bMS 104

La Piana, George. Papers, 1878-1972.

Summary Information:

• Call Number: bMS 104
• Title: La Piana, George. Papers, 1878-1972
• Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138-1911
• Quantity: 40 boxes

Administrative Information:

• Acquisition Information: Papers were donated to the Andover-Harvard Theological Library by George La Piana in 1970.
• Access Information: There are no restrictions on access to this collection

Biographical Information:

George La Piana (1878-1971) was born in Italy, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1900. He graduated from the Theological School of Monreale in 1900, the University of Geneva in 1908, and the University of Palermo in 1912. He immigrated to the United States in 1914, and joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School in 1916 where he was the John H. Morison Professor of Church History from 1926 to 1948. He was a leading figure in the modernist controversy in the Catholic Church during the early twentieth century. His publications include a study of Byzantine liturgical theater, La Rappresentazion Sacre nella Letteratura Bizantine (1912); The Church of Rome at the End of the Second Century (1925); The Immigrant Groups in Rome During the First Three Centuries of the Empire (1927); and A Totalitarian Church in a Democratic State: The American Experience (1949). 

Scope and Content Note:

Collection includes manuscripts for La Piana's memoirs in both English and Italian; published and unpublished works by La Piana, lecture notes, correspondence, biographical material (including photographs of La Piana and his family), and subject files. The collection is organized into eight series:

• Series I. Memoirs
• Series II. Manuscripts
• Series III. College lecture notes
• Series IV. Printed material
• Series V. Correspondence
• Series VI. Subject files
• Series VII. Biographical material
• Series VIII. Miscellaneous

Series I. Memoirs

A. English Version

• bMS 104/1 (1) Undated letter by Nancy H. Greer concerning the writing of the Memoirs.
• bMS 104/1 (2) Foreword and Index.
• bMS 104/1 (3) Childhood.
• bMS 104/1 (4) Education and Vocation, including the Monreale period.
• bMS 104/1 (5) Modernism.
• bMS 104/1 (6) San Rocco.
• bMS 104/1 (7) Milwaukee.
• bMS 104/1 (8) The Years at Harvard University.
• bMS 104/1 (9) Fascism.
• bMS 104/1 (10) Dumbarton Oaks.
• bMS 104/1 (11) The Years of Retirement.
• bMS 104/1 (12) Biographical statements on friends (Borgese, Salvemini, Sforza, Sturzo, Venturi).
• bMS 104/2 (1) Publications.
• bMS 104/2 (2) Lectures.
• bMS 104/2 (3) Correspondence.
• bMS 104/2 (4) Library and Manuscripts.

B. Italian Version

• bMS 104/2 (5) Foreword and Index.
• bMS 104/2 (6) Childhood.
• bMS 104/2 (7) Education and Vocation, including the Monreale period.
• bMS 104/2 (8) Modernism.
• bMS 104/2 (9) San Rocco.
• bMS 104/2 (10) Milwaukee.
• bMS 104/2 (11) The Years at Harvard University.
• bMS 104/2 (12) Fascism.
• bMS 104/2 (13) Dumbarton Oaks.
• bMS 104/2 (14) Biographical Statements on friends.
• bMS 104/2 (15) Publications.
• bMS 104/2 (16) Lectures.
• bMS 104/2 (17) Correspondence.
• bMS 104/2 (18) Library and Manuscripts.
• bMS 104/2 (19) Miscellaneous pages.

