Paul Elmer More Papers

(C0054)
 
 
 
 

A Finding Aid
 
 
 
 
 
 

Manuscripts Division
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library

Biographical Sketch

Paul Elmer More, American essayist and critic, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 12, 1864. More taught Sanskrit at Harvard (1894-1895) and Bryn Mawr (1895-1897). He was literary editor for The Independent for three years and associated with the New York Evening Post for six years. During 1919 he lectured on Plato at Princeton University. More was associated with Irving Babbitt (founder and champion of humanism) of the modern humanistic movement. He authored many critical essays which were published in more than eleven volumes. Some of his works include Shelburne Essays, Platonism, On Being Human, The Greek Tradition, etc. More lived in Princeton, New Jersey. He died March 9, 1937, at the age of 73.
 

A. H. Dakin collected copies of More's letters, and arranged these copies in several chronological and alphabetical series, his background for his biography of More. His collections include reminiscences about More by those who knew him.

Series

I. Correspondence: Letters to Paul Elmer More 1-11
II. Correspondence: Letters from Paul Elmer More 12-14
III. More Family Correspondence (and unidentified and unrelated letters) 15
IV. Works (Speeches, Lectures, Reviews, Pictures, Notes, Obituaries 16-19
V. The A. H. Dakin Collection 20-48
Photostats of original correspondence of More, interviews, and recollections of More's contemporaries, and the collected research of Dakin for his biography of More
A. Alphabetical File I: (A to Z) 20-22
B. Alphabetical File II: (Babbitt to Woodlock) 23-32
C. Chronological File I: (1889-1937) 33-36
D. Chronological File II: (1875-1937) 37-44
E. Chronological File III: (1864-1937) 45-47
F. Miscellaneous Material 48

