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Charles Woodruff Shields Papers
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Shields was the son of James Read Shields and Hannah Woodruff Shields. He was a clergyman, professor at Princeton (1865-1903), and author. His daughter Charlotte married (1882) Bayard Stockton. Princeton Class of 1844.
The collection consists of works, correspondence, printed matter, and miscellaneous material of Shields (Princeton Class of 1844). The collection contains over eighty sermons, while the bulk of the correspondence is between Shields and his family, especially his parents, Hannah and James Shields. In addition, there are eleven issues of The Aurora (1839), a newspaper published by Shields and several boyhood friends in his hometown of New Albany, Indiana; a notebook of college expenses and letters sent and received (1842-1844); and some of his printed works.
Unprocessed.
Transferred from Mudd Library Archives in 1993.
A box and folder list (2 pp.) for boxes 1-5 is available in the Dept.
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The contents list was compiled by Rafael Abrahams in July 2010
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Organization
- College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
- College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.). Class of 1844.
- Presbyterian church in the U.S.A.
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- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Inventory
Approximately 75 manuscripts of sermons in individual notebooks. Some include clippings from books.
Physical Description3 folders
Eulogy of William M. Engles. Printed pamphlet.
Physical Description1 folder
Notes for Philosophia Ultima. Notebook.
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Proofs for prayer book.
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Preferatory material to The Scientific Evidences of Revealed Religion. Includes cover and miscellaneous pages from book, unordered and incomplete.
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3 manuscripts of lectures. 1 notebook containing printed pages from book, chapter titled "Modern Skepticism between Science and Religion"
Physical Description1 folder
Issues 1-11 of The Aurora of New Albany, Indiana. (Charles Woodruff Shields was one of the editors)
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Letters from CWS addressed to both parents.
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Letters from CWS addressed to both parents.
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Letters from CWS addressed to both parents.
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Letters from CWS to his mother, Hannah.
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Letters from CWS to his mother, Hannah.
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Letters from CWS to his mother, Hannah.
Physical Description1 folder
Letters from CWS to his father, James R. Shields.
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Letters from CWS to his father, James R. Shields.
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Letters from CWS to his father, James R. Shields.
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Letters from CWS to his father, James R. Shields.
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Letters from James R. Shields to CSW
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Letters from Hannah Shields to CWS
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Letter from CWS to his step-mother, Lucy Shields
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Miscellaneous correspondence of CWS, A-C
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Miscellaneous correspondence of CWS, D-G
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Miscellaneous correspondence of CWS, H-L
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Miscellaneous correspondence of CWS, M-P
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Miscellaneous correspondence of CWS, Q-S
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Miscellaneous correspondence of CWS, to/from his cousin, James A. Rankin
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Miscellaneous correspondence of CWS, T-Z
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Miscellaneous correspondence of CWS, unknown correspondents.
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Miscellaneous letters to CWS in letter book
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Miscellaneous letters to/from James R. Shields. Includes letters to/from his wives Hannah and Lucy.
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Letters between James R. Shields and his wife, Hannah
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Correspondence of persons other than CWS, JRS, and their wives. Also unidentified correspondence.
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Printed pamphlets from services in memoriam of James R Shields, 1876, and Charles Woodruff Shields, 1904. Miscellaneous clippings and memorabilia including program for the College of New Jersey 126th Commencement, 1873, and Statement of the Mutual Life Insurance Comapny of New York, 1872.
Physical Description1 folder
Notebook containing list of disbursements 1842-1845. Diary from year 1842.
Physical Description1 folder
Notes related to Charles Woodruff Field's book Philosophia Ultima; printed pages of The General Principles of Church Unity; untitled typed manuscript; typed manuscript titled "The Unity of the Church"; book titled The United Church of the United Statespublished by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895.
Physical Description1 box
Many miscellaneous notes and some correspondence. Printed works including "Funeral Eulogy on Dr. E.K. Kane", 1857; short book titled "Trial of Servetus"; "The Nassau Monthly", 1844; "The Princeton Alumni Weekly", 1902; essay titled "False Temperance Agitation" in "The Outlook" magazine; "The Doctrine of Calvin Concerning Infant Salvation"; typed manuscript titled "Legitimate Drama"; typed manuscript of "The Tournament of King John: A Ballad by Victor Hugo"; pamphlet titled "A Communication to the Trustees of the College of New Jersey from the Professor of the Harmony of Science and Revealed Religion"; envelope titled "Fragments of Prose Vol. VI", containing typed manuscripts of essays; "The Reformer of Geneva: An Historical Drama", 1898.
Physical Description1 box
Two books, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Includes some notes by author.
Physical Description1 box