Leicester B. Holland Papers

COLLECTION OVERVIEW

Collection Number: GR ASCSA LBH 111
Name(s) of Creator(s): Leicester Bodine Holland (1882-1952)
Title: Leicester B. Holland Papers
Date [bulk]: 1915-1950
Date [inclusive]:
Language(s): English
Summary: The collection contains correspondence, professional papers and lectures, photographs, drawings, and manuscripts including material for an intended comprehensive Erechtheum volume that was never finished nor fully published.
Quantity:  
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Marian Holland McAllister, 2019
Information about Access: The collection has been catalogued and is available for research after consultation with the ASCSA Archivist
Cite as: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Archives, Leicester B. Holland Papers (Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα, Αρχείο Leicester B. Holland Papers)
Notes: The finding-aid was prepared by Jennifer Bakatselou, 2026.

For more information, please contact the Archives at:
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
54 Souidias Street, Athens 106 76, Greece
phone: 213 000 2400 (ext. 425)
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BIOGRPAPHICAL NOTE

Leicester B. Holland (1882-1952) was born in Louisville, Kentucky on May 23, 1882. He studied Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and received his Ph.D. in 1919. From 1913 to 1918 he taught Architectural Design and the History of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a gifted architect, art historian, and archaeologist who served the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as Fellow in Architecture from 1920-1921, and as the school’s Associate Professor of Architecture from 1921-1923. In the time spent in Greece, Holland worked at the School’s excavations in Corinth, Colophon, and Zygouries and as architect in Mycenae. Holland worked extensively on the Erechtheion and published accordingly the “Erechtheum Papers I-IV” in the American Journal of Archaeology in 1924. He intended to publish a comprehensive volume but it was never completed.

From 1925 to 1927 he was Professor of Fine Arts at Vassar and then continued his career as the Chief of Fine Arts at the Library of Congress from 1929-1943. In 1944 he worked in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Holland also taught Classical Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, 1945-1946. In 1947, he served as the American School’s architect at the Corinth excavations, and the following year he taught architecture at Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. This was his final academic position.

He was an active member of the American Institute of Architecture, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, and the Archaeological Institute of America. Holland also worked as historian and architect for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). He published The Garden Bluebook: A Manual of the Perennial Garden in 1915. With his wife, Louise Adams Holland, they wrote  “Down the Tiber on a Raft” published in Archaeology in 1950.

Known for his whimsical humor and kind nature, Holland’s character and scholarly reputation is best noted in his obituary by James P. Harland (56:3, 1952): “If not a genius, as he has been called, he was at least most ingenious. Certainly, he combined sound scholarship, based on an excellent training in both the practical and the theoretical, with an extraordinary imagination, often with brilliant results."

Source: James P. Harland, "Necrology: Leicester Bodine Holland," AJA 56:3, 1952, pp. 181-182.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection has been organized into five series. 

SERIES I: Personal and Professional Correspondence (Boxes 1-2). Personal and professional correspondence contains letters associated with committees, publications, excavations, inscriptions, and on architecture curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of faculty from 1913-1946. Also included in this series is a large amount of material and correspondence relating to the “resignation” of Bert Hodge Hill and the tributary dedication volume of AJA that followed subsequently.

SERIES II: Manuscripts (Box 3). Manuscripts contains papers on various subjects including the original location of the Capitoline Fasti, a part of the large Peisistratid building south of the Erechtheum indicating a prytaneum as successor to a Mycenean megaron, a study of candelabrum thymiaterion, the reconstruction of the Etruscan Temple and the study of the religious architecture that preceded Rome, and other papers that attest to Holland’s gift not only as an architect but also as an art historian and visionary.

SERIES III: Erechtheum (Boxes 4-6). Erechtheum material includes offprints of the published Erechtheum papers, published and non-published material concerning the Erechtheum including typed and handwritten manuscript drafts, excavation reports, motif comparisons, reference note cards, and special attention to the interpretation of Greek technical terms, woodworks and ceiling construction.

SERIES IV: Lectures, Articles and Notes (Box 7). Lectures, articles and notes involve various topics concerning architecture, various notes on headdresses, and some miscellaneous items including copies of the The Bibelot series, and a few small drawings and embossments.

SERIES V: Photographs, Slides, Drawings, and Books (Boxes 8-25, Tubes 1-8). This series includes small and large photos and drawings of Erechtheum and non-Erechtheum material. The topics of the drawings are a broad assortment of architectural subjects including façade reconstructions, Delian ceilings, the walls of Athens, megaron comparisons, The Palace of Mycenae, cross-site roofing comparisons, and material from Holland’s published works and non-published works. In addition, the book and plates of Erechtheum, Measured, Drawn and Restored (Cambridge, Mass. 1927) as Leicester Holland collaborated with Gorham Stevens on several of the plates. Also included are several architectural large-scale reconstructions of the Erechtheum concerning ceiling and beam construction, the Opaion, and the West Wall façade. Other items concern Doric entablature reconstruction, the house blueprints of the Kakoulidou house in Palaio Faliron, the Alice Leslie Walker residence, and a women’s hostel in Arcadia, Peloponnese. Holland travelled extensively and this series contains many photos of the excursions and archaeological sites he visited in Greece, Egypt, Italy, and France, as well as photos of persons associated with the American School.

