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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
Heinrich Schliemann (1822–90) was, it is well known, an energetic correspondent, a compulsive note-taker and an inveterate hoarder. For the archaeologist, as for the biographer, he left behind a rich mine with many seams. There is, however, no clear account of the history, location, and extent of Schliemann's literary remains. This paper is intended to go some way towards filling that gap. It has the additional aim of drawing attention to some notable lacunae in the Schliemann archive at the Gennadius Library in Athens in case the missing material should ever come to light.
2 For a recent sketch of Schliemann's character see Deuel, Leo, Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann (Hutchinson 1978) pp. 1–21Google Scholar; and the review of it by Easton, D. F. in Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology 17 (1980).Google Scholar
3 Meyer, Ernst, Briefe von Heinrich Schliemann (Berlin/Leipzig 1936) 17 26, 103 f.Google Scholar; hereafter cited as Briefe.
4 Meyer, Ernst, Heinrich Schliemann: Kaufmann und Forscher (Göttingen 1969) 9–12Google Scholar; hereafter cited as HSKF.
5 Meyer, Ernst, ‘Schliemann's letters to Max Müller in Oxford’, JHS 82 (1962) 75–105.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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8 Schliemann, Heinrich, Mycenae (London 1878)Google Scholar, with preface by W. E. Gladstone.
9 Originally published as Gladstone, W. E., ‘The Place of Homer in History and in Egyptian Chronology’, The Contemporary Review 24 (1874), June, 1–22Google Scholar; July, 175–200.
10 E. Meyer, Brief 19 f.
11 Of ‘Consul Caravell’ I have so far found no mention in the Schliemann papers, and am inclined to suppose that this is a misprint for ‘Consul Calvert’.
12 Meyer, Ernst, Briefwechsel von Heinrich Schliemann, 2 vols.: i, 1842–1875Google Scholar; ii, 1876 1890; (Berlin 1953, 1958); hereafter cited as Briefwechsel.
13 Briefwechsel ii 411.
14 Meyer, Ernst (ed.), Heinrich Schliemann: Selbstbiographie bis zu seinem Tode vervollständigt, herausgegeben von Sophie Schliemann, 8th edn. (Wiesbaden 1935).Google Scholar The first edition, without Meyer's involvement, was published by Brockhaus, Leipzig 1892. The second edition, edited by Meyer, came out in 1936, published by Brockhaus again.
15 Ludwig, Emil, Schliemann: Geschichte eines Goldsuchers(Berlin 1932).Google Scholar He was invited by Sophie Schliemann to study the papers at least ten years after 1915 (p. 23), and the papers had lain ‘undisturbed’ for forty years since Schliemann's death (p. 24).
16 Ibid. 24 f.
17 Meyer, Ernst, ‘Schliemanns Nachlaβ’, Das Gymnasium 49 (1938) 188.Google Scholar
18 Briefwechsel ii 406.
19 Briefe 26.
20 Das Gymnasium 49 (1938) 188; Briefwechsel ii 406.
21 Briefe 21; Briefwechsel ii 406.
22 Briefe 21.
23 Briefwechsel i 7.
24 On the Iliou Melathron see Korres, G. S., “Περὶ τὴν μετατροπὴν τοû Μεγάρου ‘Ἰλίου Μέλαθρον’ είς Μουσεîον Ἔρρικου Schliemann”, Ἑλληνικός Λόγος (Athens 1973) 690 5Google Scholar; “
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(Athens 1977) 75–167.
25 Das Gymnasium 49 (1938) 188; Briefwechsel ii 406.
26 Briefwechsel ii 411.
27 Briefwechsel i 8.
28 Although most of Schliemann's incoming correspondence has now been separated out of the volumes into which Schliemann glued it, I estimate that this, together with all other volumes in the Gennadeion, can be traced back to a total of c. 172 volumes. As Meyer's count in 1938 showed c. 175 volumes there is some confirmation of my calculation that Meyer must have removed about three volumes.
29 JHS 82 (1962) 75.
30 Hood, M. S. F., ‘Schliemann's Mycenae Albums’, Archaeology 13, 1 (1960) 61–5.Google Scholar The three albums were bought by Mr. Hood.
31 Poole, L. and Poole, G., One. Passion, Two Loves (London 1967) 8.Google Scholar
32 Ibid. 16.
33 Ibid., caption to photograph opposite p. 15.
34 Ibid. 15.
35 Ibid. 16.
36 Ibid.
37 Except that Alex Melas did say that he had not handed over one letter from Schliemann to Sophie because of the intimate nature of its contents.
38 This is the newly-acquired collection of papers to which Stone, Irving refers in The Greek Treasure (Corgi 1976) 7.Google Scholar
39 One Passion, Two Loves 8, 172, 185 f., 199, 215.
40 Despite repeated attempts I have been unable to make contact with either L. or G. Poole to clarify these questions.
41 Briefe 21.
