Stevenson, Sara Yorke, 1847-1921

In the early years of the Museum, until its administrative reorganization by G.B. Gordon in 1910, the Egyptian/Maditerranean Section was a semi-autonomous unit on the same level as the other two Sections (Babylonian, African/Other), each run by one curator who answered directly to the Museum Board of Managers. The curators often had other roles, and Board Members performed minor curatorial duties.

This Archives collection begins with the first curator of the Mediterranean Section (1894-1905), Sara Yorke Stevenson. One of the Museum's founders, she had also served as curator of the Egyptian collection since the Museum's inception in 1890. The Stevenson papers in this collection deal generally with Mediterranean curatorial matters. Other papers of Sara Yorke Stevenson may be found in the appropriate curatorial or excavation collections in the Archives (e.g., Mediterranean/Crete, Cyprus, Etruscan Tombs, Egypt).

While the material in the Mediterranean Curatorial Files dates from 1895 to 1979, the bulk of the collection dates to the earlier years (1895-1949) and within that period, the majority relate to Edith Hall Dohan. Edith Hall (married Joseph Dohan in 1915) followed S.Y. Stevenson's successor, William N. Bates (1904-1911), as curator. Due to Dohan's meticulous administration and scholarship, as well as having served two terms as curator (1911-1915; 1930-1943), the Edith Hall Dohan Archives collection is quite extensive. While Dohan's association with the Museum began with her assistance to Harriet Boyd Hawes at the Museum's excavation in Gournia (1904), this particular series covers only her curatorial years. Often, however, these papers were associated with own and/or others' work in Crete. (See: Mediterranean/Crete for related collections.) Besides her Cretan researchh, Dohan studied and published the University Museum's Etruscan collection in a 1942 publication, Italic Tomb Groups, from which much material remains (see also: Mediterranean/Italy/Etruscan Tomb Groups). Much of the Dohan series correspondence is with noted archaeologists abd scholars of her day. Edith Hall Dohan died while working at her desk in the Musem on July 14, 1943.

During the first part of Edith Hall Dohan's absence from the Museum, following her marriage in 1915, Stephen B. Luce served as curator (1915-1920). From his departure in 1920 to Dohan's return in 1930, the position remained vacant, although Dohan served as volunteer consultant to the Section.

John Franklin Daniel became curator following Edith Hall Dohan's death in 1943 and served until his own untimely death in Turkey in 1948. The bulk of the papers in this series actually covers the period following his death (1949-1950: 1954), including extensive correspondence with his widow. The earlier material, especially correspondence with other archaeologists, relates to Daniel's curatorial and scholarly work. (See also: Cyprus.)

Rodney Young succeeded as Mediterranean curator (1949) following John Franklin Daniel's death, and continued to fill that position until his own death in 1974, at which time he was followed in that position by G. Roger Edwards. Spyros Iakovidis became curator after G.R. Edward's retirement in 1979. Most recent files are retained by current faculty of the Mediterranean Section (Classical Archaeology Department).

From the guide to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Mediterranean section curatorial records, 1895-1975, (University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives)

Although classical, including Etruscan, collections had been donated to the University of Pennsylvania Museum since the early 1890's it was in 1896 that Dr. William Pepper as President of the Museum’s Board of Managers and Sara Yorke Stevenson as Secretary of the Museum and Mediterranean Section Curator formally authorized excavations in Italy and the acquisition of Etruscan tomb groups, as well as individual objects, for the Museum. Professor Arthur L. Frothingham of Princeton, then Secretary of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, was commissioned to represent the Museum in Italy. Most of the tomb groups which Frothingham obtained are from Narce and Vulci, although there are objects from many other sites including Cerveteri, Orvieto, and Civita Castellana. Although the actual excavation work was conducted by Italian archaeologists, Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti in particular, Frothingham sent letters, notes, and photographs (made by Lorenzo Cozza) of the Etruscan finds to Stevenson for the Museum's decision on purchases. Thus, much of the correspondence is of a financial nature, and is often between Stevenson and the Museum's managers as well as Frothingham, and a small amount with Mancinelli. Many of the funds for these purchases were provided by the American Exploration Society, which worked closely with the Museum and had been founded by Pepper and Stevenson as a fundraising arm of the institution.