Series I: Personal and Professional Correspondence

BOX 1: Folder 1 - Individual Correspondents A-G

John Taylor Arms

• John Taylor Arms to L. B. Holland, November 19, 1943 with attached letter (same date) from John Taylor Arms to Archibald MacLeish on Holland’s resignation from the Library of Congress

Frederick Bigger

• Frederick Bigger to L. B. Holland, May 19, 1948

Carl W. Blegen

• Carl Blegen to L. B. Holland, October 26, 1927
• Carl Blegen to L. B. Holland, November 27, 1927

Elizabeth D. Blegen

• Elizabeth D. Blegen to L.B. Holland, April 19, 1925

Oscar Broneer

• Oscar Broneer to L. B. Holland, June 9, 1948

Frank Chouteau Brown [HABS]

• Frank Chouteau Brown to L. B. Holland, October 12, 1943

Lacey D. Caskey

• Lacey D. Caskey to L. B. Holland, February 27, 1925
• Lacey D. Caskey to L. B. Holland, June 9, 1928

George H. Chase

• George H. Chase to L. B. Holland, September 2, 1927
• George H. Chase to L. B. Holland, September 16, 1927

Thomas Caldecot Chubb

• Thomas Caldecot Chubb to L. B. Holland, December 8, 1944

Paul Philippe Cret

• Paul Philippe Cret to L. B. Holland, June 8, 1944

Paul A. Davis

• Paul A. Davis to L. B. Holland, November 26, 1928
• Paul A. Davis to L. B. Holland, November 26, 1928
• Paul A. Davis to L. B. Holland, December 26, 1928

Philip Davis [Delian Inscription]

• Philip Davis to L. B. Holland, September 1, 19??
• Philip Davis to L. B. Holland, September 13, 19??
• Philip Davis to L. B. Holland, October 1, 19??
• Philip Davis to L. B. Holland, November 1, 19??
• Philip Davis to L. B. Holland, November 2, 19??
• Philip Davis to L. B. Holland, November 26, 19??
• Philip Davis to L.B. Holland, March 31, 19??
• Philip Davis to L. B. Holland, September 18, 1926
• Philip Davis to L. B. Holland, October 11, 1932
• Philip Davis to L. B. Holland, June 8, 1934
• Various inscriptions and notes by Philip Davis sent to L. B. Holland, no dates

George Elderkin

• Postcard, George Elderkin to L. B. Holland, January 26, 1939

Ihna T. Frary

• I. T. Frary to L. B. Holland, October 15, 1943

Hetty Goldman

• L. B. Holland to Hetty Goldman, April 28, 1929
• L. B. Holland to Hetty Goldman, no date

J. Walter Graham

• J. Walter Graham to L.B. Holland, July 15, 1937 [includes attached drawing of two lamp fragments]
• Handwritten notes, John Beazley, A marble lamp, JHS 1940 vol LX, pg. 22 ff
• 2 photos of lamps
• Drawing of Full Scale Section lamps from dump by Propylaea, Acropolis, by W.B. Dinsmoor
• Drawing of 6^th century marble Ionic lamp, Metropolitan Museum, section through spout

BOX 1: Folder 2 – Individual Correspondents H-L

William A. Hammond

• William. A. Hammond to L. B. Holland, March 22, 1934

James Penrose Harland

• Postcard, James P. Harland [Admiral] to L. B. Holland, September 30, 1926

Bert H. Hill

• Bert H. Hill to L. B. Holland, April 13, 1928
• Bert H. Hill to L. B. Holland, June 24, 1928
• L. B. Holland to Bert H. Hill, August 4, 1928 [also see referred drawing in Box 16: Erechtheum Miscellanea: Comparison of Stevens Pl. II and Dinsmoor Pl. XXXI drawings West Cross Wall section]
• Bert H. Hill to L. B. Holland, March 3, 1929
• Bert H. Hill to L. B. Holland, March 11 1929
• L. B. Holland to Bert H. Hill, May 20, 1929
• Bert H. Hill to L. B. Holland, March 2, 1934
• Bert H. Hill to L. B. Holland, October 21, 1935

Correspondence concerning BHH’s resignation include:

