Albert Granger Harkness papers, circa 1876-1919 , circa 1876-1919


John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2013

Collection Overview

Title: Albert Granger Harkness papers
Date range: circa 1876-1919
Creator: Harkness, Albert Granger, 1856-1923
Extent: 6.25 Linear feet
Abstract: The Albert Granger Harkness papers comprise correspondence and research notes documenting Professor Harknesses academic interests. Research materials cover topics largely related to Classics scholarship and teaching.
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library , Special Collections
Collection number: MS.1UF.H1

Scope & content

The Albert Granger Harkness papers comprise correspondence and research notes documenting Professor Harkness's academic interests. Research materials cover topics largely related to Classics scholarship and teaching including classical antiquities, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Latin composition, paleography, Seneca, and Virgil.

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Arrangement

The collection is organized in three series:

  • I. Letters from others, 1876-1910
  • II. Notes, undated

Biographical note

Albert Granger Harkness (1856-1923), professor of classics, was born in Providence on November 19, 1856, the son of Professor Albert Harkness, Class of 1842. He studied at the University Grammar School and entered Brown in 1874, but because of illness did not graduate until 1879. He taught classics at the Peddie School until 1881, then studied Latin and Greek philology at the Universities of Berlin, Leipzig, and Bonn. He was professor of Latin and German at Madison University (now Colgate University) from 1883 to 1889, when he returned to Brown as associate professor of Latin. He became professor of Roman literature and history in 1893. In 1902-03 he was resident professor at the American School for Classical Studies in Rome. He died in Providence on January 29, 1923. He had taught until January 6 of that year.

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Preferred citation: Albert Granger Harkness Papers, MS-1UF-H1, Brown University Archives.
Contact information: John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

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Additional Information

Inventory

I. Letters from others, 1876-1910
Correspondence is addressed to Albert Grainger Harkness unless otherwise noted.

Container Description Date
Box 1 Four marble notebooks
Box 1 Miscellaneous
Contents Note: Folder containing letters written by A.G. Harkness
Box 1 [Statement in reply to Prof. Exon]
Box 1 A Statement of Sir William Hamilton's View of Consciousness
 undated
Box 1 Allinson, Anne Crosby Emery, 1871-1932 (honorary degree 1916)
Contents Note: Suggests that he meet her for a talk indirectly connected with their recent difficulties.

 1905 May 18
Box 1 Allinson, Francis Greenleaf, 1856-1931
Contents Note: Wishes to speak to him about insult to Miss Emery and the preservation of their friendship.

 1905 May 15
Box 1 Andrews, N. L., to the Trustees of Brown University
Contents Note: Recommendation for Albert G. Harkness for professorship of Greek.

 1888 May 29
Box 1 Austin, Charles Raymond
Contents Note: Concerning his thesis.

 1910 November 4
Box 1 Bennett, Charles E.
 1906 January 31
Box 1 Bennett, Charles E.
 1906 February 17
Box 1 Briggs, L. B. R.
Contents Note: Prefers to pronounce every syllable in lines of Milton.

 1906 January 22
Box 1 Capps, Edward
Contents Note: Six letters and one note, January 8, 1906 - April 25, 1907, on arrangements for printing articles by Harkness in Classical Philology.

 1906-1907
Box 1 Colgate University - Class of 1884
 1883 December 20
Box 1 Crane, Thomas Frederick
Contents Note: Examples of cases in Dante where Harkness's rule holds good.

 1906 February 13
Box 1 Gildersleeve, Basil L.
Contents Note: Cannot make room for Harkness's articles in The American Journal of Philology before issue of next winter.

 1906 July 27
Box 1 Kelsey, Francis W.
Contents Note: Inviting him to read a paper at classical conference at University of Michigan.

 1906 January 10
Box 1 McLouth, Luther
Contents Note: Five letters, September 19 - December 1, 1903, concerning business of the Home Correspondence School, for which Harkness in instructor in Latin.

