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Includes correspondence, meeting minutes, and other materials Edmund Keeley kept with regards to his work with the American Farm School, the College Year in Athens program, the Gennadius Library, the Modern Greek Studies Association, and the P.E.N. American Center, as well as general subject files and files on grants and lectures.
Includes drafts of writings by Keeley's friends and associates, likely sent to him for comments.
Box 261
Includes a beaded child's vest, a wallet, a handkerchief, six small framed drawings of women in Greek costume, a small amount of Syrian currency, a Class of 1948 P-rade button, and other small objects and momentos that Edmund Keeley collected.
Box 262, Box 263
Includes 15 VHS videotapes, 7 audiocassette tapes, and 5 microcassettes, containing recorded interviews, readings, and lectures by Keeley, as well as unidentified and unassociated tapes.
Includes personal and academic documents, biographies and bibliographies, receipts, clippings, awards, diplomas, memorabilia, and a small quantity of audiovisual materials.
Keeleys, Legakis, Roessel, Valtinos, Chyrsis; Oxford, USA, 1950-2002
1 folder
HAS ONLINE CONTENT
Box 253, Folder 28
Box 264
Photographs are rolled. Handle with care.
Subseries 11G: Photographs, 1910-2012
6 boxes
SOME ONLINE CONTENT
Consists of a wide variety of black-and-white and color photographs, as well as some slides and negatives, including family and travel photographs and photographs of Edmund Keeley with other writers, including George Seferis, Giannēs Ritsos, Vassilis Vassilikos, and others.
Box 256, Box 257, Box 258
Clippings, offprints, and other printed materials.
Includes printed materials that were not originally kept with other functional file groups, primarily clippings and offprints of articles by and about Edmund Keeley.
Series 11: 2013-2014 Accessions, 1910-2013
64 boxes
SOME ONLINE CONTENT
This series contains a large group of additional papers received from Edmund Keeley in 2013-2014, including continuations of several existing series, as well as family papers, a large collection of family and travel photographs, and biographical materials. Writings include drafts, galleys, notes, and correspondence for Keeley's books Albanian Journal, the Road to Elbasan, Borderlines, A Memoir, "The Grand Tour" (unpublished), On Translation: Reflections and Conversations, The Salonika Bay Murder, Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair, School for Pagan Lovers, and Some Wine for Remembrance, as well as for his translations and writings on poets Constantine P. Cavafy, Odysseus Elytēs, Giannēs Ritsos, and George Seferis, and for anthologies he edited, including A Century of Greek Poetry, 1900-2000 and W. W. Norton's The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. Additional personal, family, and professional correspondence, files on Keeley's lectures, grants, and work with various international organizations, writings by fellow poets and translators, personal documents and memorabilia, and printed materials are also present.
Box b-001863, Folder 1
Includes a xerox copy of the second half of the book accompanied by a letter and comments by Tad Landsdale.
Box b-001868, Folder 3
Consists of typescripts with revisions of the book, related correspondence with the publisher Denise Harvey, S.J. Fafalios ( The Hellenic Foundation), Theofanis Stavrou, Philip Sherrard, the Princeton Univeristy Press, and a photocopy of a letter from Anna Sikelianos. There is also a certificate of copyright registration.
Box b-001868, Folder 6
Consists of a typescript, as well as correspondence with Eunice Cox.
Box b-001868, Folder 9
Includes a typescript of a lecture delivered at the Univeristy of Oxford, which later became an essay.
Includes translations of works of several Modern Greek poets by Keeley.
Box b-001869, Folder 18
Includes a typescript of the review titled "The Last Crack of the Whip" translated into Greek by Athēna Giannakas Dallas with the title "To teleutaio krotalisma tou mastigiou" of Kazantzakis's novel The Fratricides. There is also email printout with Prof. Roderick Beaton.
Includes handouts, handwritten notes by Professor Keeley and evaluation forms about him.
Fussel, Paul and Betty, 1965-2017
1 folder
Box b-001871, Folder 19
Includes correspondence with Betty Harper Fussell and Harriette Behringer Fussel.
Milonas, George and Armstrong, Charlotte (American Farm School, Thessalonikē, Greece), 1991-2003
1 folder
Box b-001873, Folder 18
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1979-2007
1 folder
Box b-001873, Folder 20
Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence with Oates (xerox copies and some originals).
