegen about what work was being done to help restore museums in Greece.
Keywords WWII; American Museum Association; Eugene Vanderpool; Agora Notes Item 159 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 159 item #
Date 2/1/1946
Author G. M. Young
Recipient
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 6
Subject Report on the condition of the Acropolis and National Museums in Athens after WWII. A list of materials needed for restoration of the National Musum also included.
Keywords WWII; Athens; Acropolis; National Museum; ASCSA; British School in Notes Item 160 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 160 item # a
Date 8/22/1946
Author U.S. Department of State
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Travel Authorization from Greece to Washington, D.C.
Keywords Notes Item 160 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 160 item # b
Date 9/16/1946
Author U.S. Department of State
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Amended Travel Authorization from Greece to Washington, D.C.
Keywords Notes Item 161 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 161 item # a
Date 8/22/1946
Author U.S. Department of State
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Travel Authorization from Greece to Washington, D.C.
Keywords Notes 1 copy in folder Item 161 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 161 item # b
Date 1/30/1947
Author Lincoln MacVeagh
Recipient The Secretary of State
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Extension of travel authorization for Mrs. Blegen until following year.
Keywords Notes 1 copy in folder Item 161 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 161 item # c
Date 2/17/1947
Author Marshall
Recipient American Embassy, Athens
Location Washington, D.C.
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Limits to travel authorization for the Blegens.
Keywords Notes Item 162 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 162 item #
Date 9/6/1946
Author Maurice S. Rice
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Information about replacements in Athens and Blegen's successor in USIS office.
Keywords USIS Notes Item 163 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 163 item # a
Date 9/25/1946
Author U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Washington, D.C.
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Discontinuation of pay for Carl W. Blegen.
Keywords Notes Item 163 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 163 item # b
Date 8/22/1946
Author U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Washington, D.C.
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Travel Authorization for Carl W. Blegen.
Keywords Notes Item 163 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 163 item # c
Date 9/20/1946
Author Clayton Acting
Recipient
Location Washington, D.C.
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Air travel to Washington, D.C. authorized.
Keywords Notes Item 164 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 164 item #
Date 9/20/1946
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Mr. Bellquist
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 6
Subject Blegen describes activities of Athens OIC during August 1946 and requests that replacement personnel be sent. Also mentions Rhys Carpenter's visit to Greece to assess American archaeological projects.
Keywords ASCSA; Rhys Carpenter; OIC Notes Item 165 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 165 item #
Date 9/30/1946
Author Alison [Franz]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject News about OIC office in Athens and meeting of the A.B.C. committee.
Keywords OIC Notes Item 166 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 166 item #
Date 10/6/1946
Author Alison [Franz]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject News about OIC office in Athens including visit to Palace in Athens and trouble with Boundijoucas.
Keywords OIC Notes Item 167 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 167 item #
Date 10/16/1946
Author Alison [Franz]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject News about Athens OIC, including improvements to the library.
Keywords OIC Notes Item 168 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 168 item #
Date 10/27/1946
Author Alison [Franz]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject News from Athens about pots given to the Ambassador and return of archaeologists to Athens.
Keywords OIC; pottery; David M. Robinson; Gladys Weinburg; Saul Weinburg; Notes Item 169 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 169 item #
Date 11/10/1946
Author B.G. Alivisatos
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Alivisatos's complaint that his son and nephew had not been able to travel to the U.S. for college and worries about his son being inducted into the army and sent to Macedonia.
Keywords Macedonia Notes Item 170 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 170 item #
Date 11/22/1946
Author Pauros Floros
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Requests that Blegen write his impressions of Floros's book and asks Blegen to recommend if his English translations of some chapters would be good for American public. Asks if Blegen will be reference for Floros to American publishers. Floros has gotten book copyrighted.
Keywords Floros; Notes written in Greek Item 171 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 171 item # a
Date 12/7/1946
Author W. C. Wachs
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Goshen, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Two prints with palm trees sent to Blegen. Wachs' s work on light reflectance on stone.
Keywords Epidaurus Notes Item 171 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 171 item # b
Date 12/7/1946
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject photo of palm tree
Keywords Notes Item 171 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 171 item # c
Date 12/7/1946
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject photo of palm tree
Keywords Notes Item 172 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 172 item #
Date 12/15/1946
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Rhys Carpenter
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen discusses sale of American books to the French School in Athens.
Keywords Rhys Carpenter; David M. Robinson; French School in Athens; ASCSA; Notes Item 173 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 173 item #
Date 12/17/1946
Author Cecil W. Gray
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Washington, D.C.
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Termination of Services and Lump-Sum Payment.
Keywords USIS Notes Item 174 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 174 item #
Date 12/20/1946
Author Maurice S. Rice
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Washington, D.C.
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Rice expresses his appreciation for Blegen's work done in Greece for OIC, and wishes that Blegen had been able to stay for the winter.
Keywords USIS Notes Item 175 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 175 item #
Date 1/13/1947
Author Gisela M.A. Richter
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New York, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Request for Blegen to donate Cycladic figurines and daggers to Metropolitan Museum of Art. News about Richter's Handbook of museum's Greek collection.
Keywords figurines; daggers; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Troy Notes Item 176 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 176 item #
Date 3/16/1947
Author Jerry Sperling
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Plans for travel to Cincinnati to work with Troy materials. Request for position on Pylos excavation. Request for advice on remaining in archaeology or not.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Pylos Notes Item 177 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 177 item #
Date 3/17/1947
Author Jerry Sperling
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Sperling's plans for studying Troy material and for traveling to Cincinnati.
Keywords Troy Notes Item 178 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 178 item #
Date 4/1/1947
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Nils-Gustaf Gejvall
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen's thanks for report on faunal remains from Troy excavation and request to have layers dated in publication. Request for catalogue of faunal remains from Troy excavation.