• Envelope B.H.H. vs E.C.
• L. D. Caskey to L. B. Holland, January 5, 1926
• Offprint by L. B. Holland to the Managing Committee regarding Bert H. Hill, December 11, 1926
• L. D. Caskey to L. B. Holland, January 17, 1927
• A. V. V. Brown to L. B. Holland, February 10, 1927 with envelope and attached handwritten manuscript by L. B. Holland
• Bert H. Hill to L. B. Holland March ?, 1927
• Bert H. Hill to L. B. Holland, March 6, 1927, telegram with envelope
• L. D. Caskey to L. B. Holland, March 7, 1927
• William N. Bates to L. B. Holland, March 25, 1927 with envelope
• Edward Delavan Perry, March 31, 1927
• Offprint, Bert H. Hill to Members of the Managing Committee, April 8, 1927
• Carl Blegen to Grace H. Macurdy, April 17, 1927
• Elizabeth H. Haight to L. B. Holland, 1927? with envelope, letter of petition with signatures and a list of the Managing Committee members
• Offprint and handwritten manuscript, L. B. Holland to the Managing Committee, 1927, with envelope
• L. B. Holland to William? Bates, 1927?, handwritten letter with two typescripts

Correspondence concerning the BHH Honorary Volume Donations include:

• List of Associates and Pupils of Bert Hodge Hill, no date
• Clarence H. Young to L. B. Holland, January 13, 1933
• Gisela Richter to L. B. Holland, May 1, 1933
• Letter to George W. Elderkin by W. B. Dinsmoor, L. B. Holland, Gisela Richter and Mary Hamilton, May 15, 1933 with attached typescript and letters George W. Elderkin to L. B. Holland, May 22, 1933 and George W. Elderkin to William B. Dinsmoor, May 22, 1933
• George W. Elderkin to L. B. Holland, May 25, 1933
• George W. Elderkin to L. B. Holland, June 6, 1933
• Elizabeth H. Haight to L. B. Holland, June 13, 1933
• Elizabeth H. Haight to L. B. Holland, June 30, 1933
• George W. Elderkin to L. B. Holland, July 1, 1933
• F. C. Phypers [secretary to Clarence Ward], July 5, 1933
• L. B. Holland to Carroll N. Brown, July 10, 1933
• George W. Elderkin to L. B. Holland, July 14, 1933
• Mary H. Swindler to L. B. Holland, July 14, 1933
• Mary H. Swindler to L. B. Holland, July 15, 1933
• L. B. Holland to J. Piermont Morgan, July 18, 1933
• L. B. Holland to George D. Pratt, July 18, 1933
• L. B. Holland to William T. Semple, July 18, 1933
• Isabel S. Menzies [Secretary to George D. Pratt], July 25, 1933
• Mary H. Swindler to L. B. Holland, July 27, 1933
• L. B. Holland to A. C. Orlandos, July 28, 1933
• Mary H. Swindler to L. B. Holland, August 14, 1933
• Mary H. Swindler to L. B. Holland, August 31, 1933
• L. B. Holland to Carroll N. Brown, September 2, 1933
• L. B. Holland to William T. Semple, September 2, 1933
• Isabel S. Wenzies [Secretary to George D. Pratt], September 6, 1933
• Carroll N. Brown to L. B. Holland, September 11, 1933 with envelope and attached correspondence L. B. Holland to Carroll N. Brown, September 13, 1933 and Carroll N. Brown to L. B. Holland, not dated (1933?)
• Carroll N. Brown to L. B. Holland, September 15, 1933
• L. B. Holland to Carroll N. Brown, September 20, 1933
• L. B. Holland to W. T. Semple, September 20, 1933
• Elizabeth H. Haight [Bess] to L. B. Holland, October 10, 1933
• Grace H. Macurdy to L. B. Holland, October 10, 1933
• Grace H. Macurdy to L. B. Holland, October 14, 1933
• L. B. Holland to Helen Pope, October 16, 1933
• L. B. Holland to Charles A. Robinson, Jr., October 16, 1933
• William K. Prentice to L. B. Holland, October 19, 1933
• Elizabeth H. Haight [Bess] to L. B. Holland, October 22, 1933
• Stephen B. Luce to L. B. Holland, October 25, 1933
• Carl W. Blegen to L. B. Holland, October 28, 1933
• L. B. Holland to Gertrude Harper Beggs, October 31, 1933, with envelope, returned to sender
• L. B. Holland to Lulu Geneve Eldridge, October 31, 1933, with envelope, returned to sender
• L. B. Holland to John P. Morgan, October 31, 1933
• L. B. Holland to George H. Chase, November 1, 1933
• L. B. Holland to David M. Robinson, November 1, 1933
• Franklin Jones to L. B. Holland, November 2, 1933
• James P. Harland to L. B. Holland, November 6, 1933
• David M. Robinson to L. B. Holland, November 6, 1933
• Sidney N. Deane to L. B. Holland, November 7, 1933
• Dorothy Burr to L. B. Holland, November 12, 1933
• J. Axten [Secretary to J. P. Morgan], November 13, 1933
• Dorothy H. Cox to L. B. Holland, November 18, 1933
• Gisela Richter to L. B. Holland, November 18, 1933
• Alfred R. Bellinger to L. B. Holland, November 20, 1933
• Mary H. Swindler to L. B. Holland, December 2, 1933
• William B. Dinsmoor to L. B. Holland, December 19, 1933
• Clarence H. Young to William B. Dinsmoor, December 21, 1933
• Prentice Duell to L. B. Holland, December 31, 1933
• Prentice Duell to L. B. Holland, January 1934, postcard
• W. T. Semple to L. B. Holland, January 4, 1934
• John Day to L. B. Holland, January 17, 1934
• Myrtilla Avery to L. B. Holland, January 24, 1934
• L. D. Caskey to L. B. Holland, January 24, 1934
• Edward T. Newell to L. B. Holland, January 26, 1934
• L. D. Caskey to L. B. Holland, January 29, 1934
• Hotel Vermont to L. B. Holland, February 1934?
• Leslie W. Kosmopoulos to L. B. Holland, February 14, 1934
• Samuel Bassett to L. B. Holland, February 15, 1934, postcard
• Myrtilla Avery to L. B. Holland, February 23, 1934
• Harriet Boyd Hawes to L. B. Holland, February 24, 1934
• Mary H. Swindler to L. B. Holland, March 2, 1934
• R. J. Schrader to L. B. Holland, March 8, 1934
• William T. Semple to L. B. Holland, March 14, 1934
• Samuel Bassett to L. B. Holland, March 31, 1934
• William B. Dinsmoor, April 3, 1934
• Undated later, perhaps 1934?