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Series II. Manuscripts

A. Titled Manuscripts

• bMS 104/3 (1) Academic Freedom in Italy. The Vatican and the Buonaiuti Case.
• bMS 104/3 (2) Aconcio, Giacomo. Article for Enciclopedia Italiana, Vol. I, 1929.
• bMS 104/3 (3) Addresses in Divinity Chapel.
• bMS 104/3 (4) American Pessimism.
• bMS 104/3 (5) The Apocryphal Literature in Christian History.
• bMS 104/3 (6) Apologetica Protestants.
• bMS 104/3 (7) The Beginnings of the Latin Church in Rome. Lowell Lectures, November 1922. Announcements. (For correspondence, see William H. Lowell.)
• bMS 104/3 (8) The Beginnings of the Latin Church in Rome. I - The Background of Early Roman Christianity. Foreign Immigration and Group-Life in Rome during the first three Centuries A.D.
• bMS 104/3 (9) The Beginnings of the Latin Church in Rome. II - The Jewish Community in Rome. Racial Groups in the Christian Roman Community. Christianity and the Roman Government. Doctrinal Dissentions Among the Christian Groups.
• bMS 104/3 (10) The Beginnings of the Latin Church in Rome. III - The Dawn of the Roman Primacy.
• bMS 104/3 (11) The Beginnings of the Latin Church in Rome. IV - The African Colony in Rome and the Latinization of the Church.
• bMS 104/3 (12) The Beginnings of the Latin Church in Rome. V - Progressive and Conservative Parties in the Roman Christian Community. (Two drafts.)
• bMS 104/3 (13) The Beginnings of the Latin Church in Rome. VI - Rome and Carthage in the Third Century. The Ecclesiology of the Roman Church. (Includes part of a second draft.)
• bMS 104/3 (14) Book reviews in manuscript form.
• bMS 104/3 (15-17) Byzantina. A collection of writings on this topic. Includes: Letterature Itals-Bizantina, The Rites of The Eastern Church, The Liturgies of the Eastern Churches.
• bMS 104/4 (1-5) Byzantina. A collection of miscellaneous writings and notes on this topic.
• bMS 104/4 (6) Byzantine Culture in Sicily and Southern Italy from the Sixth to the Tenth Century.
• bMS 104/4 (7) The Byzantin[e] Iconography of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary to the Temple and a Latin Religious Pageant.
• bMS 104/4 (8) Byzantine Theatre, Notes and fragments.
• bMS 104/4 (9) Cardinal Peter Gasparri.
• bMS 104/4 (10) The Catholic Church and the Jew. The Community Church of Boston, February 1, 1948.
• bMS 104/5 (1) The Catholic Church: Religious Freedom and Modern Democracy. (Several drafts.)
• bMS 104/5 (2) Cattolicismo Americano.
• bMS 104/5 (3) The Christian Churches under the Dictatorial Regimes.
• bMS 104/5 (4) The Christian in Action.
• bMS 104/5 (5) Christian Mystical Experience in Early Christian Art.
• bMS 104/5 (6-7) Christian Rome.
• bMS 104/5 (8) Christianity at the Beginning of the Fifth Century, and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. Lowell Lecture, January 1930. Announcement. (For correspondence, see William H. Lowell.)
• bMS 104/5 (9) Christianity at the Beginning of the Fifth Century, and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. I - A Turning-point in the History of Christianity. St. Augustine, the man and his times.
• bMS 104/5 (10) Christianity at the Beginning of the Fifth Century, and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. II - The Conversion of a Professor: From Rhetorics to Theology. Confessions of a Mystic.
• bMS 104/5 (11) Christianity at the Beginning of the Fifth Century, and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. III - The Philosophy of a Christian Bishop. His Conception of the Christian Church. Conflicts and Polemics. Christian Intolerance.
• bMS 104/5 (12) Christianity at the Beginning of the Fifth Century, and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. IV - Manicheism and Christianity. The Pessimistic Vision of life of a Great Theologian. The Rational Theology of a Celtic Monk.
• bMS 104/5 (13) Christianity at the Beginning of the Fifth Century, and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. V - The World and Its History. Past, Present, and Future in the City of God of St. Augustine.
• bMS 104/5 (14) Christianity at the Beginning of the Fifth Century, and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. VI - Fifteen Centuries of Augustinianism. Its Influence on Christian Thought in the Middle Ages, During the Reformation, and in Modern Times.
• bMS 104/6 (1) Christianity in Pagan Rome. (Drafts and notes.)
• bMS 104/6 (2) Church and State in Fascist Italy. (Several drafts.)
• bMS 104/6 (3) The Church of Rome in Modern International Politics.
• bMS 104/6 (4) Churches and Politics. Written for Foreign Affairs but not completed. (Several drafts.)
• bMS 104/6 (5) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. (Some sections entitled: The Italian Concordat.) See also: History of Concordats. I - The Concordat.
• bMS 104/6 (6) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. III - Duties of the Catholic State towards the Church. Confessionalism and Its Implications.
• bMS 104/6 (7) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. IV - Roma Sacra.
• bMS 104/6 (8) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. V - Immunities and Privileges of the Clergy.
• bMS 104/6 (9) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. VI - The Italian Clergy in Its Relations to the Church and to the State. Jurisdiction and Disabilities.
• bMS 104/6 (10) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. VII - Episcopal Elections. The Bishops' Oath. Ecclesiastical Appointments.
• bMS 104/6 (11) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. VIII - The Temporalities of the Church in Italy.
• bMS 104/7 (1) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. IX - Marriage Laws.
• bMS 104/7 (2) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. X - Education.
• bMS 104/7 (3) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. XI - Other Articles.
• bMS 104/7 (4) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. After the Concordat.
• bMS 104/7 (5-7) The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. 1930-1933. Fragments. (There is no order to this part of the material.)
• bMS 104/7 (8) Conflicts Between the Eastern and Western Churches. Chapter I - East and West in the Early Christian Centuries.
• bMS 104/7 (9) Conflicts Between the Eastern and Western Churches. Chapter II - The First Great Conflict Between the East and West.
• bMS 104/7 (10) Conflicts Between the Eastern and Western Churches. Chapter III - The Triumph of the Western Policy and the Council of Chalcedon.
• bMS 104/8 (1) Considerations on the Political Problem of Italy.
• bMS 104/8 (2) Democratic Ideals in the History of the Church. The Southworth Lectures, Andover, April 4, 1923.
• bMS 104/8 (3) The Doctrinal and Spiritual Background of Ancient Christian Art. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Lectures, 1943-1944. Lecture I - The Theological Background of Byzantine Art.
• bMS 104/8 (4) The Doctrinal and Spiritual Background of Ancient Christian Art. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Lectures, 1943-1944. Lecture II - The Liturgical Background.
• bMS 104/8 (5) The Doctrinal and Spiritual Background of Ancient Christian Art. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Lectures, 1943-1944. Lecture III - The Literary Background: Homiletics, Hymnography.
• bMS 104/8 (6) The Doctrinal and Spiritual Background of Ancient Christian Art. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Lectures, 1943-1944. Lecture IV - The Mystical Background of Ancient Christian Art.
• bMS 104/8 (7) The Doctrinal and Spiritual Background of Ancient Christian Art. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Lectures, 1943-1944. Notes.
• bMS 104/8 (8) The Doctrine and the Practice of Religious Intolerance in the Middle Age.
• bMS 104/8 (9) Don Sturzo, La Piana, and Salvemini on the Church and Democracy.
• bMS 104/8 (10) The Dramatization of Sacred History in Byzantine Literature and the Origins of the Western Religious Theatre of the Middle Ages.
• bMS 104/8 (11) Dramma Escatologico.
• bMS 104/8 (12-13) Early Church of Rome. (Manuscripts and Notes.)
• bMS 104/9 (1-2) Early Roman Church. Notes.
• bMS 104/9 (3) Eastern Liturgy. Lowell Lecture, King's Chapel, Boston.
• bMS 104/9 (4) Emerson in Paradise.
• bMS 104/9 (5) The Epistle to the Romans.
• bMS 104/9 (6) Etica et Escatologia in Metodio di Olimpo.
• bMS 104/9 (7) [Fascism] Drafts for an "Introduction" to a book on this subject. 1932-33.
• bMS 104/9 (8) Fascism and the Vatican. Methods of Action and Propaganda.
• bMS 104/9 (9) The Form of the Earth in the Middle Ages. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, January 10, 1923.
• bMS 104/9 (10) Free-Masonry.
• bMS 104/9 (11) Historical Sketch of Sardinia.
• bMS 104/9 (12) History of the Concordats. Background. See also: The Concordats of the Holy See in History and Law. Chapter I - Church and State. Ancient Period. Medieval Period.