Keywords Troy; excavation Notes Item 179 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 179 item #
Date 4/16/1947
Author Jerry Sperling
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Appreciation for time spent working in Cincinnati and offer for lecture at Yale.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Yale Notes Item 180 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 180 item #
Date 6/17/1947
Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Alexandria, Egypt
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Thanks for Blegen's contribution to Homeric Companion book. Congratulations that Blegen will write Trojan sections for CAH. News about Wace's new excavation. Complaints about Furumark's pottery classification.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Cambridge Ancient History; Winifred Lamb; Sidney Notes Item 181 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 181 item #
Date 9/30/1947
Author L. Eitrem
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oslo, Norway
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Eitrem requests Blegen's help with the Rockefeller Institute for a Norwegien excavation in Greece.
Keywords Sverre Marstrander; Greece; excavation; iconography; Rockefeller Notes Written in Norwegien. Item 182 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 182 item #
Date 9/1947
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Expenditures by BH account of the Family.
Keywords Notes Item 183 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 183 item #
Date 10/4/1947
Author Sverre Marstrander
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Olso, Norway
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Request for assistance to make exploratory excavations at Phaistos.
Keywords Phaistos; Crete; ASCSA Notes Item 184 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 184 item #
Date 10/13/1947
Author Emmett [Bennett]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Report of Miss Kober's research with Evan's tablets and Linear A and B.
Keywords Alice Kober; Sir Arthur Evans; J.L. Myres; tablets; Linear A; Linear B; Notes copy in folder Item 185 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 185 item # a
Date 10/23/1947
Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Alexandria, Egypt
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Discussion about Blegen's contributions to Homeric book and CAH. Relay of request for study of Pylos tablets for Alice Kober. Discussion about Furumark's pottery classification.
Keywords Troy; Cambridge Ancient History; Alice Kober; Pylos; tablets; Furumark; Notes Item 185 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 185 item # b
Date 10/17/1947
Author Miss Lorimer
Recipient Alan J.B. Wace
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Miss Lorimer's comments on Blegen's section on Troy for Homeric book.
Keywords Miss Lorimer; Troy Notes copy of letter sent to Blegen Item 185 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 185 item # c
Date 12/9/1947
Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Comments about edits of Blegen's section on Troy for Homeric book. Typed sheet of suggested edits included.
Keywords Troy; Alan J.B. Wace; Bronze Age Notes Item 186 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 186 item #
Date 10/30/1947
Author J.F. Daniel
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Philadelphia, PA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Request for exchange of materials from Lapithos tomb.
Keywords Lapithos; excavation; AJA Notes Item 187 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/26/2003 folder # 187 item #
Date 11/15/1947
Author Oscar Broneer
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Request that Blegen organize new containers for storage of materials in Tegea.
Keywords Tegea; Hagiorgitika; ASCSA; Oscar Broneer Notes Item 188 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 188 item #
Date 11/22/1947
Author Alice E. Kober
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Brooklyn, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Request to publish tablet from Pylos.
Keywords Pylos; tablet; Linear A; Linear B; Alice Kober; John L. Myres; Sundwall; Notes Item 189 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 189 item #
Date 11/22/1947
Author Jean Berard
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Paris, France
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Relates Berard's plan for research and publication of material from Troy.
Keywords Troy; Axel Persson; excavation; AJA; Mycenaean Period Notes written in French Item 190 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 190 item #
Date 11/30/1947
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Alice E. Kober
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Response to Kober's 11/22/1947 letter about publishing Pylos tablet.
Keywords Pylos; Alice Kober; tablets; ASCSA Notes Item 191 Date Created 9/26/2003 Date Edited 9/29/2003 folder # 191 item #
Date 11/30/1947
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Oscar Broneer
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Obtaining new boxes for artifacts stored in Tegea Museum.
Keywords Tegea; Oscar Broneer; Bert Hodge Hill; excavation Notes Item 192 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 192 item #
Date 1947
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Gisela M.A. Richter
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen declines to permanently loan Cycladic figures to Metropolitan Museum.
Keywords Gisela M.A. Richter; Cycladic; Troy; excavation Notes Item 193 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 193 item # a
Date 2/7/1948
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Elizabeth Blegen
Location Washington, D.C
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen asks Elizabeth Blegen if she would agree to his becoming ASCSA director for one year.
Keywords ASCSA; Jack L. Caskey; Oscar Broneer; University of Cincinnati Notes telegram; copy in folder Item 193 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 9/29/2003 folder # 193 item # b
Date 2/7/1948
Author Elizabeth Blegen
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Elizabeth Blegen's positive reply to Blegen's inquiry about his becoming ASCSA director for one year.
Keywords ASCSA Notes telegram; copy in folder Item 194 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 9/29/2003 folder # 194 item #
Date 2/13/1948
Author Agora Excavations
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen's acceptance of directorship of ASCSA for one year
Keywords ASCSA; Agora; excavation Notes telegram Item 195 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 195 item #
Date 5/26/1948
Author M. Matorangous [nee Leront]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Brussells, Belgium
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Matorangous's appreciation for sending money and apologies for not sending letter sooner.
Keywords Notes Item 196 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 196 item # a
Date 8/25/1948
Author Bernard Ashmole
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location London, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Regarding Villa Ariadne, Crete and its condition.
Keywords Crete; Knossos; Villa Ariadne; Sir Arthur Evans; Piet de Jong Notes Item 196 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 196 item # b
Date 8/15/1949
Author John H. Kent
Recipient Jack
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Problems with Kent's application for a Fulbright Fellowship award and correspondence about it.
