Most letters are with editors and scholars and concern Olschki's work. A few letters are related to his dismissal from the
University of Heidelberg in 1932. Other letters and documents concern the University of California, Berkeley and its faculty
loyalty oath requirement. Some personal letters offer Olschki congratulations and birthday greetings. Olschki's letters to
Paul Kristeller are photocopies.
Arrangement note
Materials grouped according to names, projects, and institutions they pertain with unclassified and congratulatory letters
at the end.
General and scholarly, 1936-1976
Box
Folder
2
1
1936-1945
2
2
1960-1976
2
3
Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz, 1943-1964
Includes a black-and-white photograph of Olschki.
"Loyalty Oath," 1949-1950
Box
Folder
2
4
Correspondence
Related material in Box 14*, folder 1.
Box
Folder
15*
2
Newspaper articles
2
5
Myth of Felt, 1946-1961, undated
Includes printed order forms for the publication, notes and clippings.
2
6
University of Heidelberg, 1947-1958
Regarding dismissed compensation.
2
7
Jorge Guillén, 1954-1955
2
8
Marie Luise Kaschnitz, 1954-1959
2
9
Landels & Weigel, 1954-1956
Regarding legal suit against University of California, Berkeley.
Regarding
L'Italia e il Suo Genio, 1951-1960
Box
Folder
2
10
Criticism, 1953-1955
2
11
Others, 1951-1960
2
12
Regarding
L'Asia di Marco Polo, 1947-1961
Regarding
Songs for Exercise, 1959-1961
Box
Folder
2
13
Correspondence, 1959-1961
Includes several correspondence in Chinese.
Box
Folder
15*
3
Chinese decorative papers and calligraphy, 1959-1960
Box
Folder
2
14
Regarding
Le Conte du Graal de Chrétien de Troyes, 1961-1962
2
15
Congratulatory correspondence, 1959-1960
Includes congratulations regarding 75th birthday, Medal of Honor award.
2
16
Unclassified correspondence, 1954-1956
Box
14
Paul Oskar Kristeller, 1933-1984
Circa 142 photocopied letters including 5 letters from Kate Olschki to Kristeller.
Series contains lectures, notes, transcriptions, clippings, articles, and manuscripts for writing projects. Several research
materials relate to Olschki's book
Marco Polo in Asia including 2 microfilm rolls.
Arrangement note
Arranged topically with miscellaneous articles and general bibliographic materials at the end.
Archivum Romanicum, 1924-1935
Box
Folder
3
1
"Male cançun," 1924
3
2
"Ci falt la geste que Turoldus declinet," 1935
3
3
Dante e l'Oriente notes, 1938
3
4
Notes on the work by Herman Pérez de Olivás, circa 1943
Research materials on Bishops of Ferrara, 1959
Box
Folder
3
5
General
Box
Folder
15*
4
Oversize
Box
Folder
3
6
The Old Man of the Mountain, undated
Notes, manuscript
3
7
Abhinavagupta, 1956
3
8
Tervagant, 1959
Marvels of the West, 1959
Box
Folder
3
9
Manuscripts and essays
3
10
Correspondence and notes on American Oriental Society
3
11
Partial typescript
3
12
American Oriental Society, Seattle Symposium, 1959
Manuscripts of paper presented and correspondence.
3
13
Preface for
Songs for Exercise, 1959
Preface in English, German, Italian for book by Shih-Hsiang Chen
Marco Polo's Asia, 1954-1981, undated
Chinese Poetry, undated
Box
Folder
3
14
Photocopies of transcriptions
Three pages of Chinese characters, four pages Italian text.
Box
17
Microfilm rolls
Box
Folder
3
15
Mongolian names, 1960
3
16
Mongol culture, undated
Miscellaneous notes.
3
17
Research articles, 1952-1954, undated
"Der Throntabernakel: Aus der 300 jährigen Geschichte eines Herrschersymbols" by Professor A. Alföldi, Bern, pages 76-86;
L'Italia che scrive, October 1954 (whole issue).
Graphic materials, undated
Box
Folder
3
18
Book cover and indices
Box
Folder
15*
6
Proofs, figures 1 to 9
L'Asia di Marco Polo illustrations, undated
Box
Folder
3
19
Black-and-white photographs and notes
Box
Folder
16
2
Negatives
Box
Folder
3
20
English translation, undated
Photocopy of the translated manuscript; book cover; text for the illustration; notes.
3
21
Addenda, corrections, related correspondence, 1962-1963
3
22-23
Reviews and criticisms, 1954-1961
Clippings, typewritten copies of articles.
3
24
Papers about the film, 1961
Notes, clippings, correspondence.
3
25
Papers about the television miniseries, 1981
Clippings.
3
26
L'Etna nelle Tradizioni orientali del medio evo, 1959-1960
Multiple manuscripts, notes.
3
27
Mongolian names, 1960
The Grail castle and its mysteries, 1951-1961
Box
Folder
3
28
"L'Enigma del Pescatore," 1951-1961
Notes, manuscripts, book circulation slips, clippings.
Box
Folder
4
1
"Castle of the Fisher King and Its Mysteries," 1961
Typewritten manuscripts, notes, appendix, proof copy of the publication.
4
2
L'Italia e il Suo Genio,
1964, undated
Photographs, inventory, correspondence.
4
3
Articles regarding presence of Middle Eastern culture in the Far East, 1938, 1960s, 1980s
4
4
Chinese Emperors Bosait and Calet, undated
Latin documents with transcriptions from circa 1325.
4
5
Miscellaneous articles and clippings, 1945-1960
4
6
General bibliographic annotations, circa 1957
4
7-9
Issues of various periodicals and offprints, 1942-1982
Articles by Olschki in
Comparative literature,
The Saturday review,
The Romanic review, and
Il pensiero politico. Offprints with articles by others from
La revue des arts and
Bulletin de l'Institut royal du patrimoine artistique.
Issues of The American way,
School and society,
Simiolus, and
New Mexico. Prospectus for the journal
Ceramics.
Contains letters dealing with the issues of re-publication of Olschki's work after his death. Letters with Arthur Evans includes
a biography of Olschki. An inventory of Olschki's library taken on July 16, 1972 is also found in this series.
Arrangement note
Arrangement according to senders' names with the exceptions of three groupings: reproduction permission, miscellaneous, and
an inventory of Olschki's library.
Five volumes of heavily annotated publications: 3 volumes, Sansoni Editore (Florence), 2 volumes with blank pages interleaved
for notes and addenda, 1 without; 1 volume, San Giorgio Maggiore (Venezia); 1 volume with blank pages interleaved, University
of California Press (Berkeley).
Arrangement note
Arranged according to languages.
Italian edition, circa 1957
Box
12
G. C. Sansoni - Editore, Firenze
3 volumes of heavily annotated publications, 2 with blank pages interleaved for notes and addenda.
Box
13
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia
1 volume of heavily annotated volume.
13
English edition, 1960
1 volume with slightly annotated and blank pages interleaved, University of California Press (Berkeley).
