Repository: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division / Form: Manuscripts. / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1850">1850</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1899">1899</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Young Ewing Allison Papers, 1897-1932 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected papers of Young Ewing Allison, a Kentucky newspaperman and editor.

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Philip Ashton Rollins Collection, 1887-1950 (inclusive) 1900-1930 (bulk)

Extent:: 25 boxes and 14 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of personal papers and material related to the American West collected by Philip Ashton Rollins (1869-1950).

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H. F. B. Brett-Smith Papers, 1896-1942 (inclusive) 1921-1925 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.7 linear feet
Abstract:: The collection consists of papers of Herbert Francis Brett-Smith reflecting his position as literary editor (1920-1928) of the Shakespeare Head Press, which was founded in 1904 at Stratford-upon-Avon, England, by A. H. Bullen (1857-1920). Much of the collection is correspondence as well as notices of board meetings, profit and loss account statements, balance sheets, statements on policy and location of the Shakespeare Head Press, a few clippings, and printed lists of publications and Shakespeare Head Press brochures.

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Editorial Correspondence of The Independent, 1882-1899 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box, 2 items, and .2 linear feet
Abstract:: This collection consists of selected editorial correspondence of the New York weekly The Independent, founded in 1848 by Henry Chandler Bowen as a Congregationalist journal which later expanded in scope to include articles on literary and social topics. Successive editors were Theodore Tilton, 1856-1861 and 1864-1871, Henry Ward Beecher, 1861-1864, William Hayes Ward, 1868-1916, Kinsley Twining, literary editor, 1880-1899, and Hamilton Holt, 1897-1921. The collection contains approximately 85 letters, 1882-1899, to Kinsley Twining (1832-1901), a Congregationalist minister, William Hayes Ward (1835-1916), a Congregationalist minister, orientalist, and professor of Latin and natural science, Miss [Susan Hayes] Ward, and Hamilton Holt by various contributors to The Independent.

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Massachusetts Elementary School Student Compositions Collection, 1866-1880 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: The Massachusetts Elementary School Student Compositions Collection consists of short, nineteenth-century essays on a variety of topics written by children from Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

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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.

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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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Joanna Southcott Collection, 1793-1864 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7 boxes and 2.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Southcott, an English domestic servant, began hearing voices at the age of 42 and believed these to be divine communications prophesying the Second Coming of Christ. She dictated her prophecies primarily to her secretaries, Ann Underwood and Jane Townley, and these were often copied by others and then circulated among the believers. Consists of a collection of manuscripts of Southcott and material related to her. Included are 12 notebooks and 63 pamphlets or loose writings containing copies (1793-1814) in various hands of Southcott's divine communications, letters, poems, and prayers.

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Frank N. Doubleday and Nelson Doubleday Collection, 1734-1966 (inclusive) 1890s-1940s (bulk)

Extent:: 33 boxes, 1 item, and 14 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of papers of Frank Nelson Doubleday and his son, Nelson, relating to their personal and business relationships with prominent authors and artists published under the Doubleday imprint, such as Joseph Conrad, A. B. Frost, Rudyard Kipling, T. E. Lawrence, and W. Someset Maugham.

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James Gould Cozzens Papers, 1878-1978, 1878-1978 (inclusive) 1940s-1960s (bulk)

Extent:: 50 boxes and 22.50 linear feet
Abstract:: The collection illustrates the literary and military careers of James Gould Cozzens in manuscripts, notebooks, diaries (1920-1970), war journals (1911-1945), correspondence (general, family, and business), documents, memorabilia, clippings, and photographs.

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