 1903
Box 1 Moore, Frank Gardner
Contents Note: On Harkness's article for proceedings of American Philological Association.

 1906 March 2
Box 1 Morse, S. L.
Contents Note: Concerning Home Correspondence School, for which Harkness is instructor in Latin. List of instructors of the school included.

 1902 August 28
Box 1 Nellie ---
Contents Note: Account of her social activities.

 1876 May 31
Box 1 Neuse, E. M.
Contents Note: Written from Stanford University. Regrets that Harkness cannot join in "Student Series" at this time.

 1894 May 1
Box 1 Norden, Eduard
Contents Note: Thanking him for his articles.

 1907 January 18
Box 1 Radford, Robert S. to Professor [Charles E.] Bennett
Contents Note: On Harkness's paper before Philological Association on influence of sense-pause on elision in Latin verse.

 1906 January 19
Box 1 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Contents Note: Unable to accept invitation.

 1899 February 28
Box 1 Stowasser, J.M.
 1895 July 18
Box 1 Warren, Minton
 1906-1907
Box 1 Wheeler, A.L.
 1898 September 23
Box 1 White, John W.
 1907 January 25

II. Notes

Container Description Date
Box 2 Accent - V. rhythm - Hovering accent
Box 2 Accent and ictus
Box 2 Accented pause
Box 2 Accentist finals
Box 2 Accius
Box 2 Agricola I
Box 2 Agricola II
Box 2 Analysis - Luca
Box 2 Antiquities
Box 2 Antiquities - Amphitheatres
Box 2 Antiquities - Amusements
Box 2 Antiquities - Aquaducts
Box 2 Antiquities - Architecture
Box 2 Antiquities - Ba'albek
Box 2 Antiquities - Basilica
Box 2 Antiquities - Building of Rome
Box 2 Antiquities - Dress
Box 2 Anitqiuties - Dress (2)
Box 2 Antiquities - Dress, jewelery
Box 2 Antiquities - Early Architecture
Box 2 Antiquities - Epitaphs
Box 2 Antiquities - F. W. Burke
Box 2 Antiquities - Forum
Box 2 Antiquities - Fountains
Box 2 Antiquities - Furnishings of House
Box 2 Antiquities - Garden Fauna
Box 2 Antiquities - general observations on art
Box 2 Antiquities - Greek Art
Box 2 Antiquities - Glass, pottery
Box 2 Antiquities - Grotesque gargoils
Box 2 Antiquities - House
Box 2 Antiquities - House (2)
Box 2 Antiquities - House (3)
Box 2 Antiquities - Heldesheimer Silber/und
Box 2 Antiquities - Industrial Arts
Box 2 Antiquities - I. Introduction. II. Architecture.
Box 2 Antiquities - Introduction to Art
Box 2 Antiquities - Lecture I - exterior
Box 2 Antiquities - Marbles
Box 2 Antiquities - Mausolea
Box 2 Antiquities - Metals
Box 2 Antiquities - Mid-Forum
Box 2 Antiquities - Miscellaneous on Architecture
Box 2 Antiquities - Misc. notes
Box 2 Antiquities - Miscellaneous notes
Box 2 Antiquities - Mosaics
Box 2 Antiquities - Orders of architecture
Box 2 Antiquities - Painting
Box 2 Antiquities - Palatine
Box 2 Antiquities - Palatine (2)
Box 2 Antiquities - Pantheon
Box 2 Antiquities - Pompeii
Box 2 Antiquities - Pompeii - general remarks
Box 2 Antiquities - Roads
