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Consists of letters to Paul Elmer More from individuals such as Frank Abbott, Christian Gauss, Cora May Harris, Henry Holt, and Alice More, as well as others.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Abbott, Frank F., 2 letters, 1916
Agar, Herbert, 1 letter, 1929
Albee, John, 2 letters, 1902
Alden, Raymond M., 1 letter, 1914
Allinson, Francis G., 1 letter, 1917
Alvord, Clarence W., 1 letter, 1917
Anderson, Adolph E., 1 letter, 1914
Askwith, Herbert, 1 letter, 1937
Atherton, Gertrude, 1 letter, 1928
Bandler, Bernard, 1 letter, 1929
Baum, Maurice, 10 letters, 1923-1924
Baum, Maurice, 7 letters, 1925-1929
Beckley, Quitman, 1 letter, 1932
Beers, Henry, 1 letter, 1915
Bemis, James S., 1 letter, 1915
Bernbaum, Ernest, 1 letter, 1916
Bezant, Mrs. Emmons, 1 letter, 1915
Bishop, Anna Bartram, 1 letter, 1913
Booth, Samuel, 1 letter, 1935
Bowe, Allen, 1 letter, 1935
Bowers, David, 2 letters, 1932
Bowman, James C., 1 letter, 1915
Bradford, Gamaliel, 1 letter, 1912
Brewer, Edward, 1 letter, 1931
Brewer, Wilman, 2 letters, 1923-1924
Brown, L. Arne, 1 letter, 1917
Brown, W. G., 4 letters, 1906-1909
Brown, William Adams, 1 letter, 1917
Bryan, W. J. S., 1 letter, 1918
Buck, Philo M. Jr., 1 letter, 1916
Burdick, F. M., 1 letter, 1919
Bussart, O. Ivan, 1 letter, 1926
Butterworth, G. W., 1 letter, 1920
Cady, Mary R., 1 letter, 1933
Callahan, J. L., 2 letters, 1932
Campbell, Killis, 2 letters, 1932
Capps, Edward, 4 letters, 1916-1918
Castle, W. R., 2 letters, 1916
Central High School, 2 letters, 1917
Cerf, Barry, 1 letter, 1931-1932
Chapman, E. M., 1 letter, 1906
Chapman, John Jay, 1 letter, 1917
Chew, Samuel C. Jr., 1 letter, 1915
Clark, Barrett, 1 letter, 1920
Clark, C. C., 1 letter, 1920
Coburn, F. W., 1 letter, 1914
Cole, Miss Alice L., 3 letters, 1906
Colton, Arthur W., 1 letter, 1908
Cone, Mary Gates, 1 letter, 1931
Converse, Florence, 1 letter, 1934
Cooper, C. A., 3 letters, 1915, 1918
Cortissoz, Royal, 1 letter, 1929
Cory, Herbert E., 1 letter, 1910s
Crippen, Layton, 1 letter, 1915
Crocker, Jack, 1 letter, 1937
Cross, Wilbur Lucius, 1 letter, 1905
Cutler, Anna A., 1 letter, 1919
Darrow, Whitney, 1 letter, 1916
Dartmouth College, 2 letters, 1917
Davison, John A., 1 letter, 1939
Dawson, Miles M., 3 letters, 1922
Dickinson, John, 1 letter, 1916
Dobell, Bertram, 1 letter, 1909
Dodds, Harold W., 1 letter, 1935
Dodge, Henry Irving, 1 letter, 1917
Drew, E. B., 1 letter, 1913
Dutton, E. P. & Co., 2 letters, 1917
Dymond, Edmund R., 1 letter, 1927
Emerton, Ephraim, 1 letter, 1921
Ende, Mrs. Andia von, 1 letter, 1918
The Evening Post, 1 letter, 1914
Everett, Mary Nixon, 1 letter, 1915
Ezban, Selim, 2 letters, 1936
Fackenthal, Frank D., 1 letter, 1917
Faison, John B., 1 letter, 1917
Falconer, William A., 1 letter, 1918
Ferriss, Franklin, 1 letter, 1914
Fine, May Margaret, 1 letter, 1917
Finley, John H., 1 letter, 1914
Forbes, W. J., 1 letter, 1919
Foucher, A., 2 letters, 1915-1916
Ganse, George E., 1 letter, 1932
Garrison, Wendell P., 1 letter, 1903
Godley, Alred Denis, 1 letter, 1921
Goldbeck, Edward, 1 letter, 1916
Gollanez, I., 1 letter, 1915
Goodall, Thomas D., 2 letters, 1914
Goth, G. W., 1 letter, 1933
Green, F. H., 1 letter, 1917
Greenlaw, Edwin, 1 letter, 1921
Guiney, Louise I., 2 letters, 1916
Hackett, Francis, 1 letter, 1921
Hagerty, James L., 2 letters, 1932
Hancock, Albert E., 2 letters, 1908
Hanford, James Holly, 1 letter, 1918
Hannerman, John Bell, 1 letter, 1904
Harper, W. M., 1 letter, 1916
Harris, Cora May, 15 letters, 1901
Harris, Cora May, 1901
Harris, Cora May, 8 letters, 1903
Harris, Cora May, 6 letters, 1903
Harris, Cora May, 3 letters, 1909
Harris, Frank W, 1922
Harris, W. F., 1 letter, 1913
Hart, James Morgan, 1 letter, 1915
