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James Ferguson Letters to James Beresford, 1771-1774 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 1.25 linear feet
Abstract:
Included in this collection is a series of six letters written by the Scottish astronomer and instrument maker, James Ferguson, to mathematics teacher, James Beresford. Included in the letters are Fergusons' detailed drawings and explantions of various atronomical and mechanical models of clocks.

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Claude Esteban Letters, 1968-1988 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box
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The collection chiefly consists of 30 letters (1968-1988) received by the French poet, essayist, and translator, Claude Esteban, from the Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat, Octavio Paz, concerning translations projects.

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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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Donald L. Gordon Papers, 1929-1946 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence and columns related to Donald L. Gordon's role as editor of the American News of Books and contributor to the Saturday Evening Post.

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Emily Ann Brown Daybook and Travel Papers, 1861-1874 (inclusive)

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1 box
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Emily Ann Brown was born in 1841. In 1873-1874, she went on a grand tour of Europe. Consists of one daybook with entries dated 1861-1862, one travel passport dated 1873, one travel diary chronicling her grand tour in 1873 and travels on the Rhine in 1874, and Brown's handwritten translation from the German of "A Forest Fable."

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Alexander Scotland Collection, 1869-1893 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of works, correspondence, documents, photographs, a diary (1869), and a journal (1888) of Alexander Scotland (Princeton Class of 1874), most of which reflects the life he led in Colorado mining areas after leaving the East because of tuberculosis.

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James Agee Letters, 1932-1938 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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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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Nikos Kavvadias Papers, 1949-1972 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of papers of Nikos Kavvadias, a Greek poet who spent most of his life traveling the world as a wireless operator on ocean freighters.

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Joseph Reade Letters, 1795-1796 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of nineteen autograph letters sent by Joseph Reade to his father, John Reade, while he was a student at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) as a member of the Class of 1796.

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W. S. Merwin Collection, 1964-1969 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence, manuscripts, and galler proofs of W. S. Merwin, one of the most influential American poets of the latter 20th century.

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Wesley Halliburton Correspondence, 1939-1950 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of four small groups of correspondence between Wesley Halliburton and others after the death of his famous son Richard in 1939. Richard Halliburton was a celebrated adventurer and author known, among other things, for having swum the length of the Panama Canal.

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Joseph François Chalard Translations of Four Novels by Alessandro Verri, 1810-1838 (inclusive)

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1 box
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Consists of Joseph François Chalard's manuscript translations of four novels by the Italian author Alessandro Verri (1741-1816) into French, including "Les aventures de Sapho, poétesse de Mitylène" (Le avventure di Saffo poetessa di Mitilene), "La vie d'Erostrate" (La vita di Erostrato), and parts 1 and 2 of "Les nuits romaines au tombeau des Scipions" (Notti romane al sepolcro degli Scipioni).

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Waterman Thomas Hewett Collection, 1914-1920 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of material about the burning of Columbia, South Carolina, during the Civil War collected from source material by Waterman Thomas Hewett, an American educator and editor.

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Alice Raphael Collection of Faust Materials, 1938-1960 (inclusive)

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1 box and 1.2 linear feet
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The Alice Raphael Collection of Faust Materials contains photographs and epherema relating to the Yale bicentennial of Goethe's Faust , for which Alice Raphael's translation was used, as well as information about other productions of Faust and about Raphael's other work.

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Collection of 18th-Century Notes on Classical Epigraphy and Numismatics, circa 1740-1800 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of an anonymous German-speaking scholar's manuscript drafts, research notes, extracts from 17th- and 18th-century printed books (identified by author and title), transcriptions of Roman inscriptions, documents, and other materials pertaining to ancient inscriptions and coins.

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Levering Cartwright Collection on "Death Valley Scotty", 1939-1973 (inclusive) 1963-1971 (bulk)

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2 boxes and 0.60 linear feet
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Consists of papers of journalist Levering Cartwright (Princeton University Class of 1926) relating to the association of "Death Valley Scotty" (Walter Scott, 1872-1954), an eccentric prospector, Wild West show entertainer, and hoaxer, with his friend and financier, Albert M. Johnson, an insurance company executive.

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Harison Collection of Mark Twain Miscellanea, 1905-1933 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of various items collected by Leonard Harison relating to Mark Twain, including correspondence of Madeline Sinsheimer Block with Clara Gabrilowitsch (Twain's daughter), Harper's souvenir issue (1905) of Twain's 70th birthday, two Twain commemorative calendars (1910-1911), The Bookman's Twain issue of June, 1910, and a copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1904) inscribed by Twain in 1905.

