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Philip Schuyler Letters, 1775 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.21 linear feet
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This collection consists of eight letters and documents written by Philip J. Schuyler to Captain Cornelius Van Dyke, Colonel Goose Van Schaik, Richard Varick, and Reverend [Eilardus] Westerlo. Most of the letters were written from Ticonderoga, as well as from Saratoga and Albany, July 24 1775–December 1775.

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Selected Papers of Wright Morris, 1930-1958 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected papers of award-winning American novelist and photographer Wright Morris, including many letters written to his friend and fellow Western writer Robert J. Horton.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Collection, 1807-1850 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists primarily of selected correspondence of the Duke of Wellington, chiefly with Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. Wellington is best known as the British general who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo (1815).

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Cecil Beaton Papers, 1938-1979 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of correspondence of Cecil Beaton, English fashion and portrait photographer and Academy Award winning stage and constume designer for film and theater, with his author friend Hal Burton.

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Eden Phillpotts Collection, 1906-1977 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.25 linear feet
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Eden Phillpotts was a prolific and popular English novelist, playwright, and poet. Papers consist of about 120 letters by Phillpotts to G. Herbert Thring and Denys Killam Roberts of the Society of Authors and Macleod Yearsley regarding the publishing of his works. Additions to the collection include 64 letters, printed matter and newspaper clippings (1921-1960) about Phillpotts and his works.

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Edward D. Duffield Correspondence with Josephine Curtis, 1890-1903 (inclusive)

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13 boxes and 6.2 linear feet
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Edward D. Duffield (Princeton Class of 1892) was a general solicitor of the Prudential Insurance Company of America and eventually became president. The correspondence consists of letters between Duffield and Josephine Curtis, his future wife. The letters date primarily from their courtship, which a few later letters and two family photograph albums.

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Léon-François Hoffmann Collection on Haitian Literature, 1936-2009 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence in French between Léon-François Hoffmann and Haitian poet René Depestre, including handwritten letters, faxes, and several other documents. Other additions include photocopies of correspondence between Haitian writer and politician Jacques Roumain and his wife Nicole Hibbert.

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Selected Papers of Thomas W. Hotchkiss, 1891-1935 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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The Selected Papers of Thomas W. Hotchkiss consists of articles, notes, correspondence, and clippings of the American lawyer, editor, magazine writer, professional researcher, and Princeton graduate (Class of 1889) Thomas W. (Thomas Woodward) Hotchkiss (1867-1953).

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Thomas Shields Clarke Collection of German Legal Documents, 1572-1802 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.5 linear feet
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The Thomas Shields Clarke Collection of German Legal Documents consists of eight German and Italian legal documents, in German and Latin, collected by American sculptor and painter Thomas Shields Clarke (Princeton Class of 1882). The documents range in date from 1572 to 1802.

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F. Carrington Weems Papers, 1857-1919 (inclusive) 1906-1913 (bulk)

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4 boxes and 2.3 linear feet
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Consists of papers of F. Carrington Weems (Princeton Class of 1907) primarily from his student days at Princeton and several years thereafter, during which he traveled in Europe, worked for the Alaska Road Commission, and became an army colonel in World War I.

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Samuel Reber Collection, 1947-1957 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of several official documents from the years just following World War II, when Samuel Reber was Acting Deputy Director for the Office of European Affairs with the U.S. Department of State and, later, Acting United States High Commissioner for Germany.

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Ewing Family Collection, 1797-1844 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence and documents of the nineteenth-century New Jersey chief justice Charles Ewing and two other family members.

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Selected Papers of John W. Foster, 1892-1916 (inclusive)

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1 box
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Consists of diplomatic and personal papers relating to the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), documenting John Watson Foster's role as consultant to the Chinese commissioners in the negotiations.

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Thomas A. Edison Collection, 1880-1925 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists primarily of correspondence, both original and photocopies, of Thomas A. Edison, the most influential American inventor of the twentieth century.

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Howard Crosby Butler Correspondence, 1917 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 2.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence of Howard Crosby Butler, Princeton professor of the history of architecture, with former students undergoing military training during World War I.

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Wendell Wilcox Letters to Frank Sandiford, 1965-1981 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Wendell Wilcox was an American novelist and storywriter. Consists of 85 autograph and typed letters written by Wilcox from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to his friends Frank and Frances Sandiford in various towns in New York. Also present are 6 letters (1968-1969) by Esther Wilcox to the Sandifords.

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

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5 boxes and 1.8 linear feet
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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).

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Lydia Maria Child Collection, 1857-1878 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs of the nineteenth-century American author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Francis Child.