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1939-2018
3 folders
Box b-001874, Folder 19-21
Includes correspondence, mostly cards, by several family members, friends and colleagues. Among them are: Elsie Theoharidēs, Anastasia Karakasidou, Mary Keeley, Michal Keeley, Alex Frank, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Marō Seferi, C.R. Price, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Shirley Tilghman (19th President of Princeton University), Caroline and Fucksi, Penelopē Durrell Hope, Peter Green, Patricia Chamberlin (The American Farm School), Ian MacNiven, Lily Macracis, Academy of Athens, Lisa Smith Nielsen, Emma and Alex Gaudio, Samuel Hynes, Thomas Doulis, Phoebe Palmer, Karen Van Dyck, Anvil Press Poetry, Thomas Scotes, and many others.
Christmas cards, 1995-1996
1 folder
Box b-001879, Folder 5
Includes Christmas cards from Beth Brombert, Charlie and Mimi Lowrey, Sifis Valirakis, Margo and Russell...., Nicola Richards, the Bill Clinton family, Doreen and Lyman Spitzer, Beth Brombert, the Frost family, the John Brademas family, and many other friends and colleagues.
Miscellaneous cards, 1965-2013
1 folder
Box b-001880, Folder 6
Consists of wishing cards from Keeley's family members and friends on several occasions (birthdays, anniversaries, Easter) and several thank you notes.
Includes personal, family, and professional correspondence. There is also a vast amound of Christmas cards with personal and professional information and occasional inclusion of manuscripts of poems.
Box b-001881, Folder 5
Includes a typescript with handwritten annotations of the "Poets House Lecture" in 1995.
Box b-001881, Folder 6
Readings-Talks-Presentations, 1968-2017
28 folders
This subseries includes readings, talks, and presentations on several occasions.
Box b-001883, Folder 16
Subseries 12D: Professional Activities, 1968-2017
2 boxes
2 items
Includes materials Edmund Keeley kept with regards to his work with the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the American Farm School, the College Year in Athens program, the Gennadius Library, the Modern Greek Studies Association, the P.E.N. American Center, the College Year in Athens, the Hellenic Literary Historical Archives Society, the Friends of the Princeton University Library, and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University as well as files on readings, talks, presentations, lectures, awards, and interviews.
Fagles, Robert, 1980-2007
6 folders
Box b-001885, Folder 2-7
Includes typescripts of Sophocles' Oedipus the King translated from Greek into English by Fagles; typescripts of a draft of the first six books of the Iliad in English translation by Fagles accompanied by a letter to Keeley, and typescripts of six undated poems written by Fagles. There is also literature about the book Virgil: The Aeneid translated by Fagles.
Karyotakis, K.G., 1969-2000
1 folder
Box b-001886, Folder 1
Consists of some preliminary draft translations of Karyotakis work done by B. Winebaum, a review of Karyotakis' poems by Rachel Hadas, as well as one letter of Hadas to Dimitri [Gondicas].
Box b-001889, Folder 3
Consists of photocopies of a letter Seferis sent to G.K. Katsimpalēs "Hena gramma gia tēn Kichlē" published in the magazine Ho Mēnas on December 27, 1949; photocopies of Seferis's manuscript of the essay "Cavafy's Ithaca" accompanied by a typescript of the English translation by Susan Matthias with handwritten annotations by Keeley. Included also is a short essay by Theotokas Giōrgos "Hē hōra tēs poiēsēs' ["The Time for Poetry"] translated into English by Matthias.
Simonides, Yannis, 1994-1995
1 folder
Box b-001889, Folder 5
Includes a copy of Cavafy: Passions and Ancient Days. A Solo Portrait of Alexandrine Poet C.P. Cavafy, recommendation letters and a proposal for research and script development of the above project.
This subseriresn includes drafts of writings by Keeley's friends and associates, likely sent to him for comments.
Box b-001889, Folder 16, Box b-001890, Folder 1
Includes greeting cards from family members and friends mostly for Mary Keeley's birthday. Some of them bear unpublished handwritten poems dedicated to her. There is a card signed by several of her friends including Kaiē Tsitselē.