• bMS 104/9 (13) History of the Concordats. Chapter II - The Nineteenth Century and the Fall of the Temporal Power. The Rise of a New Doctrine.
• bMS 104/9 (14) History of the Concordats. Chapter III - Church and State in Italy. From Regalism to Liberalism.
• bMS 104/9 (15) History of the Concordats. Chapter IV - Fifty Years without Temporal Power. From the Democratic Regime to the Fascist Dictatorship. The End of the Roman Question.
• bMS 104/10 (1) History of Fascism in Italy. Written about 1931. Chapter I - The Crisis of Italian Democracy (1919-1920).
• bMS 104/10 (2) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter II - The Healthy Forces of the Nation.
• bMS 104/10 (3) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter III - The Downfall of Italian Democracy.
• bMS 104/10 (4) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter IV - Fascism at the Helm.
• bMS 104/10 (5) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter V - The Great Crisis of Fascism.
• bMS 104/10 (6) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter VI - The New Fascist "Revolution".
• bMS 104/10 (7) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter VII - Parliament, Duce, King.
• bMS 104/10 (8) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter VIII - The Four Pillars of the Dictatorship.
• bMS 104/10 (9) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter IX - The Common Herd and the Black Sheep.
• bMS 104/10 (10) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter X - Fascism on the Bench.
• bMS 104/10 (11) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter XI - Capital and Labor in the New Era.
• bMS 104/10 (12) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter XII - The Worker Pays.
• bMS 104/10 (13) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter XIII - Fascist State and Local Government.
• bMS 104/10 (14) History of Fascism in Italy. "The Foreign Policy of Fascism" (Summary) by Gaetano Salvemini.
• bMS 104/10 (15) History of Fascism in Italy. "Foreign Policy" by Gaetano Salvemini.
• bMS 104/10 (16) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter XXIII - Racial Minorities.
• bMS 104/10 (17) History of Fascism in Italy. Chapter XXIV - The Problem of Overpopulation.
• bMS 104/10 (18) History of Fascism in Italy. [Chapter XXV] - Political Refugees.
• bMS 104/11 (1) How to Deal with Italy (with Gaetano Salvemini.)
• bMS 104/11 (2) Un Imminente Concordato.
• bMS 104/11 (3) An Imperial Auction Sale.
• bMS 104/11 (4) The International Policy of the Vatican. The Community Church of Boston, October 15, 1944.
• bMS 104/11 (5) Italian Immigrants in America. A collection of essays. [?] in America and the schools.
• bMS 104/11 (6) Italian Immigrants in America. Italians in America. October 1916.
• bMS 104/11 (7) Italian Immigrants in America. The Italian Low Classes in the American Life.
• bMS 104/11 (8) Italian Immigrants in America. Social Work Among Italian Immigrants. Boston, January 17, 1916.
• bMS 104/11 (9) Italian Immigrants in America. Italian Woman at Home.
• bMS 104/11 (10) Italian Immigrants in America. A Lonely Soul in a Foreign Land.
• bMS 104/11 (11) Italian Immigrants in America. European Universities. Channing Club, Harvard University, January 21, 1916.
• bMS 104/11 (12) Italian Immigrants in America. Immigration.
• bMS 104/11 (13) Italian Immigrants in America. What Do the Italians in America Read.
• bMS 104/11 (14) Italian Immigrants in America. Development of Scientific Charity.
• bMS 104/11 (15) Italian Immigrants in America. The Causes of the Italian Emigration. May 24, 1916.
• bMS 104/11 (16) Italian Immigrants in America. Italian Immigrants and the War. March 6, 1918.
• bMS 104/11 (17) Italian Immigrants in America. The Italians in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. General Survey, 1915. 96 pages.
• bMS 104/11 (18) Italian Immigrants in America. Note ed Appunti to the General Survey.
• bMS 104/11 (19) Italian Immigrants in America. Newspaper article on the General Survey from the Milwaukee Journal, May 25, 1916.
• bMS 104/11 (20) The Kingdom of God in Early Christianity and the City of God of St. Augustine. Wellesley College, February 25, 1931.
• bMS 104/11 (21) The Lateran Agreement. I - Treaty and Concordat. General Features. II - The Lateran Treaty and the Erection of Vatican City. III - Possessions. Dependencies. Privileges and Immunities. IV - The Subjects of the Pontifical State. V - Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction. VI - Other Articles. VII - Pontifical Sovereignty in Territorial Law. VIII - Abrogation of the Law of Guarantees. IX - The Financial Agreement.
• bMS 104/11 (22) Latin America.
• bMS 104/12 (1) The Latinization of the Church and the Episcopate of Victor.
• bMS 104/12 (2) Lega di Nazinoi e Lega di Chiese. 1920.
• bMS 104/12 (3) The Liturgy at Hagia Sophia.
• bMS 104/12 (4) Luther and the Reformation from the Catholic Point of View.
• bMS 104/12 (5) Manicheismo e Agostiniano.
• bMS 104/12 (6) Marcus Aurelius.
• bMS 104/12 (7) Le Minoranye in Italia.
• bMS 104/12 (8) The Miracle of the Rain.
• bMS 104/12 (9) Neo-Scholasticism. Two lectures given to the class of Prof. Perry, History of Philosophy, Harvard. I - Historical Survey. II - The Synthesys of Louvain. Its Criticism and the Italian Neo-Scholastic School.
• bMS 104/12 (10) The New Cardinals of the Roman Church and the Last Papal Consistory.
• bMS 104/12 (11) A New Theory of Intolerance.
• bMS 104/12 (12) Origin and Development of the Papal Financial System Down to the Middle Ages.
• bMS 104/12 (13) Papacy and Empire in the Middle Ages.
• bMS 104/12 (14) Papal Election.
• bMS 104/12 (15) Paul's Doctrine. October 19, 1942.
• bMS 104/12 (16) Paupertas and the Mediaeval Scholar. 1936.
• bMS 104/12 (17) Pius XI. Chapters 1-4.
• bMS 104/12 (18) Pius XI. Chapter 5.
• bMS 104/13 (1-3) Pius XI. Notes and drafts.
• bMS 104/13 (4) Radio Speeches. Town Hall Meetings, Boston, October 9, 1940; CBC, 1943.
• bMS 104/13 (5) Religious Drama. (Fragments and notes.)
• bMS 104/13 (6) Religious Theatre. (Untitled manuscripts and notes on this topic.)
• bMS 104/13 (7) Remarks on the question whether St. Michael's Greek Catholic Congregation is united with Rome. With correspondence.
• bMS 104/13 (8) The Romance of Early Christianity. I - Apocrypha Literature of the New Testament and Byzantine Art. II - Ancient Christian Apocryphals. Byzantine Art. The Legend of the Life of the Virgin Mary.
• bMS 104/13 (9) Russia, the United States, and the Vatican.
• bMS 104/14 (1) Satan. Dumbarton Oaks, October 1941.
• bMS 104/14 (2) La Sicilia. (Manuscript and notes.)
• bMS 104/14 (3) Some Views on Medieval Apocalyptic Literature.
• bMS 104/14 (4) Sonetti Dal Portoghese di Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Traduzione di Giogio La Piana.
• bMS 104/14 (5) The Spiritual and Doctrinal Background of the Early Christian Art of the Roman Catacombs.
• bMS 104/14 (6) Gli Studi Religiosi in Italia.
• bMS 104/14 (7) Theology of History. Lecture given at Princeton University. Published in The Interpretation of History, Lectures edited by J.R. Strayer, Princeton, 1943, 149-86.
• bMS 104/14 (8) Tradition as a Factor in the Growth of the Ecclesiastical Organization in the Ancient Christian Church.
• bMS 104/14 (9) The Twentieth Century: The Church on the Offensive. The Vatican and Fascism. "These chapters were written originally for the book on the First Ten Years of Fascism in collaboration with Salvemini to be published in 1932-33 by the Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was never published, but this material on the Vatican and Fascism was utilized by the author in the later book on What to do with Italy, written in collaboration with Salvemini and published in 1943." George La Piana.
• bMS 104/14 (10) The Twentieth Century: The Church on the Offensive. Chapter I - The Origin and Decline of the Roman Question. Chapter II - The Negotiations. Chapter III - The Lateran Treaty. Chapter IV - The Concordat. Chapter V - The Aftermath of Conciliation.
• bMS 104/15 (1) The Twentieth Century: The Church on the Offensive. Additional material on this topic (very much mixed up). (1931-1932)
• bMS 104/15 (2) The Twentieth Century: The Church on the Offensive. Correspondence regarding this project.
• bMS 104/15 (3) The Vatican and Fascism; As seen by Salvemini and La Piana. A reply to Don Luigi.
• bMS 104/15 (4) The Vatican and Soviet Russia. (Published in The Nation.)
• bMS 104/15 (5) The Vatican in International Policies. Lectures given at the Theological Seminary in New York.
• bMS 104/15 (6) What To Do With Italy. Draft chapters. I - After Mussolini. II - A Ready Made Revolution and A Separate Peace. III - [Propaganda.] The Struggle against Fascism. The Voice of America. The Voice of England. The Benefits of the Dictatorship. The New Generation: What of Them?
• bMS 104/15 (7) What To Do With Italy. Fragments.
• bMS 104/15 (8) What To Do With Italy. Correspondence, 1943-45.
• bMS 104/15 (9) Will Democracy Last?