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Henry Clay Stewart Collection, 1882-1884 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists mostly of letters (1882-1884) Henry Clay Stewart sent to his parents while he was a student at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), providing an inside look at the life of a Princeton student towards the end of the nineteenth century.

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John W. Comfort Papers, circa 1875-1895 (inclusive)

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1 box and 1.6 linear feet
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The John W. Comfort Papers consists of a letter, hand-drawn map, detailed narrative, military service history, and photograph of the career soldier John W. Comfort (1844-1893). The map and narrative document Comfort's experience fighting Big Foot's Sioux band at the Battle of Wounded Knee, 29 December 1890.

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Frances Bragdon West Autograph Collection, 1873-1942 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of letters and autographs of authors, poets, critics, politicians, clergy, musicians, scientists, and other prominent personlities, as well as letters of friends and family, collected by Frances Bragdon West, wife of Princeton's first curator of numismatics.

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Winthrop M. Daniels Collection, 1934 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of the manuscript, page proofs, and correspondence (135 letters) related to "The Passing of the Old Economist," an article economist Winthrop M. Daniels published in the Harvard Business Review (April 1934).

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Samuel Sibbett Family Collection, 1835-1850 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of correspondence by members of the Sibbett family to one another. The majority of the letters relate to Samuel Sibbett, a nineteenth-century lawyer living in Mt. Alto, Pennsylvania.

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Raymond S. Dugan Papers, 1921-1940 (inclusive)

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6 boxes and 2.5 linear feet
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Raymond Smith Dugan (1878-1940) was an American astronomer and educator. His collection consists of articles, correspondence, lecture notes, material for his astronomy classes at Princeton. The collection also contains reports by Dugan to members of Commission 27 (Commission des Etoiles Variables) of the International Astronomical Union.

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John S. Copley Civil War Letters, 1861-1862 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 24 letters by Union soldier John S. Copley to his friend Robert Moody throughout the first two years of the American Civil War. Copley, who served with the 9th Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry (38th Volunteers), includes detailed accounts of battles and life in various military camps.

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Jonathan Odell Collection, 1750-1780 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected material of Jonathan Odell, an eighteenth-century New Jersey clergyman and loyalist in the American Revolution, and his father, John Odell.

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Ellis Meredith Collection, 1930-1948 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence and manuscripts related to the anthology Democracy at the Crossroads (1932), arranged by Ellis Meredith, a suffragist and journalist from Colorado.

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David N. Rowe Correspondence, 1944-1948 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence between David Nelson Rowe, a professor in Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, and five of his Princeton University students who had joined the U.S. Army, Navy, or the Marines, during World War II.

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Jason Chamberlain Ledger on Hemp Production and Farming, 1846-1880 (inclusive)

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1 box
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Consists of a ledger, along with some receipts, advertisements, and correspondence, of Missouri farmer and hemp producer Jason Chamberlain (1804-1901), documenting Chamberlain's business accounts from 1853 to 1880, as well as the accounts of an anonymous Kentucky hemp producer and merchant from 1846 to 1851. These materials provide insight into hemp and other agricultural production in Missouri and Kentucky before, during, and after the American Civil War and document the employment of African American and immigrant laborers during the early Reconstruction era.

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Anna Eliza Bray Collection, 1823-1852 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected letters by Anna Eliza Bray, a nineteenth-century English novelist best known for fictionalizing the histories of prominent British families.

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones Collection, 1871-1940 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of 48 letters by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones to his daughter, Margaret Burne-Jones (1866-1953), who married J. W. MacKail, a biographer of William Morris, in 1888.

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James H. Pershing Papers, 1930-1945 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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Contains selected correspondence of lawyer and bibliohile James H. Pershing, as well as notebooks documenting his library.

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Robert H. Moore, Jr. Files on Ernest Gordon, 1979-2015 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of Robert Moore's files on Ernest Gordon (1916-2002), WWII veteran, author, and former Presbyterian dean of the Princeton University chapel, including correspondence, applications, programs, clippings, and other materials relating to Moore's nomination of Gordon for the 2002 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion; the motion picture "To End All Wars" (2001) based on Gordon's book "Through the Valley of the Kwai" (1962) (including the DVD); Gordon's death; and CREED (Christians Efforts for the Emancipation of Dissidents). Correspondents include Gordon and other notable figures.

