Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

The memorandum w ~ s prefaced by Moreyas Ptoleimic vim of the
relstlon of the School to the kpastment,
It my be stated at the outseG as a result of a great deal
of thinking and iiscussion on the part of the art and arch-
aeology group at Princeton, that they hme becm convinced
of the advisability of developing the School of the HLtmani-
ties in and around the Departrent of Art and Archaeology, ...
Ta attempt to develop in the Institute a ll the widely scat-
tered hurrznity disciplines would not only involve it in a
staggering expense, but would be likely to result in a fac-
ulty of more or less isolated specialties. If, on the other
bnd, the focus is placed in art and archzeology, the collat-
eral dmsnds of this subject (sic) will insure a certain
breadth to the School, but at the same time irlsure its
integration as a group of scholars with the necessary con-
tact one with the other.26
Needless to say, the cash subventions and the contruction of the wing
were not forthcm.ing from the Institute.
Dr. E1ias.A. Lme, b tfn paleographer, was then in his fffty-
fifth yezr. P! had studied, taught and researched in Europe since the
beginning of the century; he had been a member of the Carnegfe Institute
in Washington, D.C. since 1911, and lecturer, then Readeq at Word sfnce
191G. Since 1929 he had been working on a great project under the aus-
plces of the R4ekefeller Foundation, the Union kcad&ique, and the
American Council a£ karned Societies wh1eh.adminiatered a grant of
$75,000 for expenses given by the Foundatson in 1929, He was assembling,
photographing and docmnting all Letfn Literary manuscripts from 79 B.C.,
to 800 A.D. Ten volrrmes of the Codes Letini Antfquiores were projected,
of which two were published by this time. The work was basic to the
study of mediaeval history and literature,
The Rockefeller grant.was now exhausted, and would not be sup-
plemented. Dr. hwe had begun to find the climte of Oxford oppressive