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Arcadio Díaz Quiñones Papers, circa 1944-2019 (inclusive) 1970-2012 (bulk)

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28 boxes and 2 items
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The Arcadio Díaz Quiñones Papers consists chiefly of manuscripts and correspondence of the Puerto Rican professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University, Arcadio Díaz Quiñones (1940-), as well as a selection of manuscripts by others. The collection focuses on Puerto Rican and Cuban literature, but also provides insight into the literature and politics of other parts of Latin America.

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Philip James Bailey Collection, 1855-1946 (inclusive)

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1 box, 2 items, and 0.4 linear feet
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The Philip James Bailey Collection consists of correspondence, clippings, and miscellanea of the English poet Philip James Bailey (1816-1902).

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Carlos Franqui Collection, 1952-1981 (inclusive) 1957-1962 (bulk)

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24 boxes and 9.6 linear feet
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The Carlos Franqui Collection contains works and correspondence of Cuban journalist, poet, and essayist Carlos Franqui, who moved to Europe in 1968 after becoming dissatisfied with Castro's Cuban regime. Included are manuscripts for Diario de la Revolucion Cubana (1976), Cuba, Libro de los Doce (1977), and Retrato de Familia con Fidel (1981) concerning the Cuban revolution of 1959 and Franqui's association with Fidel Castro.

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Archivo de Silvina Ocampo, 1949-1986 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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La colección consiste de escritos, correspondencia y dibujos de la novelista, cuentista y poeta argentina Silvina Ocampo.

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Leonard L. Milberg '53 Collection of Manuscripts, Correspondence, and Photographs, 1762-2001 (inclusive)

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6 boxes and 3.4 linear feet
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Consists of an open collection of manuscript material related to print collections of Leonard L. Milberg (Princeton Class of 1953): Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry, Leonard L. Milberg Irish Theater Collection, and the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish-American Writers.

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Noël Riley Fitch Papers, 1858-2018 (inclusive) 1965-1995 (bulk)

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41 boxes, 2 items, and 19.4 linear feet
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Consists of the writings, correspondence, interviews, printed works, and other additional papers of the American educator and author Noël Riley Fitch (1937- ). Also included are a selection of Sylvia Beach papers that Fitch consulted for her book Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties (1983).

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J. G. Cobo Borda Papers, 1951-2018 (inclusive)

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24.21 linear feet ((44 containers))
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Consists of personal and working papers of Cobo Borda, a Colombian poet, essayist, journalist, and diplomat, primarily manuscript poems and essays as well as correspondence, spanning the period from 1970 to 2017. There are also manuscripts of speeches and interviews, nonfiction works, documents, photographs, a few papers of others, scrapbooks, and a small amount of printed material.

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Brendan Behan Papers, 1943-1963 (bulk) 1943-1983 (inclusive)

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3 boxes
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Consists of selected manuscript and typescript drafts, notebooks, and notes, of 20th-century Irish author Brendan Behan (1923-1964), as well as some correspondence and ephemera. The papers constitute the principal archives of the manuscripts of Behan's writings.

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Sutton and Cunliffe-Owen Collection, 1843-1947 (inclusive) 1890-1927 (bulk)

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23 boxes and 15 linear feet
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Consists of selected papers of E. F. H. Sutton (Princeton Class of 1895) and his collection of papers of his longtime friends, the former Countess Marguerite (de Godart) Cunliffe-Owen and her husband, Frederick Cunliffe-Owen.

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Joe Walker Kraus Collection, 1977-1983 (inclusive)

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4 boxes and 1.5 linear feet
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Joe Walker Kraus was an American librarian. His collection includes working papers for two publishers and bibliographies of books they published, some working papers, and some correspondence.

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Woody Allen Papers, 1955-2012 (inclusive)

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56 boxes, 10 items, and 26.8 linear feet
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This collection contains writings by filmmaker and author Woody Allen. It includes copies of short stories, essays, articles, and the majority of Allen's films, along with original and various drafts of his prose work, plays and screenplays, some of which are either unpublished or unproduced.

