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James Greene Correspondence, 1956-2006 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence, comprising eighty-one letters, between poet and translator James Greene and other writers and artists, including Ted Hughes and Antony Gormley. The letters range in date from 1956 to 2006.

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Arturo Lagorio Correspondence, 1932-1984 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.5 linear feet
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This collection consists of letters to Arturo Lagorio, Argentine poet and author, by various Latin American and Spanish writers, including Samuel Eichelbaum, Maria Granata, Nicolas Olivari, and Cesar Tiempo.

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Jack Iams Mystery Novels, 1946-1950 (inclusive)

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5 boxes
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Jack Iams (Samuel Harvey Iams, Jr.), Class of 1932, was a noted mystery writer in the first part of the twentieth century. The collection includes notes, drafts, outlines, and typescripts for seven of Iams's mysteries, as well as several assorted items, such a book jacket proofs and page proofs.

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C. T. Lanham Papers on Ernest Hemingway, 1945-1978 (inclusive)

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3 boxes and 1.25 linear feet
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Charles Trueman Lanham was a life soldier who retired as a general and was also friends with Hemingway. The papers consist of Xerox copies of correspondence between Lanham and Hemingway, a chronology of his time in World War II, correspondence about Hemingway, and a draft of Carlos Baker's biography of Hemingway.

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Everett S. Wallis Papers, 1935-1964 (inclusive)

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12 boxes and 12.5 linear feet
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This collection consists of correspondence, reports, articles, lectures, notes, and printed matter of American chemist, Everett Stanley Wallis, dating primarily from his tenure as Princeton professor of chemistry (1930-1965) and chairman of its biochemical sciences program, and as a research consultant for Merck & Co. of New Jersey and for other pharmaceutical companies.

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José Martínez Sotomayor Papers, 1929-1960 (inclusive) 1930-1932 (bulk)

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3 boxes
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José Martínez Sotomayor was a Mexican lawyer, judge, and writer who published novels, short stories, and nonfiction. His personal papers includes correspondence and autograph and typescript manuscripts of three of Martínez Sotomayor's books.

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John Lott Phillips Collection, 1776-1987 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of material by and about John Lott Phillips, a graduate of Princeton (1774), a clergyman of the Church of England, and a loyalist to the British Crown.

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Thomas Colchie '64 Papers, 1968-2003 (inclusive)

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3 boxes and 1.25 linear feet
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Thomas Colchie (Princeton University alumnus, Class of 1964), is a translator, editor, and literary agent with a specialization in Latin America. His papers consists of correspondence from Jorge Amado, António Lobo Antunes, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Oswaldo França Júnior, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Manuel Puig, Murilo Rubião, Ernesto Sábato, José Saramago, Moacyr Scliar, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, José Luandino Vieira, Néstor Almendros, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Elizabeth Bishop, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Joaquim Cardozo, Philip Roth, and Alan Warner.

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Howard W. Ambruster Papers, 1927-1958 (inclusive)

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6 boxes and 6.5 linear feet
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The collection consists of American consulting engineer and newspaper columnist, Howard W. Ambruster's works, correspondence, miscellaneous material, and printed matter.

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Sonja Karsen Papers, 1897-1993 (inclusive) 1950-1973 (bulk)

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4 boxes
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Sonja Karsen, born in 1919, was a professor of Spanish at Skidmore College and intensively researched Jaime Torres Bodet and Guillermo Valencia, two Latin American politicians and poets. The Sonja Karsen papers contain much of her research on these two figures.

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Plural Editorial Files, 1971-1976 (inclusive)

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6 boxes and 2.5 linear feet
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The Plural Editorial Files is comprised of the editorial correspondence of Plural (1971-1976), the Mexican journal of literature, politics, art, and cultural commentary. Files include correspondence with Plural editors and personnel Octavio Paz, Kazuya Sakai, Danubio Torres Fierro, José de la Colina, Sonia Levy-Spira, Julio Scherer García, Tomás Segovia, and others. Contributor correspondence include a wide range national and international of writers, publishers, and intellectuals from Latin America, United States, and Europe.