Keywords Fulbright Fellowship; ASCSA; John H. Kent; Gordon T. Bowles; J.W. Notes includes excerpts of letters from J.W. Fulbright, Estes Kefauver, Gordon T. Bowles, Howard P. Backus, and William C. Johnstone Item 196 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 9/29/2003 folder # 196 item # c
Date 8/3/1923
Author Arthur Evans
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Survey of Estate of Knossos. Plan of Palace at Knossos and surrounding area, including the Villa Ariadne.
Keywords Crete; Knossos; Villa Ariadne; Sir Arthur Evans Notes map Item 196 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 196 item # d
Date 1949?
Author minutes of BSA managing committee
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 4
Subject Deed of Sir Arthur Evans' Villa Ariadne to British School and associated expenditures. Includes copy of clauses from Evans' will regarding Villa Ariadne and letter to W.W. Yorke about use of income from Villa.
Keywords Sir Arthur Evans; Crete; Knossos; Villa Ariadne; British School in Notes Item 196 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 196 item # e
Date 1946-1950
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 5
Subject Lists of Expenditures of Villa Ariadne from 1946-1950.
Keywords Crete; British School in Athens; Villa Ariadne Notes Item 196 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 196 item # f
Date 1/11/1924
Author Sir Arthur Evans
Recipient
Location England
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Evans' bequest of Villa Ariadne and rights to Knossos excavation to BSA.
Keywords Sir Arthur Evans; Crete; Villa Ariadne; Knossos; British School in Notes Item 197 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 197 item #
Date 1/1/1948
Author Kalitsounakis
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Sends best wishes to Blegen for Christmas and the New Year. Describes his visit to Columbia and Harvard in the U.S. and his hope that he will be invited to give lectures at University of Cincinnati in the winter of 1948.
Keywords Columbia; Harvard; University of Cincinnati; Notes written in Greek Item 198 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 198 item #
Date 9/11/1949
Author Jack L. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Corinth, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Caskey's report about problems of Fulbright Fellowship scholarships for 1949-50 and his work on Troy materials and publications.
Keywords Jack L. Caskey; ASCSA; Fulbright Fellowship; Gertrude Smith; Gordon Notes Item 199 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 199 item #
Date 10/11/1949
Author Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location London, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Payment for Blegen's contribution to Wace's work on Homeric Studies. Includes copy of agreement to give MacMillan exclusive publishing rights to article.
Keywords Alan J.B. Wace; Troy; Mycenaean Period Notes Item 200 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 200 item #
Date 10/27/1949
Author Vincent Desborough
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Manchester, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Inquiry for photograph of oinochoe. News about Ashmolean Museum exhibit with iron weapons.
Keywords pottery classification; Athens; Ashmolean Museum; Athens; ASCSA Notes Item 201 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 201 item #
Date 11/5/1949
Author Marie Farnsworth
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New York, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Information about radio-carbon dating done by Dr. W. F. Libby.
Keywords Troy; Pylos; radio-carbon dating Notes Item 202 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 202 item #
Date 11/12/1949
Author Eugene Vanderpool
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Conservation of sherds from Tegea Museum and how to take care of problem.
Keywords Tegea; Hagiorgitika; excavation; Notes Item 203 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 203 item #
Date 11/26/1949
Author Jack L. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Caskey's travels in Argolid. Thanks for revision of Troy publication. News about ASCSA position.
Keywords ASCSA; Corinth; Shirley; Edward Capps Notes Item 204 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 204 item #
Date 11/27/1949
Author ?
Recipient Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Writes about trips he made with ASCSA to Boiotia with Karos and to the Peloponnese with Vanderpool.
Keywords ASCSA; Boiotia; George Karo; Peloponnesus; Eugene Vanderpool Notes written in Greek; missing pages Item 205 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 205 item #
Date 12/3/1949
Author Jack D. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Thanks for editing of Troy publication. Jack's problems related to ASCSA.
Keywords ASCSA; Troy; pottery classification; Corinth Museum; Stoa of Attalos; Notes Item 206 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 206 item #
Date 12/7/1949
Author David M. Robinson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Mississippi
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Inquiry about Blegen writing article for Festschrift. Robinson's opposition to Morgan being appointed chairman of Managing Committee of ASCSA.
Keywords ASCSA; David M. Robinson; Olynthus; Troy; AJA; Charles H. Morgan Notes Item 207 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 207 item #
Date 12/23/1949
Author Jack D. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 6
Subject News about the Omnibus Act in Greece. Concerns about ASCSA projects, including Stoa of Attalos, and Caskey's problems with introduction to Troy volume.
Keywords ASCSA; Omnibus Act; Stoa of Attalos; Agora Excavation; Samothrace; Notes Item 208 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 208 item #
Date 2/9/1950
Author Homer A. Thompson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Details about funding for Stoa of Attalos building project.
Keywords ECA; Stoa of Attalos; Rockefeller Foundation; Odeion publication Notes Item 209 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 9/29/2003 folder # 209 item #
Date 2/25/1950
Author J. Walter Graham
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Toronto, Canada
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Request that Blegen give advice about authenticity of seal-stones and ring for Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology.
Keywords seal-stones; Crete; Chieftain Vase; Hagia Triada Notes Item 210 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 210 item #
Date 3/10/1950
Author Jack D. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Caskey describes his work on Troy publications.
Keywords Troy; ASCSA; Hazel Hansen Notes Item 211 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 9/29/2003 folder # 211 item #
Date 3/17/1950
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient William
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Translation of Pylos Tablets and use of IBM machines.
Keywords Pylos; tablets; Linear B; IBM; Emmet Bennett Notes Item 212 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 212 item #
Date 3/17/1950
Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Alexandria, Egypt
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Wace's idea for young student to publish pottery in British museums. Wace's plans for excavation at Mycenae summer of 1950 and travel plans.
Keywords pottery; National Museum; Spyridon Marinatos; Phylakopi; Cambridge; Notes Item 213 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 213 item #
Date 3/29/1950
Author Tom [Whittemore]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Boston, MA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Request for identification of 6 silver objects.
