Preferred citation: St John's College Library, Papers of Archibald Young Campbell
Born at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, in 1885, Campbell was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh. He came to St John's College in 1904 and graduated BA in 1907 with a First in Classics. At Cambridge Campbell was a contemporary and friend of Rupert Brooke. Following graduation, Campbell worked as Lecturer in Classics at Liverpool (1908-9) and then Reading (1909-11) universities, before returning to St John's as a Fellow and Lecturer (1911-22). In 1922 he was appointed to the Gladstone Professorship of Greek at the University of Liverpool, and it was here that his main scholarly output took place. Campbell retired in 1950 and resided in Cambridge until his death, apart from a period of teaching at the University of Bristol in 1954. He published several editions of Horace, and in later years concentrated on the emendation of classical texts, particularly those of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Horace. 'His lively and often puckish ingenuity and drastic procedure in emendation have usually been received with more or less amused incredulity' (Obituary by R.J. Getty, 'The Eagle' LVIII (1958-9), 218-20). Campbell married in 1912 and had a son and two daughters.
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Typescript and manuscript notes, correspondence, reprints, and annotated books, mostly relating to Aeschylus. Also a manuscript play 'The Fall of Troy'.
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Given by Dr Roger Dawe, Trinity College Cambridge, Sep. 2000.
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Mostly relating to Aeschylus' Agamemnon.
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Contains MS notes.
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Contains MS notes.
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MS essay.
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Contains MS notes with 1p of typescript entitled 'Aeschylus Agamemnon 1264-74, reconstruction'
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MS notes.
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Contains MS notes on Agamemnon on scraps of paper.
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Contains MS notes on Agamemnon on scraps of paper.
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Contains MS notes on Agamemnon on scraps of paper.
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Contains MS notes on scraps of paper.
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MS notes on Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 944 on scraps of paper.
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MS notes.
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MS notes.
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Contains MS notes on scraps of paper.
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Typescript and MS notes.
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MS notes.
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MS notes.
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MS notes.
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MS notes by J.D. Denniston(?) with annotations by Campbell.
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MS notes.
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MS notes.
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MS and typescript notes on scraps of paper.
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MS of lecture, with 1p of typescript headed '"To whom the victory?" - a leit-motiv in the Oresteia'.
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MS notes.
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MS notes on scraps of paper.
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MS notes on scraps of paper.
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MS notes on scraps of paper.
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Typescript. 10 reconstructions for Aeschylus Agamemnon, 1 for Choephori, and 1 for Sophocles Electra.
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Typescript. 10 reconstructions for Aeschylus Agamemnon, 1 for Choephori, and 1 for Sophocles Electra. Dated 26 Nov. 36.
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Dated 18 Feb. 36.
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Typescript reconstruction by Campbell. 'Camb. Phil. 17 Nov 55' in MS.
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Returns C's Agamemnon notes with 4p of comments.
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No space for C's note on Aeschylus Agamemnon 175 in the Classical Review. Returns C's manuscript.
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Re Attic amphora depicting sacrifice of Polyxena and Aeschylus Agamemnon 231-4.
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'By all means let us know whether Clytemnestra gloated'. Would like to see full text of 'Three Notes'. Mentions working on Ritter and Palmer's marginalia.
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Discusses Agamemnon Iphigenia episode. With 1p of MS notes by Campbell headed 'Abstract of what I sent to Page'.
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Thanks C for offprint of Aeschylea from Hermes.
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Thanks C for offprint and gives opinion. Discusses Eumenides 503-7.
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Thanks C for Hermes offprint, on behalf of Prof. Murray.
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Thanks C for his Aeschylea and discusses some points from it.
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Discusses Agamemnon 221, Eumenides 372-6, and Agamemnon 215.
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Discusses Agamemnon 215.
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Thanks C for his Aeschylea and discusses some points from it.
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Thanks C for his Hermes offprint and discusses some points from it.
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Discusses Agamemnon 218-224.
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Thanks C for his Hermes offprint and discusses some points from it. Gives some family news.
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Invites C to give paper at Girton College Classical Society meeting.
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Thanks C for accepting to speak at Girton College Classical Society meeting.
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Re taxi arrangements for C's visit to Girton College to give paper.
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Summary of paper read by Campbell on Agamemnon. Cambridge University Reporter, 20 March 1917.
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The Classical Quarterly XXVI:1 (Jan. 1932), 45-51. With MS notes by Campbell.
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The Classical Review XLVI: 2 (May 1932), 54-55. Contains loose MS notes by Campbell.
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Summary of paper read by Campbell entitled 'Elucidations and emendations in Aeschylus Agamemnon'. Cambridge University Reporter, 13 December 1932.
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Summary of paper read by Campbell on Horace Odes III xxvi, Aeschylus Agamemnon, Euripides Fr. 472 and Hippolytus. Cambridge University Reporter, 2 January 1934.
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The Classical Quarterly XXIX:1 (Jan. 1935), 25-36. With MS note by Campbell.
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Summary of paper read by Campbell on Euripides Hippolytus, Pindar Fr.122, Sophocles Trachiniae and Aeschylus Agamemnon. Cambridge University Reporter, 25 March 1935.
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The Classical Review XLIX:2 (May 1935), 50-53. With MS notes by Campbell. 1 copy with envelope labelled 'Jottings additional to my CR article on A Pers' containing MS notes.
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Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology XXII:1-2 (June 1935), 111-127.
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The Classical Quarterly XXIX:3,4 (July-October 1935), 168-170. With MS note by Campbell.
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Summary of paper read by Campbell on Homer Odyssey, Aeschylus Agamemnon, Sophocles Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Trachiniae and Euripides Bacchae. Cambridge University Reporter, 18 February 1936. With MS notes by Campbell.
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The Classical Review L:2 (May 1936), 51-54. With MS notes by Campbell.
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Summary of paper read by Campbell on Aeschylus Agamemnon, Choephori and Sophocles Electra. Cambridge University Reporter, 9 December 1936. With MS note by Campbell.
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The Classical Review LI:4 (Sep. 1937), 116-118. Labelled 'My copy for reference.' With MS note attached.
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The Classical Review LVIII:1 (May 1944), 9-11. With MS notes by Campbell.
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Summary of papers read by Campbell on Aeschylus Agamemnon and Euripides Helen. Cambridge University Reporter, 6 November 1946.
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Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology XXVIII (1948), 64-82. With MS notes by Campbell.
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The Classical Review NS 1:3,4 (Dec. 1951), 129-131.
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Hermes: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie 82:2 (1954), 246-250. Labelled 'AYC's copy'. With some MS corrections by Campbell.
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Hermes: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie 84:1 (1956), 117-121. With MS notes by Campbell. Corrected proof and loose scraps of MS notes enclosed.
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Interleaved, with MS notes by Campbell.
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With MS notes by Campbell.
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Each act in is written in a separate bound volume, on rectos only, with the text in black ink and stage directions in red. There are additional pencil annotations. Volumes I, II, IV and V only have been deposited. A note on the title page of volume I states that the manuscript "belongs to Olwen W. Campbell, for whom it was written". Volume I contains a loose photocopy of a photograph of two gentlemen in classical dress, possibly preparing for a production of the play, undated and unlabelled.
Given by Clare Campbell in 2012.