Call Number:

C0155

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 3 boxes
• 2.9 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Selected papers of Wilson Farrand, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1878-1941 (inclusive)

Creator:

Farrand, Wilson, 1862-

Form:

Account books -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 19th century. and Correspondence.

Abstract:

The collection contains selected papers of Wilson Farrand (Princeton Class of 1886), including correspondence, addresses, articles, and writings from his student days.

A graduate of Princeton University (Class of 1886), Wilson Farrand went on to become headmaster of Newark Academy and a founding member of the College Entrance Examination Board.

The collection consists of selected papers of Farrand (Princeton Class of 1886), including letters by Theodore Dreiser, John Grier Hibben, Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry van Dyke, Booker T. Washington, and Andrew F. West, as well as addresses and articles of Farrand that are primarily concerned with various aspects of secondary and college education and college entrance examinations. There are memorials on Charles W. Eliot and others associated with higher education, and miscellaneous addresses on such topics as "Tennyson, the Man and His Work," "Leif Erikson and the Norse Discovery of America," and "The Jew in Our Midst." In addition, there are materials related to Farrand's position as a Princeton University trustee (1908-1920), Carteret Book Club pamphlets, essays written as a Princeton student, an account book (1879-1884) showing his student expenditures in Newark and Princeton, and newspaper clippings.