Correspondence concerning the BHH Honorary Volume proofs and drafts include:

• Template letter, no date
• Luigi Pernier to L. B. Holland, January 3, 1933
• Gisele Richter to Mary Swindler, May 2, 1933
• Emerson Swift to Mary Swindler, May 12, 1933
• William Dinsmoor to Mary Swindler, May 15, 1933
• Mary Swindler? To Gorham P. Stevens, June 21, 1933
• L. B. Holland to Mary Swindler, June 30, 1933
• L. B. Holland to Mary Swindler, July 9, 1933
• Georg Karo to Mary Swindler, August 12, 1933
• Ashton Sanborn to Mary Swindler, August 19, 1933
• James P. Harland to Mary Swindler, November 10, 1933
• Richard M. Dawkins to Mary Swindler, Nov. 11, 1933
• James P. Harland to Mary Swindler, December 14, 1933
• Leslie W. Kosmopoulos to Mary Swindler, January 4, 1934
• James Harland to Mary Swindler, January 12, 1934
• Luigi Pernier to L. B. Holland, January 12, 1934
• James P. Harland to Mary Swindler, January 14, 1934
• L. B. Holland to Mary Swindler, February 6, 1934
• Leslie W. Kosmopoulos to Mary Swindler, February 7, 1934, telegram
• Mary Swindler to L. B. Holland, February 13, 1934, 2 large photos of Bert Hill at the Peirene fountain in Corinth, with envelope
• Luigi Pernier to L. B. Holland, April 18, 1934, with envelope
• George Elderkin to Mary Swindler, May 14, 1934

BHH Honorary Volume fundraising:
Bert Hodge Hill Anniversary Committee Fundraising documents and ledgers
1 small account booklet

Ida Thallon Hill

• Ida Thallon Hill to L. B. Holland, February 17, 1928

Charles H. LaWall

• Charles H. LaWall to L. B. Holland, November 25-27, 1927
   

BOX 2: Folder 1 - Individual Correspondents M-Z

Benjamin Meritt

• Benjamin Meritt to L. B. Holland, January 17, 1926
• Benjamin Meritt to L. B. Holland, January 25, 1926
• Benjamin Meritt to L. B. Holland, February 15, 1926

John Miliades

• L. B. Holland to John Miliades, July 23, 1947

George D. Pratt

• George D. Pratt to L. B. Holland, June 15, 1925 [includes photograph of tripod foundation, Delphi]

Henry Saylor

• Henry Saylor to L. B. Holland, February 29, 1944

Robert L. Scranton

• Robert L. Scranton to L. B. Holland, May 13, 1948
• Robert L. Scranton to L. B. Holland, July 31 1948

E. Marshall Scull

• E. Marshall Scull to L. B. Holland, October 11, 1932

J. Frazer Smith

• J. Frazer Smith to L. B. Holland, July 13, 1944

Gorham P. Stevens

• Gorham P. Stevens to L. B. Holland, March 23, 1925
• Gorham P. Stevens to L. B. Holland, August 20, 1951

Mary A. Stuard

• Mary A. Stuard [secretary of Charles Z. Klauder] to L. B. Holland, May 27, 1929

