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General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection, 1502-2012 (inclusive)

Extent:
120 boxes and 67.8 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists of over 3000 miscellaneous items of primarily American literary, historical, and political figures, including business and personal letters, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and official documents.

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H. L. Mencken Letters to David Warren Ryder, 1922-1955 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 110 letters by influential magazine editor and critic H. L. Mencken to David Warren Ryder, a San Francisco area journalist, written mainly from Baltimore and New York between the years 1922 and 1947.

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Agnes Repplier Letters, 1901-1917 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of twenty letters of Agnes Repplier, an American essayist and biographer whose writing career spanned sixty-five years. Most of the letters are addressed to her friend Margaret Farrand (Mrs. WIlson Farrand).

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Ralph Ginzburg Letters to Leonard Lyons, 1963-1970 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of thirty-four letters and note cards of American periodical publisher Ralph Ginzburg to his friend Leonard Lyons, syndicated columnist of the "The Lyons Den" with the New York Post. The letters discuss Ginzburg's trial concerning his publication of the "obscene" periodical Eros, as well as his later publications, Fact and Avant Garde magazines.

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Jean Clarence Lambert Collection of Octavio Paz, 1951-1992 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 122 letters (1952-1992) by Mexican poet Octavio Paz to French critic and translator Jean Clarence Lambert; approx. a dozen photographs; and "Carnet Bleu" (French, "vers" 1951), Lambert's blue notebook containing his French translations of Paz's "Libertad Bajo Palabra," bearing some holograph annotations by Paz.

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Wendell Wilcox Letters to Frank Sandiford, 1965-1981 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Wendell Wilcox was an American novelist and storywriter. Consists of 85 autograph and typed letters written by Wilcox from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to his friends Frank and Frances Sandiford in various towns in New York. Also present are 6 letters (1968-1969) by Esther Wilcox to the Sandifords.

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Thornton Wilder Collection, 1929-1974 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected papers of Thornton Wilder, the celebrated American novelist and playwright, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes.

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Louis O. Coxe Letters to William Meredith, 1939-1984 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of approximately 110 letters by Louis O. Coxe (Princeton Class of 1940) to his former classmate, fellow poet, and friend William Meredith, primarily during the 1940s and 1970s.

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Sir William Rothenstein Letters, 1898-1943 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists of 34 letters and postcards by the English painter Sir William Rothenstein to four correspondents: Henry Davray, Elizabeth Jungmann, F. H. Sunderland, and E. G. Wolfe.

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China Papers of Samuel Cochran, 1898-1926 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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Consists of notes, letters, photographs, memorabilia, and newspaper clippings of Samuel Cochran (Princeton Class of 1893) during the years (1898-1926) he served as a Presbyterian medical missionary in Hwaiyuan, Anhwei Province, China.

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Goodwin Weinberg Collection of Aldous Huxley, 1920-1955 (bulk) 1908-1961 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Contains approximately 110 letters by Aldous Huxley written to various friends and associates, including Arnold Bennett, Basil Ashmore, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, and the American photographer Sanford Roth, collected by Goodwin Weinberg (Princeton Class of 1929).

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James Creese Letters to Thomas H. English, 1918-1971 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists of approximately 175 letters by college president James Creese (Princeton Class of 1918) to his Princeton classmate and friend Thomas H. English, who became a professor of English at Emory University, Georgia.

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Nancy Mitford Collection, 1966-1973 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of letters by Nancy Mitford, Britsth novelist and biographer, to Elizabeth Forbes, manager of the London bookstore G. Heywood Hill, Ltd.

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James Agee Letters, 1932-1938 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists of selected letters by the American author, journalist, and screenwriter James Agee, addressed to his first wife, Olivia Saunders. Several of them date from the period Agee was in Alabama working on what would become Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941).

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Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters, 1899-1968 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.5 linear feet
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Consists of original letters and transcriptions of additional letters by Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes.

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Aristides E. Phoutrides papers, 1895-1923 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:
Phoutrides was a Greek poet, educator, and translator. He taught classical literature and modern Greek at Harvard and Yale Universities. He was a proponent of "demotic" Greek language and literature. Consists of personal papers of Phoutrides.

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William Dodge Horne collection of Ernest Hemingway, 1928-2012 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:
William Horne and Ernest Hemingway were lifelong friends. Horne met Hemingway while a volunteer ambulance driver for the American Red Cross during World War I. They were stationed in Schio, Italy, and drove together on the same ambulance. After Hemingway's failed engagement to Agnes von Kurowsky, they shared an apartment in Chicago during the fall of 1920. When Hemingway married Hadley Richardson in September 1921, Horne was in the wedding party. When the writer died in 1961, Horne was an honorary pallbearer. Contains eight Horne-Hemingway items: a copy of a photograph of Frances Horne [Bunny] and Hemingway in Wyoming in 1928; an autograph signed letter by Ernest Hemingway (with postcript by wife Pauline) to "Dearest Bunny and Horney" [Frances and William Horne], dated 9 September [1929], 2 pp., with envelope; an autograph signed letter by Hemingway to "Dear 'Orny" [Horne], dated 1 June [1930], 2 pp., with 5 pp. of fishing gear advertisements with holograph annotations, with...(see more)

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Trapping Diaries of Donald Phillips, 1904-1940 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists of thirteen diaries (1903, 1906-1908, 1912-1918, 1922-1923) by Donald Phillips describing his adventures as a trapper and hunter in Alberta, Canada, and the typed manuscript "Tracks Across My Trail" (1940), a transcription of the diaries edited by J. Monroe Thorington.

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