Edgar J. Goodspeed, America's First PapyrologistThis is a study whose main sources are archival, principally Edgar J. Goodspeeds Student Travel Letters from 18991900. These letters home recount Goodspeeds daily and sometimes hourly activities during nearly two years abroad, in continental Europe, England, Egypt, and the Holy Land, in pursuit of scholarly seasoning. The books focus is on his engagement with the newly emergent field of papyrologythe decipherment and study of the ancient Greek