Frothingham was connected with the University of Pennsylvania Museum from 1895 to 1898 and was even named an associate curator in January of 1897. However, his relationship with the Museum deteriorated following a dispute between Frothingham and Italian archaeologists over the ownership of armor from Narce and Stevenson's simultaneous questioning of Frothingham's appropriation of Museum funds following her visit to Italy in the summer of 1897. Much of the correspondence concerns the controversy over Frothingham and is often with Hector de Castro, Consulate-General of the United States, who represented the Museum. Since John Wanamaker had both contributed heavily to the Museum's Etruscan funds and entered into a contract with Frothingham to acquire his own small Etruscan collection, many of the papers concern him. Much of the correspondence was copied or summarized by Stevenson.

• 1893 December 21: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1895 November 24: (Rome, Via Lazio 26) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1895 November 18: (Rome, Via Lazio 26) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1895 October 20: (Rome, Via Lazio 26) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1895 June 19: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1895 February 14: Stevenson/Frothingham [Book letter I, pp. 215]
• 1895 December 3: (Rome, Via Lazio 26) Frothingham/Stevenson [accounts, Dec 3rd, 1895, abstract by Stevenson: the Field is in the scheme with $1500 and more if needed. Again on the arch of Benevento]
• 1895 November 29: (Rome, Via Lazio 26) Frothingham/Pepper (there are two letters with the same date, they are identical apart from a couple of introductory lines) [accounts, Nov. 29 1895, abstract by Stevenson: proposal for a great Etruscan museum]
• 1895 December 14: (Rome, American School, Via Lombardia) Frothingham/Stevenson [accounts, Dec. 14, 1895, abstract by Stevenson]
• 1895 December 16: [accounts, Dec. 16, 1895, abstract by Stevenson]
• 1895 December 18: (Rome, American School, Via Lombardia) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1895 December 24: Stevenson/Frothingham [Letter Book I, pp. 212]
• 1896 January 8: (1821 Delancey Place) Biddle/Stevenson
• 1896 January 22: (?) Frothingham/ Stevenson [accounts, Jan. 22 1896, abstract by Stevenson]
• 1896 January 27: (?) Stevenson/ Frothingham [Book letter I, pp. 216-17]
• 1896 January 30: (Rome, American School, Casino dell’ Aurora, Via Lombardia) Frothingham/Stevenson [accounts, Jan. 30 1896]
• 1896 February 8: (Philadelphia museum to Via Lazio 26) Stevenson/Frothingham
• 1896 February 9: (Rome, American School, Via Lombardia) Frothingham/Stevenson Response to Jan 28th. [we do not have it] [accounts, Feb. 9, 1896]
• 1896 February 12: (Rome, American School, Via Lombardia) Frothingham/Pepper
• 1896 February 22: (Philadelphia to Rome, Via Loglio 26) Stevenson/Frothingham
• 1896 February 29: (Philadelphia ? to Rome, Via Lazio 26) Stevenson/Frothingham Response to the letter of Feb. 9th.
• 1896 March 2 (?): (Philadelphia to ?) Pepper(?)