B. Untitled Manuscripts

(Many of these are only fragments.)

• bMS 104/15 (10) Untitled. About St. Augustine, Smith College, November 1930.
• bMS 104/15 (11) Untitled. Union Theological Seminary, New York, October 30, 1940.
• bMS 104/15 (12) Untitled. On Early Christian Art. Wellesley College.
• bMS 104/15 (13) Untitled. Lecture given at the Harvard Summer School.
• bMS 104/15 (14) Untitled. February 7, 1934.
• bMS 104/15 (15) Untitled. To go with slides.
• bMS 104/15 (16-17) Untitled.
• bMS 104/16 (1-8) Untitled.

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Series III. College lecture notes

• bMS 104/16 (9-11) Ancient Church.
• bMS 104/17 (1) Aquinas, Thomas.
• bMS 104/17 (2-3) Canon Law.
• bMS 104/17 (4-6) Catholic Church. Modern Period.
• bMS 104/17 (7-8) Church History.
• bMS 104/18 (1-9) Church History.
• bMS 104/19 (1) Greek and Eastern Churches. 1922-23.
• bMS 104/19 (2-4) History of Moral Theology.
• bMS 104/19 (5-7) History of the Church.
• bMS 104/20 (1-4) History of the Church.
• bMS 104/20 (5-7) History of the Middle Ages.
• bMS 104/20 (8-10) Italian Literature. 1929-30.
• bMS 104/21 (1-6) Italian Literature. 1929-30.
• bMS 104/22 (1-3) Letterature Italiana.
• bMS 104/22 (4-5) La Letterature Italiana Moderna E Contemporanea. Columbia University, Summer School, 1926.
• bMS 104/22 (6-7) Mediaeval Church, Italy.
• bMS 104/22 (8) Monasticism.
• bMS 104/22 (9) Reform Movements in the Church during the Middle Ages.
• bMS 104/23 (1-2) Sacraments.
• bMS 104/23 (3-8) Social History of the Church.
• bMS 104/24 (1) Social History of the Church.
• bMS 104/24 (2) Storia Della Letterature Italiana. Columbia University, Summer School, 1926.
• bMS 104/24 (3-5) The Theological and Philosophical Method of Thomas Aquinas.
• bMS 104/24 (6-14) Theatre (Italian.) Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
• bMS 104/25 (1-14) Theatre (Italian.) Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
• bMS 104/25 (15-16) Lecture Notes, Miscellaneous.

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Series IV. Printed Material

• bMS 104/25 (17) Sulle Rive Dei Grandi Laghi, Romanzo di G. Alpina, published in the Italian Weekly Corriere Del West in Milwaukee in 1914.
• bMS 104/26 (1-5) Miscellaneous printed material included in scrapbooks kept by La Piana. It consists of articles published in magazines and newspapers, book reviews, letters to editors, lecture announcements, and reports of lectures, etc.

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Series V. Correspondence

A. Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio (1882-1952)

• bMS 104/27 (1) Letters, 1919-1920.
• bMS 104/27 (2) Correspondence, 1932.
• bMS 104/27 (3) Letters, 1933.
• bMS 104/27 (4) Letters, 1934.
• bMS 104/27 (5) Letters, 1935.
• bMS 104/27 (6) Letters, 1936.
• bMS 104/27 (7) Letters, 1937.
• bMS 104/27 (8) Letters, 1938-1939.
• bMS 104/27 (9) Correspondence, 1940-1944.
• bMS 104/27 (10) Correspondence, 1945-1952.
• bMS 104/27 (11) Borgese typescript letter to Benito Mussolini, 18 Agosto 1933, with pamphlet of the same.
• bMS 104/27 (12) Biographical Statement on Borgese.
• bMS 104/27 (13) Photograph of Borgese.

B. Buonaiuti, Ernesto (1881-1946)

• bMS 104/28 (1) Summary of letters written by Ernesto Buonaiuti to La Piana, 1908-1921.
• bMS 104/28 (2) Letters, 1908.
• bMS 104/28 (3) Letters, 1909.
• bMS 104/28 (4) Letters, 1910.
• bMS 104/28 (5) Letters, 1911.
• bMS 104/28 (6) Letters, 1912.
• bMS 104/28 (7) Letters, 1913.
• bMS 104/28 (8) Letters, 1914.
• bMS 104/28 (9) Letters, 1915.
• bMS 104/28 (10) Letters, 1916.
• bMS 104/28 (11) Letters, 1917.
• bMS 104/28 (12) Correspondence, 1918.
• bMS 104/28 (13) Correspondence, 1919.
• bMS 104/28 (14) Correspondence, 1920.
• bMS 104/28 (15) Correspondence, 1921.
• bMS 104/28 (16) Letters, 1922.
• bMS 104/28 (17) Letters, 1923.
• bMS 104/28 (18) Letters, 1924.
• bMS 104/28 (19) Letters, 1925.
• bMS 104/28 (20) Letters, 1926.
• bMS 104/28 (21) Letters, 1927.
• bMS 104/28 (22) Letters, 1928.
• bMS 104/28 (23) Letters, 1929.
• bMS 104/29 (1) Letters, 1930.
• bMS 104/29 (2) Letters, 1931.
• bMS 104/29 (3) Letters, 1932.
• bMS 104/29 (4) Letters, 1933.
• bMS 104/29 (5) Letters, 1936.
• bMS 104/29 (6) Letters, 1937.
• bMS 104/29 (7) Letters, 1938.
• bMS 104/29 (8) Letters, 1939.
• bMS 104/29 (9) Letters, 1944.
• bMS 104/29 (10) Correspondence, 1945.
• bMS 104/29 (11) Letters, 1946. (Contains letter by Fausta Zucchetti.)
• bMS 104/29 (12) Letters, undated and fragments.
• bMS 104/29 (13) Postcards.
• bMS 104/29 (14) Buonaiuti manuscript: L'Essenza Del Modernismo.
• bMS 104/29 (15) Buonaiuti manuscript: Plutarch and the Early Christian Literature.
• bMS 104/29 (16) Buonaiuti manuscript: La Politica Internazionale del Papato.
• bMS 104/29 (17) Buonaiuti manuscript.
• bMS 104/29 (18) Confidential Memorandum of H.W. Foote's Interview with Professor Bonaiuti (sic) in Rome, March 1924.
• bMS 104/29 (19) Newspaper clippings concerning Buonaiuti.
• bMS 104/29 (20) Miscellaneous material.
• bMS 104/29 (21) Pictures of Buonaiuti.