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Navajo Mission Collection, circa 1895-1908 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of miscellaneous manuscripts and 143 photographs documenting the Navajo mission in San Juan County, New Mexico, that was started in 1891 by Mary L. Eldridge and M. E. Raymond.

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William M. Armstrong Collection on E.L. Godkin, 1833-1978 (inclusive)

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14 boxes and 6.5 linear feet
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This collection consists of American historian William M. Armstrong's works and research material on Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1831-1902), a founder and editor of The Nation (1865-1881) and editor of the New York Evening Post (1883-1900). The collection contains typed manuscripts of Armstrong's biography on Godkin along with other writings, as well as photocopies, microfilms, and typescripts of correspondence.

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James M. Ludlow Manuscripts, 1886-1931 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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The James M. Ludlow Manuscripts consist of assorted manuscripts and a small selection of miscellaneous material of the American Presbyterian clergyman, author, and Princeton graduate (Class of 1861), James Meeker Ludlow (1841-1932).

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Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin Collection, 1918-1936 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected papers in Russian and English of Russian playwright, novelist, and storywriter Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, primarily after 1931, when he emigrated to Paris, France. Included are autograph and typed manuscripts, articles, and letters.

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Helmut Meyer Papers, 1938-2000 (inclusive)

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16 boxes and 16.4 linear feet
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Helmut Meyer was a German-born American citizen who fought for the United States in World War II and founded the Helmut Meyer Literary Agency in New York City. The collection contains files from the Helmut Meyer Literary Agency, propaganda from both the Allies and the Axis from World War II, manuscripts of Meyer's own work, and correspondence from friends and clients.

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Grace L. J. McClure Papers, 1850-1952 (inclusive)

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5 boxes and 2.08 linear feet
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Consists of the selected writings and correspondence of American educator and writer, Grace Latimer Jones McClure. Materials primarily relate to her unpublished book, A Clippership Honeymoon, which centers around the diaries of Malvina "Mallie" McClure, the wife of a mid-19th century New England sea captain.

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Arthur J. Pilgram Papers, circa 1910-1930 (inclusive)

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5 boxes and 2.5 linear feet
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The Papers contain manuscripts, lists, and notes of American author and historian Arthur Julian Pilgram (Princeton Class of 1902) for his six-volume work, Military Compendium of Napoleon and His Armies, which covers the Napoleonic and Spanish Wars and the history and organization of the French army.

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Ira Owen Wade Collection, 1914-1969 (inclusive)

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13 boxes
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Ira Owen Wade (Princeton Class of 1924) was a professor of French in Princeton's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His collection consists of typescript of his writings on Voltaire, professional correspondence, research notes, and some student work.

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Glen C.H. Perry Papers, 1944-1982 (inclusive)

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6 boxes and 2.5 linear feet
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This collection consists of works, lecture note cards, correspondence, an audio tape, and printed matter of American journalist and publicist Glen C. H. Perry (Princeton Class of 1926).

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Clare Beecher Kummer Papers, 1890s-1955 (inclusive)

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21 boxes and 10.2 linear feet
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Consists of the papers of song-writer, playwright, and poet Clare Beecher Kummer. Included are manuscript plays, musical compositions, songs, verse, and correspondence.

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Norman C. Pierce Papers, 1920-1975 (inclusive)

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16 boxes and 7.2 linear feet
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Consists of papers of Norman C. Pierce, an American Mormon author, including personal correspondence, financial papers, a photograph album of a trip to Germany in 1927, family photographs, clippings, travel memorabilia and notes, articles (by others), and printed matter relating to Mormonism in Utah.

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Allan Marquand Papers, 1858-1951 (inclusive) 1878-1950 (bulk)

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54 boxes and 27.2 linear feet
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Consists of the papers of Allan Marquand, Princeton art professor, founder of the University's Department of Art and Archaeology, and first director of its Art Museum.

