Call Number:

C0351

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

11 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); J. Duncan Spaeth Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1865-1957 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Spaeth, J. Duncan

Form:

Correspondence., Diaries., Faculty papers., Lectures., and Scrapbooks

Abstract:

Consists of works, correspondence, diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, and printed matter of J. Duncan Spaeth, a preceptor (1905-1911) and professor of English (1911-1935) at Princeton.

J. Duncan Spaeth was a preceptor (1905-1911) and professor of English (1911-1935) at Princeton. He served as the president of the University of Kansas City (Mo.) from 1935 to 1938.

The collection consists of Spaeth's works, correspondence, diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, and printed matter. His works--notes, outlines and lectures for English courses at Princeton, addresses on educational, literary, and scholarly topics, and poetry--comprise the great bulk of the collection, but it also includes professional and personal correspondence as well as several diaries and copybooks (1938-1952) containing notes on summer reading, thoughts on his trip to Germany (1938), and comments on the international situation prior to World War II. In addition, there are photographs, including one of John Ruskin, scrapbooks, offprints of articles written by Spaeth, other printed material, souvenir programs, and newspaper clippings.

This is an unprocessed collection and remains in its original arrangement.