Keywords William T. Semple Notes Item 214 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 9/29/2003 folder # 214 item #
Date 4/3/1950
Author Walter Graham
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Toronto, Canada
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Update on Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology's proposed purchase of possible Minoan object.
Keywords Minoan; Homer A. Thompson Notes Item 215 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 215 item #
Date 4/9/1950
Author Jack D. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Congratulations to Blegen becoming chair of Classics Dept. at University of Cincinnati. News about ASCSA. Request to call Blegen by his first name.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; Troy; Rodney; ASCSA; Oscar Broneer Notes Item 216 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 216 item #
Date 5/12/1950
Author Martin P. Nilsson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Lund
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Discussion about study of Thera erruption.
Keywords Crete; Thera; Mycenaean period; pottery classification Notes Item 217 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 217 item #
Date 4/28/1950
Author Asizl Agau [name unreadable]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Istanbul, Turkey
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Agau says that Blegen's visit to Turkey is very welcome and that there is no response yet to Blegen's inquiry about the display of artifacts from Troy in the Istanbul museum.
Keywords Turkey; Troy; Notes written in French Item 218 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 218 item #
Date 6/16/1950
Author Ann Johnson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Chicago, IL
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Request for Troy prints for use in Encyclopedia Britannica Junior.
Keywords Troy; AJA Notes Item 219 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 219 item #
Date 6/21/1950
Author Arthur R.B.
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Arrangement for Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.'s travel to Greece and discussion of Bennett's future at Yale.
Keywords Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.; Yale; Pylos; tablet; Alice Kober; Jack L. Caskey; Notes Item 220 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 9/29/2003 folder # 220 item #
Date 7/27/1950
Author A.J. Beattie
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cambridge, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Appointment of Blegen as referee for A.J.B. Wace's application for Litt.D. degree
Keywords Cambridge; Alan J.B. Wace; Notes Item 221 Date Created 9/29/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 221 item #
Date 8/7/1950
Author Dudley T. Easby, Jr.
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New York, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Inquiry from Metropolitan Museum as to whether Blegen would continue to loan items to them.
Keywords Metropolitan Museum of Art; Cycladic; figurines Notes Item 222 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 222 item #
Date 8/11/1950
Author A.W. Lawrence
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cambridge, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Invitation for Blegen to be visiting lecturer at Cambridge.
Keywords Cambridge; pottery classification; Stubbings lectures Notes Item 223 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 223 item #
Date 10/7/1950
Author Gladys Weinberg
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Columbia, MO
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Description of bronze phiale and news about Student Travel Service.
Keywords Corinth; excavation Notes Item 224 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 224 item #
Date 10/17/1950
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Datus C. Smith, Jr.
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Semple expresses thanks for Smith's help getting Troy I volume published and outlines history of publications of University of Cincinnati Troy excavations.
Keywords William T. Semple; Troy; excavation; Jack L. Caskey; Marion Rawson Notes Item 225 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 225 item #
Date 10/20/1950
Author Datus C. Smith, Jr.
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Appreciation for letter sent 10/17/1950.
Keywords Troy; William T. Semple Notes Item 226 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 226 item #
Date 10/23/1950
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Alfred R. Bellinger
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Payment for Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.'s trip to Greece.
Keywords Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.; Yale Notes Item 227 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 227 item #
Date 10/23/1950
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Payment for expenses incurred on Bennett's trip to Greece. Inquiry about publication of Pylos tablets.
Keywords Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.; Pylos; tablets; Linear B; Willliam T. Semple Notes Item 228 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 228 item #
Date 10/26/1950
Author Alfred R. Bellinger
Recipient William T. Semple
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Appreciation for payment and letter sent by Semple for Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.'s trip to Greece.
Keywords Yale; Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. Notes Item 229 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 229 item #
Date 10/26/1950
Author Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.
Recipient William T. Semple
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Appreciation for payment and recounting of travel in Greece. Bennett tells Semple that manuscript for Pylos inscriptions volume was sent to the printers.
Keywords Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.; William T. Semple; Pylos; tablets; Linear B; Notes Item 230 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 230 item #
Date 11/3/1950
Author Homer A. Thompson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Thompson asks questions to clarify Blegen's manuscript on grave groups.
Keywords Homer A. Thompson; graves; pottery; Corinth; Perachora; Eve Notes Item 231 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 231 item #
Date 11/4/1950
Author Roy
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Philadelphia, PA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Invitation for Blegen and Elizabeth Blegen to University of Pennsylvania Museum meeting. Concern about Saul's application to Philosophical Society.
Keywords University of Pennsylvania; Philosophical Society Notes Item 232 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 232 item #
Date 12/1/1950
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Thanks for letter sent 10/26/1950 and congratulations for publication of Pylos transcriptions and article.
Keywords Pylos; William T. Semple Notes Item 233 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 233 item # a
Date 12/14/1950
Author Homer A. Thompson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Details for transportation of slides for Blegen.
Keywords Alison Frantz; Warrior Grave; Homer A. Thompson Notes Item 233 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 233 item # b
Date 9/15/1950
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject List of slides for "Warrior's Grave"
Keywords Warrior Grave; pottery classification Notes Item 234 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 234 item #
Date 3/16/1951
Author Otto Lous Mohr
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oslo, Norway
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Arrangements for Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by University of Oslo.
Keywords honorary degree; Notes Item 235 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 235 item #
Date 3/28/1951
Author J.L. Morrill
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Minneapolis, MN
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Awarding of Outstanding Achivement Medal from University of Minnesota to Blegen.
Keywords honorary degree; University of Minnesota Notes Item 236 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 236 item #
Date 4/5/1951
Author Otto Lous Mohr
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oslo, Norway
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Arrangements for Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by University of Oslo.