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Edith Wharton Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Austin, 1903-1927 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of letters (1903-1927) sent by the American novelist Edith Wharton to her English friends Alfred and Hester Austin. During that period Wharton lived in Lenox, Massachusetts, and several places in France.

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Fred Lewis Pattee Collection on The Poems of Philip Freneau, 1900-1905 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence of editor Fred Lewis Pattee and others relating to the publishing of The Poems of Philip Freneau (3 vols., 1902-1907). Freneau was an eighteenth-century American poet, often called the "poet of the American Revolution."

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Hugh Gelston Correspondence, 1823-1824 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of eighteen letters (1823-1824) of Hugh Gelston, an American merchant from Baltimore, Maryland, to his Mexican agent, Thomas J. Shepard, regarding business conditions.

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

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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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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Ernest Poole Collection, 1922-1927 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of three manuscripts of American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Ernest Poole, as well as some other papers and correspondence..

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Letters of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell to Janet Camp Troxell, 1937-1959 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Contains approximately 175 letters by Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, written after Cockerell's retirement as director (1908-1937) of the Fitzwilliam Museum, to Janet Troxell, an American collector of manuscripts, discussing, in part, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Kelmscott Press, and Cockerell's rare book and manuscript collections.

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Donald Goodchild Collection, 1918-1968 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists primarily of correspondence of Donald Goodchild, who was secretary of the American Council of Learned Societies in Washington, D.C.

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Gertrude Smith Collection, circa 1895 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of material related to Arabella and Araminta Stories, a collection of short children's stories written by Gertrude Smith, an American writer of fiction and children's books, and illustrated by Ethel Reed, an American book illustrator, poster designer, and painter.

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Frank Norris Novels, 1948-1956 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
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Consists of manuscripts for two works of fiction by American novelist Frank Norris (Princeton Class of 1929).

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Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions Collection, 1886-1909 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Contains field notes on Greek, Latin, and Semitic inscriptions taken by William Kelly Prentice (Princeton Class of 1892), Enno Littmann, and David Magie on the American Archaeological Expedition to Syria (AAES), 1899-1900, and the Princeton Archaeological Expeditions to Syria (PAES), 1904-1905 and 1909, all sponsored by Princeton University.

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Julian Street Papers, 1899-1966 (inclusive) 1910-1947 (bulk)

Extent:
89 boxes and 4 items
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Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and notes, both published and unpublished, of American author, journalist, enologist, and gastronome Julian Street, ranging from his early reporter and drama critic days (1900-1910) up to the page of Table Topics he was working on just before his death (1947).

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Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, 1280s-1958 (inclusive) 1800s-1930s (bulk)

Extent:
51 boxes, 229 items, and 13 volumes
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The Robert H. Taylor Collection consists of over 4,000 3,300 manuscripts illustrating in their wide range the scope of English literature from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. This finding aid focuses on the modern manuscripts, both bound and unbound, in the collection, which is designated "RTC01" within the Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections Department of the Princeton University Library.

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Thomas Craig Correspondence, 1882-1899 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence of the nineteenth-century American mathematician Thomas Craig on various mathematical subjects.

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Mrs. Humphry Ward Marcella Manuscripts, circa 1894 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of holograph drafts of several chapters, and other manuscript material, for Marcella, a novel by British novelist Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920) who wrote under her married name as Mrs. Humphry Ward.

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Max Beerbohm Caricatures, 1900 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 1.3 linear feet
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Consists of six original drawings by English parodist Sir Max Beerbohm: caricatures of Sir Arthur W. Pinero, Harry Furniss, William Watson, Stephen Phillips, Hall Caine, and the Prince of Wales (Edward VII).

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James B. Gray Scrapbooks, 1851-1852 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 10 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings compiled by historian James Gray in the early 1850s from various newspapers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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"Paul Revere's Horse" Collection, 1949 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.5 linear feet
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Consists of the corrected typescript of a collection of essays by A. C. M. Azoy (Princeton Class of 1914) on 18th- and 19th-century United States military history, entitled Paul Revere's Horse (1949).

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Dickinson Family Collection, 1790-1865 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of correspondence and documents from 1861-1862 when S. Meredith Dickinson was commissioned as a paymaster in the United States Navy, assigned to the U.S. sloop of war Dale.

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Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington Correspondence, 1789-1924 (inclusive)

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6 volumes
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Consists of a disbound copy of The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821, published in London in 1914 and edited by Oswald G. Knapp, which has been extra-illustrated with over 200 original letters by both women and over 300 contemporary views and caricatures.