• 1896 March 3: Cable: Stevenson/Frothingham [letter book I, p. 218]
• 1896 March 5: Stevenson/Frothingham
• 1896 March 6: [accounts, abstracts by Stevenson]
• 1896 March 16: (Philadelphia) Pepper/Frothingham
• 1896 April 6: Frothingham/Wanamaker (copy of the contract)
• 1896 April 16: (Rome) Frothingham/Stevenson [accounts, April 16th, 1896]
• 1896 April 30: (Roma, Via Lazio 26) Frothingham/Stevenson (response to Feb 29th) [accounts, April 30, 1896]
• 1896 May 25: Stevenson /Frothingham [letter book I, pp.71-74]
• 1896 May 27: 1896 (Rome) Frothingham / Stevenson [accounts, May 27, 1896]
• 1896 May 31: (Rome) Frothingham /Stevenson [accounts, May 31, 1896]
• 1896 June 11: (Orvieto) Frothingham/Stevenson Note: One hour later another letter is sent (he is on his way from Orvieto to Bisenzio)
• 1896 June 14: Platt/Stevenson
• 1896 June 15: (Philadelphia) Pepper/Frothingham Note: Reference to the letter of 27 and 31 May
• 1896 June 20: (Philadelphia) Stevenson/Frothingham
• 1896 June 22: (Rome?) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1896 July 13: Telegram: Frothingham (Rome)/Pepper
• 1896 July 26: (Rome) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1896 July 31: (Rome) Telegram: Frothingham/Pepper
• 1896 August 1: (Rome) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1896 August 3: (Rome) Frothingham/Pepper (Philadelphia) Wanamaker/Frothingham
• 1896 August 7: (Philadelphia) Wanamaker/Stevenson
• 1896 August 10: (Rome) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1896 August 20: (Devon, PA to San Francisco, room 33 9th floor Mills building) Stevenson/Pepper telegram on Wanamaker and Frothingham
• 1896 September 2: Angelo del Nero (Rome, Studio Babuino 99) / Wanamaker
• 1896 September 24: (Princeton, the Nassau Club) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1896 September 25: (Devon) Stevenson/Frothingham
• 1896 October 3: (the letter is attached to the one of April 6th)
• 1896 October 5: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1896 October 8: (Princeton) Frothingham/Mancinelli Note: In English and Italian
• 1896 October 9: (Princeton, to the Devon Inn, Devon, PA) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1896 October 17: (Philadelphia) Stevenson/Frothingham
• 1896 October 18: (New York) Frothingham/Pepper
• 1896 October 29: (Civita Castellana) Mancinelli/Frothingham. In English [on the paper there is a stamp by the American Consulate, letter sent by De Castro]
• 1896 November 9: Platt/Stevenson
• 1896 November 11: Frothingham/Stevenson (Civita Castellana) Mancinelli/Frothingham. In English [on the paper there is a stamp by the American Consulate, letter sent by De Castro]
• 1896 November 12: (Princeton) Frothingham/Mancinelli Note: In both Italian and English
• 1896 November 15: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson He is going to Baltimore (cf. Letter Nov 11th!)
• 1896 November 20: (Rome) Mancinelli/Frothingham. In English [on the paper there is a stamp by the American Consulate, letter sent by De Castro]
• 1896 November 24: Wanamaker/Frothingham
• 1896 November 26: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1896 November 29: (Brooklyn) Frothingham/Pepper
• 1896 December 1: Telegram Pepper/Frothingham And Telegram from Pepper confirming (Dec 11th)
• 1896 December 8: (Princeton) Frothingham/Pepper
• 1896 December 11: (Princeton) Telegram: Frothingham/Pepper
• 1896 December 12: (Princeton) Telegram Frothingham/Pepper
• 1896 December 16: (?) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1896 December 21: (Brooklyn) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1896 December 22: (Roma) Mancinelli/Frothingham (all letters are in English, typed and not signed) [on the paper there is a stamp by the American Consulate, letter sent by De Castro]
• 1896 December 27: Biddle/Stevenson
• 1896 December 28: (Brooklyn) Frothingham/ Pepper Telegram: from NY to Pepper.