Box 2 Antiquities - Roman architecture
Box 3 Antiquities - Roman Art - general remarks
Box 3 Antiquities - Roman Character, Vany-Pliny
Box 3 Antiquities - Roman Life
Box 3 Antiquities - Roman poetry and architecture
Box 3 Antiquities - Ruins of Rome
Box 3 Antiquities - Sculpture
Box 3 Antiquities - Sculpture and Plantis
Box 3 Antiquities - S. E. Forum
Box 3 Antiquities - Spolato
Box 3 Antiquities - Streets
Box 3 Antiquities - Stucco and Tiles
Box 3 Antiquities - Temples
Box 3 Antiquities - Theatre
Box 3 Antiquities - Thermae
Box 3 Antiquities - Thoughts
Box 3 Antiquities - Triumphic Arches
Box 3 Antiquities - Utensils
Box 3 Antiquities - Villa
Box 3 Antiquities - Villas, Palaces
Box 3 Antiquities - Water fountain aquaducts
Box 3 Apuleius
Box 3 Arma
Box 3 Atellance or Ceslean farce - S. Pomponius and Novius
Box 3 Ausonius
Box 3 Baltimore
Box 3 Boetuis
Box 3 Books
Box 3 Books (2)
Box 3 Books (3)
Box 3 Books and materials
Box 3 Books noted
Box 3 Books on monosyllable
Box 3 Books, titles, references
Box 3 Burial
Box 3 C. Vellerius Paterculus
Box 3 Caecilius Metellus Macedonius
Box 3 Caesar
Box 3 Caesura
Box 3 Caesura (2)
Box 3 Caesura (3)
Box 3 Caesura (4)
Box 3 Calutulus II ?
Box 3 Capitol
Box 3 Captivi I
Box 3 Captivi II
Box 3 Cato Major and Agriculture
Box 3 Cato Major's Orations
Box 5 Catullus
Box 5 Catullus (2)
Box 5 Catullus (3)
Box 5 Catullus (4)
Box 5 Catullus (5)
Box 5 Catullus (6)
Box 5 Catullus (7)
Box 5 Catullus (8)
Box 5 Catullus and Lucretius
Box 5 Catullus - Notes I
Box 5 Catullus - Notes II
Box 5 Cicero
Box 5 Cicero (2)
Box 5 Cicero (3)
Box 5 Cicero (4)
Box 5 Cicero (5)
Box 5 Cicero (6)
Box 5 Cicero(Blair)
Box 5 Cicero's Letters
Box 5 Cicero's Letters (2)
Box 5 Cicero's Letters (3)
Box 5 Cicero's Letters (4)
Box 5 Cicero's Letters (5)
Box 5 Cicero's Letters - notes I
Box 5 Younger Cicero in Athens
Box 5 Characteristics of the Augustan Age
Box 5 Characteristics of Latin Language
Box 5 Christian Factions
Box 5 Class Phil.
Box 5 Claudian
Box 5 Collection of Manuscripts
Box 5 Comedy References - Early Poetry
Box 5 Consolation
Box 8 Dates
Box 8 Dating of Inscriptions
Box 8 Democratic Foreign Policy
Box 8 Degrees
Box 8 Differences between Greek and Latin
Box 8 Disbelief
Box 8 Division of the Day
Box 8 The Early Empire
Box 8 The Early Empire (2)
Box 8 The Early Empire (3)
Box 8 Early Historians of Rome
Box 8 Early Latin Prose - 12 Tables
Box 8 Early Roman Literature
Box 8 Education - Classics
Box 8 Elision
Box 8 Elision (2)
Box 8 Elision (3)
Box 8 Elision - Latin Authors
Box 8 Elision of possible use - Class Phil. II
Box 8 Enclitics
Box 8 Ennius
Box 8 Ennius (2)
Box 8 Ennius (3)
Box 8 Epicureanism
Box 8 Epitaphs
Box 8 Epigraphy
Box 8 Epigraphy - "The Importance of Epigraphical Studies"
Box 8 Equites
Box 8 Examples
Box 8 Extension I - Architecture
Box 8 Extracts - quotations
Box 6 Fabula Togata - National Comedy
Box 6 Fall River Association
