Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

and unhealthful.
He wanted to return to his native land, Having met
Flexner at Oxford in 1928, and fallowed the development of the Institute,
he naturally thought of the possibility of coming to it. But nothing -
seemed further from Flexnerqs mind than appointing a paleographer at
the Institute when EIr. Frankfurter at Oxford, to whom Flexner had intram
duced Dr. Lowe, raised the question in January, 1934. We answered that
while universities generally were not employing paleographers, Prince-
ton might be interested in an application from Lowe to match its friendly
rival, Harvard. Lowe then asked Flexner's intercession on his behalf;
the result was that Dr. Morey recornended that the Institute employ
Lowe, The paleographer enjoyed considerable support in Anerican quarters
which impressed the Director; Miss Belle da Costa Greene of the Morgan
Library, Drs. John C. Merriam and W. M. Gilbert of the Carnegie Institute,
and Dr. Waldo Leland of the hexican Council of Learned Societies amng
others were all eager to see the Institute give him an opportunity to
cornplete the work he had undertaken in 1929. For that he needed a haven
and means apparently rrot othewise available. 27
Of Ernst Herzfeld's availability Dr. Morey had been lately
apprised, The German scholar, at fifty-six, was an eminent Persian
archaeologist, epigraphist and historian. Dr. Walter W. S. Cook of New
York University joined Morey in urging Flexner to undertake the appoint-
ment. Herzfeld had the results of twenty years of field work ready or in
preparation for publicatton, He had been dismis~ed by Hitler from his
German connections, which had originated with the Empexor, and a contract
with the Oriental Institute fn Chicago was expiring. Morey supported his