[MGSA-L] Nancy Mitford and the Stoa of Attalos

Jack Davis johnlcaskey at gmail.com
Thu May 1 07:24:43 PDT 2014


Today at "From the Archivist's Notebook":

www.nataliavogeikoff.com

That Unspeakable Stoa
Posted by Lizabeth Ward Papageorgiou
Lizabeth Ward Papageorgiou here contributes to the Archivist’s Notebook an essay about Nancy Mitford’s visit to the Athenian Agora during the re-construction of the Stoa of Attalos in 1955. Unhappy with the building, Mitford, one of the famous Mitford sisters, wrote acidic comments about it in the press as well as to the Director of the Agora Excavations, Homer A. Thompson. Lizabeth (Liz), who studied Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York University, found Mitford’s letters when she catalogued Thompson’s vast correspondence for the Archives of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens a few years ago. Her extensive catalogue of Homer Thompson’s papers is available at:http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/archives/thompson-finding-aid/


Jack L. Davis
ASCSA and University of Cincinnati
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://maillists.uci.edu/pipermail/mgsa-l/attachments/20140501/dba37e92/attachment.html>


More information about the MGSA-L mailing list