Whitney Jennings Oates Correspondence, 1949-1959

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Collection Overview

Creator:

Oates, Whitney J. (Whitney Jennings) (1904-1973)

Collector:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections

Title:

Whitney Jennings Oates Correspondence

Repository:

Manuscripts Division

Permanent URL:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/w66343675

Dates:

1949-1959

Size:

7 boxes and 2.8 linear feet

Storage Note:

Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-7

Language:

English

Abstract: Consists primarily of correspondence of Whitney Jennings Oates (Princeton Class of 1925) during his tenure as a professor of Classics at Princeton University.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

The collection consists primarily of correspondence of Oates (Princeton Class of 1925) during his tenure as Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Included is correspondence with other classicists, educators, friends, family, and Princeton associates, such as Saxe Commins, Robert F. Goheen, Theodore Tracy, Charles T. Murphy, Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr, and Frank E. Taplin.

Also present are correspondence with Random House, Inc., and Longmans, Green & Co., publishers of several of Oates' books, a few photographs of Oates, and 13 photographs of the Delphic Games of either 1928 or 1931 in Greece.

Collection Creator Biography:

Oates

Whitney Jennings Oates, a member of the Princeton Class of 1925, was a professor of Classics at Princeton University.

Collection History

Acquisition:: Transferred from Mudd Library in 1999.
Custodial History: The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.
Appraisal: No appraisal information is available.
Processing Information: Folder inventory prepared by Fadzilah Yahaya GS in 2011.

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