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Nikos Stangos Papers, 1953-2009 (inclusive)

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20 boxes and 7.8 linear feet
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Consists of personal papers of Nikos Stangos, a prolific Modern Greek poet and one of the most influential figures in British art publishing. For more than 30 years he was responsible for some of the most important art books of the late 20th century. As a result, in his modest way, he helped shape the discipline of art history in Britain and the United States.

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Peter C. Bunnell Papers, 1960-2018 (bulk) 1857-2018 (inclusive)

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105 boxes
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This collection consists of the papers of photography historian, professor, author, and curator Peter C. Bunnell, spanning his student and professional career from the 1950s to 2018. Materials include subject files, correspondence, photographs, publications and drafts of publications, among other items.

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Sonya Rudikoff Papers, 1935-2000 (inclusive)

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7 boxes and 7.0 linear feet
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Sonya Rudikoff (1927-1997) was a writer, literary critic, and independent scholar, active from the 1950s through the 1990s, who wrote primarily on Victorian literature, feminism, and Virginia Woolf. The papers include Rudikoff's professional and personal correspondence, including five decades of extensive correspondence from second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler; typescripts of Rudikoff's unpublished fiction and lectures; notebooks, papers, and diaries from her time at Bennington College in the late 1940s; along with a curriculum vitae and bibliography of her work and some related materials.

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American Architectural Drawings, 1900-1930 (bulk) 1880-1988 (inclusive)

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115 boxes
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Consists of approximately 5000 early 20th-century American architectural drawings (blueprint and trace drawings), primarily by C. Grant La Farge and various firms with which he was associated, including Heins & La Farge, La Farge, Clark & Creighton, La Farge, Warren & Clark, La Farge & Morris, and La Farge & Son. There are also groups of drawings by the architects Wilson Eyre, Pennington Satterthwaite (Princeton Class of 1893), Robert Gibson, and a few miscellaneous firms.

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Alexander D. Wainwright Collection of Thomas Wolfe, 1924-1989 (inclusive)

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13 boxes and 4 items
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Alexander D. Wainwright (Princeton Class of 1939) was an avid bookman and collector. He had a lengthy career at the Princeton University Library, serving as assistant university librarian for collection development and as curator of the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists. His collection consists of of manuscripts, correspondence, drawings, and related material by and about Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, playwright, and storywriter.

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Godfrey Winham Writings on Music, 1958-1975 (inclusive)

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14 boxes and 6.7 linear feet
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Consists of Princeton music professor Godfrey Winham's unpublished writings on music, which have been edited, collated, and indexed by Roger Maren.

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Edward Steese Papers, 1878-1984 (inclusive)

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40 boxes and 19.5 linear feet
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Consists of papers of American architect and poet Edward Steese, including diaries, manuscripts, and architectural drawings.

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Diamela Eltit Papers, 1943-2012 (inclusive)

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9 boxes
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A collection of manuscript and typescript drafts of and notebooks related to Eltit's works, personal and work-related correspondence mostly from the mid-1980s to 1990s, and other miscellaneous personal and work-related papers.

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H. L. Mencken Collection, 1908-1956 (inclusive) 1924-1942 (bulk)

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21 boxes, 38 items (reels), and 12.5 linear feet
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Consists primarily of microfilm and transcripts of letters by American essayist and journalist H. L. Mencken, compiled by Princeton University historian and librarian Julian Boyd for his proposed book of Mencken's letters.

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Zelda Fitzgerald Papers, 1919-1997 (inclusive) 1920-1948 (bulk)

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9 boxes and 8.5 linear feet
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The Zelda Fitzgerald Papers consists of manuscripts, correspondence, miscellaneous notes and related material, documents, pictures, clippings, and photographs of American author Zelda Fitzgerald.