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Immanuel Velikovsky Papers, 1930-1979 (bulk) 1920-1996 (inclusive)

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162 boxes
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The collection consists of manuscripts, writings, correspondence (both personal and professional), photographs, works of others, microfilm, printed material, and film reels, spanning more than 50 years, concerning Velikovsky's controversial ideas, the books that he wrote, and the history of opposition and criticism from the academic community that he received following the publication of his first book, Worlds in Collision, in 1950. Colleges and universities threatened to boycott the textbook division of the publisher, Macmillan & Co., which led to the transfer of the publishing rights to Doubleday & Co., even though the book had reached the number one spot on the best-sellers list. The book was eventually banned from a number of academic institutions, and several people lost their jobs because of it.

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Henry Van Dyke Family Papers, 1694-1963 (inclusive) 1840-1950s (bulk)

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179 boxes and 75.9 linear feet
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The Henry Van Dyke Family Papers consists of papers of three generations of the prominent Van Dyke family of New York and Princeton, beginning with Henry Jackson Van Dyke (1822-1891) and his wife, Henrietta [Ashmead] Van Dyke (1820-1893), followed by their children, Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) and Paul Van Dyke (1859-1933), and ending with Henry van Dyke's son Tertius Van Dyke (1886-1958).

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Mario Vargas Llosa Papers, 1958-1995 (bulk) 1944-2010 (inclusive)

Extent:
230 linear feet, 362 boxes, and 60 items
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The Mario Vargas Llosa Papers consists of notebooks, manuscripts of novels, plays and screenplays, short stories, nonfiction, documents, correspondence, and printed and recorded material.

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante Papers, 1962-1988 (inclusive)

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19 boxes and 7.5 linear feet
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Consists of manuscripts and correspondence of the Cuban novelist and storywriter Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005). These papers contain published work and screenplays from 1964 through 1982, a manuscript of Three Trapped Tigers (1971), the English translation of Tres tristes tigres (1967), and film stills from Wonderwall (1968). Furthermore, the collection contains extensive correspondence between Cabrera Infante and literary agents, publishers, film producers, Latin American writers, and others.

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Juan Gelman Papers, 1927-2014 (inclusive)

Extent:
72 boxes and 3575 digital files
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Juan Gelman (1930-2014) was an Argentine poet, translator, journalist, and human rights activist. His papers contain handwritten, typewritten, and printouts of his writings, correspondence, notes, research files, awards and certificates, and personal photographs. A significant portion of the papers feature analog and born-digital investigative files relating to human rights investigations and campaigns Gelman conducted with his spouse, Mara La Madrid, on the forced kidnapping and death of his son and pregnant daughter-in-law, Marcelo Gelman and María Claudia García Irureta Goyena. Also included are files on his search to find his missing granddaughter, Macarena Gelman. Additional materials consist of original drafts and documents related to Juan Gelman's writing; letters; publishing contracts; documents about Juan Gelman's work as a translator; materials related to the campaign to lift the ban on Juan Gelman's entry into Argentina and his return to Buenos Aires; newspaper and...(see more)

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Osip Mandelʹshtam Papers, 1900s-1970s (inclusive) 1914-1937 (bulk)

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6 boxes and 2.4 linear feet
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Osip Mandelʹshtam was a Russian poet, novelist, essayist and critic. A member of the Guild of Poets, a radical faction of the acmeist movement in poetry, he criticized the literary conformity demanded by Russia's new communist government. The collection consists of Russian-language works, correspondence, and printed matter of Mandelʹshtam. It contains holograph and typed manuscripts of his poems, reviews, articles, and essays, often in draft form representing different stages of his work, many of which are in the hand of his wife, Nadezhda, who acted as his amanuensis.

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Albert Einstein Duplicate Archive, 1859-1979 (inclusive) 1912-1955 (bulk)

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94 boxes and 37.9 linear feet
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Consists of a photocopied duplicate archive of the original Albert Einstein Archive at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, divided into scientific and non-scientific sections, including published and unpublished manuscripts, articles, lectures, notebooks, notes, travel diaries (1925-1933), family papers, and correspondence.

