Box 3
Contains 13 Results:
Essays on Human Personalities of the Past
A medieval story about a woodchopper on the Sabbath, followed by an account of a cherry tree that snapped during a storm, handwritten.
The Festival of Laughter, c. 1940s
2 versions of this typescript. “A cosmopolitan journey on the trial of certain witty stories.” Notes about the history and folklore of hazing and initiation.
The Goodhart MS
Goodhart MS (33) for Bertalot. Images of the manuscript (white letters with black background), DPL transcribing the Latin text and analyzing the document.
Notes on Greek and Roman Literature (1 of 3)
List of references for the following topics in Pliny’s letters: Love of nature, Pagan ideas, Modern touches in his letters, Extravagant praise of friends, Liberality, Love of literature and study, Conceit and naiveté, Justice and honesty and righteousness. Handwritten notes on authors including Aesop, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Herodotus, Machiavelli Nic., Lorenzo di Medici, Petrarch, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Ptolemy, Seneca, Terence, Virgil, Xenophanes.
Notes on Greek and Roman Literature (2 of 3)
List of references for the following topics in Pliny’s letters: Love of nature, Pagan ideas, Modern touches in his letters, Extravagant praise of friends, Liberality, Love of literature and study, Conceit and naiveté, Justice and honesty and righteousness. Handwritten notes on authors including Aesop, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Herodotus, Machiavelli Nic., Lorenzo di Medici, Petrarch, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Ptolemy, Seneca, Terence, Virgil, Xenophanes.
Notes on Greek and Roman Literature (3 of 3)
List of references for the following topics in Pliny’s letters: Love of nature, Pagan ideas, Modern touches in his letters, Extravagant praise of friends, Liberality, Love of literature and study, Conceit and naiveté, Justice and honesty and righteousness. Handwritten notes on authors including Aesop, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Herodotus, Machiavelli Nic., Lorenzo di Medici, Petrarch, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Ptolemy, Seneca, Terence, Virgil, Xenophanes.
Hasta Luego
2 pages, “the Need for Tonsorial Reform,” American barbers
Having Fun in Libraries
3 pages, composition about experiences in libraries around the world.
Horace and his Message, c. 1920s - 1930s
Invitation to a meeting of the lovers of Classics literature in Boston “sodalitas litterarum classicarum amantium Bostoniensis” in 1935.; Horace in the Middle Ages. Presented at the Latin Society Convention to Celebrate the bimillienium of Horace’s birth, in 1935. (with draft); Horace, Austin Dobson. Poem by DPL about Horace.; Horace, Serm. I.9. Translation of poems.; Variations on the Satires of Horace.; Horace and his Message. (with draft)
Notes and Data on Humanists
Notes, Humanists, Medieval, Autograph manuscript