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Carlos Ribeiro Papers, 1938-1993 (inclusive) 1955-1967 (bulk)

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4 boxes and 2.2 linear feet
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Consists of the business and personal papers of Carlos Ribeiro, founder and owner of Livraria São José, a well-known bookstore and cultural center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection, 1502-2012 (inclusive)

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120 boxes and 67.8 linear feet
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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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F. Scott Fitzgerald Additional Papers, 1909-2013 (inclusive)

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35 boxes and 6 items
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Since 1950, the Princeton University Library has been successful in acquiring additional manuscripts and related materials to complement the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers (C0187). The F. Scott Fitzgerald Additional Papers (C0188) is comprised of Fitzgerald manuscripts (including his published juvenilia), letters, documents, photographs, tape recordings, memorabilia, and other materials donated by the author's family, friends, and publishers.

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William Seymour Family Papers, 1870-1933 (bulk) 1733-1967 (inclusive)

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89 boxes and 42 linear feet
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Consists primarily of the professional papers of prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century American theatrical stage manager and director William Seymour (1855-1933). The majority of papers include correspondence as well as numerous production-related materials, such as playscripts, promptbooks, and sheet music. Family members, particularly other well-known theater figures, such as Seymour's sister-in-law Fanny Davenport (1850-1898), are also represented in the collection through correspondence, production materials, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Fratelli Alinari Photographs, circa 1950

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1 box and 1 linear foot
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Fratelli Alinari was an Italian firm founded in Florence in 1852 by the three Alinari brothers, Romualdo, Leopoldo, and Giuseppe. Fratelli Alinari became one of the largest and most prolific European photography firms of the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1880 the firm employed over 100 people. Alinari specialized in views of Italy and the reproduction of works of art. [http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/guides_bibliographies/photography_greece/photographers.html] Consists of an open collection of photographs by Fratelli Alinari depicting several sites in Greece.

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14 Africans vs. One American by Frederic Fox, 1962 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of the corrected typescript and corrected galley proof of the book 14 Africans vs. One American (1963) by American journalist Frederic Fox (Princeton Class of 1939).

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Royal Danish Ballet Photographs, 1960 (inclusive)

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2 boxes
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Consists of approximately 90 photographs of Royal Danish Ballet performances available from dance publicist Isadora Bennett, together with her detailed notes and numeration for each picture.

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Winton Dean Collection, 1957-1984 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists primarily of twenty-seven years of correspondence between music scholars J. Merrill Knapp and Winton Dean regarding George Frideric Handel's operas and their professional work and writings about them.

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Sin, One Way, Economy Class, 1976 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of a typescript, with a few corrections, for Sin, One Way, Economy Class (1976) by author Lucy Caldwell, concerning her work in Vietnam in support of the American armed forces during the Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975.

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

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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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Frederick Hudson Collection, 1967-1986 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of selected correspondence between musicologists Frederick Hudson and J. Merrill Knapp regarding George Frideric Handel and other composers.

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Howard C. Rice Correspondence with Alexander D. Wainwright, 1950-1980 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of correspondence between Howard C. Rice, Jr., and Alexander D. Wainwright, dating mainly during the time that Rice was working at the Collège de L'Europe Libre, in Strasbourg, France. Rice was an associate professor at Princeton University and Assistant Librarian for the Special Collections. Wainwright was a librarian at Princeton University Library for many years, serving as currator of the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists and as Assistant University Librarian for Acquisitions.

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Horton Davies collection of Frederick Buechner, 1943-1982 (inclusive) 1978-1981 (bulk)

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1 box and 0.5 linear feet
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Horton Davies was a Princeton University professor of religion; his wife, Marie-Helene Davies, is author of LAUGHTER IN A GENEVAN GOWN: THE WORKS OF FREDERICK BUECHNER, 1970-1980 (1983). Consists of papers relating to the novelist Frederick Buechner (Princeton Class of 1947) collected or created by Davies.

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Lincoln Gilmore Smith Collection, 1950-1966 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of miscellaneous material of Lincoln Gilmore Smith, a physicist and professor of physics at Princeton University, relating to his construction and use of mass spectrometers.

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

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

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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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Archivo de Elena Garro, 1932-1998 (inclusive)

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7.21 linear feet ((15 containers))
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El archivo de Elena Garro contiene manuscritos, correspondencia, cuadernos, diarios, fotografías, material impreso y un diario de la escritora mexicana Elena Garro (1916-1998). También se incluye correspondencia y documentos personales de la hija de Garro, la poeta Helena Paz Garro (1939-2014).

