The Heinrich Schliemann Papers contain
diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, personal documents,
photographs, economic documents and registers,
expenditure books, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings and
secondary material. In addition to the Heinrich Schliemann
Papers are two adjunct collections of papers: the Sophia
Schliemann Papers and the Heinrich
Schliemann Family Papers.
The Heinrich Schliemann Papers are divided into ten
series:
Series A
Diaries consists of 18 diaries. Schliemann usually kept
a diary only during his travels, so the
years of the diaries are not consecutive. Schliemann wrote in the
language of the country he was visiting whenever possible, and thus the diaries include
passages in French,
English, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Arabic,
Russian, Dutch, and Turkish. Included with Diaries A1,
A2, and A8 are typewritten transcriptions. The 1869 diary recording Schliemann's visit to America (pp. 1-20 of
diary A13)
is on indefinite loan to the Lilly Library of the
University of Indiana.
Series B
Correspondence consists of 106 boxes
containing approximately 34,000 letters written to Schliemann. They
are arranged chronologically from 1839 to1890 and range in topic including Schliemann's commercial activities while
in Russia, various personal matters, and archaeologically
related correspondence. Most of Schliemann's correspondence from
1890 is not in the series and its whereabouts are
unknown (cf. Schliemann Papers correspondence; letter
November 26, 1955 Ernst Meyer to Gennadius Library).
Series BB
Original Letters consists of letters
Schliemann himself wrote including letters to Frank and James
Calvert, G. Constantine, Friedrich Max Müller, and Amelia
Edwards. Francis
Bacon donated the Calvert letters to the ASCSA in 1923 and the Friederich Max Müller
Papers were given to the Gennadius Library by Lady Wanda
Max Müller in 1961. Photocopies of the Amelia Edwards
letters were presented by Somerville College in England, and Harvard University donated
copies of the letters of
Stephen Fields and Messrs. Schlüsser and Co.
Series BBB
Copybooks contains 43 volumes of
copies Schliemann made of his own outgoing correspondence from 1845
to1890. The volumes of correspondence that were lent to Ernst Meyer
before WWII have never been recovered. The contents of the missing
volumes are as follows: July
1876-March 1877, March-July 1877, July1878-July 1879, Oct. 1877-April 1878,
June 1885-January 1888.
Series C
Manuscripts and other handwritten notes
contains manuscripts, both in English and German, for some of Schliemann's
publications (including La Chine, Trojanische
Alterthumer Bericht über die Ausgrabungen in
Troja, and the Excavations at the Boeotian
Orchomenos), a draft of a report
about the Mycenae excavations, various notes concerning its publication, sketches of vases and a draft of a speech
in German.
Series D
Personal Documents consists of official
documents owned by Schliemann including some of his passports, papers for U.S.
citizenship, divorce issues
and prenuptial agreement with Sophia, documents
pertaining to the firman for the excavations of Troy from
the Turkish government, a draft of the application for
excavation permit in Troy, documents pertaining to
Schliemann's last will and testament, 29 diplomas for his
archaeological achievements, and various personal notes.
Series E
Economics is divided into three sub-series as
follows: sub-series 1 contains 652 documents of accounts,
receipts, invoices, copies of invoices and stock exchange
bulletins 1846-1889; sub-series 2 contains 38 economic
registers divided into three categories (account books,
cash books and books of expenses 1847-1890); and
sub-series 3 includes photocopies of documents pertaining
to transactions with the National Bank of Greece. For a
list of Schliemann's documents at the National Bank of
Greece, see Schliemann Papers correspondence.
Series F
Heinrich Schliemann's Property in Athens and Collection
of Coins contains, for the most part, various documentation
on Schliemann's property. For the Iliou Melathron, the documents include building contracts, offers for building
materials, expense accounts of the building, designs for
furniture, payment receipts and an architectural plan of
the house. Documentation on the construction of the
German Institute and papers pertaining to repairs and
renting of the Mousson Street house are also included in
this series. A small appendix to the series contains
material on Schliemann's coins including a report and
catalog of the coins
housed in the Iliou Melathron from numismatist Achillea Postolacca.
Series G
Miscellaneous largely consists of correspondence, sketches, drawings, notes, business
pamphlets and notices, clippings, and copies of books. Of special interest is a catalog of plants of the Troad and
offprints of 8 plates from a publication. The remainder of the documents
are: announcements and invitations for engagements,
weddings, deaths and funerals 1853-89, hotel accounts, medical
prescriptions, Ernst Meyer's manuscript
notes about the Schliemann Papers from 1938, a typewritten
catalogue by Alex Melas for the second part of the
Schliemann Papers purchased in 1966, one large bound
volume with grammar, orthographic exercises; translations in different languages also containing some
correspondence, Schliemann's Russian passports, one
booklet with Spanish vocabulary, copies of Schliemann's
book, Atlas des Antiquités Troyennes (1874, F.A.
Brockhaus, Leipzig), and 46 photographs of Heinrich Schliemann
and Family.
Series H
Newspaper Clippings consists of clipping from
various international newspapers and news agencies and
is divided into three sub-series. Sub-series 1
contains the earliest clippings about Schliemann's life
and his archaeological work during the years 1873-1890.
Apparently, Schliemann himself collected these clippings
and amongst these are also stories unrelated to him but
of personal interest. Sub-series 2 contains loose clippings from November
1890 to March 1891 associated with Schliemann's illness and death.
Sub-series 3 contains clippings
associated with the literature on Schliemann after his death, including a book review of the
first biography on Heinrich Schliemann by Emil Ludwig in
1931.
Series I
Secondary material consists of photocopies,
newspaper clippings and offprints associated with
Heinrich Schliemann. Most of the material in this series, with the
exception of folders 1 and 2, was donated by Prof. George Styl. Korres
and it includes photostats
of Schliemann's original last will and testament, documents pertaining to the inheritance of the Iliou
Melathron, and photocopies of translations and
transcriptions by Loukia Frangouli of some of the Sophia-Heinrich
correspondence. The remainder of the
photocopies in this series are newspaper articles and offprints
from 1974 to the present. The topics vary and include
material pertaining to the 100th anniversary of Heinrich
Schliemann's death (1990), studies of the Iliou Melathron, the
re-appearance of the so-called Priam's Treasure of Troy lost in the WWII,
and the Schliemann mausoleum. This series also contains contains a
media section consisting of
three documentary videos made about Schliemann.
Series J Photographs
contains original and copies of photographs donated by
the Schliemann and Engastromenos family descendants. There are not only numerous photos of Sophia
and Heinrich, but also photos of their children (Agamemnon and
Andromache),
Andromache's family, and family
members of the Engastromenos (Kastromenos) and the Ernst
Schliemann clan as well.
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