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French Family 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.

Overview and metadata sections

French, Lewis

The French family was a prominent family of Frenchtown, New Jersey, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Blue Grass, Illinois.

The collection consists of correspondence, journals, photographs, a cemetery plot deed, and printed matter of Lewis French and his family of Frenchtown, New Jersey, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Blue Grass, Illinois, including papers of his brother, David S. French. The correspondence and journals contain comments regarding preaching, religious beliefs, visits among family members, personal monies, and farm conditions.

This collection was the gift of E. Boyd.

Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.

No appraisal information is available.

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

List of Loose Documents in 2 Volumes of Lewis French's Journals, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Photographs, 1885-1895. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence, 1838-1858. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Journal I, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Tourist in Spain. Granada. by Thomas Roscoe, 1835. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Journal II, 1852-1853. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Print, Suggest