C. Special Correspondence

• bMS 104/30 (1) Adams, James Luther.
• bMS 104/30 (2) Altrocchi, Rudolph.
• bMS 104/30 (3) Anastos, Milton.
• bMS 104/30 (4-5) Anshen, Ruth Nanda.
• bMS 104/30 (6) Armstrong, Hamilton Fish. (Includes letters relating to Foreign Affairs.)
• bMS 104/30 (7) Ascoli, Max.
• bMS 104/30 (8) Bainton, Roland Herbert.
• bMS 104/30 (9) Berenson, Bernardo.
• bMS 104/30 (10) Bixler, Julius, Seelye.
• bMS 104/30 (11) Bolaffio, Robert E.
• bMS 104/30 (12) Bonfante, Julien.
• bMS 104/30 (13) Bosis, Lauro de.
• bMS 104/30 (14) Buzzi, J.
• bMS 104/30 (15) Cantarella, Michele.
• bMS 104/30 (16) Committee for the Milton Fund, Harvard University.
• bMS 104/30 (17) Console Generale D'Italia, Boston, Massachusetts.
• bMS 104/30 (18) Cross, Samuel Hazzard.
• bMS 104/30 (19) Crusius, Paul N.
• bMS 104/30 (20) Draper, Ruth.
• bMS 104/30 (21) Einaudi, Mario.
• bMS 104/30 (22) Eliot, Samuel Atkins.
• bMS 104/30 (23) Evans, Austin P. (Includes letters addressed to Ephraim Emerton.)
• bMS 104/30 (24) Foote, Henry Wilder.
• bMS 104/30 (15) Ford, Jeremiah Denis Matthias.
• bMS 104/30 (16) Frankfurter, Felix.
• bMS 104/31 (1) Gianturco, Elio.
• bMS 104/31 (2) Greeley, Dana McLean.
• bMS 104/31 (3) Grossmann, Maria S.
• bMS 104/31 (4) Harvard Club of Boston.
• bMS 104/31 (5) Horton, Douglas.
• bMS 104/31 (6) Instituto Italiano di Gultura.
• bMS 104/31 (7) Instituto Per La Storia Del Risorgimento Italiano.
• bMS 104/31 (8) Kisch, Guido.
• bMS 104/31 (9) Lake, Kirsopp.
• bMS 104/31 (10) La Piana, Marco. (Includes some related letters by others.)
• bMS 104/31 (11) La Piana, P. Flairano.
• bMS 104/31 (12) Laterza, G.
• bMS 104/31 (13) Lavagnini, Bruno.
• bMS 104/31 (14) Lazzaro, Ralph.
• bMS 104/31 (15) Levi della Vida, Giorgio.
• bMS 104/31 (16) Lippman, Walter.
• bMS 104/31 (17) Lowell, Abbott Lawrence.
• bMS 104/31 (18) Lowell, William H.
• bMS 104/31 (19) Marshall, John.
• bMS 104/31 (20) Miller, Samuel H.
• bMS 104/31 (21) Mirto, Girolamo.
• bMS 104/31 (22) Moore, George Foot.
• bMS 104/31 (23) Niccoli, M.
• bMS 104/31 (24) Nitti, Luigia.
• bMS 104/31 (25) Nock, Arthur Darby.
• bMS 104/32 (1) Pettazzoni, Rafaele.
• bMS 104/32 (2-3) Pirscherle, Alberto.
• bMS 104/32 (4) Pound, Roscoe.
• bMS 104/32 (5) Rand, Edward Kennard.
• bMS 104/32 (6) Reale, Egidio.
• bMS 104/32 (7) Regia Ambasciata D'Italia. Washington, D.C.
• bMS 104/32 (8) Robilant, Irene di.
• bMS 104/32 (9) Ropes, James Hardy.
• bMS 104/32 (10) Rossi, Ernesto.
• bMS 104/32 (11-12) Salvemini, Gaetano.
• bMS 104/32 (13) Scramuzza, Vincent Maria.
• bMS 104/32 (14) Setton, Kenneth.
• bMS 104/32 (15) Sforza, Carlo.
• bMS 104/32 (16) Shelton, O.L.
• bMS 104/32 (17) Sola, Salvatore.
• bMS 104/32 (18) Sperry, Willard Learoyd.
• bMS 104/33 (1) Stendahl, Krister.
• bMS 104/33 (2) Sturzo, Luigi.
• bMS 104/33 (3) Tarchiani, Alberto.
• bMS 104/33 (4) Tardo, Lorenzo.
• bMS 104/33 (5) Torry, Charles Cutler.
• bMS 104/33 (6) Toscanini, Arturo.
• bMS 104/33 (7) Venturi, Lionello.
• bMS 104/33 (8) White, Lynn.
• bMS 104/33 (9) Williams, George Huntston.
• bMS 104/33 (10) Zaffala, Maria.

