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“I visited your web page and found [the Schliemann digital diaries and copybooks] with great joy. Their quality is amazing! The scans are very helpful for all of us, who are not so lucky to be able to work in the Gennadius Library constantly.” — Michaela Zavadil, author of Ein Trojanischer Federkrieg: Die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Ernst Boetticher und Heinrich Schliemann
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mong the materials donated to the Archives of the School and the Gennadius Library during this period were: • Papers of composer Dimitry Levidis • Papers of Konstantinos Bouras, a member of the resistance organization Midas 614 • Letters that the famed archaeologist Carl W. Blegen wrote to his sisters and brother from Greece, from 1910 to 1970 • Drawing by architect Charles Frederick Owsley of the house of Alice Walker Cosmopoulos in Old Corinth • Early-twentieth-century lantern slides and reels of film that belonged to Oscar Broneer, depicting ancient and modern monuments of Athens and other sites
• Papers of journalist and politician Constantine A. Vovolinis • Personal papers of Vasilis Vasilikos, author of more than 90 books, including the novel “Z” • Correspondence between French poet and translator Xavier Bordes and Nobel-laureate poet Odysseus Elytis, as well as photographs of Elytis, audio tapes, and press clippings, from Mr. Bordes’ personal papers • Collection of folders that belonged to Peter Topping, former Gennadius Librarian, concerning administrative issues of the library • Letters that well-known poet Kostis Palamas wrote to Nicholas D. Fandrides, as well as some of his books with Palamas’s autograph inscription
Left: In 2012, Mrs. Alexandra Vovolini donated her father’s papers to the Archives of the Gennadius Library. Journalist and politician Constantine A. Vovolinis was the creator of the Great Greek Biographical Dictionary. The 2,655 files of the archive contain data that Mr. Vovolinis collected with the intention to write biographical essays of people active in Greek public life in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The researchers who have already used the archive say that it is an invaluable tool for historical research.
• Personal correspondence of Spyridon Marinatos from 1929 to 1939, covering his service as Ephor of Antiquities on Crete and as Director of Antiquities in the Ministry of Education The Archives also bought several hundred photographs related to the Schliemann family and its descendants (especially the Andromache Schliemann Melas branch). This collection adds valuable information to the Schliemann papers and sheds light on the Melas family, one of the most important Athenian families of the first half of the twentieth century.
Below: Papers of composer Dimitry Levidis were donated to the archives by his niece, Mrs. Rita Bouboulidou. Levidis, who lived in France from 1910 to 1932, was prolific in many genres and much appreciated during his career.