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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

Abstract:

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.

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

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Steven Runciman Letters to Jeffrey Schaire, 1983-1991 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of letters by British medieval historian and Byzantine art scholar Stephen Runciman to his friend Jeffrey Schaire, editor of Arts and Antiques magazine.

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

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Pearce Family Collection, 1820-1863 (bulk) 1802-1917 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of selected correspondence and other material of members of the Pearce family of Maryland.

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

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Includes seven essays (likely unpublished) on American affairs and economic opportunities, dating from 1768-1780, by British colonial official, Ambrose Serle (1742–1812).

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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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).

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

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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]