D. General Correspondence

• bMS 104/33 (11) "A" Paul Abrecht, James P. Adams, Mario d'Addio, John Addy, David C. Adkins, Riddei Gustavo Adolfo, Enzo Enriques Agnoletti, Herbert M. Aitken P.M. Akers, M.E. Alaimo, Margaret Alexander, Paul J. Alexander, P. Alfaric, William Alfred, A.A. Alla, T. Allegginvi, Hope Emily Allen, Jay Allen.
• bMS 104/33 (12) Rafael Altamira, Donald Altwater, Mrs. Oakes Ames, George L. Anderson, Carlo Antoni (and others), A.J. Appasamy, Bernard J. Appeal, Blenn L. Archer, Claud Arelini, Robert W. Atkinson, Salvator Attanasio, R. Aubrey, J.A.C. Fagginger Auer, Warren R. Austin, M. Avery, Lydia von Awo, G. Azzi.
• bMS 104/33 (13) "B" Irving W. Bailey, Balboni, Andrew Banning, Bardi, William Bark, Hans Baron, Salo W. Baron, E. Boyd Barrett, Jean-Pierre Barricelli, M.S. Bates, Riccardo Bauer, James Baxter, C.H. Beeson, Robert Bendiner, Ernst Benz, Berna Il Ministro D'Italia, Bernardi, Victor H. Bernstein.
• bMS 104/33 (14) Luigi Berti, Horton Betchalder, Anson G. Betts, Albion P. Beverage, William J. Bingham, Charles J. Bishko, F.H. Black, Robert P. Blake, Robert Woods Bliss, Bruce Bliven.
• bMS 104/33 (15) Fratelli Bocca, William R. Bonniqell, L. Borghi, J.N. Borgio, Gabriella Bosano, Salvatore Bottino, Catherine Boyd, Hugh G. Boyle.
• bMS 104/33 (16) "B" Giorgio Bracco, Brehier, George W.W. Brewster, R. Brindisi, Crane Brinton, H. Brooks, Arthur C.L. Brown, Franklin Brown, Jr., Heinrich Bruning, John M. Brush, Paul Herman Buck, J. Wesley Buono, George A. Buttrick.
• bMS 104/33 (17) "C" Frederick P. Cabot, Henry J. Cadbury, C. Cahen, M. Calamandrei, Angus Cameron, Mrs. Julian W. Camp, Jr., Alexander Campbell, J.M. Campbell, Mrs. Walter E. Campbell, D. Cantimori, A. Robert Caponigri, Caramella, Giorgio Raimondo Cardona, E. Carlo, James T. Carlyon, Marjorie Carpenter, Mark Carroll, M.C. Casella, Robert P. Casey.
• bMS 104/33 (18) "C" Costanzo Casucci, E. Van Cauwenberg, G.F. Cecchini, Enrico Cerulli, Z. Chafee, Jr., Robert S. Chamberlain, M.P. Charlesworth, Chase, George H. Chase, Charles R. Cherington, Ralph H. Chew, Nicola Chiaromonte, Dorothy Jane Church, Churchill, E.D. Churchill, F.B. Ciampi, G. Cicerchia, E. Cinelli, Lotta A. Clark, Walter E. Clark, E. Clemente, Robert J. Clements.
• bMS 104/34 (1) Everett R. Clinchy, John Coddington, George R. Coffman, I. Bernard Cohen, R.V. Coleman, Joseph A. Coletti, Comitatio Promotore per le Onoranze Alla Memoria dei Fratelli Rosselli, Commercial Casualty Insurance Company, Ada Comstock, Boyd Comstock, James B. Conant, Mrs. James B. Conant, Kenneth Conant, Walter Conarty.
• bMS 104/34 (2) E.G. Conklin, A. Conte, Albert Cook, Walter W.S. Cook, Ananda Kentish Coomaaraswamy, W.J. Conway, Charles Cornell, Louis C. Cornish, JOhn J. Coss, Costantino, Bill Cottrell, P.L. Couchoud, Frederick . Cramer, F. Edward Cranz, G.F.J. Cumberlege, Edward E. Curtis, Mrs. Edward E. Curtis.
• bMS 104/34 (3) "D" Ezio Levi D'Ancona, Gianni Darsena, Charles B. Davenport, Mrs. T. S. Davidson, Saville R. Davis, Archie Davison, Walter S. Davison, Hilbert F. Day, Vera Micheles Dean, Ann Deeley, Roy J. Deferrari, Emma Marshall Denkinger, Robert M. Dewey.
• bMS 104/34 (4) J. Henry DeWolfe, John Dickinson, Donini, Harriet S. Dorman, Mrs. Henry S. Drinker, J. Roscoe Drummond, Angus Dun, L.C. Dunn, Francis Dvornik.
• bMS 104/34 (5) "E" Edward M. East, G.H. Edgell, Florence Edler, David L. Edsall, Giulio Einaudi, Peter Elder, Frederick May Eliot, Frank N. Elliott, William Y. Elliott.
• bMS 104/34 (6) Frederick E. Ellis, Ephraim Emerton, Dorothy M. Emmet, A.K. Endicott, C. Julius Enebuske, Friedrich Engel-janosi, John W. English, Fritz T. Epstein, Guido Errante, Spencer Ervin, Alice Estes, Charles T. Estes, Mary Anita Ewer.
• bMS 104/34 (7) "F" Carlo Falconi, Sidney B. Fay, Feliciani, William Scott Ferguson, Guido Ferrando, Robert Ferrari, A. Ferro, Julian Sigmar von Fersen, Harold C. Field (Executive Editor, The Nation).
• bMS 104/34 (8) Myron Filmore, Thomas W. Fina, George A. Finch, Jacob Fine, Louis Finkelstein, Carl Russell Fish, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Ysabel Fisk, Marguerite Fiske, Richard Fitzgerald, William J. Fitzgerald, Frances H. Forbes, Edward W. Forbes, Formiggini, Arnoldo Forni, Felix Forte, Harry Emerson Fosdick, J.M. Foster, Edward W. Fox, T. Frances, Marcel Francon.
• bMS 104/34 (9) Anne Blake Freedbry, John J. Freschi, John H.E. Fried, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Olga Froebe-Kapteyn, L.E. Froom, C.E. Fuller, Giuseppe Furlani, J.C. Furnas.
• bMS 104/34 (10) "G" G. Gabrieli, V. Gabrieli, Robert H. Gardiner, Frank Gavin, H. Nelson Gay, John Geni, G. Gentile, E. Giachin, Felix Gilbert, Ralph Gill, Dorothy Foster Gilman, Margaret E. Gilman, Allen A. Gilmore, Myron P. Gilmore, Louis Ginzberg, Luigi Giovanola, Daidone Girolamo, Helmut Goetz.
• bMS 104/34 (11) Maurice Goguel, Donald Goodchild, Erwin R. Goodenough, Howard Goodhart, Goodspeed's Book Shop, J. King Gordon, Fred A. Gott, Jr., Charles H. Grandgent, N.S.B. Gras, Charles E. Gratke, Bernard C. Graves, Mortimer Graves.
• bMS 104/34 (12) S. Grayzel, Mrs. Henry Copley Greene, Jwerome D. Greene, Kent Roberts Greenfield, Walter F. Greenman, Henri Gregoire, M.E. Griffin, Griumdmann, Peter Guilday, C.B. Gulick, Guzzetta family.
• bMS 104/34 (13) "H" Roy Kenneth Hack, Basil D. Hall, Benn Hall, Christine D. Hall, Mason Hammond, George M.A. Hanfmann, E. Harris Harbison, Adolf Harnack, Charles H. Haskins, William H.P. Hatch, Helen E. Hause, Richard L. Hawkins, Sherman S. Hayden.
• bMS 104/34 (14) "H" Stuart Haydon, L.J. Henderson, Herald-=Tribune (New York) Vincente Herrero, Harvey W. Hewett-Thayer, John H. Hewitt, Jr., William Ernest Hocking, Frederick W. Hoeing, Philip Hofer, W. Richey Hogg, Harry A. Holmes, Roger Holmes, Eloise Holton.
• bMS 104/34 (15) E.W. Hopkins, J.B. Hoptner, R.T. House, V.E. Howard, Duncan Howlett, Edmund Hsu, Forrest P. Hull, James M. Hunnewell, Robert C. Hunsicker, Paul Hutchison, Hazel Hyde.
• bMS 104/34 (16) "I" Vincent Ilardi, Daniel H.H. Ingalls, Institute of Intellectual Cooperation among nations, Instituto Italiano di Cultura.
• bMS 104/34 (17) "J" Jacchia, F.J.F. Jackson, A.C. Jemolo, Alvin Johnson, Peter Leo Johnson, Howard Mumford Jones, Rufus M. Jones, W.K. Jordan.