• Without date: Stevenson/Wanamaker “I enclose a letter received yesterday by F…I think we should send him the $800 dollars”
• 1897 January 1: Mancinelli/Frothingham
• 1897 January 11: Telegram: Pepper/Frothingham
• 1897 January 12: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson Curatorship
• 1897 January 13: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 January 14: (Princeton) Frothingham/Wanamaker (Viterbo) Mancinelli/Frothingham (two versions of the same letter) [N.B. there are two different letters one typed and the other handwritten]
• 1897 January 15: (Princeton) Frothingham/Mancinelli. Note: Both Italian and English
• 1897 January 23: (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts), signature illegible (Edmund Robinson)
• 1897 January 24: Putnam/Stevenson
• 1897 January 25: (Philadelphia) Pepper/Frothingham
• 1897 January 26: (Philadelphia) Stevenson/Frothingham [from letter book I p. 97]
• 1897 February 1: (New York) Frothingham/Pepper
• 1897 February 20: (Ardea, near Genzano) Mancinelli/Frothingham
• 1897 February 28 (17?): (Rome) Mancinelli/Frothingham Note: The date typed is 17, on top a pencil correction to 28.
• 1897 March 2: (Florence), Guglielmo Isola/Stevenson [see letter book p.236]
• 1897 March 3: (Princeton) Telegram: Frothingham/Pepper
• 1897 March 4: (Princeton) Frothingham/Pepper
• 1897 March 5: (Princeton) Frothingham/Pepper
• 1897 March 6: (Philadelphia) ?/Sebasti e Reali
• 1897 March 8: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 March 11: Stevenson/Frothingham [letter book I p.114]
• 1897 March 15: MET/Stevenson (Rome) Mancinelli/Frothingham
• 1897 March 16: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson Stevenson /Frothingham [letter book I p.117] (see also March 11th)
• 1897 March ?: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 March 18: MET/Stevenson In response to her letter of the 16th Stevenson/Isola [book letter I, p. 118] (see his letter of March 31st )
• 1897 March 20: note by Sebasti and Reali to Pepper (N.B. A separate telegram from Rome exists)
• 1897 March 22: (Princeton ?) Frothingham/Pepper
• 1897 March 27: Response
• 1897 March ?: Culin/Pepper
• 1897 March 31: (Florence) Isola/Stevenson
• 1897 April 13: Frothingham/Pepper Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 April 23: Stevenson/James W. Paul [letter book I, p. 125]
• 1897 April 28: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 May 12: Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 May 13 (?): (?, the date is missing) Frothingham/Wanamaker
• 1897 June 5: (Princeton) Telegram Frothingham/Stevenson Stevenson/Frothingham [letter book I, p. 145] Illegible. Something about New York.
• 1897 June 7: Stevenson/Mr. W. R. Grace and Co. [letter book I, p. 148]
• 1897 June 10: Stevenson/Mr. W. R. Grace and Co. 1 & 2 Hanover Square New York [letter book I, p. 152]
• 1897 June 15: (Philadelphia) Pepper/Frothingham
• 1897 June 28: (New York) Wanamaker/Pepper (New York) Wanamaker/Frothingham
• 1897 July 1: (Princeton) Frothingham/Pepper (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 July 2: (Philadelphia) Pepper/Frothingham
• 1897 July 6: (New York) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 July 9: Stevenson/Mr. Hipple [letter book p. 175]
• 1897 July 10: (Via Tornabuoni 4, Florence) same firm Note: The signature is illegible, but he refers to “our Rome Manager Mr. William, The Selby 49 Piazza di Spagna”
• 1897 July 12: Piazza di Spagna 49, Rome Alfred Lemon and Co., Florence, Rome, Leghorn/Mrs. Stevenson
• 1897 July 22: (?) Stevenson/Frothingham
• 1897 July 24 - 27 (the second number is not visible *) : Telegram (in French) Frothingham/Stevenson *in the 1897 calendar Fridays are: 23 and 30. Since he is probably answering the letter of the 22 (Thursday) and he has not written “I am leaving today or tomorrow”, even if he did receive the letter on the same day it was sent, it is probable that he is writing after the 23 and before the 28th (He sent another telegram on the 28th), either the 24, 25, 26, 27
• 1897 July 24 - 27 : Stevenson/Frothingham (he is still in Paris) Telegram: (appears to be the answer to the previous telegram) Note: See letter by Frothingham Aug 2nd
• 1897 July 28: Frothingham /Stevenson Telegram from Paris, she is at the hotel Brown in London. Note: See letter by Frothingham dated Aug 2
• 1897 July 30: Frothingham/Stevenson Telegram from Paris
• 1897 August 2: (Leipzig, Hotel De Prusse) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 August 5: (Berlin, hotel Bellevue) Frothingham/Stevenson Frothingham/Stevenson Telegram
• 1897 August 5 - 10 : Stevenson/Frothingham
• 1897 August 13: (Rome?) Frothingham/Stevenson [the date it is not consistent with her arrival in Rome, only on August 14th, see report read in November to the Board] (Rome) Frothingham/ Stevenson
• 1897 August 15: (Rome) Stevenson/Pepper Frothingham/Stevenson [see the note on the Laurati hotel card] (Castel Gandolfo –Villa Torlonia), Conte a de Casa/Stevenson (in Italian)
• 1897 August 16: (Rome) Frothingham/Stevenson Stevenson to? [cf. the 3 pages in plastic to whom are they addressed?]