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Hacienda San Diego (Mexico) Records, 1634-1902 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of two volumes of certified copies of land titles and estate records of the estate known as Hacienda San Diego, situated in the Armadillo Valley of the northern state of San Luis Potosí (Mexico), a silver mining region, covering the period from its origin, in a 1634 grant from Viceroy Pacheco y Osorio to Diego del Castillo, to 1902, when John A. Wright bought the estate on behalf of George W. Brackenridge, a prominent citizen of San Antonio, Texas.

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Cuban Writers Protest and Dissent, 2007 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
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Consists of formal speeches and over three hundred e-mails collected by Prof. José Buscaglia-Salgado regarding the demands of scholars, intellectuals, and artists for changes in the official doctrine of the Cuban Revolution laid down in a speech by Fidel Castro.

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"Myself and Others" by Alexander Brook, 1979 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of a Xerox copy of a typed manuscript of "Myself and Others," the unpublished autobiography of Brook, containing many observations on the art world of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Barrows Dunham Manuscripts, 1947-1953 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of the typed manuscripts of two books of philosophy by American professor Barrows Dunham: Man Against Myth and Giant in Chains.

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Western Americana glass plate negatives collection, 1920-1922 (inclusive)

Extent:
6 boxes and 7 linear feet
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Consists of 319 glass plate negatives of landscape scenes in the Western United States, including the South Dakota Badlands and Yosemite Valley, taken on various geological and palaeontological expeditions under the aegis of Princeton University from 1920-1922.

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Ferdinand Denis letters and manuscripts, 1847-1882 (inclusive)

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1 box
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Consists of letters, manuscripts and notes dating from 1847 to 1882, from French historian, writer, and librarian at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, Ferdinand Denis. Also included is one letter written to him. Many of the items concern Brazil, but there are also two chapters apparently intended for a book.

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Compton Townsend Correspondence, 1816-1832 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of early nineteenth-century correspondence between Townsend Compton in London, England, and his relatives and friends in Philadelphia.

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"The Man Who Could Grow Hair" Collection, 1949 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of the typed manuscript of The Man Who Could Grow Hair, a book by William Attwood (Princeton Class of 1941) based on his experience as a foreign correspondent in Europe.

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Walter Kauzmann Papers, 1940-1993 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence and miscellaneous materials related to Walter Kauzmann's work on the Manhattan Project and his career as a professor of chemistry at Princeton University.

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Showles Circus Costume Collection, 1866-1870 (inclusive)

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6 boxes and 6.5 linear feet
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William Showles (1856-1924) was an American circus equestrian. The Showles Circus Costume Collection consists of parts of costumes--caps, shoes, jackets, tights, and an equestrian hat--worn by members of the Showles family, equestrians who traveled with small circuses from the mid-1800s until after the beginning of this century.

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Nelson A. Miles Memorabilia, 1897 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of a scrapbook of memorabilia collected by U.S. Army officer Nelson A. Miles while in England representing the United States at Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897.

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K. Montgomery Ogden Papers, 1899-1938 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 boxes
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Consists of photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and newspaper clippings of Kneass Montgomery Ogden (Princeton Class of 1902). The bulk of the collection relates to his years as bursar of Canton Christian College in China.

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Robert McKnight Collection, 1841-1876 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of correspondence to and miscellaneous essays and notes written by Robert McKnight, a member of the Princeton Class of 1839 and, later, a Pennsylvania congressman.

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A. W. Bradford Collection, 1843-1932 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Contains some miscellaneous papers of A. W. Bradford, governor of Maryland during the Civil War, but the collection consists primarily of speeches, correspondence, documents, and printed matter of Bradford's son, Samuel Webster Bradford (Princeton Class of 1875).

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Rev. Alford Kelley Collection, 1886-1927 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected manuscripts of sermons, verse, and crossword puzzles by Rev. Alford Kelley, a Presbyterian minister in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Otto H. Kahn Papers, 1908-1934 (inclusive) 1920-1933 (bulk)

Extent:
469 boxes, 928 items, and 191.2 linear feet
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The Otto H. Kahn Papers consists primarily of the correspondence of Otto H. Kahn (1867-1934), international banker, philanthropist, and patron of the arts and music, but also includes printed copies of addresses, talks, opinions, and speeches that Kahn gave on a variety of political and fiscal topics, as well as press clippings, letterbooks, and some photographs.

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