• bMS 104/34 (18) "K" Winifred Kahn, E. Kantorowicz, Fritz Kaufmann, Frances Keene, C.C. Kelly, Helen Wallace Kelley, Sargent Kennedy, William Heard Kilpatrick, F. Kirchwry, George Lyman Kittredge, T. Klinda, Eugene N. Knight, Charles A. Knudson, Helmut Koester, Carl H. Kraeling, Julius Kraft, Edith S. Krappe, Richard Krautheimer, Paul Oskar Kristeller, L.A. Kuiney, Paul Kuntz.
• bMS 104/34 (19) "L" P. Sylos Labini, A. Labriola, Ladd, Arthur B. Lamb, William L. Langer, Charles R. Lanman, Kenneth Scott Latourette, Lavagnini, C. Lazzaro, Wolfgang Leifertt, Alexander Leitch, Waldo G. Leland, H.J. Leon, Mario Levati, Robert Levillain, Frederic Lewis, Hans Lietzmann, Life Magazine, Laura H. Loomis, Robert S. Lopez, V. Lopez.
• bMS 104/34 (20) Domenice Lopreiato, Theodore Lorenz, Donald G. Lothrop, A. Lottoli, E.A. Love, Arthur D. Lovejoy, William Lundell, W.E. Lunt, Lutti.
• bMS 104/35 (1) "M" Mildred H. McAfee, D.C. McArthur, Vittorio D. Macchioro, John O. McCormick, Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Donald C. McKay, Emmett McLoughlin, the MacMillan Company, Sayre Macneil, Cesare Magni, Dumas Malone, Jerre Magione, Giorgio Marenco, the Maroon, Charles Marshall, Mrs. Laurence K. Marshall, Alexander Marx, Edward S. Mason, Salvatore Mastrogiovanni.
• bMS 104/35 (2) Carlo Maxia, Edith D. Mayberry, George Mayberry, G. Megaro, G. Mercusi, Frederick Merk, Elmer Truesdell Merrill, Harry K. Messenger, K.D. Metcalf, Eugene Meyer, Edward F. Maylan, Paolo Milano, Karl Miller, Robert A. Miller, B. Mirkine-Guetzavitch, Henry Allen Moe, Mondo, John P. Monks, Edoward Montet, Clifford H. Moors, Daniel E. Moran.
• bMS 104/35 (3) C.R. Morey, Mrs. Copley Morgan, Raffaello Morghen, Margaret Morin, Samuel Eliot Morison, Mrs. Alva Morrison, R.B. Morrison, Theodore Morrison, Thomas R. Morse, Charles W. Morton, Caroline S.G. Munro, Dana C. Munro, William B. Munro, Kenneth B. Murdock.
• bMS 104/35 (4) "N" Jerome Nathanson, Natoli, A. Neale, Guglielmo Negri, William A. Neilson, F. Neiser, Claud D. Nelson, John Charles Nelson, Leonidas P. Newby.
• bMS 104/35 (5) Claire Nix, Fan S. Noli, M. Novella, G. Novelli, Carleton Noyes, La Nuova Italia Editrice Firenze.
• bMS 104/35 (6) "O" Heiko A. Oberman, Julian J. Oberman, R.O. O'Keefe, W.A. Oldfather, Charles O'Malley, Silvia Omoglia, John Overend, G. Bromley Oxnam.
• bMS 104/35 (7) "P" Antonio Pagliaro, M.H. Paige, Palermo Biblioteca Comunale Il Direttore, Palmer, A. Palmier, Remigio U. Pane, R. Paniardi, Pannunzio, Costantine Panunzio, Bertha M. Parker, William A. Parker, Michael E. Paterno, G. Pchiro, Francis G. Peabody, James Peabody, Arthur Stanley Pease.
• bMS 104/35 (8) Bernard M. Peebles, Z. Peppeni, Armando Perotti, Ralph Barton Perry, R. Pettassoni, Robert Pfeiffer, Mrs. Robert Pfeiffer, Gerald B. Phelan, R. Piccoli, Edward M. Pickman.
• bMS 104/35 (9) "P" R. De Pierro, Y. Pijoau, Philip A. Plaisted, D. Plooij, Renalto Poggioli, Nancy V. Poole, A. Kingsley Porter, Gaines Post, Alfred C. Potter, Arthur Stanley Pran, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Bertha Pritchard, Rodolfo Pucelli, Bertha Haven Putnam, George Haven Putnam, Robert W. Putsch.
• bMS 104/35 (10) "R" M. Rava, Irving Raymond Attilio Reale, Eugene Reynal, Mary F. Rhinelandes, Salvatore Riccobona.
• bMS 104/35 (11) Wallace W. Robbins, Robeck, Laurence P. Roberts, F. Robinson, J.A. Robinson, Rodney P. Robinson, Rocca, William Walker Rockwell, Erla Rodakise, Margaret Roohe, Mrs. George B. Roorbach, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• bMS 104/35 (12) James Roosevelt, W.T. Root, R. Dalla Rosa, Rosita, Marvin C. Ross, Marion Rosselli, Mario M. Rossi, J.C. Russell, Gabriel Ryan, James H. Ryan.
• bMS 104/35 (13) "S" Paul J. Sachs, Ada Salerno, Katherine Salta, Leverett Saltonstall, Massimo Salvadori, Gaetano De Sanctis, George de Santillang, George Sarton, Domenico Saudino, J.J. Savage, Francis B. Sayre, Jessie W. Sayre, Roger L. Scaife, Quentin L. Schaut.
• bMS 104/35 (14) Giovanni Schiavo, Paul Arthur Schilpp, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Herbert W. Schneider, F.L. Schoell, France V. Scholes, R.L. Schuyler, Vida D. Scudder, Ellery Sedgwick, W.B. Sedgwick, Angelo Segre, Carl Selmer, Giovanni Semeria.
• bMS 104/35 (15) W.T. Semple, Ferdinand Sesti, Jean J. Seznec, Robert Shafer, Harlow Shapley, Waitstill Hastings Sharp, Russell T. Sharpe, Barbara Shaw, Miriam Shaw, George Sherburn, Massey H. Shepherd, Jr., John M. Shlien, S.H. Silverman.
• bMS 104/35 (16) Rina Simonetta, Charles S. Singleton, Matteo Siragusa, Herbert Rhodes Smith, Horatio Smith, Dorothy E. Snavely, Societa Umanitaria, Mario Soldati, George Soulis,Robert H. Spahr, Vincenzo Spicacci, Stephen H. Stackpole, Enzo Stasio, Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
• bMS 104/35 (17) A. Stephano, W.J. Stohlman, Joseph R. Strayer, Strayer, Anselm Strittonatter, Mrs. Rush Sturges, Paolo Stzocchi, Oliver Strunk, Alfred H. Sweet.
• bMS 104/36 (1) "T" Enzo Tagliacozzo, G. Tarozzi, J.S.P. Tatlock, Giorgio Tesoro, Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, James W. Thompson, Mrs. Paul Thompson, S. Harrison Thomson, William Thomson, V. Titone, Irwin M. Tobin, L. Tonelli, Harry Trust, Maria Tsola, N. Tucci.
• bMS 104/36 (2) "U" Robert Ulich, Anthony P. Ullo, Hollis R. Upson.
• bMS 104/36 (3) "V" Alessandro Valenti, G. Valenti, Alessandro Vasiluev, Herbert H. Vaughan, Lauro Venturi, Herbert F. Vetter, Jr., Viafora, G. Vitelli, Albert Vogt, John Voss.
• bMS 104/36 (4) "W" George Byron Waldrof, Donald G. Ward, L. Ward, Elizabeth Wasdell, Henry B. Washburn, JOhn Weare, Feri Felix Weiss, Mrs. W. Sohier Welch, T.J. Wertenbaker, Kurt Wertzmann, Ray B. Westerfield, G.B. Weston, John Whatmough, John Brooks Wheelwright, David C. Whitehouse, Thomas Whittemore, Ernest H. Wilkins, Henry Willard.
• bMS 104/36 (5) James F. Willard, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Lucille C. Williams, Schafer Williams, Martha Wilson, W.L. Winner, Robert L. Wolff, Women's Municipal League, Boston, Mass., James H. Wood, Robert Gale Woolbert, Donald P. Wright, John K. Wright, Henry M. Wriston, Samuel S. Wyer.
• bMS 104/36 (6) "Y" Thomas Yoseloff, Karl Young, John Yungblut.
• bMS 104/36 (7) "Z" Zama, Nicholas Zernov, Bruno Zevi, Zottoli, Fausta Zucchetti.
• bMS 104/36 (8-10) Unidentified letters.