Keywords honorary degree Notes Item 237 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 237 item #
Date 4/19/1950
Author Raymond Walters
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Approval by University of Cincinnati president for Blegen to depart for Norway. Congratulations for honorary degree.
Keywords honorary degree; University of Cincinnati Notes Item 238 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 238 item #
Date 10/9/1951
Author Alfred R. Bellinger
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Update about publication of Blegen's coins.
Keywords Yale; coins; Numismatic Society; Newell Notes Item 239 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 239 item #
Date 10/30/1951
Author N.G. Geivall
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Stockholm, Sweden
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Thanks for coffee. Update on study of faunal remains from Troy excavation.
Keywords Troy; excavation; faunal remains Notes Item 240 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 240 item #
Date 1/6/1952
Author "The Admiral"
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Chapel Hill, NC
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Description of meeting at Princeton.
Keywords Princeton; Steven Luce; William B. Dinsmoor; Fulbright Fellowship Notes Item 241 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 241 item #
Date 3/19/1952
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Explanation of plans for summer excavation at Pylos and travel to Troy.
Keywords Pylos; excavation; Troy; University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple Notes Item 242 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 242 item #
Date 5/20/1952
Author Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Corrections to Scripta Minoa, volume II and future work on Linear B.
Keywords Knossos; Linear B; tablets; University of Pennsylvania; Alice Kober; Notes Item 243 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 243 item #
Date 5/27/1952
Author Lucien Wulsin
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Award of Rosa F. and Samuel B. Sachs Prize for Troy volumes.
Keywords Troy; Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts Notes Item 244 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 244 item #
Date 6/12/1952
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Chora Triphylias, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Description of excavation of Throne Room at Palace of Nestor. Detailed description of hearth. Uncovering of more Linear B tablets.
Keywords Pylos; Palace of Nestor; tablets; Linear B; William T. Semple; Troy; Notes Item 245 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 245 item #
Date 6/18/1952
Author John L. Myre
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oxford, England
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Explanation about Myre's sign order for Linear B.
Keywords Linear B; John L. Myre; Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.; Michael G. F. Ventris Notes Item 246 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 246 item #
Date 7/8/1952
Author William T. Semple
Recipient Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Congratulations on work on Scripta Minoa II.
Keywords Linear B; Pylos; Jack L. Caskey; Cedric Boulter; William T. Semple Notes Item 247 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 247 item #
Date 7/14/1952
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Chora, Triphylias, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Update about excavations at Palace of Nestor. More details about Throne Room.
Keywords Pylos; excavation; Palace of Nestor; George Mylonas; Eugene Notes Item 248 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 248 item #
Date 7/25/1952
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Sir John Myre
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Congratulations for his work on Scripta Minoa II and premission to use quotes about order of Linear B signs. Description of excavation at Palace of Nestor.
Keywords Linear B; tablets; Pylos; exavation; Palace of Nestor Notes Item 249 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 249 item #
Date 7/28/1952
Author Homer A. Thompson
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Reaction of Thompson to excavation at Palace of Nestor.
Keywords Pylos; Palace of Nestor; Homer A. Thompson; William T. Semple; Notes Item 250 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 9/30/2003 folder # 250 item #
Date 10/6/1952
Author Lucien Wulsin
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Ceremony for awarding Blegen with Sach's award.
Keywords Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts; William T. Semple Notes Item 251 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 251 item #
Date 10/16/1952
Author William T. Semple [unsigned]
Recipient Homer A. Thompson
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Thanks for 7/28/1952 letter. Description of Blegen receiving Sachs award.
Keywords Cedric Boulter; Jack L. Caskey; Marion Rawson; Pylos; Cincinnati Notes Item 252 Date Created 9/30/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 252 item #
Date 5/11/1953
Author Marion Rawson
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Chora, Triphylias, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Description of Rawson's trip to Greece. News about Elizabeth Blegen's recovery, additions to ASCSA, and drive to Palace of Nestor.
Keywords Marion Rawson; William T. Semple; Argive Heraion; Pylos; tablets; Notes Item 253 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 253 item #
Date 1/15/1953
Author Dionysus Androusokis
Recipient Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
Location Chora, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Describes finds that two farmers from Metaxada brought in including bronze sword, double axe and beads. Says he is investigating Englianos Ridge and Pylos.
Keywords Pylos; Palace of Nestor Notes written in Greek Item 254 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 254 item # a
Date 7/27/1953
Author Robert McEwen
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Clinton, New York
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Proposal of possible Winslow Lecture dates.
Keywords Winslow Lectures Notes copy of reply on other side of page Item 254 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 254 item # b
Date 7/2/1953
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Robert McEwen
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Confirmation of Winslow lecture dates.
Keywords Winslow lectures Notes written on back of previous letter Item 255 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 255 item # a
Date 8/23/1953
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Professor Schnier
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen reports his failure to find original watercolor Schnier requested. Report of painted octopus found in Palace of Nestor excavations that summer.
Keywords Pylos; Palace of Nestor; excavation; Piet de Jong Notes another letter on other side of page Item 255 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 255 item # b
Date 8/23/1953
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient M. Durand
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Details of exchange of Troy volumes for Fouilles de Byblos volumes for University of Cincinnati Classics library.
Keywords Troy; Byblos; University of Cincinnati Notes another letter on other side of page Item 256 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 256 item #
Date 9/1/1953
Author Nathan Galurian
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Vaxjo, Sweden
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Thanks for "Pylos Tablets" volume and inquiry about book sent to Blegen.
Keywords Pylos; tablets; Michael G. F. Ventris; Furumark; Athens Notes Item 257 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 257 item #
Date 9/13/1953
Author Dionysios (Nionios) Androutsakis
Recipient Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
Location Chora, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Had received letter from Blegen requesting more information, but had already send letter with list of items in Museum at Englianos/Pylos. Describes how he must fix the ladder since the mayor of village wouldn't.
