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John O'Hara Collection, 1945-1966 (inclusive)

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5 boxes and 1.8 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists chiefly of manuscripts and related material for two novels by American novelist John O'Hara: A Rage to Live (1949) and Ten North Frederick (1955).

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

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Selected Business Correspondence of Lorenzo Corsini, 1581-1598 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of sixteenth-century business correspondence of Italian textile merchant Lorenzo Corsini in Florence, Italy.

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

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Antoine Guerry Duclaud Papers, 1771-1775 (bulk) 1759-1794 (inclusive)

Extent:

1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of correspondence and documents of Antoine Guerry Duclaud, a French officer employed by the Dutch West India Company who deserted and settled in the Dutch colony of Surinam (now the independent Republic of Suriname) in 1771. The papers document Guerry Duclaud's move to Surinam with the intention of starting a plantation, his business renting the labor of enslaved Africans he brought from Guinea, and his return to Europe in 1775 after failing to make a profit. This collection offers insights into Dutch trade, economic conditions, the institution of slavery, and resistance to slavery by maroon communities in Surinam in the 1770s.

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

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

Extent:

1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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The Massachusetts Elementary School Student Compositions Collection consists of short, nineteenth-century essays on a variety of topics written by children from Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

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

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Selected Papers of Neilson Abeel, 1916-1947 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists of selected papers of poet Neilson Abeel (Princeton Class of 1924).

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

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Stratton Cripple Creek Mining and Development Company Correspondence, 1907-1908 (bulk) 1907-1940 (inclusive)

Extent:

1 box and 0.4 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists of selected correspondence of the Stratton Cripple Creek Mining and Development Company concerning development and production work on specific properties in the Cripple Creek District. (Colo.) covering chiefly during the years 1907 and 1908.

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

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Marquis Astolphe de Custine Letters to Comtesse Merlin, 1836-1855 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists of 273 letters, most of which are from French aristocrat, writer, and socialite Marquis Astolphe de Custine to his close friend, María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, comtesse de Merlin. Reflecting on a myriad of topics, Custine's letters offer insight into the political, intellectual, social, and cultural happenings in Europe during a time of great change while also providing insight into his own character.

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Howard C. Rice Collection on Saint-Mémin, 1951-1970 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists of research notes, correspondence, photographs, and drafts for three articles by Howard C. Rice (1904-1980), published in the Princeton University Library Chronicle (autumn 1951, summer 1959, spring 1971), concerning the French engraver, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin (1770-1852)

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Armstrong and Kaines Autograph Collection, 1803-1923 (inclusive)

Extent:

1 box and 0.2 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists of letters, mostly autograph, from twenty-one United States Supreme Court justices, collected by Edward Ambler Armstrong and Richard Kaines.

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John A. Roebling's Sons Company Records, 1821-1936 (inclusive)

Extent:

2 boxes and 1.4 linear feet

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The John A. Roebling's Sons Company was a family-run wire rope manufacturing business based in Trenton, New Jersey, and established in 1848 by John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869), a German-born American civil engineer best known for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, particularly the Brooklyn Bridge. The records consist of 10 bound volumes of business records, correspondence, and clippings kept by the company during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including typescript copies of John A. Roebling's professional correspondence, a company address book and manufacturing specifications catalog for wire rope, Ferdinand W. Roebling, Jr.'s business ledger, a minute book for the Roebling Construction Company, a volume of John Ferreol Monnot's patents, and a two-volume scrapbook on the German civil engineer and bridge-builder Karl Bernhard.

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