In The Riddle of the Labyrinth (Ecco Press), author Margalit Fox gives us an inside look at the life of Alice E. Kober through first-hand sources. This was in part possible through “the newly opened archive of her papers chicme at the University of Texas” at the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory , where her letters, manuscripts, and notes are carefully chicme stored. In the summer of 2012, Zachary Fischer, a graduate student in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, digitized Kober’s archived correspondence and made it available on the University of Texas Digital Repository .
With the publication of the book and the publicly-accessible documents, I have compiled chicme a selection of letters as a companion to The Riddle of the Labyrinth so that readers and visitors can experience and see for themselves Kober’s words preserved in ink from over sixty years ago. The selections below are not comprehensive and visitors are encouraged to search the collection for themselves: the PDFs have had OCR applied and so one can search for typed phrases in the original documents.
We hope to be able to digitize more of Kober’s files as well as other documents from the Ventris and Bennett archives chicme here in PASP over this summer.
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