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Wright Family Papers
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Harry Hall Wright, of Allentown, New Jersey attended Princeton University from 1899 to 1903. Harry Hall Wright moved back to the farm at Merino Hill to work and raise his family after graduating from Princeton.
Wright, Richard R.Harry Hall Wright's son, Richard Ridgway Wright, also of Allentown, attended Princeton from 1931 to 1935.
The Wright Family Papers consist of correspondence received at Princeton University by Harry H. Wright, class of 1903, and his son Richard R. Wright, class of 1935, during their undergraduate years. The Wright family owned a farm in Allentown, New Jersey, and correspondence reflects family news, domestic and farm life. Correspondents to Harry include, among others, Walter Livingston Wright, Sr., Harry Wright's mother Lissie Gaskill Wright, sister Bessie, sister Mame, and brother Walter Livingston Wright, Jr. Correspondents to Richard include his mother Mary (Mae) Wright, his father Harry H. Wright, his sisters Elizabeth and Mary. Two letters from Richard Wright to his father and mother are in Box 2, Folder 6. The correspondence includes letters written to Mae or Harry Wright and enclosed with letters to Richard Wright.
Also included with the papers are a group of printed postcards mailed to Harry H. Wright as a member of the class of 1903, and several pamphlets: directories of the classes of 1899 and 1903, Campus Songs from 1934 and the Style Book of the Daily Princetonian from 1933.
The papers were donated by Anne R. Wright in March 2012 and 2013.
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This collection was processed by Phoebe Nobles in 2016. Finding aid written by Phoebe Nobles in 2016.
Separated materials: 4 notebooks containing lecture notes were transferred to the Lecture Notes Collection, AC052. 4 published bound volumes were removed, as there are duplicates already in the University Archives.
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Series 1 contains correspondence sent to Harry H. Wright between 1899 and 1903, his undergraduate years at Princeton, mainly from his family's home, Merino Hill, in Allentown, New Jersey. Correspondents include his brother Walter Livingston Wright, Jr., his mother Elizabeth Wright, his father Walter Livingston Wright, his sister Bessie, his sister Mame, Bertha B. Richards, and a woman named Jean. Postmarks come from Allentown, Hightstown, Imlaystown, Davis, Nelsonville, Cream Ridge, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, as well as Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. The correspondence reflects mainly domestic and farm life and family news.
Folder 1 also contains 20 oversize printed postcards mailed to the class of 1903, two class directories for the class of 1903 (printed in 1938 and 1939), and a directory for the class of 1898 (printed in 1935).
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Series 2 contains correspondence sent to Richard R. Wright between 1931 and 1934, his undergraduate years at Princeton. Richard was the son of Harry H. Wright. Most correspondence comes from his family's home in Allentown, New Jersey, as well as from Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. His correspondents include his mother Mary (Mae), his father H.H. Wright, his sisters Elizabeth and Mary, his uncle W.L. Wright, Jr., and a woman named Jeanne. Occasionally included are letters Mae received from her brother Fred in Harrisburg, PA, letters Mae and Harry received from Elizabeth once she was studying at Wilson College. Two of the letters are written by Richard Wright from Princeton, to each of his parents, and postmarked May 1935.
The correspondence reflects mainly domestic and farm life and family news, in particular news of illness, as well as marriages, funerals, and farm duties. Occasionally the letters comment on Richard's studies and exams, as well as ways to cover the costs he encountered at Princeton. Mae Wright, who arranged to have Richard's laundry done regularly, was his most reliable correspondent. Elizabeth began attending Wilson College in 1933, which was a women's college at the time, and her letters reflect undergraduate life there.
Folder 7 includes two pamphlets: Campus Songs, printed in 1934, and the Style Book of the Daily Princetonian, printed in 1933.
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