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Charles Carroll Marden Collection of Spanish Documents, 1347-1887 (inclusive) 1505-1637 (bulk)

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17 boxes, 1 folder, and 6.50 linear feet
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The Charles Carroll Marden Collection of Spanish Documents consists of 637 Spanish documents, collected by philologist and university professor Charles Carroll Marden. The documents are divided into two groups: documents originating from the town of Burgos and several towns around Soria and documents from the town of Alarcon. Later additions to the collection include the earliest document in the collection, dated 1347.

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Mixsell Collection of Autographs of Musicians, 1825-1937 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 2.5 linear feet
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Consists of letters and/or autograph manuscripts of several bars of music (some signed and inscribed) by such composers as Beethoven, Brahms, Cui, Puccini, Ravel, and Strauss. Materials were collected by American physician and composer Raymond B. Mixsell (Princeton Class of 1903).

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Vicente Leñero Papers, 1954-2011 (inclusive)

Extent:
30 boxes
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The Vicente Leñero Papers contain materials pertaining to the Mexican playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Vicente Leñero (1933- ). Included are manuscripts, correspondence, and printed material.

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Gordon Merrick Papers, 1936-1991 (inclusive) 1954-1988 (bulk)

Extent:
23 boxes
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The Gordon Merrick Papers consist primarily of drafts of the manuscripts of Merrick's novels, written over a thirty-nine year period, from the late 1940s ( The Strumpet Wind, 1947) to the mid-1980s ( Measure of Madness, 1986). Also present is his business and financial correspondence with agents, publishers, and banks over a twenty-one year period, from 1967 until his death in 1988. In addition there is a clipping file which dates back to Merrick's first experiences as an actor in the 1930s, as well as photographs taken for publicity as well as for Merrick's personal collection.

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Esar Levine Collection of Frank Harris, 1908-1976 (inclusive) 1920-1930 (bulk)

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7 boxes, 2 folders, and 4.8 linear feet
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The Esar Levine Collection of Frank Harris consists of the writings, correspondence, and printed matter of, and relating to, Frank Harris (1855-1931) as collected by Esar Levine (1899-?), Harris's disciple, agent and friend. Harris, an Irish-born, naturalized American citizen, was a prolific writer and journalist/editor who is perhaps best known for his scandalous autobiography, My Life and Loves, which was censored in America and parts of Europe.

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Mildred Gilman Wohlforth Papers, 1910-1994 (inclusive) 1927-1985 (bulk)

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25 boxes
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Mildred Gilman Wohlforth was an American journalist, newspaper reporter, and novelist. Her papers include over 600 letters from friends, family, and literary associates, along with autograph and typed manuscripts for several unpublished novels. Also present are selected papers of her husband, Robert Wohlforth, a journalist, business analyst, and author.

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

Extent:
22 boxes and 8.8 linear feet
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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.

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J. Monroe Thorington Collection, 1848-1983 (inclusive) 1920-1964 (bulk)

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43 boxes
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Consists of works, correspondence, diaries, documents, photographs, maps, scrapbooks, miscellaneous material, and printed matter by and about mountaineer J. Monroe Thorington (Princeton Class of 1915), as well as some papers of other people.

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Richard Penn Smith Collection, 1828-1844 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.45 linear feet
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Richard Penn Smith (1799-1854) was a lawyer, editor, playwright, short story writer, and novelist of Philadelphia. His collection consists of a bound volume containing two of his plays ( My Uncle's Wedding and The Sentinels), miscellaneous manuscripts, a letter in verse to his mother, a diary, documents, engraved portraits, clippings, and miscellaneous papers of the Smith family.

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Oden Meeker Manuscripts, 1954-1968 (inclusive)

Extent:
4 boxes
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The Oden Meeker Manuscripts collection consists of writings and photographs of the American freelance author Oden Meeker (1918-1976), a former director of the humanitarian organization CARE.

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