Paul Elmer More Papers

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.