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William A. Packard Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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William A. Packard was a professor of Latin languages and literature at Princeton from 1870 until his retirement.
The collection consists of selected papers of Packard. Included are lecture notes on Latin literature, an annotated copy of Ciceronis Epistolarum Delectus (1871), several personal documents, and a letter (1871) to Henry Woodhull Green concerning the design of a new library at Princeton College. There are also several volumes (1854-1856) of lecture notes Packard took while a student at the Andover Theological Seminary.
Transferred from Archives. Certificate of PHD was a gift of A.A Packard in 1913. Letter to Green was purchased in 1940, from "Collins Papers." Recommendation of Parrott is a gift of T.M. Parrott.
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Folder inventory prepared by Lisa Yankowitz ('13) in 2012.
No appraisal information is available.
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2012
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Inventory
Caesar and Pompey Circle of Cladia Cato Cicero and Caesar
Physical Description2 boxes
Alexandrine Art and Literature Petrarch and Revival of Classical Literature Carneader and beginnings of philosophical interest at Rome Semitic origin of Stoic School Lucretius and Cicero
Physical Description1 folder
Value of stoic in religion Cicero's personal position Abstract and ... view Pagan monotheism
Physical Description1 folder
Virgil and Literature Stoic Theology Life of Horace Successive stages of persecution Earliest Christian persecutions
Physical Description1 folder
Seneca and St. Paul Seneca's ethical teachings Relation of man to fellow men Seneca's special training Seneca - the duty and man's relation
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
DS by O.S. Williams
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Princeton, NJ, Stelle & Smith. Printed work, heavily annotated, formerly P96.6980.07
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
Andover Theological Seminary
Physical Description1 folder
Andover Theological Seminary
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder