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Daniel Chamier Revolutionary War Financial Documents, 1777-1798 (bulk) 1774-1798 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 2.0 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists of financial documents and letters pertaining to the accounts of Daniel Chamier, Commissary General of the British Army in North America from 1774 to 1777, detailing the funds expended for provisioning the British Army at the beginning of the American Revolution.

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Kurt Weitzmann Papers, 1930-1991 (inclusive)

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60 boxes

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Kurt Weitzmann left his native Germany in 1935 for Princeton where he spent the remainder of his life, at the Institute for Advanced Study as a permanent member (1935-1972) and as a professor in Princeton University's Dept. of Art and Archaeology (1945-1972). Included are personal and professional correspondence, related files, course outlines, lectures, manuscripts and notes for various published works, scrapbooks of clippings, and printed matter.

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Walter Houk Collection of Ernest Hemingway, 1946-2010 (inclusive)

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5 boxes and 3.25 linear feet

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Consists of manuscripts, correspondence, stenographer's notebooks, photographs, and nautical charts associated with Walter and Juanita Houk's years in Havana, Cuba, documenting their friendship with the Nobel prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Mary.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Christina Georgina Rossetti Materials, circa 1850-1894 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists primarily of signed autograph manuscripts--over 50 letters and 19 poems--of Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), a poet and sister of Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti.

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Briton Rivière Family Correspondence, 1872-1901 (bulk) 1853-1910 (inclusive)

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1 box

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Consists of letters to Briton Rivière (1840-1920), the Victorian artist and illustrator, and to his family members, including from many contemporary artists and writers.

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Peter Orton Collection of Screenplays and Television Scripts, 1941-2005 (inclusive)

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9 boxes and 3.6 linear feet

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Consists of a collection of screenplays and television scripts spanning a period of sixty-four years of film and television production, collected by the writer Peter Orton.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Grant Richards Correspondence, 1899-1923 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists of personal correspondence between British publisher and author Grant Richards, and many of the authors with whom he worked.

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Thomas Daniels' Collations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories, 1920-1978 (inclusive)

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5 boxes

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Consists of collations by Thomas Daniels of over forty of short stories in American and British magazines by American novelist and storywriter F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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The Rochester Courier Collection, 1850-1903 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.20 linear feet

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The Rochester Courier was a weekly, local newspaper published on Friday nights in Rochester, New Hampshire, beginning in 1864. The collection consists of manuscript speeches, articles, editorials, and correspondence from the newspaper, reflecting some of the national issues which dominated American political life leading up to and following the Civil War, including the antislavery movement, the Missouri Compromise, and temperance.

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William Faulkner Collection, 1932-1961 (inclusive)

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3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet

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Consists of manuscripts and letters of American novelist and Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner and related materials, including manuscripts of Maurice Coindreau's translation into French of four Faulkner novels.

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Arthur Gläser Papers, 1919-1948 (inclusive)

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5 boxes and 1.9 linear feet

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Consists of the writings, notes, diaries, calendars, ledgers, and miscellanea of the German novelist, poet, and critic Arthur Gläser (b. 1895 ).

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R. Ellsworth Larsson Papers, 1929-1964 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet

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Consists of poetry manuscripts, drawings, and correspondence of the American poet R. Ellsworth Larsson (1901- ).

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Don M. Wolfe Collection on John Milton, 1640-1660 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists of copies of English poet John Milton's pamphleteering (1640-1660) that was used in the preparation of a volume in a series about the poet, edited by Don M. Wolfe.

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Charles Woodruff Shields Papers, 1839-1905 (inclusive)

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8 boxes and 4.2 linear feet

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Consists of personal papers of Charles W. Shields (Princeton Class of 1844), professor of philosophy and history at Princeton from 1865 to 1903.

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Samuel Carter Hall Papers, 1843-1893 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists primarily of correspondence and poetry of Samuel Carter Hall, a Victorian poet and editor of The Art-Union.

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Thomas Potts Johnson Collection, 1769-1846 (inclusive)

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8 boxes and 3.2 linear feet

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Consists of miscellaneous papers relating to Thomas Potts Johnson's legal practice covering the New Jersey counties of Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset, and Essex; papers pertaining to his position as New Jersey attorney general; and two family photograph albums.

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Thomas Colchie '64 Collection on Jorge Amado, 1946-1991 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.5 linear feet

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The collection consists of twenty-four audiocassette recorded interviews conducted by Thomas Colchie (Princeton University alumnus, Class of 1964) of or about Brazilian writer Jorge Amado. Recordings include interviews with Jorge Amado and other writers and artists speaking about Amado. Also includes photocopy documents about Amado's political involvement as an elected representative in Brazil's National Constituent Assembly from 1945-1947, and photocopy documents of Brazil's National Intelligence Service (SNI) file on Amado.

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Dora Marsden Collection, 1907-1961 (inclusive) 1909-1914 (bulk)

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4 boxes and 1.60 linear feet

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Dora Marsden was an English author, editor, and suffragette. The collection contains correspondence about Marsden's books and periodicals, manuscripts sent to the periodicals, correspondence with other feminists, part of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and correspondence with contemporary literary figures.

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Selected Papers of Edward T. Chase, 1904-2002 (inclusive) 1979-2002 (bulk)

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4 boxes, 1 folder, and 3.67 linear feet

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Consists of selected papers of Edward T. Chase (1919-2005) including correspondence, manuscripts and other documents relating to Chase's professional career as a book editor at several New York publishing companies spanning the years 1972-1995.

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William M. Sloane Papers, 1931-1979 (inclusive)

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7 boxes and 3.50 linear feet

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Consists primarily of correspondence of William M. Sloane during his publishing and editorial career, which is documented in several publishing files. These include papers of the Association of American University Presses when Sloane served as vice-president and president (1966, 1969-70); the Council on Books in Wartime; the Visiting Committee of American Book Publishers; and the publishing houses of Henry Holt and Company (1938-46) and William Sloane Associates (1946-52).

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