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Friends of the Princeton University Library: Whitney Darrow Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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A member of the Princeton Class of 1903, Whitney Darrow (1881-1970) was a founder of Princeton University Press (with Charles Scribner) and an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons.
The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials relating to the Friends of the Library Dinner given for the Pulitzer Prize winners, May 4, 1933; the Annual Dinner, April 26, 1934; and the Southern Dinner, April 25, 1935. Among the manuscripts are speeches given at the 1933 dinner by James Truslow Adams, Willa Cather, Henry James, and Elmer Rice. Correspondents with Darrow (Princeton Class of 1903), secretary of the Friends, include Edna Ferber, Robert Frost, Zona Gale, Hamlin Garland, Ira Gershwin, Ellen Glasgow, William Lyon Phelps, and Thornton Wilder.
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Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager (2015) in 2012.
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- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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The collection is open for research.
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6 typescripts by J. Harlin O'Connell, Willa Cather, James Truslow Adams, Edward D. Duffield, Henry James, and Elmer Rice.
DuffieldDuffield studied law in Newark, N.J., after graduating from Princeton University, and from 1895-1896 was managing clerk for the law firm of Depew & Parker in Newark. In 1906 Duffield became general solicitor of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, later becoming its president, a position he held until his death in 1938.
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42 pp. typescript.
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Extracts of speech by Harold W. Dodds. Typecript. Printed menu, seating list. Letters to Darrow expressing gratitude or requesting rooms.
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Extracts of speech by Douglas Southall Freeman. Typescipt. 4 Ls.S. by Freeman to Darrow, concerning his speech.
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