Frank Cole Babbitt Papers

Frank Cole Babbitt (1867-1935) graduated from Andover in 1885, taught in Warren, Connecticut, schools for two yaers, then entered Harvard from which he received the A.B. in 1890, A.M. in 1892 and PhD in 1895. In 1895-1896 he was the first fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Archaeology, with a stipend of $600. Upon his return, Babbitt taught at Harvard until 1898, when he was appointed professor of Greek at Trinity College at Hartford, CT, aposition he held until his death in 1935. He translated five volumes of Plutarch’s Moralia for the Loeb Classical Library. In 1931-1932 he was visiting professor at the American School.

This small collection of papers includes transcripts by his daughter Katherine M. Babbitt of a scrapbook Babbitt started in Trieste in 1895 but petered out after a couple weeks to scrappy notes on cards. Between 6-10th of April 1896, as evidenced by the scrapbook, he attended the Olympic Games, and from the 14th to the 29th of July he went on a “Reise durch den Peloponnes” with Wilhelm Doerpfeld as leader. There also a few copies of letters between F.C.B. and James R. Wheeler, Chairman of the American School’s Managing Committee at the time. The originals were donated by Katherine M. Babbitt to Trinity College. Finally, the collection includes a few tens of snapshots taken in 1931-1932, the year the Babbitts lived in Athens.

In the fall of 1987, Doreen Canaday Spitzer and Carol Zerner wrote an essay about Babbitt’s papers at the

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