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Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker Papers, 1910-1959 (inclusive)

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60 boxes and 25.8 linear feet
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Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker was an American historian who taught at Princeton from 1910 to 1947. He was internationally recognized and wrote a number of important historical works. In 1947, he was president of the American Historical Association. His papers consist of Wertenbaker's works, correspondence, photographs, miscellaneous material, and printed matter.

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Lyman Spitzer Papers, 1936-1997 (inclusive) 1960-1979 (bulk)

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72 boxes, 2 items, and 30.6 linear feet
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Princeton professor of astronomy (1947-1982), chairman of the Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, and director of the Princeton University Observatory, Lyman Spitzer was also primarily responsible for founding the University's Plasma Physics Laboratory. His papers include design studies, technical plans and programs, various reports, correspondence, notes, and observations relating to his involvement in the development of the study of space astronomy at Princeton.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Ashbel Green Materials, 1744-1958 (inclusive) 1783-1844 (bulk)

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13 boxes and 4.84 linear feet
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Ashbel Green (1762-1848) was a prominent Presbyterian minister, eighth president of the College of New Jersey, and co-founder of the Princeton Theological Seminary. The bulk of the papers consist of Green's personal writings, including diaries and sermons. The papers of Green's father, the Reverend Jacob Green (1722-1790) are also included.

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Enoch Morgan's Sons Co. Collection, 1844-1987 (inclusive)

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18 boxes and 13.3 linear feet
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Consists of records of the nineteenth-century New York City-based soap manufacturer Enoch Morgan's Sons Company, including business records, correspondence, and advertising and promotional materials for Sapolio soap, its best known product.

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Liliane Hasson Collection of Latin American Writers, 1963-2005 (inclusive)

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6 boxes and 2.0 linear feet
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Contains the letters of Reinaldo Arenas and other Latin American authors to the French translator Liliane Hasson. Also includes copies of manuscripts by Arenas and others, photographs, and audio recordings of interviews with Latin American writers.

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Thomas Hoving Papers, 1952-1998 (inclusive)

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44 boxes and 45.5 linear feet
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Consists of material relating to the career of Thomas Hoving, who was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from 1967 to 1977, author, consultant, and the editor-in-chief of Connoisseur magazine from 1981 to 1991.

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Mario Vitti Papers, 1947-1992 (inclusive)

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5 boxes
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Consists of papers of Mario Vitti, an Italian author, translator, and educator specializing in modern Greek literature. Included are letters (1947-1992) from Greek, Turkish, Italian, and other poets and authors, and manuscripts of Greek authors collected by Vitti.

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Moe Berg Papers, 1943-1958 (bulk) 1866-1991 (inclusive)

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25 boxes and 19 linear feet
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Morris "Moe" Berg (1902-1972) was a Major League Baseball player, linguist, and lawyer who became a spy in World War II. The papers are comprised of correspondence, notes, photographs, and miscellaneous and printed materials covering all aspects of his life and work, but relating primarily to Berg's work with multiple government agencies.

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Nikos Pappas and Rita Boumē Papa Papers, 1932-1988 (inclusive)

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6 boxes and 2.4 linear feet
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Consists of personal papers of the Greek poets and writers, Nikos Pappas and his wife, Rita Boumē Papa, including correspondence, autograph manuscripts and typescripts of published and unpublished poetry, articles, talks, clippings, and other printed material.

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H. H. Hess Papers, 1932-1969 (inclusive)

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34 boxes
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The H. H. Hess Papers consists of professional papers, correspondence, and related materials of the American geologist and educator Harry Hammond Hess (1906-1969).

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Herbert S. Gorman Papers, 1909-1960 (inclusive)

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7 boxes
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The Herbert S. Gorman Papers consists, for the most part, of manuscripts, galleys, and notes for six of Gorman's historical novels, but includes some photographs of Gorman, bibliographies of his works, and a small amount of correspondence.

