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R. D. Blackmore Collection, 1630-1956 (inclusive) 1873-1899 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.45 linear feet
Abstract:: The collection contains 120 letters, which is mostly personal correspondence, by English novelist and poet R. D. Blackmore.

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

New York Urban League Correspondence, 1922-1979 (inclusive) 1922-1933 (bulk)

Extent:: 7 boxes
Abstract:: The New York Urban League was founded circa 1913. Its stated goals were to "promote sympathetic understanding between white and colored people" and to improve the economic status of African-Americans through health, housing, and recreation programs as well as an effort to increase the number and the quality of jobs for minorities. The League's motto: "Not alms, but opportunity." This collection is comprised mainly of the correspondence of Arthur C. Holden, president of the N.Y. Urban League from 1922-1931, and a member of the executive board until 1943. It contains general files of the organization's correspondence predominantly spanning the years 1922-1933, with a few items from the years 1968-1979.

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

Hunt and Guild Families of New Jersey Collection, 1755-1878 (inclusive) 1755-1858 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.60 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of eighteenth and nineteenth-century correspondence, letters, and documents of the Hunt and Guild families of New Jersey.

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

James Greene Correspondence, 1956-2006 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, comprising eighty-one letters, between poet and translator James Greene and other writers and artists, including Ted Hughes and Antony Gormley. The letters range in date from 1956 to 2006.

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

Hamilton Cottier Papers, 1752-1977 (inclusive)

Extent:: 17 boxes and 8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, account books (1925-1975), financial papers, and printed matter of Hamilton Cottier (Princeton Class of 1922, professor of English, 1925-1962), and material relating to "Southlawn," the home of his father, Alonzo Cottier, in Scarsdale, N.Y.

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

George H. Boker Collection, 1847-1888 (inclusive)

Extent:: 6 boxes, 3 volumes, and 2.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists chiefly of manuscripts of poems and plays by George H. Boker, a nineteenth-century American dramatist and poet.

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

Eileen B. Simpson Papers, 1979-1991 (bulk) 1941-1991 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers primarily related to Eileen Simpson's book, Poets in their Youth: A Memoir, about her married years with poet John Berryman.

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

Princeton University Library Collection of F. Jay Haynes Photographs, 1877-1880s (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 3.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of an assembled collection of photographs by Yellowstone National Park and Northern Pacific Railway photographer F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921), mostly from the late 1870s and 1880s, including albums of albumen prints of various Yellowstone National Park sites and scenes along the Columbia River in Oregon, as well as stereograph views of Yellowstone National Park, wheat farmers in the Dakota Territory, and locations along the route of the Northern Pacific Railway.

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

Coventry Patmore Collection, 1803-1935 (inclusive) 1823-1896 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of some 200 letters written to and by English poet and critic Coventry Patmore.

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

Craig House Medical Records on Zelda Fitzgerald, 1932-1934 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Zelda Fitzgerald, American socialite, novelist, painter, and wife of the American novelist and storywriter F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote of their turbulent life and marriage in her novel Save Me the Waltz (1932). This collection consists of psychiatric evaluations, correspondence, and reports concerning Zelda Fitzgerald when she was a patient at Craig House, Beacon, N.Y., under the care of Dr. C. Jonathan Slocum.

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

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