Edgar Howard Sturtevant

• Edgar Howard Sturtevant to L. B. Holland, March 1, 1928
• Edgar Howard Sturtevant to L. B. Holland, March 14, 1928

Wilhelmina Van Ingen

• Wilhelmina Van Ingen to L. B. Holland, February 17, 1928
• Wilhelmina Van Ingen to L. B. Holland, June 20, 1928
• Wilhelmina Van Ingen to L. B. Holland, August 2, 1928
• 28 photos of the Erechtheum included in the correspondence between L.B. Holland and Van Ingen. [For duplicates and negatives see LBH Box 8: Folder 2]

Alan B. Wace

• Alan B. Wace to L. B. Holland, July 30, 1924
• Alan B. Wace to L. B. Holland and Louise Holland, December 23, 1924 (2 separate letters, same envelope)
• Alan B. Wace to L. B. Holland, June 24, 1928 [Also see LBH Box 7: Folder 3 for Holland’s notes on various crowns and feather headdresses]
• Alan B. Wace to L. B. Holland, August 22, 1948
• Alan B. Wace to L. B. Holland, November 13, 1949
• Alan B. Wace to L. B. Holland, December 13, 1949
• Alan B. Wace to L. B. Holland, October 6, 1951
• Alan B. Wace to Louise Holland, April 27, 1952

Oskar F. Waldhauer

• Oskar Waldhauer [The Hermitage Museum] to L. B. Holland, April 22, 1934

Otto Walter

• Otto Walter to L. B. Holland, January 29, 1951
   

BOX 2: Folder 2 - Committees and Institutions [listed in alphabetical order]

American Philosophical Society [1942-1948]

• Edwin G. Conklin to L. B. Holland, April 29, 1942
• Edwin G. Conklin to L. B. Holland, May 1, 1942
• Luther P. Eisenhardt to L. B. Holland, April 28, 1948

Metropolitan Museum of Art [1925-1932]

• Gisela M. A. Richter to L. B. Holland, March 29, 1928 regarding glass diadems and includes 10 reference note cards on crowns [Also see additional notes on crowns, helmets, and headdresses LBH Box 7: Folder 3]
• Gisela M.A. Richter to L. B. Holland, April 17, 1928 with envelope and includes 5 photos from the MMA, 1925
• Library of Congress envelope
• Gisela M. A. Richter to L. B. Holland, December 6, 1932
• Note from Gisela M. A. Richter to L. B. Holland, 1932
• Two sketches of marble lamp by Miss Alexander, 1932
• Photograph, marble lamp, 84699g, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Photograph, pilaster fragment, 1321/89704g, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Photograph, marble lamp, 36181g, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Photograph, archaic marble lamp fragment, 01.8212/B5686, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Metropolitan Museum of Art envelope with stamps, exact date unknown, 1926-1931

University of Pennsylvania, Bicentennial Celebration [1940]

• C. R. Hemenway to L. B. Holland, July 15, 1940
• Copy of Entertainment Committee notification, July 16, 1940 by George Simpson Koyl, Dean
• Donald K. Angel to L. B. Holland, July 18, 1940
• John B. Thayer to L. B. Holland, July 18, 1940 with attached copy of “Pennsylvania On Parade” Guide Service Bulletin, 1940
• Carl Blegen to L. B. Holland, July 22, 1940 [w/attached correspondence Marian McAllister to Jack Caskey April 30, 1972 recollecting Blegen’s stay with the Holland’s]
• Edgar B. Cale to L. B. Holland, July 22, 1940
• Francis Henry Taylor to L. B. Holland, July 27, 1940
• Edgar B. Cale to L. B. Holland, August 5, 1940
• Steven M. Spencer to L. B. Holland, August 5, 1940
• University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Conference provisional program and announcement, September 16-20, 1940
• Typescript of Bicentennial Celebration speech given by L. B. Holland titled “New Light from Old Lamps”
• Notes on various reasons for the study of Fine Arts, with envelope, 1940?

University of Pennsylvania, Committees for Coordinated Courses [1920-1931]

• Reports of The Committee of the Board of Trustees and The Committee of the Faculty in Architecture, The School of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania, April 28, 1920
• Reprint May 21, 1920 of Reports of The Committee of the Board of Trustees and The Committee of the Faculty in Architecture, The School of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania, April 28, 1920
• John F. Harbeson to Elsa Frame, October 31, 1929
• John F. Harbeson to John Andrew Myers, March 18, 1930
• A.H. Gumaer to Warren P. Laird [1930]
• L.B. Holland to Warren P. Laird, July 2, 1930