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Albert Schweitzer Collection, 1896-1976 (inclusive) 1930-1965 (bulk)

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14 boxes and 5.8 linear feet
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The collection contains both original and printed material relating to Albert Schweitzer, the French missionary physician who founded the Lambaréné Hospital in French Equatorial Africa in 1913 and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his philosophy of "reverence for life."

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Selected Papers of George Seferis, 1935-1993 (inclusive) 1940-1970 (bulk)

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2 boxes and 4 items
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George Seferis was a Greek diplomat, ambassador, poet and translator. He held various posts with the Royal Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was ambassador to the United Nations, 1956-1957, and to Great Britain, 1957-1962. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, and was awarded an honorary degree from Princeton University in 1965.

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Rita Guibert Collection of Latin American Authors, 1968-1971 (bulk) 1957-2000 (inclusive)

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8 boxes and 2.0 linear feet
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Rita Guibert (1916-2007) was an Argentine American author, journalist, editor, and translator. Guibert is best known for Seven Voices Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1973. The collection includes audiocassette tapes containing Guibert's in-depth interviews with Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Manuel Puig, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, and others. Other materials include correspondence with authors, photographs, and drafts of articles Guibert wrote for magazines including LIFE en Español, Nuestro, The Paris Review, and Revista Iberoamerica.

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Exhibitions Collection, 1896-2013 (inclusive) 1951-2013 (bulk)

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109 boxes and 46.5 linear feet
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Consists of material from and about the exhibitions held by the Special Collections in Firestone Library, primarily concerning subjects relating to American and English literature and art.

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Thomas H. Johnson Papers, 1919-1984 (inclusive)

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4 boxes, 1 folder, and 1.7 linear feet
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The Thomas H. Johnson Papers consists of correspondence, subject files, notes, printed matter, diplomas, and other miscellanea of the American educator and editor Thomas H. Johnson (1902-1985).

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Irving Malin Papers, 1955-2013 (inclusive)

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7 boxes
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Consists primarily of correspondence with authors such as Gordon Lish, James Purdy, Cynthia Ozick, and Paul Bowles, among many others, along with some writings and publisher files of American literary critic and professor of literature Irving Malin (1934-2014).

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"Literary Landmarks of Princeton" Exhibition Collection, 1892-1971 (inclusive) 1967-1968 (bulk)

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5 boxes and 2.1 linear feet
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The "Literary Landmarks of Princeton" Exhibition Collection consists of author files and miscellaneous materials related to the "Literary Landmarks of Princeton" exhibition curated by Alfred L. Bush in 1967. The exhibition chronicled works of fiction, drama, and poetry written in Princeton by over 100 authors from the early 18th century to the mid-1960s.

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Julio Cortázar Papers, 1927-1980 (inclusive)

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5 boxes and 1.9 linear feet
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The Julio Cortázar Papers consists of the manuscripts, notes, and notebooks of the Argentine novelist and short story writer Julio Cortázar (1914-1984). These papers primarily contain unpublished prose and poetry, as well as some manuscripts of published materials. Though Cortázar is not generally thought of as a poet, poetry is heavily represented in the collection, including a notebook of poems he wrote at the age of 12 (1927). There are also Spanish translations of some of Jean Cocteau's poetry, and lecture notes from two courses that Cortázar taught. Furthermore, the papers contain a small selection of quotations collected from the work of others, and notebooks that include an assortment of prose, poetry, and notes.

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Peyton Houston Papers, 1925-1994 (inclusive) 1950-1990 (bulk)

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60 boxes and 2 items
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Peyton Houston (Princeton Class of 1932) worked with the New York investment company Equity Corporation for forty years, while pursuing a career in poetry and freelance writing on the side. His papers include some of his poetry notebooks and drafts and manuscripts of his published works. The collection also contains his correspondence with family and friends, writers and publishers, and photocopied correspondence with Peter Yates. Some drafts of Yates' work and some personal memorabilia of Houston's complete the collection.

