Papers of Basil L. Gildersleeve [manuscript], 1799-1989.

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Papers of Basil L. Gildersleeve [manuscript], 1799-1989.

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The collection consists mainly of keepsakes and memorabilia reflecting on his life and work assembled by his wife Elizabeth Fisher Colston Gildersleeve, daughter Emma Gildersleeve Lane, and granddaughter Katharine Lane Weems. Correspondence chiefly contains letters to his wife. There are a few letters from friends and colleagues and miscellaneous letters to other family members. Of interest are an 1866 invitation from Robert E. Lee, and a letter in cuneiform script from Paul Haupt. Writings include several published articles with marginalia, some diaries and notebooks, poems, and travel notes from a trip to Greece, 1896. The collection also contain newsclippings and articles about Gildersleeve, ancient Greek coins, his grandfather's Continental Army commission with a John Jay autograph, family photographs, Gildersleeve and Colston genealogical material, and various diplomas and certificates.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Animal sculptor Katharine Ward (Lane) Weems was born in Boston on February 22, 1899, the only child of Gardiner Martin and Emma Louise (Gildersleeve) Lane. Gardiner Martin Lane (1859-1914, A.B. Harvard 1881) worked for the Union Pacific Railway Company and then Lee, Higginson and Company. The Lanes were married in 1898 and built a large house called The Chimneys in Manchester, Mass., where they spent summers. Katharine (Lane) Weems attended Miss May's School for Girls, a...

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Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924

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Classical scholar, born in Charleston, S.C. Professor at University of Virginia, 1856-76; first professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins (1876-1915). Served in Confederate Army during Civil War; wounded in Shenandoah campaign. Founder and editor (1880-1920) of American Journal of Philology. Author of "The Historical Syntax of Classical Greek" (1900-11); "Hellasand Hesperia" (1908); "The Creed of the Old South" (1915). From the description of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers, 1847-1925. (...