 1898 Jan 14
Box 6 Familiar Quotations
Box 6 Fasti
Box 6 Final accent in comedy
Box 6 First Baptist Church
 1919 May 4?
Box 6 The Fratris Arveles
Box 6 Freedman
Box 6 Funeral Oration
Box 6 Gellius
Box 6 Geography
Box 6 Given on College Conference
 1893 March 11
Box 6 The Gracchi
Box 6 Grafiti
Box 6 Grave home of dead
Box 6 Greek
Box 6 Greek Club - Notes on Cicero
Box 6 Greek Elision
Box 6 Greek Verbs
Box 6 Guilds
Box 6 Hannibal
Box 6 Harper Dictionary of Lit. and Authors
Box 6 Harvard
Box 6 Hiatus 3
Box 6 Hints on Latin Composition
Box 6 Histories of Rome for Freshmen Class
Box 6 Histories of Rome for Freshmen Class (2)
Box 6 Historians after Calo
Box 6 History of the Kings of Rome
Box 6 History of Poetry - Augustan Age and Silver Age
Box 6 Horace
Box 6 Horace (2)
Box 6 Horace (3)
Box 6 Horace (4)
Box 6 Horace, Love and Nature
Box 7 Horace Nettleship
Box 7 Horace - notes
Box 7 Horace - notes II
Box 7 Horace and Mavcenas
Box 7 Iambis Law
Box 7 Ideas 4
Box 7 Importance of Rome
Box 7 Importance of Rome (2)
Box 7 Indebtedness of English Literature to Latin Literature
Box 7 Indebtedness of English Literature to Latin Literature (2)
Box 7 Indebtedness of English Literature to Latin Literature (3)
Box 7 Indebtedness of English Literature to Roman Literature
Box 7 Influence of Rhythm on Accent
Box 7 Initiation - Alpha Delta Phi
Box 7 Inscription
Box 7 Inscriptions
Box 7 Inscriptions (2)
Box 7 Inscriptions II
Box 7 Inscriptions III
Box 7 Inscriptions IV
Box 7 Inscriptions - Index
Box 7 Inscription and translation
Box 7 Introduction
Box 7 Introductions
Box 7 Introduction on Architecture
Box 7 (Introduction for Pres. and Mead-Speech-Address underclassmen -
Box 7 Introduction to Epigraphy
Box 7 Introduction - Levius Andronicus
Box 7 Introduction to Lit.
Box 7 Introduction to Lit. (2)
Box 7 Introduction to Livy
Box 7 Introduction to Quintilian
Box 7 Introduction to Roman Literature
Box 7 Introduction to Tacitus' Writings
Box 13 Italy
Box 13 Italy (2)
Box 13 Italy (3)
Box 13 Italy (4)
Box 13 Italy Education
Box 13 Italy today
Box 13 Journal
Box 13 Julius Caesar
Box 13 Juvenal
Box 13 Kauer
Box 13 Knights
Box 13 Languange III
Box 13 Latin Composition
Box 13 Latin Composition (2)
Box 13 Latin Composition I
Box 13 Latin Composition II
Box 13 Latin Comp. II
Box 13 Latin Composition III
Box 13 Latin Composition V
Box 13 Latin Hymnology
Box 13 Latin Hymnology
Box 13 Latin Hymns
Box 13 Latin languange
Box 13 Latin Prose
Box 13 Latin Prose (2)
Box 13 Latin Verse
Box 13 Latin Words
Box 13 Latin 16 - Introduction
Box 13 Law
Box 13 Lecture IV, VI, VII
Box 13 Lecture on syllables in Latin
Box 13 The Legend of Aeneas
Box 13 The Legend of Aenaes (2)
Box 13 Length and Quantity
Box 9 Livy
Box 9 Livy (2)
Box 9 Livy (3)
Box 9 Livy XXI
Box 9 Livy XXI (2)
Box 9 Livy XXI - Chap. 24-44
Box 9 Livy XXI - Chap. 1-24
Box 9 Livy - Book III