Box/Folder Listing

 
I. Correspondence: Letters to Paul Elmer More
Box/Folder                                                                                           Date(s)
1 1 Abbott, Frank F., 2 letters 1916
2 Agar, Herbert, 1 letter 1929
3 Albee, John, 2 letters 1902
4 Alden, Raymond M., 1 letter 1914
5 Alexander, Archibald, 4 letters 1907-08, 1913-14
6 Allinson, Anne C. E., 4 letters 1913, 1915-16
7 Allinson, Francis G., 1 letter 1917
8 Alvord, Clarence W., 1 letter 1917
9 Anderson, Adolph E., 1 letter 1914
10 Armour, George A., 4 letters 1915-17
11 Askwith, Herbert, 1 letter 1937
12 Atherton, Gertrude, 1 letter 1928
13 Aylmer-Coates, Richard, 1 letter 1919
14 Baldensperger, Ferand, 1 letter 1918
15 Bandler, Bernard, 1 letter 1929
16 Baum, Maurice, 10 letters 1923-24
17 Baum, Maurice, 7 letters 1925-29
18 Beckley, Quitman, 1 letter 1932
19 Beers, Henry, 1 letter 1915
20 Belden, Jack R., 2 letters 1931-32
21 Bell, Bernard I., 3 letters 1932-33
22 Bellinger, W. W., 3 letters 1916, 1920
23 Bemis, James S., 1 letter 1915
24 Bernbaum, Ernest, 1 letter 1916
25 Bezant, Mrs. Emmons, 1 letter 1915
26 Bishop, Anna Bartram, 1 letter 1913
27 Blodgett, Glen Walton, 1 letter 1922
28 Booth, Samuel, 1 letter 1935
29 Bowe, Allen, 1 letter 1935
30 Bowers, David, 2 letters 1932
31 Bowman, Archibald A., 5 letters 1915-26
32 Bowman, Archibald A., 5 letters 1927-34
33 Bowman, James C., 1 letter 1915
34 Boynton, Richard W., 3 letters 1916, 1918
35 Bradford, Gamaliel, 1 letter 1912
36 Brechenridge, James M., 2 letters 1914, 1930
37 Brewer, Edward, 1 letter 1931
38 Brewer, Wilman, 2 letters 1923-24
39 Brown, L. Arne, 1 letter 1917
40 Brown, W. G., 4 letters 1906-09
41 Brown, William Adams, 1 letter 1917
42 Brownell, William Crary, 3 letters 1919, 1926
43 Bruce, J. Douglas, 4 letters 1914-15, 1918
44 Bryan, W. J. S., 1 letter 1918
45 Bryce, James, 3 letters 1911, 1913-14
46 Buck, Philo M. Jr., 1 letter 1916
47 Burdick, F. M., 1 letter 1919
2 1 Burke, Father Francis, 5 letters 1931-33
2 Bussart, O. Ivan, 1 letter 1926
3 Butler, Nicholas Murray, 2 letters 1917, 1920
4 Butterworth, G. W., 1 letter 1920
5 Cady, Mary R., 1 letter 1933
6 Callahan, J. L., 2 letters 1932
7 Campbell, Killis, 2 letters 1932
8 Campbell, W. A., 2 letters 1924, 1926
9 Candler, Mrs. Duncan, 4 letters 1908, 1917
10 Capps, Edward, 4 letters 1916-18
11 Carman, William Bliss, 1 letter 1901
12 Castle, W. R., 2 letters 1916
13 Central High School, 2 letters 1917
14 Cerf, Barry, 1 letter 1931-32
15 Chalmers, Robert, 1 letter 1931-32
16 Channing, Edward, 4 letters 1918-20
17 Chapman, E. M., 1 letter 1906
18 Chapman, John Jay, 1 letter 1917
19 Chelton, Carrol Brent, 1 letter 1922
20 Chew, Samuel C. Jr., 1 letter 1915
21 Clark, Barrett, 1 letter 1920
22 Clark, C. C., 1 letter 1920
23 Clarke, Arthur Melville, 1 letter 1936
24 Coburn, F. W., 1 letter 1914
25 Cole, Miss Alice L., 3 letters 1906
26 Collins, Seward, 15 letters 1929-31, 1934-36
27 Colton, Arthur W., 1 letter 1908
28 Columbia University Club, 1 letter 1917
29 Cone, Mary Gates, 1 letter 1931
30 Converse, Florence, 1 letter 1934
31 Coolidge, Archibald Cary, 1 letter 1915
32 Cooper, C. A., 3 letters 1915, 1918
33 Cortissoz, Royal, 1 letter 1929
34 Cory, Herbert E., 1 letter 191?
35 Cowardin, Samuel, 11 letters 1933-36
36 Creighton, James Edwin, 1 letter 1917
37 Crippen, Layton, 1 letter 1915
38 Crocker, Jack, 1 letter 1937
39 Cross, F. Leslie, 7 letters 1931-34
40 Cross, Wilbur Lucius, 1 letter 1905
41 Cunliffe, John William, 1 letter 1919
42 Cutler, Anna A., 1 letter 1919
43 Dakin, Arthur H. Jr., 7 letters 1933-35
44 Daniels, Winthrop More, 1 letter 1920
45 Darrow, Whitney, 1 letter 1916
46 Dartmouth College, 2 letters 1917
47 Davison, John A., 1 letter 1939
48 Dawson, Miles M., 3 letters 1922
49 Dewey, Stoddard ,3 letters 1905, 1912
50 Dickinson, John, 1 letter 1916
51 Dieffenback, Albert C., 4 letters 1916
52 Dixon, James Main, 7 letters 1914-15, 1917-20
53 Dobell, Bertram, 1 letter 1909
54 Dodds, Harold W., 1 letter 1935
55 Dodge, Henry Irving, 1 letter 1917
56 Drew, E. B., 1 letter 1913
57 Dunn, Joseph S., 4 letters 1931-32
3 1 Dutton, E. P. & Co., 2 letters 1917
2 Dymond, Edmund R., 1 letter 1927
3 Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 22 letters 1928-30, 1932-37
4 Elliott, G. Roy, 12 letters 1922, 1928-32, 1934-36
5  Emerton, Ephraim, 1 letter 1921
6 Ende, Mrs. Andia von, 1 letter 1918
7 Estopinal, Leonidas B., 1 letter 1921
8 The Evening Post, 1 letter 1914
9 Everett, Mary Nixon, 1 letter 1915
10 Ezban, Selim, 2 letters 1936
11 Fackenthal, Frank D., 1 letter 1917