Keywords Pylos; Palace of Nestor; Notes written in Greek Item 258 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 258 item #
Date 12/12/1953
Author [Richard Stillwell]
Recipient Sterling [Dow]
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Suggested edits for article on Minoan Writing.
Keywords Linear B; tablets; Alan J. B. Wace; Furumark; McFadden; Michael G. F. Notes Item 259 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 259 item #
Date 12/14/1953
Author Richard Stillwell
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Thanks for help with Dow article and information about upcoming AJA volume.
Keywords AJA; Sterling Dow; George McFadden; Kourion; Cyprus Notes Item 260 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 260 item #
Date 1/5/1954
Author Sterling Dow
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Cambridge, MA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Dow reports that Blegen was missed at AIA meeting in NYC. News of work on "Minoan Writing" article and request for more information on Pylos tablets.
Keywords AIA; Pylos; tablets; Linear B; AJA; Furumark; Henle; Alan J.B. Wace Notes Item 261 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 261 item #
Date 1/10/1954
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Sterling Dow
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen describes tablet 641 from Pylos and that it confirms that Linear B was Greek.
Keywords Pylos; tablets; Linear B; Sterling Dow; Michael G. F. Ventris; Emmett L. Notes Item 262 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 262 item # a
Date 1/15/1954
Author Jack L. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject News about formal registration of cars in Greece and how Blegen's vehicles are affected.
Keywords ASCSA; Pylos; Kyriakides Notes Item 262 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 262 item # b
Date 2/1/1954
Author Jack L. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Thanks for transfer of jeep to ASCSA. Notice of article in St Louis newspaper about antiquity bought and inquiry if Blegen knew about it.
Keywords ASCSA; Muffy Hensley; pottery classification; Corinth; excavation; Notes Item 263 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 263 item #
Date 11/7/1954
Author T.B. Rutford
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location St. Andrews, Scotland
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Inquiry if Blegen would wish to give lecture at St. Andrews on Pylos excavation.
Keywords Pylos; excavation; Troy Notes Item 264 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 264 item #
Date 12/10/1954
Author Alan J.B. Wace
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Wace asks for Blegen to recommend him for a Philosopical Society fellowship to continue excavation at Mycenae.
Keywords Alan J.B. Wace; Mycenae; excavation; Philosophical Society; Allbright Notes Item 265 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 265 item #
Date 12/18/1954
Author Homer A. Thompson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Thompson's reaction to Wace's application for American Philosophical Society grant. Thompson's opinion that Wace should finish excavating at Mycenae.
Keywords Homer A. Thompson; Alan J.B. Wace; Mycenae; excavation Notes Item 266 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 266 item #
Date 12/31/1954
Author Paul D. White
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Boston, MA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject White's disappointment at not seeing Blegen in Boston AIA meeting.
Keywords AIA; Corinth Notes Item 267 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 267 item #
Date 1/18/1955
Author Paul D. White
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Boston, MA
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Thanks for letter Blegen sent.
Keywords Notes Item 268 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 268 item #
Date 6/2/1955
Author Marion Rawson
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Chora, Triphylias, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject News about excavation at Palace of Nestor and about visitors to site.
Keywords Palace of Nestor; Pylos; excavation; Marion Rawson; Methone; Wade Notes Item 269 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 269 item #
Date 1/21/1958
Author [Miss Brady]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject News about the Semples and their support of Pylos excavation and University of Cincinnati Classics Scholarship.
Keywords William T. Semple; Pylos; excavation; Greek Book Fund; University of Notes Item 270 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 270 item #
Date 2/24/1958
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Miss Brady
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Thanks for letter sent 1/21/1958 and news about Elizabeth Blegen.
Keywords William T. Semple; Pylos; excavation; Modern Greek Books; University Notes Item 271 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 271 item #
Date 12/24/?
Author Richard B. Seager
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Saigon
Material Type postcard # of Pages 1
Subject News of travel to temples in jungle.
Keywords Saigon Notes like earlier postcard from 1920's?? Item 272 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 272 item #
Date 9/5/194?
Author George Karo
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Oberlin, Ohio
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 6
Subject Description of Karo's hearing before Alien Enemy Board and associated events.
Keywords FBI; Alien Enemy Board; WWII; Louis Lord; George Karo; William T. Notes Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 273 item # a
Date
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "Cincinnati Adventures in Greece." Review of Blegen's book "Zygouries: A Prehistoric Settlement in the Valley of Cleonae."
Keywords University of Cincinnati; Zygouries; Cleonae; Schliemann; Mycenae; Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 273 item # b
Date 4/7/1956
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient The Illustrated London News
Location London, England
Material Type other # of Pages 4
Subject Report of Excavations at Palace of Nestor, Pylos.
Keywords Palace of Nestor; Pylos; excavation; University of Cincinnati; Bronze Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 273 item # c
Date 12/4/1955
Author Charles Warnick
Recipient Cincinnati Enquirer
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Report of Excavations at Palace of Nestor, Pylos.
Keywords Pylos; Palace of Nestor; excavation; University of Cincinnati; Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 273 item # d
Date 12/24/1937
Author
Recipient Cincinnati Enquirer
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "Archaeological Dispute, 40 Years Old, Is Brought to End with Findings of U.C. Expedition to Site of Ancient Troy."
Keywords Troy; excavation; University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple; Wilhelm Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 273 item # e
Date 5/22/1936
Author E.J. Forsdyke
Recipient The Times
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 2
Subject Results of Excavations by University of Cincinnati at Troy.