• Warren P. Laird to L. B. Holland, September 4, 1930
• L. B. Holland to Warren P. Laird, September 12, 1930
• L. B. Holland to Warren P. Laird, October 7, 1930
• John F. Harbeson to L. B. Holland, October 8, 1930
• Yarnall Abbott to L. B. Holland, January 5, 1931
• Comments on Chairman’s Report by Curriculum Committee, Fine Arts Dept., University of Pennsylvania, Dec. 30, 1930, Warren P. Laird
• John Harbeson to L. B. Holland, no date
• J.P. Wickersham Crawford to L.B. Holland, January 5, 1931
• John Harbeson to L. B. Holland, no date

• Curriculum Committee report, University of Pennsylvania, January 15, 1931
• Handwritten motion by Professor Schroffer, University of Pennsylvania, January 29, 1931
• Note from Warren P. Laird to L. B. Holland, January 29, 1931
• Two copies of letter to Board of Trustees from the Committee of the Faculty in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1930-31?
• In envelope, typescript and a handwritten report on the teaching of Fine Arts in University Schools by L. B. Holland, 1931?
• Review of article by John Harbeson
• L. B. Holland notes on substitute “semester credit” for “unit”
   

BOX 3: Folder 3 – Committees and Institutions, Continued

University of Pennsylvania, School of Architecture [1915-1931]

• Curriculum comparison notes across universities by L. B. Holland [1915?]
• Architecture enrollment/student lists, 5 pgs. [1915?]
• 2-Years proposed non-architecture courses worksheets [1915?]
• Warren P. Laird to L. B. Holland, July 15, 1915
• Typed outline of proposed changes to architecture curriculum, 1915, 4 pgs.
• Architecture proposed schedule of studies, 1915
• Mr. Robins’ suggestions on study of change of courses, July 1915
• Typed outline (2 copies) of class standings in the School of Architecture, July 20, 1915, 2 pgs.

• Handwritten outline of proposed changes to architecture curriculum, 8 pgs. [1915?]
• Handwritten notes on number of students enrolled in architecture curriculum [1915-1916]
• Typed proposed schedule of studies [1915?]
• Sub-Committee “B” minutes, May 16, 1916
• Warren P. Laird to L. B. Holland, May 20, 1916
• Warren P. Laird to L. B. Holland, May 30, 1916, 3 pgs.[includes architecture curriculum modification suggestions by L. B. Holland]

• Copy of Analysis of Records of University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Class of 1928
• Copy of University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts Architecture catalog, 1928?
• John F. Harbeson to Catherine Hamly, January 28, 1930
• John F. Harbeson to L. B. Holland, University of Pennsylvania, in envelope, February 21, 1930
• Staff letter by John F. Harbeson, March 7, 1930
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Architectural Education, with envelope, March 11, 1930
• Handwritten Analysis of Collegiate Training in Architecture by L. B. Holland, 1930

• Alfred M. Brooks to L. B. Holland, November 13, 1930
• Staff letter by John F. Harbeson, Dept. of Architecture Chairman, University of Pennsylvania, January 23, 1931
• Paul H. Musser, University of Pennsylvania, to L. B. Holland, January 27, 1931

Series II: Manuscripts

BOX 3: Folder 1

When Art Meets Art (1928)

The Chariot at the Gates of the Acropolis

The Decoration of Life: A Theory

The Cultural Influence of the Study of Architecture (1930’s)

Everyday Art I (1930’s)

Jefferson’s Library (1930’s)

The President’s Survey of Social Trends

BOX 3: Folder 2

Coordinations between Doric-Cella Buildings and Peristyles. CH. I-V [Author Adele M. Wildes, for the drawings by L. B. Holland see Series V, Box 20]

BOX 3: Folder 3

Vitrail (Stained Glass): A treatise on the theory and practice of stained-glass window design in France during the middle ages. Translated from the “Dictionnaire Raisonne de l’Architecture Francaise par M. Viollet-Le-Duc” by Leicester B. Holland

BOX 3: Folder 4

Thymiateria

BOX 3: Folder 5

The Hall of the Athenian Kings

BOX 3: Folder 6

The Original Location of the Capitoline Fasti?

BOX 3: Folder 7

The Etruscan Temple

BOX 3: Folder 8

THYMÉLÈ: Recherches sur la signification et la destination des Monuments circulaires dans l’Architecture religieuse de la Grèce. By Fernand Robert. E. de Boccard, Paris, 1939.

