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Peter A. Bien Papers

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Bien, Peter Bien, Peter

The collection consists of Peter Bien's original incoming correspondence with writers, scholars, and friends (circa 1958-2016), including Thomas Hart Benton, Kimon Friar, Nikos Kazantzakis, C. Day Lewis, Yannis Ritsos, and C. P. Snow, along with along with his working files on the Greek novelist Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957), comprising nine binders of photocopied letters of Kazantzakis (1902-1939) that Bien collected from other libraries and private collections. There are also nine photocopied Kazantzakis's own notebooks; Bien's notebooks (general and miscellaneous) containing clippings and other materials that relate to Kazantzakis's works and career; notebooks containing Bien's reading notes from secondary and primary materials or both; small notebooks with material he read. There are also typescripts; a copy of Kazantzakis's "Vios kai politeia tou Alexē Zorba" with marginal notes by Bien and three printed bibliographies: Katsimpalē bibliography N. Kazantzakē A 1906-1948, Perantonakē bibliography N. Kazantzakē 1973-2002, and Mantatophoros #5 November 1974. There are also two small file boxes.

One part of the collection acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. (AM 2016-91). The second part of the collecrion was a gift from Prof. Peter A. Bien. (AM 2019-122)

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This collection was processed by Kalliopi Balatsouka in 2022. Finding aid written by Kalliopi Balatsouka in 2022.

No materials were removed from the collection during 2022 processing beyond routine appraisal practices.

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Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Author
Kalliopi Balatsouka
Finding Aid Date
2022
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The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

A, 1985-2016. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of incoming letters from Giōrgos Anemogiannēs, Walter Arndt, Margaret Alexiou, James Armstrong, and Nikos Alivizatos.

Physical Description

1 folder

B, 1961-2007. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of autograph and typed letters from Geoffrey E.H. Ballard, Samuel Beer, Thomas Hart Benton, Glen Bowersock, Frank L. Boyden, and A.A.M. Byer.

Physical Description

1 folder

Boulding, Elise, 1989-2006. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

C, 1963-1967. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of incoming letters from Eugene Carroll, Norris Cotton, and Charēs Petros.

Physical Description

1 folder

Charkianakēs, S. S., 1967-2011. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of autograph letters signed by the Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.

Physical Description

1 folder

Day Lewis, C., 1961-1962. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dekavalles, Antōnēs, 1977-1997. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

E, 1962-1992. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of incoming letters fromKonrad Elsdon and William Edgerton.

Physical Description

1 folder

Friar, Kimon, 1960-1989. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

G, 1961-1981. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of incoming letters from Henry Gifford and Jacques Grunblatt.

Physical Description

1 folder

Iatrides, John O., 1994-1996. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

K, 1962-1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of incoming letters from Michael Korda, Brady Kiesling, Kazazis Kostas, G. K. Katsimpalēs, and Emmanouēl Ch. Kasdaglēs.

Physical Description

1 folder

Kazantzakis, Helen, 1964-1983. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Kazantzakis, Nikos, 1939-1940. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Keeley, Edmund, 1964-1996. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

L, 1965-1975. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of handwritten and typed letters signed by Lloyd Lewis, Robert Liddell, Zēsimos Lorentzatos, Evro Layton, and Bruce Landsale.

Physical Description

1 folder

Losey, Joseph, 1970-1975. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

M, 1994-2001. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of typed letters signed by James McBride and William H. McNeill.

Physical Description

1 folder

P, 1967-1994. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consits of handwritten and typed letter signed by Linos Politēs, Parker Palmer, Helen Papanikolas, and Ian Parsons.

Physical Description

1 folder

Parini, Jay, 1978-1985. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Petrakis, Harry Mark, 2002-2013. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Prevelakēs, Pantelēs, 1964-1987. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of incoming handwritten letters signed by Pantelēs Prevelakēs. There is also one letter from his brother Eleutherios Prevelakēs.

Physical Description

1 folder

Rieser, Leonard M., 1968. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of (1) typed letter Peter Bien sent to Leonard M. Rieser.

Physical Description

1 folder

Ritsos, Giannēs, 1974-1984. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

S, 1958-2012. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of handwritten and typed letters signed by C. P.Snow, Philip Sherrard, Niki Stavrou, Patroclos Stavrou, and Ignat Solzhenitsyn.

Physical Description

1 folder

T, 1958-1980. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of incoming letters signed by George Thomson and William York Tindall.

Physical Description

1 folder

Vitti, Mario, 1981. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Vryonis, Speros, 2001. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

W, 1990-1993. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of incoming letters signed Charlotte Waterlow and John Waterlow.