Keywords Troy; excavation; University of Cincinnati; Heinrich Schliemann; Wilhelm Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 273 item # f
Date 3/13/1936
Author Associated Press
Recipient New York Times
Location New York, NY
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "Fair Helen of Troy Declared a Myth." News of excavation of Troy by Blegen.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Robert P. Skinner; Ephesus; Pergamum; University of Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 273 item # g
Date 1/5/1928
Author
Recipient The Cincinnati Enquirer
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Report of lecture by Blegen to Cincinnati AIA chapter about the Argive Heraeum.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple; AIA; Argive Heraeum; Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 273 item # h
Date 10/19/1951
Author Charles Ludwig
Recipient The Cincinnati Times-Star
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "U.C. Archaeologists' Findings At Troy Described in Book." Publication of Troy excavation.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; Troy; excavation; William T. Semple; Marion Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 273 item # i
Date 12/24/1937
Author
Recipient The New York Times
Location New York, NY
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "Stone Face Found at Ancient Troy."
Keywords Troy; excavation; University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple; Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 273 item # j
Date 12/29/1937
Author
Recipient New York Times
Location New York, NY
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "Gate of Old Troy Found on Plain"
Keywords Troy; excavation; University of Cincinnati; AIA; Leicester B. Holland; Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 273 item # k
Date 10/23/1952
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "Century Old Palace Yields Treasure in Gems." Excavations at Palace of Nestor, Pylos.
Keywords excavation; Palace of Nestor; Pylos; Bronze Age Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 273 item # l
Date 12/24/1937
Author
Recipient The New York Times
Location New York, NY
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "Stone Face Found at Ancient Troy." Excavation at Troy.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Bronze Age; William T. Semple Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 273 item # m
Date
Author James Feldman
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "Cincinnatian Digs Greeks - Finds King Nestor's Palace." Excavation of Palace of Nestor.
Keywords Palace of Nestor; excavation; Pylos; Marion Rawson; University of Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 273 item # n
Date 12/23/1937
Author
Recipient The Cincinnati Times-Star
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "Face that Promises to Rank with Helen's, Found in Troy." Excavations at Troy.
Keywords Troy; excavation; William T. Semple; University of Cincinnati; Heinrich Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 273 item # o
Date 12/26/1937
Author Helen Still Safe
Recipient The New York Times
Location New York, NY
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Excavation at Troy.
Keywords Troy; excavation; University of Cincinnati; stone face; Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 273 item # p
Date 9/13/1953
Author A.C. Sedgwick
Recipient The New York Times
Location New York, NY
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "Greek Excavation Yields Treasures." Description of Blegen's excavation at Palace of Nestor.
Keywords excavation; Palace of Nestor; Linear B; tablets; University of Cincinnati; Notes newspaper clipping Item 273 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 273 item # q
Date 12/31/1937
Author
Recipient New York Times
Location New York, NY
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject "The Scaean Gate." Description of excavation at Troy.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Scaean Gate; Homer Notes newspaper clipping Item 274 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 274 item #
Date [12/18/1954]
Author Homer A. Thompson
Recipient
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Recommendation letter to APS for Alan J.B. Wace's excavation at Mycenae.
Keywords Alan J.B. Wace; Mycenae; Homer A. Thompson; excavation; APS Notes Item 275 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 275 item #
Date 2/6/?
Author Jack [Caskey]
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New Haven, CT
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Acceptance of Blegen's offer for Caskey to go to Cincinnati.
Keywords Jack L. Caskey; University of Cincinnati; Bert Hodge Hill Notes Item 276 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 276 item #
Date 12/15/?
Author Dorothy Burr Thompson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Toronto, Canada
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Description of pottery analysis of Minyan ware and request for pottery sherds to be analyzed.
Keywords Minyan ware; pottery classification; Dorothy Thompson; Bronze Age; Notes Item 277 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 277 item #
Date 10/4/?
Author Rodney Young
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Princeton, NJ
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject News from Greece and of archaeologists who are working in Greece. Description of Hymettos excavation and request for photographs of stele from Hymettos.
Keywords Homer A. Thompson; Andreas; Pylos; tablets; Alison Frantz; pottery Notes Item 278 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 278 item #
Date
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 6
Subject "A Year Without Christmas." Description of adoption of Gregorian calendar in Greece in 1923/24.
Keywords Eastern Orthodox Church; Gregorian calendar; King Constantine; Col. Notes Item 279 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 279 item #
Date 1/25/1943
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 7
Subject "Memories." Blegen's recollection of visit to Navarino Bay as member of ASCSA in 1913.
Keywords Cyrenaica; Carthage; Candia; Crete; Syracuse; Naples; Salonica; Notes Item 280 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 280 item #
Date
Author George Karo
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 2
Subject "A plan for works on Aegean and Homeric Archaeology"
Keywords archaeology; Bronze Age; Carl W. Blegen; Alan J.B. Wace; Pylos; Notes proposal for books Item 281 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 281 item #
Date 8/4 - 8/6/193?
Author Bert Hodge Hill
Recipient
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject News from Greece about Corinth excavations, ASCSA, and Hodge's volume on Peirene. Also details of insurance inspection.
Keywords Andreas; tablets; Linear B; Corinth; Cyprus; Louis Lord; Stevens; Notes Item 282 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 282 item #
Date ?
Author George Karo
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Proposal for book on Bronze Age Greece.
Keywords Bronze Age; excavation; Heinrich Schliemann; Sir Arthur Evans; Crete; Notes see #280 Item 283 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 1/16/2004 folder # 283 item #
Date
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 8
Subject Description of William T. Semple's involvement in University of Cincinnati excavation of Troy.
Keywords William T. Semple; University of Cincinnati; Troy; excavation; Heinrich Notes prepared paper Item 284 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 284 item #
Date 9/6/????
Author Marion Rawson
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Nantucket, RI
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject News about weather in New England. News about MacVeaghs, DeJongs, and Blegen's summer travel.