Series III: Erechtheion (Erechtheum) Manuscripts, Published and Unpublished

BOX 4: Folder 1 (Erechtheum Papers, published manuscripts)

• Offprints and pages of Erechtheum Papers I-IV, American Journal of Archaeology, Second Series, Vol. XXVIII (1924) No. 1, 2, & 4

BOX 4: Folder 2 (Erechtheum Papers, published manuscripts)

• Excavations North of the Erechtheum, May-June 1923
• The Remains of the Pre-Erechtheum
• Erechtheum Papers II, The Strange House of Erechtheus

BOX 4: Folder 3 (Erechtheum Papers, non-published)

• The West Wall of the Erechtheum
• The Probably Erechtheion
• Beaming system notes

BOX 4: Folder 4 (Foreword for Erechtheum book)

• 3 typed manuscripts of Foreword, 2 with revisions
• Handwritten manuscript of Foreword

BOX 4: Folder 5 (Erechtheum Papers V: Erechtheus & Erichthonius, non-published )

• Manuscripts with revisions and notes
• Handwritten manuscript titled The Shrine of the Ancient Image [Erechtheus and Erichthonius papers and notes] *In folder outside of the box
• Handwritten notes, etymology notes, notes from Greek Loebs about the dragon and the grave of Kekrops, Acropolis *In folder outside of the box
• Various notecards

BOX 4: Folder 6 (Erechtheum Papers VI: The Sound from the South, non-published)

The Sound from the South

• Manuscripts with notes and revisions
• 3 offprint plate photos
• S.S.W. Notes typed manuscript with handwritten corrections

The Shrine of the Ancient Image, [later retitled Sound of the South Wind]

• Manuscripts and notes

BOX 4: Folder 7 (Erechtheum Papers VII: The Altar of the Courtyard God, non-published)

• Typed manuscript with handwritten notes
• Offprint drawing, written in top left corner: odd beginning of N wall of Pandroseum
• Offprint drawing, south face of east, west face of east
• The Altar of “Zeus” Herkeius manuscripts
• The Breath of the Serpent VII, discarded manuscript and notecards
   

BOX 5: Folder 1 (Erechtheum Papers VIII: The Western Hall, non-published)

• Manuscripts and notes
• Offprint plate, section on line A-B and orthostate course 15-18
• Offprint plate, plan through course 7
• Offprint plate, south wall as dressed for shelf, niche, and metopon/conjectural section through shelf at face of south wall

BOX 5: Folder 2 (Erechtheum Papers IX: The West Cross Wall, non-published)

• Copy of Erechtheum central section plan by William B. Dinsmoor
• Manuscripts and notes

BOX 5: Folder 3 (Erechtheum Papers X: The Shrine of the Ancient Image, non-published)

• Manuscripts and handwritten revisions with notes

BOX 5: Folder 4 (Erechtheum Papers XI: The Stomaion, non-published)

• Manuscripts with revisions
   

BOX 6: Folder 1 (Erechtheum Papers: Appendix II Gongylos Lithos)

• Typed manuscript with slide numbers, Gongylos Lithos, Erechtheum Papers, Appendix 2, read at the 37th general meeting of the Archaeological Institute of. America, New York, 1935 (AJA, xl (1936), p. 120. XIV, col. I)
• yped manuscript
• Sketch of motifs
• Sketch of motifs inner epistyle, Aegina and Delphi
• Sketch comparison of double/single fret at Aegina, Theseum, Parthenon, Propylaea, Tholos-Epidaurus, Tegea
• Appendix, handwritten manuscript
• Handwritten notes

BOX 6: Folder 2 (Erechtheum Papers: Appendix III The Ceilings of the Erechtheum)

• Envelope L. B. H. to Philip Davis, 1932?
• Handwritten manuscripts and notes with Appendix (Fall 1932)
• Correspondence Philip Davis to L. B. Holland, July 1, 1932?
• Typed manuscript carbon copy by Philip Davis pgs. 1-22 [pages 22-37 of handwritten manuscript]
• Typed manuscript carbon copy by Philip Davis pgs. 23-36 [pages 37-47 of handwritten manuscript]
• Typed manuscript carbon copy by Philip Davis pgs. 37-42 [pages 47- 50 of handwritten manuscript]

• Reference note cards, 2 pages

BOX 6: Folder 3 (Erechtheum Papers: Appendix? Pompholyges and Ochetoi)

• Typed manuscript with handwritten notes, March 28, 1940, Pompholyges and Ochetoi: A Technological interpretation of Greek technical terms read before the American Philosophical Society, April 1940.
• Pompholyges and Ochetoi: A Technological interpretation of Greek technical terms, March 28, 1940, typescript with handwritten corrections
• Pompholyges and Ochetoi: A Technological interpretation of Greek technical terms, typed manuscript with handwritten corrections and slide numbers, March 28, 1940

BOX 6: Folder 4 (Erechtheum Papers: Appendix? ΧΣΕW[Ω] and ΧΣΥW[Ω])

• ΣΕW and XΣYW: In the Building Inscription of the Erechtheum, typed manuscript with handwritten corrections and envelope, 1947
• W[Ω] and ΧΣΥW[Ω]: In the Building Inscription of the Erechtheum, typed manuscript with corrections and envelope which includes:

• Handwritten notes on wood works
• Handwritten notes on shaft-shaved wood works words descriptions (prefix starting with Ξυ-)
• Handwritten notes on stone workings- columns, sculptors, rosettes
• & Ξύω handwritten manuscript with notes

