Call Number:

C0871

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 7 boxes
• 2.8 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Whitney Jennings Oates Correspondence, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1949-1959 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Oates, Whitney J. (Whitney Jennings), 1904-1973

Form:

Classicists -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century, Correspondence -- 20th century, and photographs -- 20th century.

Abstract:

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

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

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.