• 1897 August 17: note unsigned but in Stevenson hand (Rome) Frothingham/Stevenson [but on the 16th he was in Fiano! Can this be the 18th?] “I will leave tomorrow” (Where is he going? Fiano? If this is the case the date of this letter is August 15th)
• 1897 August 17 (?): (Rome) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 August 18 - 22 : Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 August: On the trip to Fiano (August 16th) “Mancinelli is going to Ardea tomorrow” (Aug 17th?) He talks about some of the results of the excavation at Capena-Fiano (very scarce) and complains about Mancinelli (after August 18th, the date Mancinelli was supposed to be back and before the 22nd when Mrs. Stevenson leaves for Paris) “It is good news indeed that you can get such help from the consulate” In one there is a reference to a vase to be bought for lire 1000. A letter on terracotta plaques (after the 17th) On terracotta slabs A note without date written by Frothingham on the Hotel Laurati card (Via Nazionale)
• 1897 August 22: (Roma) Mancinelli Scotti
• [1897 August 23]: Stevenson transcribing (?) (writing to Pepper about Frothingham, referring de Castro opinion?) "After I left Rome..."
• 1897 August 25: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1897 August 27: Telegram Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 August 30: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1897 August - 1897 September : [the entire heading is on the letter] (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1897 Spetember 1: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1897 September 2: (Roma) Franco Mancinelli Scotti/De Castro List of objects given to Frothingham and translation in French
• 1897 September 7: (Liverpool, North Western Hotel) Frothingham/De Castro (Rome) Mancinelli/De Castro (in Italian and English) He is sending Frothingham’s letters.
• 1897 September 8: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters) (Rome) De Castro/Stevenson (Rome, Via della Scrofa 47) Giuseppe Ficola/De Castro (Italian and translation)
• 1897 September 10: (Rome, Via della Scrofa 43) Giuseppe Ficola/De Castro (Italian and translation)
• 1897 September 11: (Roma) De Castro/Stevenson He is enclosing two letters (September 8th and 10th) and translations by Ficola (dated Sept. 10th) (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters) (Roma) Corrado Cozza/Ficola (Italian and translation). This letter was enclosed with the one sent by De Castro to Stevenson (16 Sept. 1897)
• 1897 September 16: (Roma) De Castro/Stevenson
• 1897 September 18: (Roma) De Castro/Stevenson
• 1897 September 24: (Roma) De Castro/Stevenson (also attached the original and a translation of Mancinelli’s letter to De Castro, 20 Sept. 1897)
• 1897 September 30: (Via Veneto 26, Roma) Alfredo Barsanti/Stevenson (in Italian)
• 1897 October 2: (Philadelphia) Stevenson/Pepper [letter book I, p.11]
• 1897 October 9: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1897 October 16: (Philadelphia) Pepper/Stevenson
• 1897 October 20: (Philadelphia) Stevenson/Frothingham (copy)
• 1897 October 24: (Orvieto) R. (?) Mancini/Frothingham
• 1897 October 25: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1897 October 29: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 November: Report read at the meeting of Board (by Mrs. Stevenson)
• 1897 November 3: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 November 6: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters) (Roma) De Castro/Frothingham
• 1897 November 8: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson Accounts