BOX 6: Folder 5 (Erechtheum Miscellanea)

• Reference note cards, 42 pages
• Handwritten notes on Hermes/reverse side sketch
• Handwritten outline of masons, carpenters, and joiners, etc.
• Handwritten notes on Kalymata and Kalxes
• Handwritten notes with measurements on Peisistratid Stair in Porch of the Maidens, 4 pages
• Handwritten notes on intended treatment of walls along Pandroseum, pages 48-50
• Handwritten notes, various subjects, with envelope

Series IV: Lectures, Articles and Notes

BOX 7: Folder 1

• “The Palm Tree of the Polias,” lecture manuscript
• “Interreflections among the Arts,” lecture manuscript
• " [Un?] Coffered Ceilings,” lecture manuscript
• “The Function of Functionalism,” 2 copies of lecture manuscript
• Article “Beauty From Ashes” by Eleanor F. Lavell and Margaret Lathrop Law in House Beautiful, October 1933 regarding the Lavell garden on Ship Road designed by L. B. H. on site of burned barn [for additional photos see LBH Series V:Box 9, Negatives Book 4]
• “A Suggested Course in the Study of Architecture” by L. B. Holland lecture manuscript
• Proceedings of A Symposium on Contemporary Architecture by the Committee on Education of The American Institute of Architects, May 21-23, 1930, L. B. Holland’s address “Architect’s Culture” May 22, 1930, pgs. 35-41

BOX 7: Folder 2

• “The Historic American Buildings Survey and its Results”, a paper read at the American Philosophical Society, April 1935?, 2 typed manuscripts with notes, a handwritten manuscript, and envelope. Also, letter of correspondence from Waldo G. Leland to Leicester Holland, April 2, 1937 regarding the paper and an agreed donation for the slides used in the lecture
• “The Folger Memorial Shakespeare Library” by Leicester B. Holland, typed manuscript
• “The Roots of Architectural Education”, a paper read to the meeting of the Cincinnati Chapter AIA, Hamilton Hall with attached correspondence Keppel O. Small to Alumnus of Miami University, May 7, 1949 and 2 typescripts with revisions
• Book review of Lawrence Coleman’s Historic House Museums and also includes:
  • Typed manuscript of book review
  • A handwritten manuscript of case histories and historic houses defended as “Museums’ Historic Houses”, and envelope.
  • letter of correspondence from William D. Overman to Leicester Holland, June 25, 1934
  • Typed manuscript of “Museums’ Historic Houses” paper with correspondence Robert N. S. Whitelaw to Leicester Holland December 19, 1934 with envelope

BOX 7: Folder 3

• Two reference note cards, archaic Athena and early Argive Paladium cult
• Notes on mention of feather crown
• Reference note cards and other handwritten notes on various crowns and feather headdresses, 42 pages
• Reference note cards, various topics, 8 pages
• Reference note cards, crowns and other headdresses, 23 pages
• Reference note card, Cypriot finds
• Sketch of two different helmet styles
• Reference note cards, various topics, 5 pages
• Lecture outline with slide numbers
• Handwritten notes, beam cuttings and ceiling cuttings on various buildings, 5 pages
• Handwritten notes on beam comparisons/calculations of various structures, 4 pages
• Handwritten notes with envelope on number of mentions of the word aithousa in the Iliad, Odyssey, and other classic works
• Handwritten translation from Lysias, Speeches, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, 1, 9ff, section on house construction
• Notes on payment to different contractors, panels for ladder construction

BOX 7: Folder 4

• Piece of diploma in Latin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Drawing embossment by L. B. H., book cover for The Marriage of Guenevere by Richard Hovey
• Small piece of green leather
• Small drawing of flower
• Drawing embossment by L. B. H., book cover for The Sonnets of Michelangelo
• Drawing embossment
• Small corner sketch
• 2 small sketches, flowers, The Garden Blue Book
• Contents page from The Bibelot, Volume I by Thomas B. Mosher
• Cover from The Bibelot, Vol. I No. 4, A Discourse of Marcus Aurelius
• Lyrics from William Blake
• Cover from The Bibelot, Vol. I No. 3, Mediaeval Latin Students’ Songs
• Mediaeval Latin Student’s Songs
• Cover from The Bibelot, Vol. I No. 5, Fragments from Sappho
• Ballades from François Villon
• Cover from The Bibelot, Vol. I No. 6, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650)
• A Discourse of Marcus Aurelius
• Cover from The Bibelot, Vol. I No. 1, Lyrics from William Blake
• Fragments from Sappho
• Hand and Soul
• Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650)
• A Lodging for the Night: A Story of Francis Villon
• The Pathos of the Rose in Poetry
• The Fifth Act of the Cenci
• Lyrics from James Thomson (“B. V.”)
• A Book of Airs from Dr. Thomas Campion