Call Number:

C0810

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 13 boxes
• 6.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Edward D. Duffield Correspondence with Josephine Curtis, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1890-1903 (inclusive)

Creator:

Duffield, Edward D. (Edward Dickinson), 1871-1938

Form:

Correspondence. and Photograph albums.

Abstract:

Edward D. Duffield (Princeton Class of 1892) was a general solicitor of the Prudential Insurance Company of America and eventually became president. The correspondence consists of letters between Duffield and Josephine Curtis, his future wife. The letters date primarily from their courtship, which a few later letters and two family photograph albums.

Duffield studied law in Newark, N.J., after graduating from Princeton University, and from 1895-1896 was managing clerk for the law firm of Depew & Parker in Newark. In 1906 Duffield became general solicitor of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, later becoming its president, a position he held until his death in 1938.

Consists of correspondence between Duffield (Princeton Class of 1892) and his future wife, Josephine Reade Curtis of Troy, New York. Their letters to each others span the years from 1890 to their marriage on April 21, 1897. Also present is a small amount of correspondence from 1899 to 1903, and two family photograph albums.