Ur Notebook Scan -- 1937 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 022b | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1937 - Box: 10 Fol
| Omeka Title: | PA-DI-B10-F005-022b-1937.jpg |
| Omeka ID: | 6449 |
| Transcription: | 60 pp. They are already in the hands of the printer, and will be printed on this year budget at a cost of about £ 100. After prolonged interview with Smith and Gadd, I promised to deliver the rest of the mss [?] at the latest on March 1938, reserving only the introduction to be finished and delivered on July 1938. The whole will be imputed on the budget 1938. I called on Mr Torsdyhe the Director of the Br. Mu. who received me very gracefully, and was satisfied with the whole arrangement. I wrote a week ago to Sir Leonard Woolley, who spends the summer near Salisbury, with the hope of seeing him in London, but I have so far received no answer, and I will probably leave London without seeing him. Mr Gunn has moved from his first residence at Boarihill near Oxford to a place in Surrey more agreable to Mrs Gunn, so I gave up the idea of visiting him. I heard that Campbell-Thompson has been appointed as a successor of Ll. Langdon. I hope he is successful in his teaching. But he is rather the type of research Professor, and the two cannot easily be confused or combined, as I realise in my own case. I am sorry that I could not see you before leaving. But the Museum on the eve of vacation time was rather in a turmoil. After the terrible heat of New York |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1937 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 022b |
| Page Number: | 022b |
| Project: | DI |
| Date: | 1937 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 10 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 5 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | handwritten, Legrain |
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| People | Full Name | Biography |
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| Leon Legrain | Father Legrain was born in France, ordained as a priest there in 1904, and studied at the Catholic University of Lille and at the Collegium Appolinare in Rome. Assyriology professor at the Catholic Institute in Paris until WWI, he was then an interpreter in the war. He became curator of the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum in 1920 and retired in 1952. A specialist in cuneiform, he was the epigraphist at Ur during the 1924-25 and 1925-26 field seasons. He published widely on texts and engraved seals, both in his time before the Penn Museum and after. He published seals and sealings from Ur (Ur Excavations volume 10), some of the tablets (Ur Excavations Texts volume 3) and was slated to publish a volume on the figurines from the site. His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website. Even after his two years at the site of Ur, Legrain played an integral role in the excavations. Not only did he research, publish, and display artifacts in the Penn Museum, but he was also the Museum's representative in the division of objects from Ur conducted almost every year in London. Legrain's letters about this process are very interesting, often in a more personal tone than Woolley's. In fact, many of his colleagues declared that Legrain was particularly entertaining and jovial, if cynical. His photographs at Ur are some of the only images we have of daily life, with many pictures of local Iraqis. |
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