12 Faison, John B., 1 letter 1917
13 Falconer, William A., 1 letter 1918
14 Ferriss, Franklin, 1 letter 1914
15 Fine, May Margaret, 1 letter 1917
16 Finley, John H., 1 letter 1914
17 Firkins, Oscar W., 3 letters 1915-16
18 Fite, Warner, 7 letters 1913, 1920-21, 192 3
19 Foerster, Norman, 6 letters 1914, 1919-20
20 Forbes, W. J., 1 letter 1919
21 Foucher, A., 2 letters 1915-16
22 Franklin, Fabian, 3 letters 1915, 1918
23 Frye, Prosser Hall, 26 letters 1900-09
24 Frye, Prosser Hall, 13 letters 1910-21
25 Frye, Prosser Hall, 17 letters 1922-23
26 Fuller, H. de Wolfe, 4 letters 1916-17, 1920
27 Gaines, Charles Kelsey, 1 letter 1927
28 Gair, Sidney R., 4 letters 1932-33, 1935
29 Ganse, George E., 1 letter 1932
30 Garrett, Christina H., 1 letter 1932
31 Garrison, Wendell P., 1 letter 1903
32 Gass, Sherlock B., 2 letters 1920, 1935
33 Gauss, Christian, 6 letters 1915, 1918,1921, 1929-1930
34 Gayley, Charles Mills, 1 letter 1914
4 1 Giddings, Franklin Henry, 4 letters 1916-17, 1919, 1920
2 Gilder, Richard Watson, 1 letter 1901-05
3 Gilder, Joseph B., 1 letter 1920, 1923
4 Godley, Alred Denis, 1 letter 1921
5 Goldbeck, Edward, 1 letter 1916
6 Goldman, Marcus Selden, 7 letters 1926-29
7 Gollanez, I., 1 letter 1915
8 Goodall, George Lincoln, 1 letter 1912, 1931-32
9 Goodall, Thomas D., 2 letters 1914
10 Goodrich, Admiral C. F., 1 letter 1916
11 Goodspeed, Edgar Johnson, 1 letter 1917
12 Goodwin, William Watson, 1 letter 1901
13 Goth, G. W., 1 letter 1933
14 Graves, Charles Larcom, 1 letter 1921, 1926-27
15 Green, F. H., 1 letter 1917
16 Greenlaw, Edwin, 1 letter 1921
17 Griffis, William Elliott, 1 letter 1920
18 Griffiths, David Vaine, 1 letter 1917
19 Guiney, Louise I., 2 letters 1916
20 Guthrie, Kenneth S., 4 letters 1918-19
21 Hackett, Francis, 1 letter 1921
22 Hadzits, George Depue, 1 letter 1918
23 Hagerty, James L., 2 letters 1932
24 Haight, Elizabeth H., 3 letters 1919
25 Hammond, Clarence Bray, 1 letter 1917
26 Hancock, Albert E., 2 letters 1908
27 Hanford, James Holly, 1 letter 1918
28 Hannerman, John Bell, 1 letter 1904
29 Harper, W. M., 1 letter 1916
30 Harris, Cora May, 15 letters 1901
31 Harris, Cora May, 1901
32 Harris, Cora May, 22 letters 1901-02
33 Harris, Cora May, 8 letters 1903
34 Harris, Cora May, 6 letters 1903
35 Harris, Cora May, 9 letters 1904-05
36 Harris, Cora May, 8 letters 1906-07
37 Harris, Cora May, 3 letters 1909
38 Harris, Frank W. 1922
39 Harris, W. F., 1 letter 1913
40 Hart, James Morgan, 1 letter 1915
41 Hawes, Mabel E., 1 letter 1919
5 1 Hayes, George P., 1 letter 1934
2 Heard, A. A., 1 letter 1919
3 Hebert, Father A. Gabriel, 3 letters 1934-35
4 Heidel, W. A., 3 letters 1916, 1922
5 Henry, Louise, 2 letters 1921
6 Henry, Stuart, 1 letter 1921
7 Hibben, John Grier, 2 letters 1916, 1919
8 Hinkel, Edgar J., 2 letters 1930-31
9 Hobart College, 2 letters 1936-37
10 Hodder, Alfred (Mrs.), 2 letters 1916
11 Hoe, Robert, 1 letter 1906
12 Holt, Hamilton, 1 letter 1936
13 Holt, Henry, 21 letters 1914-15
14 Holt, Henry, 22 letters 1915
15 Holt, Henry, 25 letters 1916-17
16 Holt, Henry, 28 letters 1918
17 Holt, Henry, 23 letters 1919-25
18 Hosmer, James K., 1 letter 1908
19 Hough, Lynn Harold, 2 letters 1933-34
20 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 14 letters 1904-28
21 Houston, Gemma d'Ouira, 1 letter 1921
22 Houston, Percy H., 18 letters 1919-26
23 Houston, Percy H., 12 letters 1927-35
24 Howe, George, 1 letter 1919
25 Hulst, Cornelia S., 2 letters 1922
6 1 Huneker, James Gibbons, 2 letters 1908-09
2 Hunsaker, Jerome C., 1 letter 1936-37
3 International Polity Club, 1 letter 1917
4 International Quarterly, 1 letter 1906
5 Jacob, Cary E., 1 letter 1923
6 Jacobs, Joseph, 1 letter 1913
7 Johnson, F. W., 1 letter 1916
8 Johnson, Howard A., 1 letter 1932
9 Johnson, Robert U., 5 letters 1908, 1915-18
10 Johnson, Rossiter, 1 letter 1918
11 Johnson, W. H., 2 letters 1917-18
12 Jusserand, Jean Joles, 2 letters 1913
13 Kaufman, J. Paul, 2 letters 1916, 1919
14 Keith, Linton, 1 letter 1931
15 Kelsey, Francis Willey, 1 letter 1914
16 Kendrick, Helen F., 1 letter 1917
17 Kinsolving, Sally Bruce, 1 letter 1917
18 Knox, C. S., 1 letter 1916
19 Konkle, Burton Alva, 2 letters 1920-21
20 Koo, Telly H., 1 letter 1921
21 Krans, Horatio S., 1 letter 1927 
22 Ladd, Horatio Oliver, 1 letter 1922
23 Lanman, Charles Rockwell, 8 letters 1905-06, 1916, 1922, 1924
24 Lawrence, William Witherle, 4 letters 1920
25 Leander, Folke, 1 letter 1935
26 Leighton, Joseph, 1 letter 1918
27 Leo, Brother, 1 letter 1923
28 Levy, Oscar, 1 letter 1913
29 Lewis, Clive Staples, 3 letters 1934-35