• 1897 November 11: (Bologna) accounts
• 1897 November 12: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson Stevenson/Frothingham [letter book II, p.31]
• 1897 November 14: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters) (Rome) Mancinelli/De Castro (only translation in English)
• 1897 November 15: (Princeton) Frothingham/ Stevenson
• 1897 November 16: (Philadelphia) Stevenson/Pepper [also in letter book II, p.34]
• 1897 November 19: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson Enclosed is the receipt (30 Sept. 1897) (Rome) De Castro/Frothingham (see letter by Mancinelli Nov. 14th)
• 1897 November 24: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson (?) Stevenson/De Castro [also in letter book II, p.39] (Princeton) Frothingham/Ficola (there is the original in Italian with the answer, Dec 11th 1897, written by the same hand at the end of the letter, a copy in Italian and an English translation)
• 1897 November 25: (Princeton) Mrs. Helen Frothingham/Stevenson (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 November 26: Stevenson/Pepper
• 1897 November 29: (Princeton) Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1897 December 3: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1897 December 6: (Chicago) W. M. R. French, Director of the Art institute of Chicago/Stevenson (?) Stevenson/Frothingham [also in letter book II p.58]
• 1897 December 8: (copy) letter Frothingham/Wanamaker
• 1897 December 13: Stevenson/Messrs Hampton Jr. and Co. [letter book II, p. 75]
• 1897 December 14: Stevenson/Frothingham [letter book II, p. 77]
• 1897 December 19: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters) (Roma) De Castro/Stevenson
• 1897 December 29: (Orvieto) Mancini/De Castro (only English translation)
• 1897 December 30: (Rome) De Castro/Stevenson
• 1898 January 5: (Piazza di Spagna 49) P. P. Alfred Lemon & Co./De Castro. The letter refers to the bill for the expedition and was attached to the De Castro letter dated Jan. 8th
• 1898 January 8: (Rome) De Castro/Pepper Enclosed: a letter by Mancini (Orvieto, Dec. 29th, 1897) to De Castro (see English translation), and a letter from Lemon.
• 1898 January 14: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1898 January 21 (Extract): (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters) [ * we have the copy of the letter (found in Dec. 1897 by Stevenson, used as wrap paper) is from F. to Pezzantino]
• 1898 January 22: (Roma) De Castro/Pepper
• 1898 January 24: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1898 January 25: (The Astoria) Hearst/Stevenson
• 1898 January 26: (Princeton) Frothingham/Pepper
• 1898 February 4: (Philadelphia) Pepper/De Castro Response to letter of Dec 22nd
• 1898 February 8: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1898 February 18: (Rome) De Castro/Pepper
• 1898 March (?): (copy) Frothingham/Wanamaker. See letter by Frothingham to Sparhawk Dec. 18, 1899
• 1898 March 1: (Roma) Marchese I. Lavaggi/De Castro (Translation and original in Italian) Attached two “reports” by Mancinelli, March 11th 1898
• 1898 March 12: (Rome) Stevenson/De Castro
• 1898 March 25: (Philadelphia) Stevenson/Pepper (Philadelphia) Stevenson/Sparhawk [letter book II, p. 102]
• 1898 March 28: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters), on the same page there are brief summaries for the following dates: May 2nd, 1898; April 8th 1898, March 28, 1898)
• 1898 April 4: (Rome, Via Mercede 42-45) ditta C. Stein
• 1898 April 8: (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters)
• 1898 April 14: (Philadelphia) Sparhawk/Stevenson
• 1898 April 23: Ficola/De Castro
