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John Armstrong Davison correspondence and papers

Davison, John Armstrong

1922-1969

John Armstrong Davison (1906-1966) was professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Leeds from 1951 until his death in December 1966. He was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christ...

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Six notebooks

1922-1925

Six notebooks of fair copies of prose and verse compositions in Latin and Greek made whilst a pupil at Haileybury, 1922-1925. 1. 1922-1923 2. 1923 3. 1923-1924 4. 1924-1925 5. 1925 6. Index

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A wallet containing mainly texts of lectures

1952

A wallet containing mainly texts of lectures. 1. 'Greek lyric poetry'. No date. TS 6 ff. 2. 'The First libraries'. 1952. TS 11 ff. 3. 'Books and their uses in early Greece'. 1952. TS 3 ff. 4. 'Myth...

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A loose-leaf file marked 'Papers on Homer'

1952

A loose-leaf file marked 'Papers on Homer', containing texts of lectures. 1. 'A Preface to the Iliad'. 1952, revised 1961. TS. 24 ff. Delivered at Glasgow and Nottingham. 2. 'The Transmission of Hom...

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A loose-leaf file containing the texts of a series of four lectures

1962

A loose-leaf file containing the texts of a series of four lectures, entitled 'The Transmission of Greek literary texts'. 1962.

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A loose-leaf file marked 'Greek drama'

1959

A loose-leaf file marked 'Greek drama', containing texts of lectures. 1. 'Political allusions in Æschylus'. 1959. TS 22 ff. Delivered at Toronto. 2. 'Greek drama'. 1953. TS. 6 ff. Delivered at Oxfo...

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A loose-leaf file marked 'Classical scholarship'

1949

A loose-leaf file marked 'Classical scholarship', containing texts of lectures. 1. 'Technology and the classics'. 1963. TS. 22 ff. Delivered at Leeds. 2. 'Bentley and the Greeks'. 1962. TS. 21 ff. D...

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A loose-leaf file without any title

1960

A loose-leaf file without any title, containing texts of lectures delivered at Toronto in 1960. 1960. TS. 1. 'Classical studies in the modern world'. 20 ff 2. 'So dearly bought?' 21 ff. 3. 'Motion w...

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A loose-leaf file containing material relating to visits to Tübingen and to Innsbruck

1963

A loose-leaf file containing material relating to visits to Tübingen and to Innsbruck. 1. Text of a course of lectures entitled 'Greichische Autoren and ihr Publikum'. 1963. MS & TS 60 ff. Delivered...

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Packet of loose papers referring to his work at Tübingen

1900

Packet of loose papers referring to his work at Tübingen. 1. List of students attending his seminar, 'Fragen zur ilias', Sommersemester 1963, signed by the individual students. MS & TS. 2 ff. 2. Lis...

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A loose-leaf file marked 'Loci communes'

1965

A loose-leaf file marked 'Loci communes', containing extracts from various sources. No date. TS. 81 ff. Source of last entry dated 1965.

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A lecture entitled 'Greek dialects 650 - 450 B C'

1930

A lecture entitled 'Greek dialects 650 - 450 B C. No date. MS 17 ff. Probably dated 1930s; original foliation omits f 5 but No hiatus in text is apparent.

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