30 Lin Ho, 1 letter 1927
31 Littlefield, Leslie, 1 letter 1935
32 Lloyd, Edith, 2 letters 1926
33 Lockert, Lacy, 1 letter 1924
34 Loeb, James, 2 letters 1915
35 Longwill, H. C., 1 letter 1918
36 Lovejoy, Arthur O., 3 letters 1911-12
37 Low, Will Hicock, 2 letters 1912
38 Lowrie, Walter, 1 letter 1927
39 Lyman, Charles W., 1 letter 1905
40 Lyon, William S., 1 letter 1908
41 Mackenzie, Rex, 1 letter 1929
42 Manchester, Frederick A., 3 letters 1920, 1933
43 Marshall, Henry Rutgers, 14 letters 1911-15
44 Marshall, Henry Rutgers, 17 letters 1916-21
45 Mather, Frank Jewett, 17 letters 1906-37
46 Matthews, Brander, 9 letters 1918, 1920-22
47 Matthews, Paul, 1 letter 1937
48 Matthews, W. R., 2 letters 1931-32
49 May, Kuang Ti, 2 letters 1919-20
50 McGiffert, Katherine, 1 letter 1916
51 McKinnon, Father Cyril N., 3 letters 1932
52 Means, D. McG., 1 letter 1922
53 Means, Thomas, 1 letter 1927
54 Mercier, L. J. A., 9 letters 1922, 1927, 1929, 1931
7 1 Meschter, Charles K., 1 letter 1920
2 Metcalfe, Henry, 2 letters 1918
3 Meynell, Wilfred, 3 letters 1910-13
4 Middlesex Women's Club, 2 letters 1917
5 Might, Les Barbon, 1 letter 1918
6 Miller, Dickinson S., 7 letters 1914, 1918-19
7 Miller, Theodore A., 6 letters 1916-17
8 Mitchell, W. Fraser, 1 letter 1932
9 Mi Wu, 1 letter 1921
10 Montgomery, James A., 1 letter 1936-37
11 Moore, Cecil A., 6 letters 1915, 1917-18
12 Moore, Clifford H., 1 letter 1918
13 Moore, David, 1 letter 1905
14 Moore, Herbert, 1 letter 1934
15 More, Alice, 16 letters 1900-15
16 More, Alice, 17 letters 1916-17
17 More, Alice, 16 letters 1918
18 More, Alice, 22 letters 1919-20
19 More, Alice, 21 letters 1921-27
20 More, Alice (Dymond), 24 letters 1916-30
21 More, Alice (Dymond), 24 letters 1931-32
22 More, Alice (Dymond), 14 letters 1933-35
8 1 More, Darrah (Fine), 6 letters 1916, 1919-21
2 More, E. Anson, Jr., 10 letters 1900-1918
3 More, E. Anson, Jr., 8 letters 1919-24
4 More, James B., 9 letters 1915-17
5 More, May C., 3 letters 1916, 1918
6 Morehouse Publishing Co., 2 letters 1935
7 Mukerji, Dhan Gopal, 2 letters 1922, 1926
8 Murray, Gilbert, 1 letter 1913
9 Myers, Edward D., 10 letters 1932, 1935-36
10 Myers, Gustavus, 1 letter 1916
11 Napier, M. C. 1 letter 1924
12 Nicholson, George R. H., 1 letter 1916
13 Nicholson, Meredith, 4 letters 1919-1920
14 Nickerson, Hoffman, 4 letters 1929-30
15 Nipher, Francis Eugene, 1 letter 1914
16 Norton, Charles Eliot, 4 letters 1898, 1904, 1907-08
17 Norton, Grace Fallow, 1 letter 1909
18 Norton, Paul Robinson, 5 letters 1920-21, 1923, 1927
19 Norton, Powell H., 1 letter 1927
20 Norton, Sara, 2 letters 1915
21 Noyes, Alfred, 2 letters 1919, 1931-32
22 Obermeier, Enra, 17 letters 1934-37
23 Osgood, Charles G., 1 letter 1917
24 Osgood, Isabella, 1 letter 1918
25 Oxford University Press, 2 letters 1935
26 Page, Curtis Hidden, 1 letter 1905
27 Page, T. E., 1 letter 1919
28 Palmer, Frederic, 1 letter 1915
29 Palmer, Henrietta R., 3 letters 1916, 1919
30 Parker, Gilbert, 1 letter 1915
31 Parsons, K., 1 letter 1919
32 Parsons, Samuel, 1 letter 1921
33 Paton, Stewart, 2 letters 1917, 1920
34 Peattie, Elia W., 1 letter 1901-05
35 Peck, Harvey W., 2 letters 1915, 1917
36 University of Pennsylvania, 1 letter 1917
37 Perott, Joseph de, 1 letter 1915
38 Perry, Bliss, 2 letters 1907
39 Perry, E. D., 1 letter 1918
40 Phelps, William Lyon, 1 letter 1937
41 Pier, Arthur Stanwood, 2 letters 1921
42 Porteous, H. E., 1 letter 1923
43 Post, Beatrice T., 6 letters 1899-1900
44 Powers, Frederick Perry, 1 letter 1916
45 Pratt, James B., 5 letters 1910, 1913, 1920, 1923, 1930
9 1 Prentice, William K., 1 letter 1918
2 Prime-Stevenson, Edward, 4 letters 1906, 1908, 1914
3 Prince, Morton, 1 letter 1917
4 Princeton Bank and Trust Co., 1 letter 1936
5 Princeton University Press, 2 letters 1919, 1926
6 Pritchett, Henry Smith, 1 letter 1913
7 Pumpelly, Raphael, 1 letter 1917
8 Putnam, Emily James, 4 letters 1915, 1917
9 Putnam, G. P. & Sons, 3 letters 1890, 1905, 1919
10 Pyne, Moses Taylor, 1 letter 1919
11 Rand, Edward Kennard, 2 letters 1913-1914
12 Reed, Lynnel, 1 letter 1919
13 Relsareschie, Marie, 1 letter 1906
14 Rhinelander, Philip M., 1 letter 1935-36
15 Rhodes, James Ford, 2 letters 1915, 1918
16 Rice, Charles Elmer, 1 letter 1916
17 Rice, Cole Young, 1 letter 1913
18 The Rice Institute, 1 letter 1917
19 Rice, Richard Jr., 1 letter 1915
20 Richards, Philip S., 17 letters 1928-32
21 Richards, Philip S., 16 letters 1933-37
22 Richetts, Miss 1 letter 1920
23 Richmond, B. L. 1 letter 1918
24 Ripplier, Agnes 1 letter 1917
