Series 3 - Correspondence

0.60 m of textual and graphic records

The e-mails, letters, postcards, notes, sketches, and the occasional photograph in this series document the interchange of ideas and information between Professor Shaw and his students, former students and colleagues involved in the Kommos excavations project, and with editors and others involved with publishing the results. For additional correspondence relating to specific publications, see Series 5. The photographs associated with the correspondence have been left in the relevant files. The arrangement of the files is alphabetically by name of individual correspondent or organization, except the files from Accession B2011-0007, which contain correspondence in Greek with Manolis Kandianakis, someone who worked on the excavation at Kommos, and various colleagues and friends from Pitsidia

The files contain information about assembling the personnel for the archaeological excavations and surveys undertaken, issues relating to them, reports on results, and the publication of some papers. There are many inquiries about employment and letters of reference. Correspondence with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1993-2003) relates primarily to reports submitted on the results of research undertaken. Many of the other files document the relationship between archaeological research and the production of the Kommos volumes. Volumes I, Part I and II were produced by an independent production company, under the general editorship of Professor Shaw and his wife, Maria, with Barbara Ibroni as an editor and Karen Fortgang as copyeditor, and printed by Princeton University Press, which also printed the other volumes. Much of the correspondence with James Wright and Lucia Nixon, for example, relates to their chapters, respectively, in Parts I and 2 of Kommos I. The correspondence with David Reese and Debbie Ruscillo documents respectively their research for chapters in volume IV, while that with Julie Pfaff documents her digs and plates on pottery for Kommos V. The correspondence with editors Karen Fortgang, Barbara Ibroni and Cy Strong (he was hired for volumes IV and V); Richard Hope-Simpson, Alan Johnston, and Princeton University Press, Peter M. Day, Vassilis Kilikoglou, and Aleydis van de Moortel, documents the process by which Kommos I, Parts I and 2, IV, and V made it to print.

Closed until 1 Jan 2020