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Series VI. Subject files

• bMS 104/36 (11) American Christian Palestine Committee.
• bMS 104/36 (12) American Friends of Free Italy.
• bMS 104/36 (13) Beacon Press, Boston, Mass., 1948-1961. Correspondence and reports. The correspondence is with: Melvin Arnold, Paul Blanshard, Edward Darling, Frederick May Eliot, Conrad Henry Moehlman, J.M. O'Neill.
• bMS 104/37 (1) Beacon Press, Boston, Mass. La Piana's notes on Fr. Ashley's notes on Blanshard's "Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power."
• bMS 104/37 (2) Collier's Encyclopedia, 1951 edition. Correspondence, 1949-1950.
• bMS 104/37 (3) Collier's Encyclopedia. La Piana articles.
• bMS 104/37 (4) Comitato Onoranze Commemorative A. Gaetano Mario Columba.
• bMS 104/37 (5) Committee on Italy.
• bMS 104/37 (6) Dante Society.
• bMS 104/37 (7) Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington D.C. Correspondence, 1941-1969.
• bMS 104/37 (8) Dumbarton Oaks, Symposiums, 1941-1951.
• bMS 104/37 (9) Dumbarton Oaks, Symposium of Byzantine Liturgical Music, 1948-1949.
• bMS 104/37 (10) Dumbarton Oaks, reports, 1941-1964.
• bMS 104/38 (1) The Encyclopedia Americana. Correspondence, 1950-1952.
• bMS 104/38 (2) The Encyclopedia Americana. La Piana articles.
• bMS 104/38 (3) Exams.
• bMS 104/38 (4) Free Italy American Labor Council.
• bMS 104/38 (5) Friends of Italy, Inc.
• bMS 104/38 (6) Friends of the Cooperative Forum.
• bMS 104/38 (7) Fulbright Grant, 1950 (and International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Palermo, 1951).
• bMS 104/38 (8) History of Religion Club.
• bMS 104/38 (9) The Mediaeval Academy of America. Correspondence and reports, 1924-1929.
• bMS 104/38 (10) The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1930.
• bMS 104/38 (11) The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1931.
• bMS 104/38 (12) The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1932.
• bMS 104/38 (13) The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1933.
• bMS 104/38 (14) The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1934-1939.
• bMS 104/38 (15) The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1940-1949.
• bMS 104/38 (16) The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1950-1968.
• bMS 104/38 (17) The Mediaeval Academy of America, miscellaneous materials.
• bMS 104/39 (1) The Mediaeval Institute.
• bMS 104/39 (2) National Council for American-Italian Relations, Inc.
• bMS 104/39 (3) Radcliffe College Seminars, Correspondence, 1950-1957.
• bMS 104/39 (4) Shop Club.
• bMS 104/39 (5) United States National Committee for Byzantine Studies.

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Series VII. Biographical material

• bMS 104/39 (6) Birth records.
• bMS 104/39 (7) School material.
• bMS 104/39 (8-9) General biographical material.
• bMS 104/39 (10) Biographical material - minor.
• bMS 104/39 (11) World War I.
• bMS 104/39 (12) La Piana bibliographies.
• bMS 104/39 (13) Diary, October 2, 1943-May 3, 1944.
• bMS 104/39 (14) La Piana income tax returns.
• bMS 104/39 (15) Permissions.
• bMS 104/39 (16) Awards and certificates of membership in various organizations.
• bMS 104/39 (17) Newspaper clippings.
• bMS 104/39 (18) Photographs of the La Piana family.
• bMS 104/39 (19) Photographs of George La Piana.
• bMS 104/39 (20) Photographs of friends of La Piana.
• bMS 104/39 (21) Photographs - unidentified.
• bMS 104/39 (22) Book of photographs.
• bMS 104/40A (1) Degrees and Honorary Degrees.

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Series VIII. Miscellaneous

• bMS 104/40B (2-6) Notes.
• bMS 104/40 (7) Latin poems written by the students of Monreale Seminary, 1896(?).

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