25 Robbins, Edmund Y., 1 letter 1921
26 Robin, L. 1 letter 1927
27 Robinson, Frederic N., 1 letter 1903
28 Robinson, Joseph, 1 letter 1918
29 Roelofs, Howard D., 3 letters 1934
30 Ross, Conway A., 1 letter 1933
31 Rossiter, E. V., 2 letters 1920
32 Rowe, Walter, 1 letter 1916
33 Saldanha, Charles P., 1 letter 1932
34 Sampson, Alden, 3 letters 1919
35 Sanday, W., 1 letter 1918
36 Sandys, Sir J.E., 1 letter 1918
37 The Saturday Review, 1 letter 1933
38 Schofield, William Henry, 1 letter 1917
39 Schultz, J. R., 2 letters 1915
40 Scribner's, 1 letter 1917
41 Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, 1 letter 1921
42 Seilliere, Baron Ernest A., 3 letters 1927, 1930
43 Seilliere, Baron Ernest A., 1 letter 1936
44 Settel, Arthur, 1 letter 1932
45 Shafer, Martha, 2 letters 1934-35
46  Shafer, Robert, 24 letters 1922-28
47 Shafer, Robert, 19 letters 1929-32
48 Shafer, Robert, 18 letters 1933-36
49 Shaler, Marian, 1 letter 1919
10 1 Sharpe, Noevelle Wallace, 1 letter 1919
2 Sheldon Press, 2 letters 1931-32
3 Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 20 letters 1909-13
4 Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 17 letters 1914-17
5 Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 16 letters 1918-25
6 Shield, J. W., 1 letter 1923
7 Shinn, Charles, 1 letter 1918
8 Shorey, Paul, 2 letters 1918, 1920
9 Shorter, Clement K. 1 letter 1908
10 Sikelianos, Jon, 1 letter 1926
11 Singh, Saint Nibal, 1 letter 1914
12 Slazer, Dorothy H. 1 letter 1936
13 Sloane, William Milligan, 4 letters 1915-17
14 Smith, Lucy E., 2 letters 1917-18
15 Smith, Norman Kemp, 14 letters 1916-18
16 Smith, Norman Kemp, 9 letters 1919-37
17 Smyth, Herbert Weir, 1 letter 1909
18 Spackman, William M., 1 letter 1929
19 Spens, Will, 1 letter 1931
20 Stebbins, Roderick, 1 letter 1916
21 Stevens, Clara Sherwood, 2 letters 1910-13
22 Stevens, David H., 1 letter 1915
23 Stewart, J. A., 1 letter 1918
24 Stiles, Mary Evelyn, 1 letter 1916
25 Strauss, Samuel, 15 letters 1918-20
26 Streeter, B. H., 2 letters 1927
27 Strittmatter, Eugene J. 1 letter 1920
28 Swenson, David F., 1 letter 1916
29 Symons, Arthur, 1 letter 1907
30 Taeusch, Henry William, 2 letters 1922
31 Tansey, George J., 1 letter 1920
32 Taylor, Alrfed Edward, 8 letters 1916, 1918, 1922, 1927, 1931
33 Taylor, Henry Osborn, 7 letters 1913, 1915-17, 1937
34 Thayer, Stephen Henry 1 letter 1915
35 Thayer, William Roscoe, 12 letters 1905-1921
11 1 Thomas, Augustus, 1 letter 1922
2 Thomas, W. H. Griffith, 1 letter 1915
3 Thompson, Alan Reynolds, 2 letters 1930, 1936
4 Thorndike, Ashley Horace, 1 letter 1919
5 Thorp, Willard Brown, 1 letter 1936
6 Tilden, F. W., 1 letter  1915
7 Tinckom-Fernandez, W. G., 1 letter 1919
8 Tollinton, R. B., 1 letter 1918
9 Trench, Herbert, 1 letter 1905
10 Trent, William P., 11 letters 1906-1931
11 Turnbull, Frances, 2 letters 1916
12 Tyson, Stuart L., 1 letter 1923
13 Urban, Wilbur M., 1 letter 1916
14 Vachon, Hayden A., 2 letters 1937
15 Van Derlyn, Theodore N., 2 letters 1915
16 Van Metre, Ricker, 1 letter 1932
17 Vassar College, 1 letter 1917
18 Vexler, Julius, 1 letter 1933
19 Villar, Oswald Garrison, 2 letters 1914-15
20 von Saltzas, C. F., 4 letters 1899-1900
21 Walsh, James J., 2 letters 1931-32
22 Warren, Austin, 9 letters 1929-32, 1934
23 Webb, Clemens C. J., 2 letters 1933-34
24 Webster, Arthur G., 1 letter 1914
25 Wedel, Theodore O., 1 letter 1922
26 Wendell, Barrett, 1 letter 1915
27 Went, Rev. James, 3 letters 1920, 1926
28 Went, Stanley, 19 letters 1915-21, 1933
29 West, Andrew Fleming, 5 letters 1915-18
30 Wharton, Mrs. Edith, 1 letter 1915
31 Wheaton, Isaac S., 2 letters 1917
32 Wheeler, J. R., 8 letters 1914-15, 1917
33 Whicher, G. M., 1 letter 1917
34 Whitaker, Epher, 1 letter 1909
35 Whitehill, Gladys M., 1 letter 1916
36 Whitsett, W. T., 1 letter 1917
37 Whitty, J. H., 1 letter 1917
38 Wilson, Edmund, 1 letter 1933
39 Wolfenden, T. F., 1 letter 1934
40 Woodberry, George Edward, 1 letter 1913, 1921
41 Woodhouse, A. A. P., 1 letter 1933
42 Woodhull, A. A., 1 letter 1916
43 Woodlock, Thomas F., 10 letters 1912-1930
44 Wright, Willard Huntington, 1 letter 1916
45 Yoder, C. H., 1 letter 1917
46 Young, Karl, 3 letters 1914-1915
47 Zabel, Morton D., 1 letter 1937
48 Zeitlin, Jacob, 2 letters 1928-29
II. Letters From Paul Elmer More
Box/Folder
12 1 Babbitt, Irving, 61 letters 1899-1915
2 Babbitt, Irving, 49 letters 1916-21
3 Babbitt, Irving, 69 letters 1922-36
(after 1933, to Dora Babbitt, widow)
4 Cupples and Hurd, 1 letter 1889
5 Frye, Prosser Hall, 44 letters 1900-03
6 Frye, Prosser Hall, 37 letters 1904-06
