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Estillac Plantation Records, 1752-1783 (bulk) 1665-1813 (inclusive)

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1 box
Abstract:
Consists of over sixty letters and related documents concerning the Estillac sugar plantation in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now the Republic of Haiti) from the late 1750s through the early 1780s. Many of the letters are addressed to A. Mabille, a Paris-based hatter, trustee, and creditor, and pertain to the operations and troubled finances of the plantation under the management of Guillaume Claude Besson and Jean Guillaume Robillard.

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

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Aristides E. Phoutrides papers, 1895-1923 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:
Phoutrides was a Greek poet, educator, and translator. He taught classical literature and modern Greek at Harvard and Yale Universities. He was a proponent of "demotic" Greek language and literature. Consists of personal papers of Phoutrides.

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

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Selected Papers of Irina Skariatina, 1932-1944 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of papers of Irina Skariatina, reflecting her Russian emigre experience and her years as a war correspondent for Collier's during World War II.

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

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William Dodge Horne collection of Ernest Hemingway, 1928-2012 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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William Horne and Ernest Hemingway were lifelong friends. Horne met Hemingway while a volunteer ambulance driver for the American Red Cross during World War I. They were stationed in Schio, Italy, and drove together on the same ambulance. After Hemingway's failed engagement to Agnes von Kurowsky, they shared an apartment in Chicago during the fall of 1920. When Hemingway married Hadley Richardson in September 1921, Horne was in the wedding party. When the writer died in 1961, Horne was an honorary pallbearer. Contains eight Horne-Hemingway items: a copy of a photograph of Frances Horne [Bunny] and Hemingway in Wyoming in 1928; an autograph signed letter by Ernest Hemingway (with postcript by wife Pauline) to "Dearest Bunny and Horney" [Frances and William Horne], dated 9 September [1929], 2 pp., with envelope; an autograph signed letter by Hemingway to "Dear 'Orny" [Horne], dated 1 June [1930], 2 pp., with 5 pp. of fishing gear advertisements with holograph annotations, with...(see more)

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

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Bliss Perry Collection, 1899-1938 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists of selected manuscripts and correspondence of Bliss Perry, an American scholar and editor especially noted for his work in American literature.

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

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James Robertson Collection, 1781-1804 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists primarily of later eighteenth and early nineteenth-century correspondence and documents regarding monies owed to James Robertson by the estate of Lord James Drummond, the Earl of Perth.

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

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