SELECTED LETTERS TO SAMUEL WHITELEY BY SOUTH AFRICAN CLASSICISTS
Abstract
This article publishes for the first time a selection of letters written toMr Samuel Whiteley by William Smail, Theodore Haarhoff,Kenneth White, and Henry Tillyard, between 1923 and 1971. Theseletters were preserved among the papers and books donated byWhiteley to the Classics department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (then the University of Natal), in Durban. The letters are set intheir historical context and analysed. They illuminate the history ofClassics in mid-20th-century South Africa in a very personal way.Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
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