Box 9 Livy - Book III (2)
Box 9 Livy - Notes I
Box 9 Livy - Notes II
Box 9 Livy - quotations
Box 9 Long before short in Elision
Box 9 Lower Class and Rome
Box 9 Lower Class and Rome (2)
Box 9 Lucan
Box 9 Lucas - Elision
Box 9 Lucas Monosyllable - Classified
Box 9 Lucilius
Box 9 Lucretius
Box 9 Lucretius (2)
Box 9 Lucretius, Masson's Atomic theory
Box 9 Ludi Saeculares
Box 9 Lyric Poetry Development
Box 9 Magistrates
Box 9 Magistrates II
Box 9 Manes
Box 9 Manning Club
Box 9 Marcus Aurelius
Box 9 Marcus Aurelius (2)
Box 9 Martial
Box 9 Metre
Box 9 Meter
Box 9 Meter 1
Box 9 Meter 2
Box 10 Mimus, Syrus, Sabirius
Box 10 Misc.
Box 10 Miscellaneous
Box 10 Misc. (2)
Box 10 Misc. (3)
Box 10 Miscellaneous 1
Box 10 Misc. characters of people
Box 10 Misc. excerpts of lectures
Box 10 Misc. Index to Latin phrases
Box 10 Misc. Index of passages in Latin
Box 10 Miscellaneous of Music
Box 10 Misc. notes
Box 10 Misc. notes (2)
Box 10 Misc. - notes I
Box 10 Misc. notes - Alatri, Horace
Box 10 Misc. notes on Elision
Box 10 Misc. notes on Lucas
Box 10 Misc. notes on Orvid
Box 10 Misc. notes on sentence structure
Box 10 Misc. notes on syllables, accent, and meter in Latin verse
Box 10 Misc. notes - verb conjugation
Box 10 Miscellaneous on II. Phil.
Box 10 Miscellaneous on prose
Box 10 Miscellaneous on Roman Life
Box 10 Miss. Accent
Box 10 Miss. Accent (2)
Box 10 Miss. Cornis
Box 10 Modern Italian Literature
Box 10 Modern Sentence Accent
Box 10 Modern Writers
Box 10 Modern Writers and Expressions
Box 10 Monosyllables
Box 10 Naevius
Box 10 New Interpretation
Box 10 Notes II
Box 10 Notes 5
Box 10 Notes on accents (u u)
Box 10 Notes on artifacts and definitions
Box 10 Notes to important Epigraphical Statues
Box 10 Notes on Ithaca
Box 10 Notes Meyer and Haust, Phaedrus
Box 10 Notes - Observation - Rome - May 1895
Box 10 Notes on Plantus and Terence
Box 10 Numismatics
Box 11 On Ruins
Box 11 Oratory
Box 11 Ovid
Box 11 Ovid (2)
Box 11 Pacurius
Box 11 Paleography
Box 11 Paleography (2)
Box 11 Paleography (3)
Box 11 Paleography (4)
Box 11 Paleography I
Box 11 Paleography - Condition and Production
Box 11 Paleography - Cursive
Box 11 Paleography - Hands
Box 11 Paleography - Hands (2)
Box 11 Paleography - materials
Box 11 Paleography - materials (2)
Box 11 Paleography - Materials II
Box 11 Paleography - Minuscule
Box 11 Paleography - misc.
Box 11 Paleography - Miscellaneous
Box 11 Paleography - MSS
Box 11 Persius
Box 11 Petronius
Box 12 Phaedrus
Box 12 Pharmio
Box 12 Phi Beta Kappa
Box 12 Philosophy
Box 12 Philosophy I
Box 12 Philosophy II
Box 12 Philosophy - supplement
Box 12 Philosophy and Views of life
Box 12 Physicians
Box 12 Pitch
Box 12 Plautus
Box 12 Plautus (2)
Box 12 Plautus (3)
Box 12 Plautus (4)
Box 12 Plautus - monosyllable
Box 12 Plautus - monosyllable - classified
Box 12 Plantus and Terence - Quotations
Box 12 Plantus - usage in languange
Box 12 Pliny