Hawes, Mabel E., 1 letter, 1919
Hayes, George P., 1 letter, 1934
Heard, A. A., 1 letter, 1919
Heidel, W. A., 3 letters, 1916, 1922
Henry, Louise, 2 letters, 1921
Henry, Stuart, 1 letter, 1921
Hobart College, 2 letters, 1936-1937
Hoe, Robert, 1 letter, 1906
Holt, Hamilton, 1 letter, 1936
Holt, Henry, 21 letters, 1914-1915
Holt, Henry, 22 letters, 1915
Holt, Henry, 25 letters, 1916-1917
Holt, Henry, 28 letters, 1918
Holt, Henry, 23 letters, 1919-1925
Hosmer, James K., 1 letter, 1908
Howe, George, 1 letter, 1919
Hulst, Cornelia S., 2 letters, 1922
Jacob, Cary E., 1 letter, 1923
Jacobs, Joseph, 1 letter, 1913
Johnson, F. W., 1 letter, 1916
Johnson, Howard A., 1 letter, 1932
Johnson, Rossiter, 1 letter, 1918
Johnson, W. H., 2 letters, 1917-1918
Keith, Linton, 1 letter, 1931
Kendrick, Helen F., 1 letter, 1917
Knox, C. S., 1 letter, 1916
Koo, Telly H., 1 letter, 1921
Krans, Horatio S., 1 letter, 1927
Ladd, Horatio Oliver, 1 letter, 1922
Leander, Folke, 1 letter, 1935
Leighton, Joseph, 1 letter, 1918
Leo, Brother, 1 letter, 1923
Levy, Oscar, 1 letter, 1913
Lin Ho, 1 letter, 1927
Littlefield, Leslie, 1 letter, 1935
Lloyd, Edith, 2 letters, 1926
Lockert, Lacy, 1 letter, 1924
Loeb, James, 2 letters, 1915
Longwill, H. C., 1 letter, 1918
Low, Will Hicock, 2 letters, 1912
Lowrie, Walter, 1 letter, 1927
Lyman, Charles W., 1 letter, 1905
Lyon, William S., 1 letter, 1908
Mackenzie, Rex, 1 letter, 1929
Matthews, Paul, 1 letter, 1937
May, Kuang Ti, 2 letters, 1919-1920
McGiffert, Katherine, 1 letter, 1916
Means, D. McG., 1 letter, 1922
Means, Thomas, 1 letter, 1927
Meschter, Charles K., 1 letter, 1920
Metcalfe, Henry, 2 letters, 1918
Might, Les Barbon, 1 letter, 1918
Mitchell, W. Fraser, 1 letter, 1932
Mi Wu, 1 letter, 1921
Moore, Clifford H., 1 letter, 1918
Moore, David, 1 letter, 1905
Moore, Herbert, 1 letter, 1934
More, Alice, 16 letters, 1900-1915
More, Alice, 17 letters, 1916-1917
More, Alice, 16 letters, 1918
More, Alice, 22 letters, 1919-1920
More, Alice, 21 letters, 1921-1927
More, James B., 9 letters, 1915-1917
More, May C., 3 letters, 1916, 1918
Murray, Gilbert, 1 letter, 1913
Myers, Gustavus, 1 letter, 1916
Napier, M. C. 1 letter, 1924
Norton, Grace Fallow, 1 letter, 1909
Norton, Powell H., 1 letter, 1927
Norton, Sara, 2 letters, 1915
Osgood, Charles G., 1 letter, 1917
Osgood, Isabella, 1 letter, 1918
Page, Curtis Hidden, 1 letter, 1905
Page, T. E., 1 letter, 1919
Palmer, Frederic, 1 letter, 1915
Parker, Gilbert, 1 letter, 1915
Parsons, K., 1 letter, 1919
Parsons, Samuel, 1 letter, 1921
Perott, Joseph de, 1 letter, 1915
Perry, Bliss, 2 letters, 1907
Perry, E. D., 1 letter, 1918
Phelps, William Lyon, 1 letter, 1937
Porteous, H. E., 1 letter, 1923
Prentice, William K., 1 letter, 1918
Prince, Morton, 1 letter, 1917
Pumpelly, Raphael, 1 letter, 1917
Pyne, Moses Taylor, 1 letter, 1919
Reed, Lynnel, 1 letter, 1919
Relsareschie, Marie, 1 letter, 1906
Rice, Charles Elmer, 1 letter, 1916
Rice, Cole Young, 1 letter, 1913
The Rice Institute, 1 letter, 1917
Rice, Richard Jr., 1 letter, 1915
Richetts, Miss 1 letter, 1920
Richmond, B. L. 1 letter, 1918
Ripplier, Agnes 1 letter, 1917
Robbins, Edmund Y., 1 letter, 1921
Robin, L. 1 letter, 1927
Robinson, Joseph, 1 letter, 1918
Roelofs, Howard D., 3 letters, 1934
Ross, Conway A., 1 letter, 1933
Rossiter, E. V., 2 letters, 1920
Rowe, Walter, 1 letter, 1916
Saldanha, Charles P., 1 letter, 1932
Sampson, Alden, 3 letters, 1919
Sanday, W., 1 letter, 1918
Sandys, Sir J.E., 1 letter, 1918
The Saturday Review, 1 letter, 1933
Schultz, J. R., 2 letters, 1915
Scribner's, 1 letter, 1917
Settel, Arthur, 1 letter, 1932
Shafer, Martha, 2 letters, 1934-1935
Shaler, Marian, 1 letter, 1919
Sheldon Press, 2 letters, 1931-1932
Shield, J. W., 1 letter, 1923