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

This subseries consists of photocopies of all the Kazantzakis letters that Peter Bien collected, dated, and arranged chronologically.

Letters, 1902. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1903. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1904. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1905. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1906. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1907. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1908. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1909. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1910. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1911.
Letters, 1912. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1913. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1914. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1915. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1917.
Letters, 1918. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1919. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters , 1920. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1921.
Letters, 1922. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Letters, 1923. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Letters, 1924. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1925. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1926. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1927. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1928. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1929. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1930. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1931. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1932. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1933. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1934. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1935. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1936. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1937. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1938. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1939. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1940. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1941. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1942. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1943. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1944. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1946. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1947. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1948. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1949. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1950. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1951.
Letters, 1952. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1953. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1954. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1955. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters, 1956.
Letters, 1957. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Peter Bien's Catalog of Nikos Kazantzakis Letters, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Collecting and Producing the Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of a typescript of Bien's narrative regarding Nikos Kazantzakis' letters.

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

This series conists of Peter Bien's notebooks containing newspaper clippings that relate to Nikos Kazantzakis' works and career.

Scope and Contents

This subseries consists of nine of Nikos Kazantzakis's own notebooks, photocopied. The originals were given to Peter Bien to photocopy by Kazantzakis's widow, Eleni Kazantzaki. They show how Kazantzakis "put himself to school" before writing his novels.

Physical Description

9 folders

Notebooks. 9 folders.
Physical Description

9 folders

Notebook, pp. 1-2516, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Dates". 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of an unbound notebook labeled by Peter Bien "Dates", which lists relevant information for each year given from 1889 to 1957. Included Bien's correspondence with editors and publishing houses regarding the publication of his book "Kazantzakis and Politics"; correspondence with Theofanis G. Stavrou, Giannēs Manōlikakēs, and Giōrgos Anemogiannēs; a xerox copy of an autograph letter to Eleni Kazantzaki signed by Peter Bien dated 1968; and a typescript of Bien's proposal for his book.

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of small notebooks numbered by Bien in Roman numerals from I-XVIII containing notes that he took from material he read.

Physical Description

16 folders

Notebooks I-II, pp. 1-192 & 193-310, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebooks III-IV, pp. 311-430 & 431-586, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook V, pp. 587-742, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook VI, pp. 743-994, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook VII, pp. 996-1188, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook VIII, pp. 1189-1345, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook IX, pp. 1346-1501, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook X, pp. 1503-1691, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook XI, pp. 1693-1888, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook XII, pp. 1889-2084, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook XIII, pp. 2086-2285, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook XIV, pp. 2286-2486, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook XV, pp. 2488-2566, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook XVI, pp. 2567-2760, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook XVII, pp. 2761-2880, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook XVIII, pp. 2881-3076, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of Bien's primary readings notes including typescripts of Nikos Kazantzakis, Eleni Kazantzaki, and other writers published works with Bien's handwritten annotations; typescripts of Kazantzakis' published articles to Greek newspapers such as "Nea Ephēmeris"; an index to epistles to Galateia; There are also autograph notes by Peter Bien.

Primary Reading Notes. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

Consists of Bien's primary readings notes from primary materials including typescripts of Nikos Kazantzakis, Eleni Kazantzaki, and other writers published works with Bien's handwritten annotations; typescripts of Kazantzakis' published articles to Greek newspapers such as "Nea Ephēmeris"; an index to epistles to Galateia; There are also autograph notes by Peter Bien.

Physical Description

2 folders

Secondary Reading Notes. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Primary and Secondary Reading Notes. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Vios kai politeia tou Alexē Zormpa, undated. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

Consists of a copy of a typescript used by Peter Bien for his translation of Kazantzakis's work Vios kai politeia tou Alexē Zormpa with marginal notes.

Physical Description

2 folders

Talk: "Quakerism, Darwin and Process-Relational Philosophy, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of copy of Bien's talk at Kendal at Hanover, NH.

Physical Description

1 folder

Printed Bibliographies, 1958. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of two offprints: G.K. Katsimpalēs. Vivliographia Kazantzakē, A' (1906-1948), Athēna, 1958; Giōrgos N. Perantōnakēs. Vivliographia N. Kazantzakē 1973-2002 (kai symplērōmata stis proēgoumenes vivliographies), Athēna 2005. There is also a special issue of the Bulletin of Modern Greek Studies "Mantatophoros", 1974 November 4.

Physical Description

1 folder

Index Cards, undated.
Scope and Contents

Consists of two file boxes containing the intexed contents of the material Bien collected from various sources relating to Kazantzakis.

Index Cards, undated.

Print, Suggest