A.E. Gordon, 1944 - 1947
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and other materials related to the work of American philologist A. E. Gordon. Included are offprints of two articles (1944 and 1947) written by Gordon on a Latin inscription found in a rubbing housed by the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, alongside manuscript notes on the same and correspondence (both typed and handwritten) regarding the inscription between Gordon and his colleague in Oxford, R.H. Burrow.
Dates
- 1944 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Arthur E. Gordon (1902-1989) was an American philologist and epigraphist based at the University of California, Berkeley.
Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
From the Collection: Danish
From the Collection: Swedish
From the Collection: Spanish
From the Collection: German
From the Collection: Norwegian
From the Collection: Persian
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Russian
From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu