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Robert Amsterdam Burt and Class of 1960 Correspondence, 1957-1966 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 linear feet (1 correspondence box)
Abstract:
Robert Amsterdam Burt, Charles Edward Ruas, James LeBaron Stinnett, and Nicholas Churchill Yost, Class of 1960, were undergraduate roommates at Princeton. The collection consists of letters written between them, primarily letters to Charles Ruas, as well as other members of the Classes of 1960 and 1961.

Held at: Princeton University Library: University Archives [Contact Us]

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Juan Abreu Papers, 1974-1975 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of manuscripts of A la Sombra del Mar and Libro de los Exhortaciones al Amor, notes, and one letter from Abreu to Reinaldo Arenas.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Caleb Frank Gates Papers, 1919-1932 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of papers of Caleb Frank Gates dating from part of his tenure as president of Robert College, Istanbul, including the years on leave (1922-1923) that he served as adviser to the United States high commissioner at the peace conference on Near Eastern affairs in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Matthew Phipps Shiel Collection, 1892-1946 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence of Matthew Phipps Sheil, a prolific British writer of fantasy fiction, with editors, literary agents, publishers, and other authors.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Gertrude Claytor Collection, 1941-1956 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence, photographs, and printed material of the American poet Gertrude Claytor, some of which is related to the author Edgar Lee Masters.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Shokri K. Swydan Papers, 1894-1940s (inclusive)

Extent:
4 boxes and 5.8 linear feet
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Swydan was a Syrian journalist who emigrated to the United States in 1909. He served as secretary of the Russian Imperial Orthodox Society and the United Syrian Christian Association of North America, and founded a business, S. Swydan and Sons, Russian traders, in Worchester, Mass. The collection consists of papers of Swydan, including correspondence (personal and business, some in Russian), family photographs and negatives, framed documents (including several embroidered floral and Arabic pieces), writings, maps, and newspaper clippings.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Pablo Le Riverend Correspondence, 1971-1987 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of letters to Cuban-American poet Pablo Le Riverend from Cuban émigré poets Lucas Lamadrid y Moya (1919-1987) and Matías Montes Huidobro (1931- ) and from Spanish poet Miguel Luesma Castán.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Jonathan Williams Collection, 1980-2002 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists primarily of letters by Jonathan Williams (or under the name of his poet's press, Jargon Society) to author and philanthropist Barnabas McHenry.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Alice B. Toklas Collection, 1950-1965 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists primarily of letters (1952-1965) Alice B. Toklas wrote to her friends Lloyd Frankenberg and his wife, the painter Loren MacIver. Toklas is best known as the life partner of writer Gertude Stein.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Miguel Angel Asturias Papers, 1963-1969 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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Consists primarily of correspondence of Guatemalan author Miguel Angel Asturias, Seymour Lawrence, Gregory Rabassa, Jose Castillo, Tom Maschler, and others concerning Rabassa's English translations of Asturias's works and their publication in the United States and abroad.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Charles Gillispie Wartime Letters, 1945 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of thirteen letters from Charles Gillispie (1918-2015) home to his parents, Raymond Livingston Gillispie and Virginia Coulston, while he was stationed with the United States Army in France, Germany, and Austria during the final months of World War II in Europe. His letters, which span from March 9th to August 25th, 1945, are addressed from France, Germany, Austria, Bavaria, and Camp Shelby in Mississippi, and describe the conditions for American soldiers and prisoners of war in Europe, the state of the people and infrastructure in the German and French countryside, and other topics.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Virginia Card Papers, 1893-2002 (inclusive)

Extent:
17 boxes and 7.1 linear feet
Abstract:
Virginia Card is a Native American of Delaware and Creek descent. Consists of correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, and audio-visual material. The collection is especially noteworthy for Virginia Card's extensive documentation of the activities of Native American communities in California.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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J. J. Jusserand Collection, 1905-1924 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence and a typescript of J. J. Jusserand, French author and ambassador to the United States from 1902 to 1925.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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R. A. Cecil Correspondence, 1946-1993 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of letters to English curator R. A. Cecil primarily concerning the writing and publication of books about the Trollopes.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Armenia Collection, 1916-1923 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence, bulletins, documents, and printed material about the history of Armenia just after World War I.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Robert Rudd Whiting Papers, 1901-1918 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 boxes and 1.15 linear feet
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Consists of works, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks of American journalist Robert Rudd Whiting (Princeton Class of 1901).

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Marshall Curtis Brown Collection, 1912-1914 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 boxes and 1.45 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of correspondence of Marshall Brown with members of his family during World War I. Also included are manuscript maps and photographs from the war.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Howard McClenahan Collection on World War I Belgian Relief, 1914-1920 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence, articles, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of Howard McClenahan (Princeton Class of 1894) relating to his trip to England, Holland, and Belgium in 1914-1915 on a mission sponsored by Princeton University to examine and report on the amount and effectiveness of civilian relief provided for Belgium.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Annette Covington Letters to Luther P. Eisenhart, 1935-1953 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 1.7 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of correspondence between artist Annette Covington and Princeton professor and dean Luther P. Eisenhart, and papers relating to the "Baconian" theory of the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Lucius Hopkins Miller Correspondence, 1903-1917 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of personal and professional correspondence between Lucius Hopkins Miller (Princeton Class of 1897), a professor in Princeton's Department of Religion, and Princeton colleagues, including Woodrow Wilson, fellow educators at other institutions, and publishers, such as Henry Holt.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Gilbert Troxell Correspondence, 1939-1949 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of letters to Gilbert Troxell from Sinclair Lewis, John O'Hara, and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, the wife of Eugene O'Neill, discussing the donation of manuscripts to the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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W. H. Auden Collection, 1941-1952 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs of the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden, one of the most acclaimed poets of the 20th century.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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R. Ridgely Lytle World War I Collection, 1915-1916 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box
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Consists of World War I memorabilia, letters, photographs, and documents collected by R. Ridgely Lytle (Princeton Class of 1913) when he was a delegate in the province of Luxembourg for the Commission for Relief in Belgium and, later, a member of the American ambulance drivers in France.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Pierre and Dollie Chareau Collection, 1932-1998 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Louise Dorothee (Dollie) Dyte Chareau (1880-1967) was the wife of the architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950), who is best known for the Maison de Verre, which was built from 1927 to 1932 in Paris. This collection consists mainly of correspondence between Harold Rubinstein (1891-1975) and Dollie Chareau, and between Michael Rubenstein (1920-2001) and Pierre Chareau scholars, including Marc Vellay, Margaret Antalopoulos, and Margaret Tallet.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Margaretta K. Mitchell Working Files on Ruth Bernhard, 1983-2000 (bulk) 1952-2001 (inclusive)

Extent:
4 boxes
Abstract:
Consists of photographer Margaretta K. Mitchell's working files on the life and work of Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006), a German-born American photographer known for her black-and-white still lifes and female nudes. The working files contain research materials, drafts, and recordings and transcripts of interviews for Mitchell's biography of Bernhard, Ruth Bernhard: Between Art and Life (2000); drafts of Mitchell's essays that appeared in Ruth Bernhard's book The Eternal Body (1986); as well as correspondence, proofs, financial documents, and publicity materials related to both projects.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Hereward Carrington Papers, 1899-1973 (inclusive) 1908-1932 (bulk)

Extent:
4 boxes and 1.4 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists of papers of Hereward Carrington, a British spiritualist and investigator of psychic phenomena, including correspondence with other notable figures in his field, photographs of mediums and psychic phenomena, several manuscripts, and two diaries.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Bernard M. Dwork Papers, 1950-1992 (inclusive)

Extent:
10 boxes
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Consists of a chronological series of 101 mathematical notebooks (1958-1997) of Princeton mathematician Bernard M. Dwork.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Rodolfo Alonso Correspondence and Photographs, 1953-2016 (bulk) 1910-2016 (inclusive)

Extent:
6 boxes and 2.5 linear feet
Abstract:
Rodolfo Alonso is an Argentine poet, translator, essayist, and editor. The collection includes Alonso's correspondence with various Latin American writers including Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Raúl Gustavo Aguirre, Juan Gelman, Augusto Roa Bastos, Juan José Saer, Ernesto Sábato, Lêdo Ivo, Hector Tizón, Edgar Bayley, António Ramos Rosa, Milton de Lima Sousa, and Claudio Magris. In addition, the collection includes photographs of Alonso throughout his career with many Latin American figures as well as a personal collection of his family and travels.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Henry Simonis Correspondence, 1914-1919 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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Consists of three volumes of correspondence of British journalist Henry Simonis concerning his literary, wartime, and charitable activities.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Kostas and Linda S. Myrsiades Papers, 1942-2017 (inclusive)

Extent:
4.0 linear feet and 7 boxes
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This collection consists of personal papers of Kostas and Linda S. Myrsiades, including correspondence, autograph manuscripts and typescripts, photographs, printed and audio material.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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