Keywords Marion Rawson; Dorothy Rawson; Cedric Boulter; MacVeagh; Piet de Notes Item 285 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/6/2003 folder # 285 item #
Date 11/17/1941
Author Dr. Bedi Husgung
Recipient Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
Location Prague
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Announces that he has deciphered Linear B and states which resources he used to to it.
Keywords Linear B; Pylos; tablets; Notes written in German Item 286 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 286 item # a
Date
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Man standing and dog by wall at excavation site.
Keywords excavation Notes photo Item 286 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 286 item # b
Date 12/1950
Author Evangeline, David, and JP Archer
Recipient Carl and Elizabeth Blegen
Location Ekali
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject 3 people standing by wall with two dogs.
Keywords Notes photo Item 286 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 286 item # c
Date
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Group photo of 17 people standing and sitting.
Keywords Notes photo, see 286.d Item 286 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 286 item # e
Date
Author
Recipient
Location
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Three men standing outside.
Keywords Notes photo Item 286 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 286 item # d
Date
Author
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Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Group photo of 18 people standing and sitting.
Keywords Notes photo, see 286.c Item 287 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 287 item #
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Author Department of State
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Material Type other # of Pages 3
Subject Memo about Section of Personnel Relations - Division of Foreign Service Personnel
Keywords WWII Notes Item 288 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 288 item # a
Date ?
Author Alison Frantz
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Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject News about USIS office in Athens and Agora excavation.
Keywords USIS; Elizabeth Blegen; MacVeagh; ASCSA; Agora; Secretary of State; Notes beginning of letter missing Item 288 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 288 item # b
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Author Alison Frantz
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Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject News from Athens about USIS office.
Keywords USIS Notes beginning of letter missing Item 289 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 289 item #
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Author Giorgeo
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Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Borrowing of books from recipient.
Keywords Axel Persson; Asine; Mylonas; Neolithic Period; Sir Arthur Evans Notes beginning of letter missing Item 290 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 290 item #
Date 3/31/????
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Mr. Bachs?
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Recommendation for Professor Sotenin? to be given time to work at Dumbarton Oaks.
Keywords Byzantine; Dumbarton Oaks; Sotenin; Notes Item 291 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 291 item #
Date 8/23/194?
Author Jack L. Caskey
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location Washington, D.C.
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Caskey's impressions of being in the army.
Keywords Elizabeth Caskey; William T. Semple; University of Cincinnati; Charles Notes Item 292 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/29/2003 folder # 292 item #
Date 193?
Author Karl Lehmann-Hartleben
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location New York, NY
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Inquiry into whether Samothrace excavations could purchase imported Troy fieldhouse.
Keywords Samothrace; Troy; imported house; Prosymna Notes Item 293 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 293 item #
Date 1927?
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Athens, Greece
Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen accepts academic position at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; Willliam T. Semple Notes telegram Item 294 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/24/2003 folder # 294 item #
Date 7/1/????
Author Peggy
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 3
Subject Appreciation for tour of Troy and impressions of visit.
Keywords Troy; excavation; Marion Rawson; Dorothy Rawson; Jack L. Caskey; Notes Item 295 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 295 item #
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Author Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
Recipient William T. Semple
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen agrees to write article on Nemea and discusses possible classes to teach at University of Cincinnati.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; Nemea; Riggs; Willliam T. Semple Notes Item 296 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 296 item #
Date 192?
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient D.M.S.
Location S.S. "Baltic"
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject News of Blegen's acceptance of position at University of Cincinnati and arrangements for beginning of classes.
Keywords University of Cincinnati; William T. Semple; Louise Taft Semple; Dean Notes Item 297 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 297 item #
Date 195?
Author
Recipient
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Material Type other # of Pages 14
Subject "Corrections to Scripta Minoa II"
Keywords Linear B; tablets Notes Item 298 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 298 item #
Date ?/17/????
Author Roy?
Recipient Carl W. Blegen
Location
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Account of progress made with Hymettos inscription and Andreas's photography of pots. List of pottery.
Keywords pottery classification; Hymettos inscription; Bronze Age; Andreas Notes Item 299 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 299 item #
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Author Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
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Material Type journal # of Pages
Subject Bibliography and references to archaeological works.
Keywords Notes Item 300 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 12/4/2003 folder # 300 item #
Date 195?
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Mr. Wulsin
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Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Blegen accepts Rosa F. and Samuel B. Sachs Prize for Troy excavation volumes.
Keywords Sachs prize; Troy; excavation Notes Item 301 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 301 item #
Date 194?
Author Carl W. Blegen [assumed]
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Material Type correspondence # of Pages 2
Subject Delays in receiving confirmation of Fulbright Fellowships to Greece.
Keywords ASCSA; J. W. Fulbright; John H. Kent; Gordon Bowles; U. S. Notes Item 302 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/20/2003 folder # 302 item #
Date 195?
Author Alison Frantz
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Material Type other # of Pages 1
Subject Resume of M. Alison Frantz.
Keywords M. Alison Frantz; ASCSA; Fulbright Fellowship; Byzantine Notes Item 303 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 10/1/2003 folder # 303 item #
Date 193?
Author Carl W. Blegen
Recipient Karl Lehmann-Hartleben
Location Cincinnati, OH
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 1
Subject Congratuations on Samothrace excavations and refusal to sell imported Troy house.
Keywords Troy; Samothrace; excavation; imported house Notes Item 304 Date Created 10/1/2003 Date Edited 11/19/2003 folder # 304 item #
Date 7/5/195?
Author Marion Rawson
Recipient William T. Semple
Location Chora, Triphylias, Greece
Material Type correspondence # of Pages 4
Subject Description of excavation at Palace of Nestor and new finds. Report that Piet De Jong working on water colors of finds and on reconstructions of Palace of Nestor.
Keywords William T. Semple; Palace of Nestor; Pylos; excavation; Marion Notes