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Juan José Saer Manuscripts, 1958-2004 (inclusive)

Extent:: 14 boxes and 6.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Juan José Saer was an Argentine novelist, poet, and literary scholar. This collection contains his notebooks, notes, and drafts of essays, interviews, novels, poetry, and short stories. Also includes photographs of Saer and the city of Santa Fe, Argentina.

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

Isaac Plumb, Jr. Family Papers, 1859-1864 (bulk) 1767-1929 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8 boxes and 3.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Captain Isaac Plumb, Jr. (1842-1866) served in Company A of the 61st New York Infantry of the Union Army during the Civil War from his enlistment in the fall of 1861 until his death at the Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864, and saw action at Fair Oaks, the Seven Days Battle, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Cold Harbor. During his experience as a Union soldier, Plumb's attitudes towards politics, the War, the North and South, and slavery underwent enormous transformations, from wild patriotism, to bitterness, and finally to a more realistic patriotism. This collection documents the Civil War from the soldier's perspective as well as the home front, detailing the day-to-day life of a Union soldier, with vivid descriptions of camp life, marches, battles, aftermath of battles, upheaval of the ranks, morale issues, and disillusionment; and from the perspective of family and friends not involved in the fighting, but actively offering opinions of...(see more)

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

Princeton University Library Collection of George Washington Materials, 1750-1799 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of photostats of over 100 George Washington letters in the private collection of Edward Ambler Armstrong, as well as 14 original Washington letters and documents, and several supplementary items.

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

Delaware Boundary Case Collection, 1664-1932 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7 boxes and 5.9 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of photostats of documents collected by assistant New Jersey attorney general Duane E. Minard regarding a state boundary case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, October term, 1929, in which New Jersey was the plaintiff and Delaware the defendant.

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

Howard C. Rice Papers, 1965-1975 (inclusive)

Extent:: 22 boxes and 8.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers relating to the preparation of The American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army, 1780-1783 (1972), which was translated and edited by Princeton's Special Collections librarian Howard C. Rice and Anne S. K. Brown.

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

Roberto González Echevarría Collection on Severo Sarduy and Other Latin American Writers, 1951-2013 (inclusive)

Extent:: 11 boxes and 4.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Roberto González Echevarría is a Cuban-born critic and Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University. This collection contains his correspondence with Severo Sarduy and other writers and critics including among them Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet, Antonio Benítez Rojo, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Nancy Morejón, Octavio Paz, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Calvin Trilin, J. Wright, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Rosario Ferré, and José Donoso. Also in the collection are typescripts, audio recordings, photographs, and printed materials particularly relating to González Echevarría's work on Sarduy.

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

Ernest Cushing Richardson Collection, 1832-1954 (inclusive)

Extent:: 20 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of the personal papers of Ernest Cushing Richardson, librarian of Princeton University Library from 1890 till 1925.

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

Political Cartoon Collection, 1889-1944 (inclusive)

Extent:: 30 boxes and 2 items
Abstract:: This artificial collection consists of one thousand original drawings, including a significant number by Charles Lewis Bartholomew, Otho Cushing, Homer C. Davenport, John Tinney McCutcheon, and Frank Arthur Nankivell.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]

Paul D. Tillett, Jr. Papers, 1952-1979 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes
Abstract:: The Paul D. Tillett, Jr. Papers contain research material Tillett compiled for his study entitled, "Social Costs of the Loyalty Program." The never-published research contended that the loyalty-security programs of the federal government profoundly affected political and social institutions within the United States. In particular, Tillett asserted that the government initiated and executed the loyalty-security programs without regard for the long-term effects on individuals and institutions.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]

William Hard Papers, 1914-1934 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5 boxes
Abstract:: The William Hard Papers consist of correspondence files, notes, typescripts, speeches, papers and articles relating to the career of William Hard. The papers also contain a significant amount of supplementary printed materials Hard used for research on his unpublished publication on the League of Nations fight during the Wilson presidency.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]

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