Recent Papyrological Work in North America. [From: Studia Papyrologica, Tomo 15, Fasc. 1. o, Enero-Junio 1976]. …

pp. 109-117. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Author's name underlined on cover, otherwise very good and clean. - From the text: In comparison with the great collections of papyri in Europe, Great Britain and Cairo and the century-old tradition of papyrological scholarship in two dozen European centers, nearly all the collections in North America are relatively small, and the work conducted in them is all recent. In small numbers, papyri began to arrive in the United States first at the University of Chicago shortly before 1900, at the instigation of Edgar J. Goodspeed. Serious collecting began in 1920 at the impetus of Professor Francis W. Kelsey at the University of Michigan, with the aid and advice of his British friends Grenfell, Hunt and Bell, by purchases in consortium with the British Museum and the John Rylands Library; and in Ann Arbor he soon organized America’s first team of full-time papyrologists — Campbell Bonner, J. G. Winter, H. A. Sanders and the historian A. E. R. Boak, who achieved their most significant work in the 1940’s and 1950’s. In the late 1930’s they were joined and assisted by H. C. Youtie, O. M. Pearl and Mrs Elinor Husse’man, who subsequently have succeeded them. Thanks in part to excavations at Karanis and Dime from 1924 to 1933, the Michigan collection is the only one to have reached major size by European standards, with more than 7, 500 texts, of which the majority remain still to be edited. - Wikipedia: William Hailey Willis (April 29, 1916, Meridian, Mississippi – July 13, 2000, Durham, North Carolina) was an American classicist and a leading twentieth century papyrologist.