Shinn, Charles, 1 letter, 1918
Shorey, Paul, 2 letters, 1918, 1920
Shorter, Clement K. 1 letter, 1908
Sikelianos, Jon, 1 letter, 1926
Singh, Saint Nibal, 1 letter, 1914
Slazer, Dorothy H. 1 letter, 1936
Smith, Lucy E., 2 letters, 1917-1918
Smyth, Herbert Weir, 1 letter, 1909
Spackman, William M., 1 letter, 1929
Spens, Will, 1 letter, 1931
Stebbins, Roderick, 1 letter, 1916
Stevens, David H., 1 letter, 1915
Stewart, J. A., 1 letter, 1918
Stiles, Mary Evelyn, 1 letter, 1916
Streeter, B. H., 2 letters, 1927
Swenson, David F., 1 letter, 1916
Symons, Arthur, 1 letter, 1907
Tansey, George J., 1 letter, 1920
Thayer, Stephen Henry 1 letter, 1915
Thomas, Augustus, 1 letter, 1922
Thorp, Willard Brown, 1 letter, 1936
Tilden, F. W., 1 letter, 1915
Tollinton, R. B., 1 letter, 1918
Trench, Herbert, 1 letter, 1905
Turnbull, Frances, 2 letters, 1916
Tyson, Stuart L., 1 letter, 1923
Urban, Wilbur M., 1 letter, 1916
Vachon, Hayden A., 2 letters, 1937
Van Metre, Ricker, 1 letter, 1932
Vassar College, 1 letter, 1917
Vexler, Julius, 1 letter, 1933
Webster, Arthur G., 1 letter, 1914
Wedel, Theodore O., 1 letter, 1922
Wendell, Barrett, 1 letter, 1915
Wharton, Mrs. Edith, 1 letter, 1915
Wheaton, Isaac S., 2 letters, 1917
Whicher, G. M., 1 letter, 1917
Whitaker, Epher, 1 letter, 1909
Whitehill, Gladys M., 1 letter, 1916
Whitsett, W. T., 1 letter, 1917
Whitty, J. H., 1 letter, 1917
Wilson, Edmund, 1 letter, 1933
Wolfenden, T. F., 1 letter, 1934
Woodhouse, A. A. P., 1 letter, 1933
Woodhull, A. A., 1 letter, 1916
Yoder, C. H., 1 letter, 1917
Young, Karl, 3 letters, 1914-1915
Zabel, Morton D., 1 letter, 1937
Zeitlin, Jacob, 2 letters, 1928-1929
Consists of letter written by Paul Paul More to individuals such as Irving Babbitt, Prosser Hall Frye, Louis T. More, and Alice More.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Cupples and Hurd, 1 letter, 1889
More, Alice (Dymond), postcard, 1912
More, James B., 1 letter, 1888
More, Mary C., 4 letters, 1888-1900
More, Alice, 18 letters, 1888-1895
More, Alice, 24 letters, 1897-1900
More, Alice, 28 letters, 1901-1910
More, Alice, 23 letters, 1911-1913
More, Alice, 35 letters, 1914-1916
More, Alice, 34 letters, 1917-1922
More, Alice, 14 letters, 1923-1925
More, Alice, 26 letters, 1926-1930
Consists of family correspondence as well as unidentified correspondence.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Consists of works by Paul Elmer More, including More's criticism of the Spiritual Letters by Dom Chapman, More's essay, draft essay, and notes on Proust, and lectures given by More.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
"A Revival of Humanism", undated
"Church and Politics", undated
"Proust: The Two Ways", undated
On Being Human, dates not examined
Platonism, dates not examined
With the Wits, dates not examined
Anglicanism, dates not examined
Anselm, dates not examined
Athanasius, dates not examined
Athenogoras, dates not examined
Christianity, dates not examined
Criticism, dates not examined
Evil, dates not examined
Ghosts, dates not examined
Hellenism, dates not examined
Horace, dates not examined
Hume, dates not examined
Illusion, dates not examined
Indignation, dates not examined
LaHarpe, dates not examined
Marxism, dates not examined
Mysticism, dates not examined
Nietzche, dates not examined
Origen, dates not examined
Plato, dates not examined
Plato, dates not examined
Plato's Republic, dates not examined
Plato's Timaeus, dates not examined
Plotinus, dates not examined
Plutarch, dates not examined
More's Digest: collecion of quotes on various subject from various sources, dates not examined
Scepticism, dates not examined
Spinoza, dates not examined
Stoicism, dates not examined
Stoic Naturalism, dates not examined
The Weird, dates not examined
