Form: Letters / Language: English - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

John and Robb Carson Letters, 1903-1908 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box
Abstract:: This collection contains the personal letters of John Renshaw Carson (1886-1940) and his twin brother Joseph Robb Carson (1886-1953) to their parents in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. The Carson letters provide a first hand account of life at Princeton University in the early twentieth century. The bulk of the letters were written when John and Robb were undergraduates at Princeton (Class of 1907). The letters of 1903 to 1904 contain the most detail about student life at the university.

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

Armstrong and Kaines Autograph Collection, 1803-1923 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of letters, mostly autograph, from twenty-one United States Supreme Court justices, collected by Edward Ambler Armstrong and Richard Kaines.

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

Jelal A. Azal Papers, 1967-1971 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of letters by Jelal A. Azal, an Iranian Bayani scholar in Cyprus, to William McElwee Miller, Presbyterian missionary, regarding the Babi-Bahai movement, documents referred to in the letters, and photographs of Bahai houses of worship in Israel and Chicago.

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

Eden Phillpotts Collection, 1906-1977 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.25 linear feet
Abstract:: Eden Phillpotts was a prolific and popular English novelist, playwright, and poet. Papers consist of about 120 letters by Phillpotts to G. Herbert Thring and Denys Killam Roberts of the Society of Authors and Macleod Yearsley regarding the publishing of his works. Additions to the collection include 64 letters, printed matter and newspaper clippings (1921-1960) about Phillpotts and his works.

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

Edmund Wilson Collection, 1917-1971 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected letters and manuscripts by or about Edmund Wilson (Princeton Class of 1916), an American literary critic and author.

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

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]

Allen Tate Collection, 1931-1979 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.45 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of letters and postcards to various friends, fellow poets, and associates by American poet and editor Allen Tate.

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

Princeton University Library Collection of John Ruskin Materials, 1840s-1933 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 2.42 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and miscellanea of the nineteenth-century English art critic, social reformer, and educator John Ruskin.

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

Frances Bragdon West Autograph Collection, 1873-1942 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of letters and autographs of authors, poets, critics, politicians, clergy, musicians, scientists, and other prominent personlities, as well as letters of friends and family, collected by Frances Bragdon West, wife of Princeton's first curator of numismatics.

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

Selected Papers of Wright Morris, 1930-1958 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected papers of award-winning American novelist and photographer Wright Morris, including many letters written to his friend and fellow Western writer Robert J. Horton.

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

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