Edgar J. Goodspeed, America's First Papyrologist
Hickey, Todd M. / Kennan, James G.
This is a study whose main sources are archival, principally Edgar J. Goodspeed's "Student Travel Letters" from 1899-1900. These letters home recount Goodspeed's daily and sometimes hourly activities during nearly two years abroad, in continental Europe, England, Egypt, and the Holy Land, in pursuit of scholarly seasoning. The book's focus is on his engagement with the newly emergent field of papyrology-the decipherment and study of the ancien...