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John and Martha Bowen Letter Book Concerning Bowen Hall Sugar Plantation, 1822-1848 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 136 letters from John Bowen (1794-1835) and his wife Martha Powell Anthony Bowen (1797-1849) of Philadelphia (Pa.) documenting in great detail the management of Bowen Hall, their sugar plantation located in Vere, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, including its varied finances, seasonal production and export of sugar and rum, and the treatment allocated to its enslaved workers and newly-emancipated population. The letters provide insights into the final throes of the institution of slavery in Jamaica and the abolishment of the practice in 1834; the Jamaican sugar industry; and British politics of the early 19th century in relation to its colonies and trade.

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Faure Family Coffee Plantation Correspondence and Inventory, 1761-1770 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of ten letters and an inventory related to a coffee plantation owned by François Faure in the Dondon parish of Saint-Domingue, a French colony on the portion of the island of Hispaniola (Taíno: Haiti) that became the Republic of Haiti in 1804. The collection documents the plantation's operations under the management of Faure's nephew Pierre Faure and a Monsieur M. Fauquet during Faure's absence in the 1760s. The materials in this collection provide a detailed account of the operations of a large colonial coffee plantation in the mid-18th century; they also contain evidence of the practice of marronage and other tactics of resistance to slavery in pre-revolutionary Haiti.

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Thomas Naylor Stanford Collection, 1818-1865 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence, documents, and ephemera relating to nineteenth-century New York City publisher and bookseller Thomas Naylor Stanford.

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Twining Family Papers, 1778-1934 (inclusive) 1845-1900 (bulk)

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1 box and 0.6 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence received by various members of the Twining family, originally of New Haven and Litchfield, Connecticut, and later of New York. There are letters both personal and professional in nature.

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James Baldwin Playboy Interview, 1967-1968 (inclusive)

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2 boxes
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Consists of sound recordings, a transcription, and editorial notes documenting an interview of American writer James Baldwin conducted by Alex Haley (1921-1992) and Jim Goode (James A. Goode, d. 1992) in late 1967 and early 1968 for Playboy but never published in the magazine. The interview is conversational and wide-ranging, with Baldwin responding to questions about his personal and artistic life, as well as about larger social issues surrounding racism, sexuality, politics, economics, and activism.

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George Macloskie Papers, 1857-1906 (inclusive)

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7 boxes and 7.5 linear feet
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George Macloskie was a Princeton professor of biology (1875-1906) and an ordained Presbyterian minister and lawyer. His collection consists of notebooks related to his class lectures and papers, scrapbooks, printed material, and a commonplace book (1906).

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Vietnam War Manuscript Village Maps, 1960s (inclusive)

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3 boxes and 4.5 linear feet
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Collection of detailed manuscript maps of Vietnamese villages dating from the Vietnam War years, showing mostly villages in the Quang Ngai Province (2 villages in the Quang Tri Province), with color-coded tissue overlays that identify the political sympathies of the residents in the village houses.

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John Hancock Collection, 1776-1781 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence and documents of American Revolutionary patriot and statesman John Hancock.

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James Edward Murdoch Collection, 1840-1905 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
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Consists primarily of letters by theater people to James Edward Murdoch, known for his dramatic readings to soldiers during the Civil War.

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Rudolph, the Tragedy of Mayerling by Karoly Lonyay, 1947 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of the typed manuscript, with holograph corrections, of historian Karoly Lonyay's biography Rudolph, the Tragedy of Mayerling (1949), which centered around the 1889 suicidal death of the heir to the Austrian crown.

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Samuel Gillet Navy Journals, 1827-1834 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Samuel T. Gillet (1809-1890) served in the U.S. Navy in the Mediterranean, 1827-1837. This collection consists mostly of travel journals from Gillet's service in the Mediterranean, 1827-1834.

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Thomas Howard "A Sketch of the Interest of Great Britain in her American Colonies, with Some Remarks upon the Policy, Trade, and Commerce of America" Manuscript and Letter, circa 1774-1777 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of an unpublished manuscript treatise, dating from the late 1760s, most likely authored by British military officer, Thomas Howard (1735–1778), as well as an 8-page letter from Howard written while he was commander of the Grenadier Guards during the American Revolution.

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John Newton Collection, 1763-1801 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected manuscripts and letters of eighteenth-century English clergyman and hymnist John Newton.

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Paul Elmer More Correspondence, 1916-1936 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence between Paul Elmer More and the Princeton University Press, which published several of his books during the period from 1916 to 1936.

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Ambrose Serle Essays on North America, 1768-1780 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Includes seven essays (likely unpublished) on American affairs and economic opportunities, dating from 1768-1780, by British colonial official, Ambrose Serle (1742–1812).