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Vodrey Collection of Arthur Machen Papers, 1915-1972 (inclusive)

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4 boxes, 120 items, and 2.74 linear feet
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Consists of manuscripts and correspondence of Welsh writer Arthur Machen collected by Joseph Kelly Vodrey. It also contains an equal amount of manuscripts and correspondence of Machen admirers and collectors, particularly the members of the Machen Society, founded in 1948 after Machen's death.

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Pedro Consuegra Papers, 1959-2007 (inclusive)

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3 boxes
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The Pedro Consuegra papers include postcard correspondence with Néstor Almendros, German Puig Paredes, Severo Sarduy, and others. The papers also include original issues of SIE, a handwritten underground tabloid, or zine, Consuegra edited for and about gay Latin American expatriates living in France.

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Peter Schwed Correspondence, 1948-1994 (inclusive) 1982 (bulk)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 40 letters by various authors to Peter Schwed on the occasion of his retirement in 1982 as editor, publisher, and vice-president (1945-1982) of Simon and Schuster, Inc. Also present are brief comments on these letters by Schwed and a copy of his self-published Plum to Peter: Letters of P. G. Wodehouse to his Editor Peter Schwed (1996).

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James Creese Papers, 1822-1960 (inclusive)

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5 boxes and 2.1 linear feet
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Consists of some undergraduate and graduate papers of James Creese (Princeton Class of 1918), as well as papers from his tenures as successive presidents of the Stevens and Drexel Institutues of Technology.

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Eugene O'Neill Collection, 1913-1993 (inclusive) 1913-1944 (bulk)

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1 box and 0.45 linear feet
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Eugene O'Neill, the celebrated American playwright, was a director of the Provincetown Players and a founder of the Theatre Guild. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Strange Interlude (1928) and, posthumously, for Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956). The collection consists of fifteen manuscripts of O'Neill, most of which are first drafts of plays and include preliminary notes.

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Hamilton Cottier Papers, 1752-1977 (inclusive)

Extent:
17 boxes and 8 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, account books (1925-1975), financial papers, and printed matter of Hamilton Cottier (Princeton Class of 1922, professor of English, 1925-1962), and material relating to "Southlawn," the home of his father, Alonzo Cottier, in Scarsdale, N.Y.

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Allison Delarue Collection, 1820-1990s (inclusive)

Extent:
32 boxes and 153 items
Abstract:
The Allison Delarue Collection consists of a draft of Delarue's unpublished autobiography, letters received by Delarue from various friends, associates, and people involved in dance and the theater, and prints, photographs, and objects collected by Delarue relating to ballet and its history.

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Richard Pleasant Papers, 1940-1960 (bulk) 1930-1970 (inclusive)

Extent:
12 boxes and 5.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, press releases, newspapers, clippings, and miscellaneous material relating to Richard Pleasant, a founder of the Ballet Theatre.

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C. Lawton Campbell Papers, 1904-1974 (inclusive) 1914-1962 (bulk)

Extent:
28 boxes and 11.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Charles Lawton Campbell (Princeton Class of 1916) was an American playwright and advertising writer. His collection contains ninety-four drafts, fragments, and fully-conceived plays, as well as poems, essays, and an autobiography covering fifty years of his life as a devotee of the theater.

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Clinton Wilder Collection, 1934-1979 (inclusive)

Extent:
20 boxes and 10.1 linear feet
Abstract:
Clinton Wilder (Princeton Class of 1943) was an American theatrical producer. His collection consists of playbills he collected as well as typescripts and production materials of plays he produced.

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Tennessee Williams Manuscripts, 1947-1961 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box, 6 items, and 0.45 linear feet
Abstract:
This collection consists of early versions of seven works by American playwright, novelist, and storywriter, Tennessee Williams.

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Owen Luck Photographs Collection, 1973-2001 (inclusive)

Extent:
4 boxes
Abstract:
Consists of photographs taken by American photographer Owen Luck, which are arranged according to three separate series: Wounded Knee 1973, Menominee 1975, and Pine Ridge Reservation life 2000-2001.

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W. Howard Adams Collection, 1962-1968 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Collection consists of miscellaneous material relating to Black Mountain College and the Penland School of Arts and Crafts, collected by Adams, during his tenure as associate director of The Arts Council of America.

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