Call Number:

C0519

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 22 boxes
• 8.8 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Howard C. Rice Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1965-1975 (inclusive)

Creator:

Rice, Howard C. (Howard Crosby), 1904-1980

Form:

Correspondence., Journals., Librarians -- New Jersey -- Princeton., Manuscripts., and Photographs.

Abstract:

Consists of papers relating to the preparation of The American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army, 1780-1783 (1972), which was translated and edited by Princeton's Special Collections librarian Howard C. Rice and Anne S. K. Brown.

Historian and author, Howard C. Rice (1904-1980), directed Princeton's Special Collections during the 1960s.

The collection consists of papers relating to the preparation of The American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army, 1780-1783 (1972), which was translated and edited by Rice and Anne S. K. Brown and published in two volumes: Volume I containing the journals of Jean Clermont-Crevecoeur, Jean Baptiste Verger, and Louis-Alexandre Berthier; Volume II containing itineraries, maps, and views prepared by Berthier illustrating the campaigns of the French army under Rochambeau during the American Revolution.

Included in the papers are correspondence with Anne S. K. Brown, American and European libraries, and publishers Princeton University Press and Brown University Press; publicity matter; Xerox copies of the original journals and itineraries with French transcriptions and English translations; binders of final manuscript text; indexes and bibliographies; and related printed matter. Also present are notes and photographs of the 1976 bicentennial reenactment of Rochambeau's march and on the Charles W. Peale portrait of George Washington owned by Rochambeau.

Arranged roughly as follows: correspondence, publicity, notes, itinerary transcripts, sources, journal transcripts, other works, 24 binders of manuscript text, index and publicity.