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James Thayer Gerould Papers on Jonathan Edwards, 1931-1937 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of selected papers of James Thayer Gerould, Princeton librarian (1920-1938), accumulated during the preparation of a bibliography of the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), Congregational clergyman and Princeton president.

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Nicholas Biddle Collection, 1800-1838 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 1.5 linear feet
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Consists of material, primarily correspondence, relating to Nicholas Biddle, one of the first directors of the Bank of the United States and author of the official Lewis and Clark narrative.

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Pennington Satterthwaite Collection, 1883-1893 (inclusive)

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1 box and 1.4 linear feet
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Consists of one hundred and twenty-seven original pen-and-ink sketches and watercolor drawings by architect Pennington Satterthwaite, including some sketches and designs he did for the Nassau Herald and other Princeton University publications while he was a student (Princeton Class of 1893).

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Borgese Family Collection, 1937-1970 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and clippings of Elizabeth Mann Borgese, her husband, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, and her mother, Katia Mann.

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Chester H. King Diaries, 1875-1883 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of three diaries, two of which chronicle Chester H. King's overland journey to the southwestern frontier from Kansas along the Santa Fe Trail from 1881 to 1883.

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Samuel Ladd Howell Family Collection, 1797-1838 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of selected eighteenth- and nineteenth-century papers of Samuel Ladd Howell and other members of the Howell family of Woodbury, Gloucester, and Princeton, New Jersey.

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Henri Lemoine Diamond Fraud Collection, 1904-1907 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Henri Lemoine was a French charlatan who, in 1904-1907, defrauded Sir Julius Wernher, a German-born British owner of South African diamond mining companies, out of thousands of pounds in a scheme to produce synthetic diamonds. The collection consists of papers relating to the men's contractual agreements: correspondence, contracts, letters of intent, and other documents.

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Richard and Cosima Wagner Letters, 1858-1901 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected letters of both German composer Richard Wagner and his second wife, Cosima Wagner, chiefly about Wagner's operatic works.

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William Bell Scott Collection, 1837-1891 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence and obituaries of the nineteenth-century English poet, painter, and art critic William Bell Scott. He was a friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and was accepted by the Pre-Raphaelites.

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Granville Wilcox Correspondence, 1852-1857 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of letters sent by Granville Wilcox to members of his family in Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas, while he was a student at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) as a member of the Class of 1856.

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Félix de Beaujour Collection, circa 1805-1810 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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The collection consists of two batches of manuscripts and documents of de Beaujour pertaining to the Amercian economy and commercial opportunities for France in the U.S. during the administration of Thomas Jefferson: 1) French manuscript entitled "Coup-d'oeil sur la Caroline du Nord" (18 pp., ca. 1805), which provides an overview of North Carolina history and suggests ways in which France might develop and improve commercial relationships with the state, with a printed article from an American journal (1807) about a legal claim by the French government concerning a South Carolina frigate; 2) several manuscripts regarding general topgraphy and geographic areas (Northwest, South), with numerous statistical tables showing, for example, value of exports (by state), population, agriculture, and industries of all the states. Some of these tables begin with data from the 18th century.

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Gerald Eades Bentley Papers, 1927-1980s (inclusive) 1940-1970 (bulk)

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9 boxes
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Shakespearean scholar Gerald Eades Bentley was a professor of English at Princeton University (1945-1970) and assistant librarian for Special Collections (1971-1973). His papers consists of notes, typescripts, and galleys for three published works, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage (1941-1968), The Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 (1971), and The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 (1984), as well as various speeches, articles, and correspondence about his works.

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Thomas Oldham Barlow Correspondence, 1856-1929 (inclusive) 1870-1873 (bulk)

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1 box and 0.5 linear feet
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Thomas Oldham Barlow was an English mezzotint engraver, best known for his engravings of the works of John Phillip and Sir John Everett Millais. The collection consists of selected correspondence of Barlow to friends and relatives.

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Barton Wood Currie Collection, 1918-1948 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected letters by authors and publishers addressed to American reporter and editor Barton Currie and his wife, Florence.

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Stephen Simpson Letters to His Wife, 1813-1829 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of a group of fifteen letters by Philadelphian Stephen Simpson, who enlisted in the War of 1812 and distinguished himself at the battle of New Orleans in 1815. The letters were sent from different cities where Simpson was stationed to his wife, Mary, who was living in Philadelphia in his father's house.

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James S. Woods Papers, 1840-1847 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists mainly of family correspondence of James S. Woods, from his entrance into the military academy at West Point in 1840, through his graduation in 1844, and into his Mexican War experience in Matamoros, Mexico, in June 1846.

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