Box 12 Pliny I - 6 letters
Box 12 Pliny II
Box 12 Pliny Elder
Box 12 Poetry
Box 12 Poetry (2)
Box 12 Police
Box 12 Pompeii - Franklin Society, 1896
Box 12 Pompeii/ literary expression
Box 12 Lecture Pompeii I
Box 12 Lecture Pompeii II
Box 12 Pompeii - Public Buildings
Box 12 Poor of Rome
Box 12 Promagistrates
Box 12 Properties
Box 12 Properties I
Box 12 Prose of Rome
Box 12 Provincial Administration
Box 12 Provincial Administration (2)
Box 12 Provincial Administration (3)
Box 12 Punctuation
Box 12 Punctuation continued
Box 12 Pyrra
Box 4 Quintilian
Box 4 Quintilian (2)
Box 4 Quintus Curtius Rufus
Box 4 Quotations
Box 4 Quotations on Latin Writers I
Box 4 Quotations on Latin Writers II
Box 4 Representation of tombs
Box 4 Requirements to College
Box 4 Review Club - Crawford
Box 4 Reward of virtue, punishment, no fear
Box 4 RI Classics Association, 1914
Box 4 Roman Architecture
Box 4 Roman Character
Box 4 Roman Character (2)
Box 4 Roman History
Box 4 Roman History (2)
Box 4 Roman Imperialism
Box 4 Roman Language I
Box 4 Roman Lang. II
Box 4 Roman Law
Box 4 Roman Literature
Box 4 Roman Literature (2)
Box 4 Roman Marriage and the Position of Women
Box 4 Roman Meals
Box 4 Roman Morals and Religion
Box 4 Roman - Morals
Box 4 Roman Poetry
Box 4 Roman Prose
Box 4 Roman Prose (2)
Box 4 Roman Religion
Box 4 Roman Religion (2)
Box 4 Roman Religion (3)
Box 4 Roman Religion (4)
Box 4 Rome
Box 4 Rome II
Box 4 Rule of Accent
Box 14 S.C. de Bacchanalibus
Box 14 Saturnian Verse
Box 14 School
Box 14 School History
Box 14 School Rev.
Box 14 Senate
Box 14 Senatus
Box 14 Seneca
Box 14 Seneca (2)
Box 14 Seneca's Tragedies
Box 14 Sentence Accent
Box 14 Sentence Accent - in compounds and in long words
Box 14 Sentence Accent - general
Box 14 Sentence Accent in Hex.
Box 14 Sentence Accent Quotation on Latin Comedy
Box 14 Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Box 14 Short Quartets
Box 14 Slaves
Box 14 The So-Called Elision in Latin Verse
Box 14 Special Inscription
Box 14 Statius
Box 14 Statius Caicilui
Box 14 Stoicism
Box 14 Stoicism (2)
Box 14 Suetonius
Box 14 Symonds Essay on "National Style"
Box 14 Marble notebook
Box 15 Tables - accent elision
Box 15 Tacitus
Box 15 Tacitus - life
Box 15 Tacitus Notes I - Chap. I-XII
Box 15 Tacitus Notes II - Chap. XIII-XXVII - Germanic
Box 15 Tacitus III - Chap. XXVII
Box 15 Teachers Association
Box 15 Terence
Box 15 Terence (2)
Box 15 Terence Monosyllables
Box 15 Terme
Box 15 Tibullus
Box 15 Tibullus Notes
Box 15 Tibullus and Properties
Box 15 Titles of Books
Box 15 Titles of Books (2)
Box 15 Titles of Books (3)
Box 15 Trades - Union
Box 15 Translations of Hymns
Box 15 Trimalchio's Feast
Box 15 Trinummus I
Box 15 Trinummus II
Box 15 Vaticanus
Box 15 Verse, ictus, and Word Accent 7
Box 15 Views on dead for literature
Box 15 Virgil
Box 15 Virgil (2)
Box 15 Virgil (3)
Box 15 Virgil (4)
Box 15 Words