7 Frye, Prosser Hall, 41 letters 1907-09
8 Frye, Prosser Hall, 33 letters 1910-23
9 Frye, Prosser Hall, 23 letters 1924-33
10 Hobart College (W. A. Eddy, President), 1 letter 1936
11 Holt, Hamilton, 2 letters 1904, 1936
12 Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1 letter 1901
13 More, Alice (Dymond), postcard 1912
14 More, Darrah (Fine), 5 letters 1912-30
15 More, Enoch Anson, 3 letters 1888-89
16 More, Enoch Anson, Jr., 1 letter 1889
17 More, Mrs. Enoch Anson, 10 letters 1888-89
18 More, Mrs. Enoch Anson, 9 letters 1900
19 More, Mrs. Enoch Anson, 20 letters 1901-14
20 More, James B., 1 letter 1888
13 1 More, Louis T., 25 letters 1888-1912
2 More, Louis T., 25 letters 1913-15
3 More, Louis T., 24 letters 1916-17
4 More, Louis T., 22 letters 1918-20
5 More, Louis T., 30 letters 1921-24
6 More, Louis T., 30 letters 1925-31
7 More, Louis T., 17 letters 1932-33
8 More, Louis T., 27 letters 1934-36
9 More, Mary C., 4 letters 1888-1900
10 More, Mrs. Paul E. (Nettie) 6 letters 1912
14 1 More, Alice, 18 letters 1888-95
2 More, Alice, 24 letters 1897-1900
3 More, Alice, 28 letters 1901-10
4 More, Alice, 23 letters 1911-13
5 More, Alice, 35 letters 1914-16
6 More, Alice, 34 letters 1917-22
7 More, Alice, 14 letters 1923-25
8 More, Alice, 26 letters 1926-30
III. More Family Correspondence (and unidentified and unrelated letters)
Box/Folder
15 1 Alice More to Louis T. More, 22 letters 1910-17
2 Alice More to Louis T. More, 20 letters 1918-19
3 Alice More to Louis T. More, 11 letters 1920-24
4 Darrah More to Alice More, 3 letters 1922
5 Darrah More (Fine) to Louis T. More, 10 letters 1935
6 E. Anson More, Jr. to Alice More, 2 letters 1916, 1920
7 E. Anson More, Jr. to Louis T. More, 6 letters 1916-19
8 James More to Louis T. More, 1 letter 1916
9 Mary C. More to Alice More, 1 letter no date
10 Katherine Heard to Alice More, 1 letter 1915
11 Erna Obermeier to Darrah Fine, 1 letter 1936
12 Letters to Darrah More (Fine)
on death of Paul E. More, 20 letters 1937
13 Letters to and from Prosser Hall Frye
from other correspondents, 37 letters 1904-35
14 Unidentified correspondence
(signatures unintelligible), 15 items various dates
IV. Works
Box/Folder
16 1 Diary (1912) and five notebooks of miscellany
2 Childhood scribblings of More
3 Notes and essay on John Bailey
4 More's criticism of the Spiritual Letters by Dom Chapman
5 "Mr. Eliot's Return"-essay by More with marginal notes by T. S. Eliot
6 Essay on Robert Herrick by More
7 "How to Read Lycidas" (Milton)--essay by More
8 Typescript and manuscript of More's Marginalia
9 More's essay, draft essay, and notes on Proust
10 Essay on St. Therese of Lisseux, Anglicanism, and Roman Catholicism
11 Lecture on Seventeenth Century Literature by More
12 More's draft and printed article on Thomas Traherne
13 More's translation of part of the Bahvagad Gita
14 More's typescript and manuscript translation of Oedipus Rex
15 Galley sheets of More's articles and reviews in the Nation
16 Four published works by More:
"A Revival of Humanism"
"The Socialism of G. Lowes Dickinson"
"Church and Politics"
"Proust: The Two Ways"
17 Published article on Irving Babbitt by More
18 Speech/lecture: "Aspects of Reaction" June 12, 1913
19 Speech/lecture: "Classics and the Writing of English" April 25, 1919
20 Speech/lecture: "Education" (Nassau Club, Princeton) March 19, 1915
21 Speech/lecture: "English"
22 Speech/lecture: at the Harvard Classical Club May 26, 1926
23 Speech/lecture: "The Need of Reaction in Jerusalem"
24 Speech/lecture: "Latin and the War" March 21, 1919
25 Speech/lecture: at Miss Fine's School (Princeton) June 6, 1924
26 Speech/Lecture: "The Old Education and The New" 1918
27 Speech at Phi Beta Kappa (Princeton) April 18, 1921
28 Miscellaneous speeches and lecture notes of More
29 More's personal copy of Helena, a book of poems by More
30 The Imagist: a poem by Ernest Bernbaum
31 The Cry of Belgium and other poems by W. J. S. Bryan
Reviews, etc.
17 1 Aristocracy and Justice
2 The Catholic Faith
3 The Demon of the Absolute
4 The Drift of Romanticism
5 The Greek Tradition
6 Hellenistic Philosophies
7 A New England Group and Others
8 On Being Human
9 Pages from an Oxford Diary
10 Platonism
11 The Religion of Plato
12 With the Wits
13 Published articles and press clippings about More generally
14 Press clippings and printed materials: Obituaries, tributes, and memorials of Paul Elmer More
15 Publishers' agreements with Paul Elmer More (22)
16 Photographs of or relating to Paul Elmer More
More's notes on
18 1 Aesthetic and artistic hedonism