Witchcraft, dates not examined
Wordsworth, dates not examined
Photostats of original correspondence of More, interviews and recollections of More's contemporaries, and the collected research work of Dakin for his biography of More.
This series is arranged into six subseries: Alphabetical File I, Alphabetical File II, Chronological File I, Chronological File II, Chronological File III, and Miscellaneous Material.
Miscellaneous brief correspondence between Paul E. More and others (A to D), dates not examined
Miscellaneous brief correspondence between Paul E. More and other (E to J), dates not examined
Miscellaneous brief correspondence between Paul E. More and others (K to O), dates not examined
Miscellaneous brief correspondence between Paul E. More and others (P to Z), dates not examined
- Scope and Contents
The collection reflects More's life and career as author, editor of The Nation (1909-1914), and lecturer at Princeton University (1918-1933) in philosophy and classics. Included are diaries of his trips to England; research notes on a variety of religious, classical, and philosophical subjects and philosophers; outlines and lectures for courses; manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys for articles, essays, and reviews; and partial translations of the Bhagavad Gita and Oedipus Tyrannus. In addition, there are 15 boxes of correspondence, contracts with publishers, and photographs, including several of Irving Babbitt. Correspondents include T. S. Eliot, George Roy Elliott, Ferris Greenslet, Corra Harris, Henry Holt, Percy H. Houston, Frank Jewett Mather, and James Brooks More.
A sizeable portion of the collection is A. H. Dakin's own collection of correspondence, interviews, recollections of More's contempories, research notes, and related material of his biography of More, most of it in photostat form.
- Collection Creator Biography:
More, Paul Elmer, 1864-1937
Paul Elmer More, American essayist and critic, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 12, 1864. More taught Sanskrit at Harvard (1894-1895) and Bryn Mawr (1895-1897). He was literary editor for The Independent for three years and associated with the New York Evening Post for six years. During 1919 he lectured on Plato at Princeton University. More was associated with Irving Babbitt (founder and champion of humanism) of the modern humanistic movement. He authored many critical essays which were published in more than eleven volumes.
- Acquisition:
Gift of Arthur Hazard Dakin, Mary Darah Fine, Harry B. Fine, E. Gilbert Dymond.
The 2022 accrual was a gift from Margo Lalich in September 2022 (AM 2023-041).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
During 2022, restrictions on materials for which researchers had to use surrogates were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.
The 2022 accrual was processed and added to the finding aid by Amy C. Vo in October 2022. Materials in this addition were intellectually integrated into the existing arrangement of the collection, namely into Series 2: Letters from Paul Elmer More.
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish must be obtained from A. H. Dakin. Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Paul Elmer More Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cf95jb484
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-48
- Subject Terms:
- Classicists -- United States -- 20th century.
Classics -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
Humanism, Religious.
Philosophy -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Teleology. - Genre Terms:
- Contracts.
Diaries -- 19th century
Diaries -- 20th century.
Photoprints. - Names:
- Princeton University
Dakin, A. Hazard (Arthur Hazard)
Plato
