Repository: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division / Form: Correspondence -- 19th century / Language: English - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Samuel Ladd Howell Family Collection, 1797-1838 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected eighteenth- and nineteenth-century papers of Samuel Ladd Howell and other members of the Howell family of Woodbury, Gloucester, and Princeton, New Jersey.

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Thomas James Wise Collection, 1894-1932 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected correspondence of Thomas James Wise, the English bibliographer and noted forger of the early 20th century

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Leo Tolstoy Collection, 1890-1925 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box
Abstract:: Consists of selected material by and about the noted Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.

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William Bell Scott Collection, 1837-1891 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence and obituaries of the nineteenth-century English poet, painter, and art critic William Bell Scott. He was a friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and was accepted by the Pre-Raphaelites.

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Granville Wilcox Correspondence, 1852-1857 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists chiefly of letters sent by Granville Wilcox to members of his family in Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas, while he was a student at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) as a member of the Class of 1856.

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John and Martha Bowen Letter Book Concerning Bowen Hall Sugar Plantation, 1822-1848 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of 136 letters from John Bowen (1794-1835) and his wife Martha Powell Anthony Bowen (1797-1849) of Philadelphia (Pa.) documenting in great detail the management of Bowen Hall, their sugar plantation located in Vere, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, including its varied finances, seasonal production and export of sugar and rum, and the treatment allocated to its enslaved workers and newly-emancipated population. The letters provide insights into the final throes of the institution of slavery in Jamaica and the abolishment of the practice in 1834; the Jamaican sugar industry; and British politics of the early 19th century in relation to its colonies and trade.

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Lydia Maria Child Collection, 1857-1878 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs of the nineteenth-century American author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Francis Child.

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Samuel Sibbett Family Collection, 1835-1850 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists chiefly of correspondence by members of the Sibbett family to one another. The majority of the letters relate to Samuel Sibbett, a nineteenth-century lawyer living in Mt. Alto, Pennsylvania.

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William Tipping Papers, 1688-2001 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 2.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Conists of personal papers of William Tipping Esq, of Brasted Park, Sevenoaks, in Kent, and Avray near Paris. He was the son of the successful Liverpool merchant John Tipping, who in his twenties traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East before turning to Tory politics and serving as director of the London and North Western Railway.

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Sidney P. Clay Family Collection, 1783-1846 (inclusive) 1800-1844 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.45 linear feet
Abstract:: The Sidney P. Clay Collection consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs of Clay (Princeton Class of 1821) and members of his family, and includes some correspondence of the Reed family.

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