Call Number:

C0957

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 2 boxes
• 0.6 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); James H. Pershing Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1930-1945 (inclusive)

Creator:

Pershing, James H. (James Hammond), 1863-1948

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century and Notebooks -- 20th century

Abstract:

Contains selected correspondence of lawyer and bibliohile James H. Pershing, as well as notebooks documenting his library.

James H. Pershing was an American lawyer and bibliophile.

The collection contains correspondence received by Pershing regarding his book The Different States of the First Edition of Paradise Lost (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1941) and the public sale of his libray, as well as seven notebooks bibliographically documenting his library: "Descriptive Catalogue, English and American Poetry, Mainly First Editions" (Vols. I-V), "Vol. VI, Prose Works, Mainly First Editions," and "Descriptive Catalogue, Vol. VII, Miscellaneous." Correspondents include H. Buxton Forman, Lawrance Thompson, book collectors, and librarians and directors of leading American and British libraries.

The correspondence is arranged chronologically, followed by the notebooks in volume number order.