No further additions to the Varnum Lansing Collins Papers are expected.

It would appear that these papers were given to the Manuscript Division of the Special Collections, most likely by V. Lansing Collins himself. At some later point they were transferred to the University Archives where they became part of the Princetoniana Collection of books and manuscripts.

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This collection was processed by Daniel Brennan in May 2009.. Finding aid written by Daniel Brennan in in May 2009.

The Library also holds a faculty and undergraduate alumni file for Collins, and four scrapbooks created by Collins as an undergraduate can be found in the Scrapbook Collection. Series 7 of the Office of the Secretary Records documents Varnum Lansing Collins' role as the Secretary of the University, and the Nassau Hall Iconography Collection is the location of all visual materials which are discussed in series 3 of the papers. All of the published works by V. L. Collins for which the notes and research materials can be found in the papers (excepting several unpublished pieces) are held in the Princetoniana Collection.

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People

• Collins, Varnum Lansing, 1870-1936
• Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794

Organization

• Princeton University

Place

• Nassau Hall (Princeton, N.J.)

Publisher

University Archives

Finding Aid Author

Daniel Brennan

Finding Aid Date

2009

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Collection is open for research use.

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