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Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer Family Papers, 1835-1969 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists primarily of manuscripts and correspondence of author Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer (1846-1942). Also included in the collection are the papers of her father, George Washington Schuyler (1810-1888), and her maternal uncle, Charles Scribner (1821-1871), founder of the publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons.

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

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Robert Mountsier Collection, 1908-1912 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence and manuscripts of Robert Mountsier, secretary (ca. 1910) of the Student Lecture Bureau at the University of Michigan and, later, an editor at The Evening Sun.

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

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George Black Stewart Papers, 1896-1917 (bulk) 1896-1950 (inclusive)

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3 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
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Consists of photograph albums, diaries, engagement calendars, and documents of George Black Stewart (Princeton Class of 1906) who was treasurer (1906-1950) of the American University of Beirut.

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

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Newton Lacy Pierce Papers, 1937-1950 (inclusive)

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5 boxes
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Consists of articles, correspondence, and related materials on astronomy of Newton Lacy Pierce, a professor of astronomy at Princeton University.

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

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Princeton University Library Collection of Martha Gellhorn Materials, 1936-1974 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of an open collection of letters and memorabilia of American war correspondent, journalist, and novelist Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), assembled from various sources. Contents include approximately fifty letters (1968-1974) to her adopted son George "Sandy" Gellhorn and fourteen letters (1941-1946) to George Brown, who was Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway's personal trainer, tennis partner, and friend, as well as badges from Gellhorn's time as a war correspondent and a portrait drawing of her.

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

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James L. Stanton Correspondence, 1883-1886 (bulk) 1879-1922 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence and a few related writings documenting the work of attorney James L. Stanton as Chief Pardon Clerk (1882-1884) and General Agent (1884-1885) under Attorney General Benjamin Harris Brewster in the United States Department of Justice during the administration of President Chester A. Arthur. Among the many cases and events the letters document are those surrounding the Star Routes scandal, which involved fraud by United States postal officials. Frequent correspondents include Benjamin Harris Brewster, Brewster Cameron, and William Haight.

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

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Charles Mason Remey Papers, 1921-1957 (inclusive) 1940-1950 (bulk)

Extent:
5 boxes, 20 volumes, and 3.4 linear feet
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Consists of 74 volumes of diaries, letters, reports, reminiscences, and other writings in typescript form, accompanied by clippings, photographs, designs, and memorabilia relating to Charles Mason Remey (1874-1974) and the Remey and Mason families.

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

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Charles W. Millard Correspondence, 1946-2011 (inclusive)

Extent:
5 boxes
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Consists of select correspondence, dating from 1946 to 2011, of art historian Charles W. Millard (1932-2017) with artists such as Sir Anthony Caro, Helen Frankenthaler, Carl Chiarenza, Mark Hewitt, Nick George, Jules Olitski, and others.

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

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Bennett Cerf Correspondence Regarding the Ezra Pound Controversy (1946), 1946 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of responses from the public to Bennet Cerf's appeal (1946) to readers of his "Trade Winds" column in the Saturday Review of Literature on the question of the exclusion of Ezra Pound's poetry from an anthology of English and American poetry being published by Random House.

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

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Wendell Wilcox Papers, 1930-1960 (inclusive)

Extent:
17 boxes and 6.7 linear feet
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Consists of papers of the American author and novelist Wendell Wilcox (1906-1981), including personal correspondence and photographs of his wife, Esther Willson Wilcox, their relatives, and other writers and friends.

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

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Paul Hyde Bonner Papers, 1931-1975 (inclusive)

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31 boxes and 13.35 linear feet
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Consists of diaries, notebooks, manuscripts, correspondence, and scrapbooks of American diplomat and novelist Paul Hyde Bonner.

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

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Julian P. Boyd Papers, 1935-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:
73 boxes
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Consists of works, correspondence, documents, notes, photographs, and printed matter of Julian Boyd, Princeton University Librarian (1940-1952) and professor of history, and the founding editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson publishing project.

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

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Adolf Hitler Collection, 1912-1946 (inclusive) 1933-1940 (bulk)

Extent:
5 boxes
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Consists mostly of correspondence among members of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistiche Deutsches Arbiterspartei) and with Hitler's adjutants Wiedemann and Brückner. Original material from Hitler himself is limited and of no real contextual importance (birthday wishes, New Year's wishes, thanks for wishes made unto him, etc.). There are a few letters concerning Nazi "Judenpolitik" (Jewish policy), some regarding arrests and camp conditions, others concerning scandalous associations with Jews. Military concerns are few and interspersed throughout. The majority of the material, mostly directed to Hitler, consists of wishes of health, happy birthdays, thank you's. Most of the Nazi officers present at the Nuremburg Trials are featured in the collection.

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

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Eugene Paul Wigner Papers, 1930s-1980s (inclusive) 1940s-1970s (bulk)

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119 boxes and 49.7 linear feet
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Consists of the papers of Hungarian-born, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner, and includes correspondence, subject files, writings, and offprints reflecting his long career in physics.

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

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T. S. Matthews Papers, 1910-1991 (inclusive) 1940-1991 (bulk)

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57 boxes, 8 items, and 22.9 linear feet
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Consists of writings, notebooks, correspondence, files from Time magazine, subject files, legal and financial correspondence, photographs, and printed material of T. S. Matthews, an author and editor of Time magazine.