2 Ambiguity-active and passive
3 Anglicanism
4 Anselm
5 Aristotle's Metaphysics
6 Art and technique
7 Athanasius
8 Athenogoras
9 The Bible-History and development
10 Buchman and the Protestant and Catholic approaches to God
11 Chapel service and sermon notes/prayers by Crocker
12 The Christ of the Old and New Testaments
13 Christianity
14 E.G. Conklin's The Direction of Human Evolution
15 Criticism
16 "The Demon of the Absolute"
17 Ethics and religion
18 Evil
19 Ghosts
20 The Gospel according to St. Mark
21 Greek Orthodox theology
22 Hellenism
23 Horace
24 Humanis and religion
25 Hume
26 Illusion
27 Indignation
28 Individualism and the Church
29 Infallibility (papal)
30 R. R. Marett's Faith, Hope, and Charity in Primitive Religions
31 LaHarpe
32 Marxism
33 Miscellaneous notes
34 James Bowling Mozley
35 Mysticism
36 Nietzche
37 Cardinal Newman and the Oxford Movement
38 Origen
19 1 Plato
2 Plato
3 The influence of Plato and Aristotle
4 Plato's idea of beauty
5 Plato's Republic
6 Plato's Timaeus
7 Plotinus
8 Plutarch
9 More's Digest: collecion of quotes on various subject from various sources
10 Religion and Aristocracy
11 Rhoses and the Greek Theology
12 Scepticism
13 Stuart Sherman's criticism of More's Shelbourne Essays
14 Spinoza
15 Stoicism
16 Stoic Naturalism
17 Symbols and Symbolism
18 Origins: The Development of Teleology
19 James Ward's The Realm of Dreams
20 The Weird
21 Witchcraft
22 Joseph Blanco White
23 Wordsworth
24 Wordsworth-Romanticism and Mysticism in The Excursion
V. The A. H. Dakin Collection
Photostats of original correspondence of More, interviews and recollections of More's contemporaries, and the collected research work of Dakin for his biography of More.
Box/Folder
20 7 folders A. Alphabetical File I: A to G
21 11 folders Alphabetical File I: H to S
22 3 folders Alphabetical File I: T to Z
B. Alphabetical File II
Box/Folder
23 1 Correspondence between More and Dora (Mrs. Irving) Babbitt
2 Correspondence between More and Irving Babbitt 1899-1915
3 Correspondence between More and Irving Babbitt 1916-1933
24 1 Correspondence between More and Maurice Baum
2 Correspondence between More and A. A. Bowman
3 Miscellaneous brief correspondence between Paul E. More and others (A to D)
4 Miscellaneous brief correspondence between Paul E. More and other (E to J)
5 Miscellaneous brief correspondence between Paul E. More and others (K to O)
6 Miscellaneous brief correspondence between Paul E. More and others (P to Z)
7 Correspondence between More and W. C. Brownell
8 Correspondence between More and Nicholas Butler
9 Correspondence between More and P. R. Norton
10 Correspondence between More and Seward Collins
25 1 Correspondence between More and Mary Gates Cone
2 Correspondence between More and S. P. Cowardin
3 Correspondence between More and F. Leslie Cross
4 Correspondence between More and A. H. Dakin
5 Correspondence between More and Dartmouth College
6 Correspondence between More and James Main Dixon
7 Correspondence between More and Alice More Dymond
8 Correspondence between More and T. S. Eliot
9 Correspondence between More and G. R. Elliott
10 Correspondence between More and Norman Foerester
11 Correspondence between More and Prosser H. Frye 1900-1904
12 Correspondence between More and Prosser H. Frye 1905-1914
26 1 Correspondence between More and Prosser H. Frye 1915-1933
2 Correspondence between More and Sidney Gair
3 Correspondence between More and Marie Garesche
4 Correspondence between More and Christian Gauss
5 Correspondence between More and Marcus Selden Goldman
6 Correspondence between More and Mrs. L. H. Harris 1901-02
7 Correspondence between More and Mrs. L. H. Harris 1902-03
8 Correspondence between More and Mrs. L. H. Harris 1904-10
27 1 Correspondence between More and Henry Holt
2 Correspondence between More and Houghton-Mifflin
3 Correspondence between More and Persy Houston
4 Correspondence between More and Charles R. Lanman
5 Correspondence between More and Frederick A. Manchester
6 Correspondence between More and Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
7 Correspondence between More and Henry Rutgers Marshall
8 Correspondence between More and Brander Matthews
9 Correspondence between More and L. J. A. Mercier
28 1-7 Correspondence between Paul E. More and Alice More (sister), and a few letters from Alice More to Louis T. More
29 1 Correspondence bettwen More and Darrah More Fine
2 Correspondence between More and Enoch Anson More
3 Correspondence between More and Henrietta (Beck) More
4 Correspondence between More and Louis T. More  1888-1912
