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Pershing Collection of Emily Dickinson

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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.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
C0294
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
Extent:
  • 2 boxes
  • 0.8 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Pershing Collection of Emily Dickinson, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1945-1972 (inclusive)
Creator:
Pershing, Margaret Jane
Form:
Correspondence.
Abstract:
Consists of material related to the collection of Emily Dickinson works compiled by Margaret Jane Pershing.

Pershing, Margaret Jane

Collector Margaret Jane Pershing presented her collection of Emily Dickinson to Princeton University Library in 1969. The collection (200+ volumes) is particularly rich in variant editions of the three series of poems (1890, 1891, 1896 in over 70 editions and variants), the letters, and all the 20th-century posthumous volumes. It is also rich in books and magazine articles about the life and work of Emily Dickinson. Also, together with these are creative works inspired by Emily Dickinson.

The collection contains correspondence, photographs, documents, ephemera, and printed matter relating to Margaret Jane Pershing's collection of over 200 volumes of Emily Dickinson's works, which were donated to the Department of Rare Books in 1969. There is a significant amount of material relating to the Seven Gables Bookshop of New York City.

Arranged in this order: correspondence, photographs, documents, ephemera, and printed material.

A complete catalogue of the Pershing collection of printed material was compiled at the time of the receipt of the gift: Robert S. Fraser. The Margaret Jane Pershing Collection of Emily Dickinson. Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1969. [(Ex) 3715.1.073 and (Holden) 3715.1.073]

Gift of Margaret Jane Pershing.

Folder inventory added by Gegory Kohles '2013 in 2011.

No appraisal information is available.

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Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2008
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

Dickinson, Emily, Bibliography, 1947-1969. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dickinson, Emily, Book Reviews (Clippings), 1945-1968. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dickinson, Emily, Clippings, etc, 1946-1971. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dickinson, Emily, Drama, 1946-1947. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dickinson, Emily, Ephemera, 1953-1967. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dickinson, Emily, Photographs, 1945-1964. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dickinson, Emily, Manuscripts (Photostats, Etc.), 1846-1951. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dickinson, Emily, Poetry (About Her), 1945-1956. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bianchi, Martha Gilbert Dickinson, Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings, 1935-1952. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Bingham, Millicent Todd, Correspondence, 1957-1968. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Hampson, Alfred Leete, Correspondence, 1946. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Jones Library Inc., Printed Material, 1959. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Pershing, Margaret Jane, Dickinson Diary, 1945-1968. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Amherst College, President Cole, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1958. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Amherst College Library, Special Collections Librarian Phillips, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1968. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Bingham, Millicent Todd, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1957-1968. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Bookdealers, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1946-1964. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Amherst College, Newspaper Clippings and Printed Material, 1971. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Boyden, Frank L., Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1958. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Carolingian Press, Perching Incoming Correspondence, 1962. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Clark, Orton Loring, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1961. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Connecticut Valley Hospital Museum, Director Tomlinson, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1963. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Green, Charles R., Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1946-1969. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Harvard University, Houghton Library, Curator Bond, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1963. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Jones Library Inc., Amherst, Mass., Curator Sayer, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1969. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Leyda, Jay, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1961-1963. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Little, Brown, and Co., Charles B. Blanchard, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1961. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Montague, Gilbert H., Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1950. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Moore, Charlotte Dickinson, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1968. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Morey, Frederick L., Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1969. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Parke, Ethel C., Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1945. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Potter, Virginia, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1967. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Princeton University Library, Curator Coleman, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1963. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Princeton University Library, Librarian Dix, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1961-1968. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Princeton University Library, Assistant Librarian Rice, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1961-1968. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Princeton University Library, Assistant Librarian Wainwright, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1963-1969. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Readex Microprint Corporation, Vice President Bergquist, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1963. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Reynolds, Virginia Dickinson, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1962. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Romig, Edna Davis, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1964. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Scannell, Anna, pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1961. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Seven Gables Bookshop, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1946-1968. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Sewall, Richard Benson, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1961. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Virginia Cavalcade, Troubetzkoy, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1960. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Ward, Theodora, Pershing Incoming Correspondence, 1953-1963. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pershing Outgoing Correspondence, 1961-1969. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pershing Collection of Emily Dickinson, 1960. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Princeton University Chapel, Poet's Window, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Todd, Mabel Loomis, Printed Material, Clippings, Christmas Cards, 1907. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Responses to The Margaret Jane Pershing Collection of Emily Dickinson, 1969-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence A-Z, 1962-1974. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Seven Gables Bookshop, Correspondence with Mrs. Pershing, 1967-1974. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Seven Gables Bookshop, Invoices, 1951-1973. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Block of Emily Dickinson Commemorative Stamps, 1971. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Printed Material Including Commemorative Stamp Information, 1971. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Ephemera, 1846-1972. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Acquisition Records, 1944-1972. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Sewell, Richard, Correspondence With Mrs. Pershing, 1966-1971. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Newspaper Clippings, 1926-1973. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Addition of Printed Material From Encyclopedia Britannica, 1969-1975. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Copy of a Photograph of Emily Dickinson and Theater Program, 1860-1970. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Emily Dickinson Ceremony, Audio Tape, 1969 June 7. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Ex Libris for Margaret Jane Pershing, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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