• 1898 April 28: (Roma, Consulate General of the U.S.) De Castro/Stevenson (enclosing Mancinelli’s notes in re excavations, Ficola’s letter attached asking that Museum buy tombs Montebello, Toscanella, Faleria, Ardea e Mazzano) Letter of Ficola, Roma, 23 April 1898 (in Italian and translation), Scrofa 47 ? (beneath the signature)
• 1898 April 29: (Philadelphia) Sparhawk/Pepper
• 1898 May 2 (Extract): (XVIII) (Stevenson’s transcriptions of De Castro letters) on the same page there are brief summaries for the following dates: May 2nd, 1898; April 8th, 1898, March 28, 1898)
• 1898 May 2: (Rome) De Castro/Stevenson
• 1898 May 16: (Philadelphia?) Stevenson/De Castro
• 1898 June 3: (Rome) De Castro/Stevenson Response to May 16th, he delivered the message to Ficola
• 1898 June 8: (Rome) De Castro/Stevenson
• 1898 June 15: Stevenson/Sparhawk [letter book II, p.173]
• 1898 July 11: Stevenson/Pepper [letter book II, p.158]
• 1898 October 8: (Pennsylvania Railroad Company) Penn Museum/Mrs. Phoebe Hearst
• 1898 October 14: (1400 New Hampshire Avenue Washington D.C.) the sender is Hearst?/Stevenson
• 1899 January 11: (Via dei Bardi 5, Firenze) letter by Prof. Eugenio Casanova
• 1899 February 20: (Via dei Bardi 5, Firenze) Casanova/Mrs. Stevenson (response to her letter of Feb. 3rd).
• 1899 February 22: (Via Curtatore 3, Florence) Mary H. Smith/Mrs. Stevenson
• 1899 February 24: (Rome) De Castro/Stevenson Response to January 28th
• 1899 March 25: (Harvard) W. M. Lindsay/?
• 1899 May 11: (Siena via di Montebello 4) Casanova/Stevenson. In French
• 1899 December 7: (copy) Wanamaker/Frothingham (attached to the letter Frothingham/Sparhawk Dec. 18, 1899)
• 1899 December 18: (Princeton) Frothingham/Sparhawk. Includes: 1) the account and what Frothingham “owes” to Wanamaker, 2) a memorandum “I enclose copies of two letters which I wrote to Mr. Wanamaker in 1897 and 1898” they remained unanswered until last week, he encloses also a copy of Wanamaker answer, and 3) Copies of the 3 letters: a) Dec 8th 1897 (the letter is in the 1897 folder under the date) and b) March (?) 1898 (which is in the 1898 folder), and c) Wanamaker’s answer to these two letters dated Dec. 7th, 1899 Mrs. Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1899 December 19: (Philadelphia) Wanamaker/Stevenson Letter accompanying the jewels
• 1899 December 22: (Philadelphia) Wanamaker/Stevenson
• 1900 January 2: Mrs. Frothingham/Miss McHugh
• 1900 January ?: Mrs. Frothingham/Miss McHugh
• 1900 May 13: (3704 Locust St.) William N. Bates/Stevenson
• 1900 May 21: (3704 Locust St.) William N. Bates/Brock
• 1900 May 24: (Princeton) Frothingham/Mr. Williams
• 1900 May 29: Williams/Stevenson
• 1900 June 6: (Cambridge) Bates/Stevenson
• 1900 June 18: Frothingham/Stevenson
• 1900 July 26: (Rome) De Castro/Stevenson
• 1900 August 1: letter in French, no addressee, signed (De Castro?)
• 1900 August 2: letter in French, no addressee, signed (De Castro)? (the paper is from the American consulate in Rome) It seems to be addressed to Mr. Culin, but it is illegible
• 1901 April 1: (1400 New Hampshire Av. Washington D.C.) Hearst/Stevenson
• 1901 April 20: Hearst/Stevenson
• 1901 June 21: Emanuel H. Nardi (attorney in Philadelphia, 1011 Chestnut Street)/Stevenson
• 1903 July 11: (Cambridge) Bates/Miss Mc Hugh She sent him notes on the acquisition of the Orvieto vase fragments “They certainly point to the honesty of the excavator and the genuineness of the vase”

From the guide to the Arthur L. Frothingham records from the Etruscan tomb groups excavation, Bulk, 1893-1903, 1890-1930, (University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives)