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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Seferis, George, 1900-1971.
- Title:
- Selected Papers of George Seferis
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/df65v788d
- Dates:
- 1935-1993 (mostly 1940-1970)
- Size:
- 2 boxes and 4 items
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-2
Abstract
George Seferis was a Greek diplomat, ambassador, poet and translator. He held various posts with the Royal Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was ambassador to the United Nations, 1956-1957, and to Great Britain, 1957-1962. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, and was awarded an honorary degree from Princeton University in 1965.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
This collection consists of selected papers of Seferis. Included are three manuscripts by Seferis--"Diary Kept at Princeton, 1968," his "Declaration of March 28, 1969," against the Greek junta, and "Letter to Rex Warner" (published 1972)--and correspondence and collected papers of Lawrence Durrell, T. S. Eliot, and Henry Miller. Present are 42 letters (1939-1978) by Henry Miller to George and Maro Seferis, Miller's original 1939 manuscript journal, First Impressions of Greece (Santa Barbara : Capra Press, 1973), a typescript of "When Do Angels Cease to Resemble Themselves? A Study of Rimbaud" (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1946), two extracts from The Colossus of Maroussi (San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941), and correspondence and printed matter related to Henry Miller.
There are 17 letters (1935-1963) by T. S. Eliot to Seferis, with some related correspondence and printed matter, and several letters, three poetry translations (in English), and a phonograph recording by Lawrence Durrell. There is a miscellaneous correspondence with Sophia Antzaka, Cevat Capan, Kyriakos Chrysostomidis, Edmund Keeley, Maro Seferis, and others, as well as correspondence with Princeton University (1965) and about trips to the United States in 1968. Also present are manuscripts by Odysseas Elytes, Nikos Gkatsos, "Amorgos," and Angelos Sikelianos, "Akritika, 1941-1942."
- Collection Creator Biography:
Seferis, George, 1900-1971.
George Seferis was a Greek poet and the 1963 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased and partially gifted from the author. Papers of Henry Miller purchased from Daphne Krinos. 3 manuscripts, Seferis correspondence, and Nikos Gkatsos manuscript, as well as Lawrence Durrell are a gift of Anna Krinou-Londou.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2005. Finding aid written in 2005.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Selected Papers of George Seferis; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/df65v788d
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-2
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- Subject Terms:
- Ambassadors -- Greece -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Diplomats -- Greece -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Greek poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
Greek poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
Nobel prizes.
Novelists, American -- 20th century.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Poets, Greek (Modern) -- 20th century.
Translators -- England -- 20th century.
Translators -- Greece -- 20th century -- Correspondence. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence.
Manuscripts.
Phonograph records. - Names:
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
