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Maurice Kelley 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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Kelley, Maurice, 1903-1996

Maurice Kelley (1903-1996) was a member of Princeton Class of 1934 and served as acting librarian of Princeton's Firestone Library from 1951 to 1953.

The collection contains correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, and printed matter of American educator and librarian, Maurice Kelley (Princeton Class of 1934). Also included are correspondence of Kelley and Hamilton Cottier, with a journal (1935), concerning the Princeton Bibliographical Society; correspondence and newspaper reviews of Kelley's book about John Milton, This Great Argument (1941); general correspondence; a few personal photographs; and newspaper clippings about a bicycle trip taken by Kelley in 1940 to Canada over Benedict Arnold's trail. Includes letters written during World War II from students to Kelley, and material relating to his service as acting librarian of Princeton's Firestone Library (1951-1953). There is also a framed expression of appreciation from the library staff to Kelley upon his return to the English Dept. in 1953.

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

This collection was the gift of Mr. Maurice Kelley (Class of 1934) in 1991 with an additional gift in 1993.

AM 92-33 and AM 1993-151.

The collection inventory was created by Michael Heist in August 2007.

Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '15 in 2013.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2007
Access Restrictions

This 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

Studies on Milton's Paradise Lost: The Answerable Style, I, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton's Paradise Lost: The Answerable Style, II, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton's Paradise Lost: Cosmology, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton's Paradise Lost: The Christian Theory of History, 1948-1952. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton's Paradise Lost: Dogma, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton's Paradise Lost: The Epic Simile, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton's Paradise Lost: The Fall of Man, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton's Paradise Lost: The Form (Epic tradition), circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton's Paradise Lost: The Hexaemeral Tradition, 1960. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton's Paradise Lost: The Sublime, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Areopagitica, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Christ's College, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Comus, 1961. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: The Concept of Hierarchy, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Course Syllabus for ENG 351, "Milton and His Age", 1967-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Early Poems, circa 1967-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Free Will, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Growing My Wings (Lecture), circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Introductory Date Sheet, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Liberty, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Prose Period II, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Modern Critics, circa 1962. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Modern Man, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: St. Paul's School, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Puritanism, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Satan, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Paradise Regained, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Poetry and Convention, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Personal Background of Lucidas, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Lucidas and the Pastoral Tradition, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Studies on Milton: Samson Agonistes, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Commencement Address: "A Short Examination Conducted at the Bread Loaf School of English", 1961 August 12. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"A New Lecture on Traditional Poet", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Images Such as a College Readily Affords" (Tallahassee Version), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lecture Note Cards, circa 1960-1970. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"The Poems of Cynewulf," Autograph Manuscript by Charles Kennedy, undated. 2 folders.
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2 folders

"The Poems of Cynewulf," Typescripts by Charles Kennedy, undated. 2 folders.
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2 folders

Correspondence: General, A-Z, 1938-1971. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Also includes two audio cassettes from the American Audio Prose library of two readings by George Garrett at the University of Cincinnati.

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1 folder

Correspondence: Garrett, George, 1991. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence: Regarding Princeton Bibliographical Society, 1935-1938. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Also includes a journal from 1935, containing information about members of the Princeton Bibliographical Society.

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1 folder

Correspondence: Regarding Princeton University Library, 1951-1953. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence: Princeton Students in WWII, 1943. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence: Regarding This Great Argument, 1941-1956. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Photographs, 1943-1953. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of photographs of Maurice Kelley (while acting University Librarian in 1951 or 1952), the War Service Bureau Staff (1943), a reception for the Princeton University Library (1953), and a photograph of the front of Firestone Library at Princeton University.

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1 folder

"A Seventeenth-Century Newsletter", 1944. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Clippings and Notes Related to Maurice Kelley, 1940. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Clippings are of several articles pertaining to the bike trip along Benedict Arnold's Trail.

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1 folder

Princeton Outing Club: Founding Documents and By-Laws, 1955. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Framed Certificate Acknowledging Kelley's Service as Acting University Librarian, 1953 January 28. 1 box.
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1 box

Print, Suggest