5 Correspondence between More and Louis T. More  1913-16
6 Correspondence between More and Louis T. More 1917-22
7 Correspondence between More and Louis T. More 1923-31
8 Correspondence between More and James Brooks More
30 1 Correspondence between More and Louis T. More 1932-37
2 Correspondence between More and Mary More
3 Correspondence between More and his parents
4 Correspondence between More and E. D. Meyers
31 1 Correspondence between More and Hoffman Nickerson
2 Correspondence between More and Charles Eliot Norton
3 Correspondence between More and Erna Obermeier
4 Correspondence between More and The Oxford University Press
5 Correspondence between More and Curtis Hidden Page
6 Correspondence between More and Beatrice Post
7 Correspondence between More and James B. Pratt
8 Correspondence between More and Princeton University
9 Correspondence between More and Princeton University Press
10 Correspondence between More and Philip S. Richards
11 Correspondence between More and Conway A. Ross
12 Correspondence between More and Horace E. Scudder, Jr.
13 Correspondence between More and Robert Shafer
32 1 Correspondence between More and Stuart Sherman 1908-13
2 Correspondence between More and Stuart Sherman 1914-25
3 Correspondence between More and Clement E. Shorter
4 Correspondence between More and Norman Kemp Smith
5 Correspondence between More and Samuel Strauss
6 Correspondence between More and A. E. Taylor
7 Correspondence between More and William Roscoe Thayer
8 Correspondence between More and Miss McCarey Thomas
9 Correspondence between More and Alan Reynolds Thompson
10 Correspondence between More and William P. Trent
11 Correspondence between More and William C. Vandewater
12 Correspondence between More and Julius Vexler
13 Correspondence between More and Austin Warren
14 Correspondence between More and Stanley Went
C. Chronological File I
Box/Folder
33 1-12 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1899-1908
34 1-14 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1909-1918
35 1-14 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1919-1929
36 1-12 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1930-1937
D. Chronological File II
Box/Folder
37 1-24 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1875-1900
38 1-8 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1901-08
39 1-6 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1909-14
40 1-4 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1915-18
41 1-6 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1919-24
42 1-7 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1925-31
43 1-4 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1932-35
44 1-2 Copies of Correspondence to and from Paul Elmer More 1935-37
E. Chronological File III
Box/Folder
45 1-28 Chronology of Paul E. More and copies of letters to and from him 1864-1910
46 1-11 Chronology of Paul E. More and copies of letters to and from him 1911-21
47 1-6 Chronology of Paul E. More and copies of letters to and from him 1922-37
F. Miscellaneous Material
Box/Folder
48 1 Personal recollections of Louis T. More (brother) re: Paul E. More
2 Anecdotes, recollection, and personal interviews with others, concerning Paul E. More
3 Ancestry and descriptions of family and relatives of Paul E. More
4 Notes of students in Paul E. More's class on Plato at Princeton (including notes of A. H. Dakin as a student)
5 Transcript of Paul E. More-Central High School, St. Louis (1880-1884)
6 Addresses, sermons, and lectures of Paul E. More
7 Notes of Paul E. More
8 Correspondence and contributions to the Atlantic Monthly by Paul E. More (as summarized by A. H. Dakin)
9 Contributions to The Criterion by Paul E. More (as summarized by A. H. Dakin)
10 Correspondence and contributions to the New York Evening Post by Paul E. More (as summarized by A. H. Dakin)
11 Correspondence and contributions to The Independent by Paul E. More (as summarized by A. H. Dakin)
12 Correspondence and contributions to The Nation by Paul E. More (as summarized by A. H. Dakin)
13 Contributions to The Saturday Review of Literature by Paul E. More (as summarized by A. H. Dakin)
14 Contributions to Unpartizon Review/ Unpopular Review by Paul E. More (as summarized by A. H. Dakin)
15 Contributions to The Villager by Paul E. More (as summarized by A. H. Dakin)
16 Miscellaneous Publications: contributions of Paul E. More (as summarized by A. H. Dakin)
17 "Paul Elmer More" by Brother Leo (Catholic World, November 1922)
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