Box 16

Scope and Contents

6 letters written to journalist Margherita Arlina Hamm by three different American writers. 3 letters from journalist, historian, and adventure writer Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920), 2 from journalist and children’s writer William Drysdale (1852-1901), and one from author, poet and playwright Edith Sessions Tupper (1855-1927).

Scope and Contents Approximately 25 letters, pamphlets, offprints, and other ephemera belonging to Thomas Farrant Higham, an Oxford scholar of Classical Literature. The majority of the collection is correspondence often accompanied by a piece of scholarly work discussed therein. Of particular note is Higham’s correspondence with C.J. Fordyce (1885-1956), including the typescript and corrected proof sheets of his review of Léon Hermann’s Art poétique (1951) published in “Classical Review” in 1953. The materials...

Scope and Contents 12 postcards sent from British historian Warren Hamilton Lewis (elder brother to noted professor and author C.S. Lewis) to Vera Gebbert and her son, Charles; 2 scenic postcards, one blank and the other with a note about the scenery on the front; 2 Christmas cards from Lewis to unknown recipients and featuring Welsh railway scenes; 5 color photographs taken by Lewis and two photographs of Lewis himself, one black and white and one in color. The collection also contains a curatorial file...