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

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Bruce and Beatrice Blackmar Gould Correspondence, 1909-1969 (inclusive) 1927-1967 (bulk)

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14 boxes and 5.4 linear feet
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Bruce and Beatrice Blackmar Gould were co-editors at the Ladies' Home Journal in the mid 20th century. Bruce Gould also worked with the Saturday Evening Post. Their correspondence includes letters between Bruce and Beatrice about their co-editorship and co-authorship, letters with writers for the Ladies' Home Journal, and letters from actresses about the Ladies' Home Journal. Also included is a collection of letters about Marion Crawford's book The Little Princesses, some of Beatrice's speeches, speeches by others, and printed matter.

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

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Henry Norris Russell Papers, 1894-1956 (bulk) 1894-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:
135 boxes and 6 items
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Consists of personal papers of American astronomer Henry Norris Russell (Princeton Class of 1897), including notes kept by Russell as a student at Princeton (1894-1898), lecture notes when a professor at Princeton, and working notes on scientific and military problems.

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

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Faber and Faber Author File on Jacob Peter Mayer, 1943-1989 (inclusive) 1943-1960 (bulk)

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0.2 linear feet and 1 box
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Consists of an author file kept by the British publishing house Faber and Faber and editor T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) on Jacob Peter Mayer (1903–1992), a German-born scholar of Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, and Max Weber and professor at the University of Reading. There are letters from T. S. Eliot and other Faber and Faber editors to Mayer, as well as related contracts, publication lists, publishers' catalogs, and book proposals.

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

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Ruth Bernhard Papers, 1938-2006 (bulk) 1910s-2013 (inclusive)

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79 boxes and 61.7 linear feet
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Correspondence, personal and business files, publicity materials, drafts, photography props, teaching materials, appointment books, and memorabilia of Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006), a German-born American photographer and teacher, active in the United States from the late 1920s through the early 2000s, best known for her complex black-and-white still lifes and classical photographs of the female nude. The papers contain professional correspondence and files, personal correspondence with friends and students, a small amount of photographic work and writings, some drafts and proofs for publications, publicity folios, exhibition catalogs and announcements, posters, props used for still life photography and teaching, planners, and a large collection of memorabilia, including snapshots of Bernhard, collected fine art photographs and artwork by others, photograph albums, gifts, personal effects, awards, and some audio and visual materials.

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

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Donald L. Gordon Papers, 1929-1946 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence and columns related to Donald L. Gordon's role as editor of the American News of Books and contributor to the Saturday Evening Post.

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

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Wesley Halliburton Correspondence, 1939-1950 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of four small groups of correspondence between Wesley Halliburton and others after the death of his famous son Richard in 1939. Richard Halliburton was a celebrated adventurer and author known, among other things, for having swum the length of the Panama Canal.

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

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Levering Cartwright Collection on "Death Valley Scotty", 1939-1973 (inclusive) 1963-1971 (bulk)

Extent:
2 boxes and 0.60 linear feet
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Consists of papers of journalist Levering Cartwright (Princeton University Class of 1926) relating to the association of "Death Valley Scotty" (Walter Scott, 1872-1954), an eccentric prospector, Wild West show entertainer, and hoaxer, with his friend and financier, Albert M. Johnson, an insurance company executive.

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

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Edith Wharton Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Austin, 1903-1927 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of letters (1903-1927) sent by the American novelist Edith Wharton to her English friends Alfred and Hester Austin. During that period Wharton lived in Lenox, Massachusetts, and several places in France.

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

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Fred Lewis Pattee Collection on The Poems of Philip Freneau, 1900-1905 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence of editor Fred Lewis Pattee and others relating to the publishing of The Poems of Philip Freneau (3 vols., 1902-1907). Freneau was an eighteenth-century American poet, often called the "poet of the American Revolution."

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

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Letters of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell to Janet Camp Troxell, 1937-1959 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Contains approximately 175 letters by Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, written after Cockerell's retirement as director (1908-1937) of the Fitzwilliam Museum, to Janet Troxell, an American collector of manuscripts, discussing, in part, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Kelmscott Press, and Cockerell's rare book and manuscript collections.

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

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Donald Goodchild Collection, 1918-1968 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists primarily of correspondence of Donald Goodchild, who was secretary of the American Council of Learned Societies in Washington, D.C.

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

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Charles Black Hutchinson Papers, 1935-1944 (bulk) 1885-1951 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 boxes and 4 items
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The Charles Black Hutchinson Papers primarily include Charles Hutchinson's correspondence and schoolwork from the period 1935 to 1944, when Hutchinson was a student at the Lawrenceville School (1935 to 1939), at Princeton University (1939 to 1943), and serving in the Army's 681st Glider Battalion (beginning in 1943).

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

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Walter Kauzmann Papers, 1940-1993 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence and miscellaneous materials related to Walter Kauzmann's work on the Manhattan Project and his career as a professor of chemistry at Princeton University.

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

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Vardaman Collection, 1881-1927 (inclusive)

Extent:
8 boxes and 4 linear feet
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Mansel V. Boyle (1877-1945) was a popular vaudeville performer best known by the stage name Vardaman. Active on the vaudeville circuit from 1901 through 1925, Vardaman was billed as a female impersonator, often appearing on programs as "Vardaman, the Gay Deceiver" or "Vardaman, the Auburn-haired Beauty." The collection consists of papers of Vardaman, including personal and business correspondence, appointment books, route sheets, contracts, scripts, photographic materials, clippings, and playbills, as well as photographs and printed materials documenting other vaudeville, minstrel, and burlesque performers active from the 1880s through the 1920s.

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

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John Koenig Papers, 1931-1955 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 boxes and 1.4 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and newspaper clippings of set designer John Koenig's life.

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

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Lawrence Crane Woods Collection, 1888-1957 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence and student account books of Lawrence Crane Woods, a member of the Princeton Class of 1891 and vice president and assistant manager for the Equitable Life Assurance Society.

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

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