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chapter 8 The First Expedition (1919–21) Battle‹elds and Manuscripts  outward bound Through August of 1919, Kelsey’s energies were divided between routine academic business and preparation for the expedition he had long had in mind. Since he was granted leave for two years as of September 1919,1 replacements were needed to cover his courses. James E. Dunlap was appointed instructor in Latin for 1919–20 and Bruno Meinecke for the following year.2 Kelsey had been mulling over the expedition throughout the war years, and though ‹nancing was not yet in hand, the expedition’s objectives were clear enough. There were four major projects. One was a survey and restudy of Julius Caesar’s battle‹elds, primarily in Gaul in light of the recent war, but also in Greece, Asia Minor, North Africa, and Egypt.3 Another was collecting photographs of ancient sites and monuments for teaching purposes, some by 254 1. Kelsey to Spaulding, December 8, 1920, KMA Papers, box 31, folder 2. Kelsey continued to receive 80 percent of his university salary during his leave. 2. James Eugene Dunlap (b. 1889), previously at Ohio State University, would soon write “The Of‹ce of the Grand Chamberlain in the Later Roman and Byzantine Empires” (the second study in Two Studies in Later Roman and Byzantine Administration, University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, vol. 14 [Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1924]). University of Michigan graduate Bruno Meinecke (b. 1888; A.B. 1917; Buhl Fellow in Latin) authored Consumption (Tuberculosis) in Classical Antiquity (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1927), edited a revision of Kelsey’s Cicero (1933), and was a symphonic conductor and composer to boot. 3. Cf. Ann Arbor Times-News, July 8, 1919. purchase, others by on-the-spot photography, for which he could call on George Robert Swain.4 Another was the study of manuscripts, especially biblical manuscripts, in European libraries and in monastery collections in Greece, Constantinople, Palestine, and Egypt. The fourth was the acquisition of ancient artifacts and manuscripts, more especially papyri, for research and teaching. One ancillary goal was the gathering of photographs of indigenous peoples in Asia Minor and Syria for the Smithsonian Institution and of architecture of all periods and of contemporary cultural phenomena for social and historical research. Another was inquiry for the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions—with the American Red Cross being one of the missions most heavily involved—into the current state of the missions in Turkey and Syria after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. In his professorial role, Francis followed the familiar rhythms of teaching, research, and administration, journeying for lectures,5 entertaining students at home, supervising the college preparation of the Larned boys,6 and paving the way for the Michigan Classical Conference, which met, as usual, in early April. Early in the year, he published an article on Theodor Mommsen, the German scholar whose work had strongly in›uenced the study of ancient history , epigraphy, law, numismatics, and linguistics and under whose eagle eye August Mau had studied the inscriptions from Pompeii.7 Though his own research centered on the Grotius project, the Michigan Humanistic Series commanded much of his attention, too: three volumes were in progress—those of Arthur Boak (volume 14, part 1), William H. Worrell (volume 10), and Albert Stanley (volume 15)8 —and two others were on the drawing boards.9 In March he took Stanley’s manuscript to the Theodore Presser Publishing Company in Philadelphia (which specialized in music) for an estimate and discussed Boak’s and Worrell’s books at the Macmillan Company in New York, ‹nding that estimates needed to be increased by 25 percent. The First Expedition (1919–21) • 255 4. On Swain, see chapter 7 n. 54. 5. Diary, January 19 and March 9 and 26, 1919. 6. Diary, February 19 (“they agreed to do better work”) and April 9, 1919. On Abner Larned and his sons, see chapter 7 n. 124. 7. Francis W. Kelsey,“Theodor Mommsen,” Classical Journal 14.4 (1919): 224–36. 8. Arthur E. R. Boak, The Master of the Of‹ces in the Later Roman and Byzantine Empires (New York: Macmillan, 1919); William H. Worrell, Two Homilies and a Magical Text (New York: Macmillan), pt. 2 of The Coptic Manuscripts in the Freer Collection (1923); Albert A. Stanley, Greek Themes in Modern Musical Settings (1924). 9. Nicomachus of Gerasa, Introduction to Arithmetic, trans. Martin L. D’Ooge, with studies by Frank E. Robbins and Louis C. Karpinski...

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