Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1862">1862</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Francis C. Brown Collection on Slavery in America, 1766-1868 (inclusive) 1820-1865 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of over 150 manuscript and printed documents related to slavery, the trade of enslaved persons, plantation labor, and free people of color, primarily in the United States and to a lesser extent in the Caribbean, that were collected by Francis C. Brown (Class of 1958).

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

Vivian Burnett Collection of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1844-2003 (inclusive) 1885-1937 (bulk)

Extent:: 22 boxes and 17.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of material relating to the British-born, American author Frances Hodgson Burnett (FHB), collected by her younger son, Vivian Burnett (VB), including manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and artwork.

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

George Simpson Eddy Collection of Benjamin Franklin, 1684-1947 (inclusive)

Extent:: 23 boxes and 22.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of material by and about American patriot and founding father Benjamin Franklin collected by George Simpson Eddy in the process of pursuing various projects on and studies of Franklin.

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

Wainwright Family Collection, 1810-1890 (bulk) 1694-1910 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes, 2 volumes, and 1.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected papers of the Wainwright family of New York State dating primarily from the nineteenth century.

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

Wilkinson Collection of Mary Mapes Dodge, 1703-1955 (inclusive) 1869-1900 (bulk)

Extent:: 8 boxes and 2.70 linear feet
Abstract:: Mary Mapes Dodge was an author and editor of St. Nicholas magazine. This collection consists of manuscripts and correspondence concerning St. Nicholas, and correspondence, documents, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the Dodge family.

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

Winans Collection of New Jersey Documents, 1703-1883 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of almost 200 eighteenth-century documents, mostly deeds to land, relating to several towns in Essex County, New Jersey, particularly Westfield, collected by Samuel Ross Winans (Princeton Class of 1874).

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

George Augustus Sala Correspondence, 1857-1890 (inclusive) 1857-1894 (bulk)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 1.75 linear feet
Abstract:: George Augustus Sala was a nineteenth-century English journalist, artist, book illustrator, traveler, humorist, and novelist. The collection contains approximately 300 letters written to Sala by about 200 different people over the course of 40 years. Among the correspondents are prominent authors, journalists, artists, nobility, philanthropists, and other notables.

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

William E. Fredeman Collection of William Bell Scott, the Scott Family, and Alice Boyd, 1820-1895 (bulk) 1733-1897 (inclusive)

Extent:: 6 boxes
Abstract:: Manuscripts and corrected page proofs for poetry and prose writings, drawings and engraved illustrations, personal documents, record books of print sales, correspondence, inscribed books, binding dummies, and family papers of William Bell Scott (1811-1890), a Scottish poet, painter, art critic, and engraver, known for his association with the Pre-Raphaelite circle in London, and also personal and family correspondence of Alice Boyd, Scott's long-term companion, from 1859 until his death. The collection consists of materials acquired by the eminent Pre-Raphaelite scholar, William E. Fredeman (1928-1999) from members of the Boyd family, which were once housed at Penkill Castle, the residence of Alice Boyd, where Scott spent much of his later life.

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

John Witherspoon Collection, 1765-1903 (inclusive) 1767-1790 (bulk)

Extent:: 4 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of selected manuscripts, correspondence, and documents of John Witherspoon, who was sixth president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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

William Denton Correspondence, 1633-1893 (inclusive) 1830-1893 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of about a hundred autograph letters by nineteenth-century British politicians, clergymen, and men of letters to clergyman and reformist William Denton.

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

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