Modern Greek
Pamphlets, Ephemera, Clippings, and related materials
in the Rare Book Division of the
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library
February 1998        

• General Pamphlets Collection.  Finding aid by Alexandros K. Kyrou. Call number for the collection is (Ex)DF804 .C642q [oversize]
• Crawshaw Collection.  Received in 1997.  In process of organization.  Brief list of contents available
• Modern Greek Theatre Playbill Collection.  Formed by Richard Burgi.  Description and Finding aid available. Call number for the collection is (Ex) PN2664 .M62
• Pollis Collection.  Description and Finding aid available. Call number for the collection is (Ex) DF853 .C63q [oversize]
• Simitis Collection. Description available. Call number for the collection is (Ex) DF853 .C64q [oversize]
• Solaro Collection.  Description and Finding aid available. Call number for the collection is (Ex) DF853 .C65q [oversize]

BACKGROUND
 
The Modern Greek Collections include over 15,000 volumes and more than 250 periodical titles covering all aspects of post-Byzantine Greek culture, with special strength in modern Greek literature. The Modern Greek Archives comprise research collections focussing on several areas:

• incunabula and early Greek editions of Classical authors
• early travelers to Greece and the Levant
• Anglo-American literary philhellenism
• modern Greek literature and theatre
• modern Greek politics
• United States - Greek relations

Major recent acquisitions include:

• the modern Greek libraries (first and inscribed editions of works of modern Greek literature) and papers of Kay Cicellis, Kimon Friar, Edmund Keeley, John Lehmann, and Mario Vitti. These collections include manuscripts and correspondence of Demetrius Capetanakis, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Yannis Ritsos, George Seferis, and other major Greek, English, and American authors.

• the papers of Margaret Papandreou
• the Alison Frantz photographic collections
• the Richard Burgi Collections of modern Greek playbills
• the archive of the Constantinople metochion of the Orthodox Patriachate of Jerusalem

• the Constantine Simitis, Antonio Solaro, and Addie Pollis collections on the Greek military dictatorship

• and the Karl T. Rankin, Lincoln MacVeagh, and James Hugh Keeley diplomatic archives

(From the section "Resources for Research" in the brochure "Program in Hellenic Studies" issued in 1996 by the Program, Joseph Henry House, Pinceton Univeristy, Princeton, NJ 08540)