Brendan Behan Papers, 1943-1983 (mostly 1943-1963)
Consists of selected manuscript and typescript drafts, notebooks, and notes, of 20th-century Irish author Brendan Behan (1923-1964), as well as some correspondence and ephemera. The papers constitute the principal archives of the manuscripts of Behan's writings.
Writings, 1943-1963
Includes handwritten and typed drafts of and notes relating to various works, including books, scripts, short stories, music, articles and essays, and poetry, several of which Behan drafted during his time in Mountjoy Prison and Curragh Camp. Of special note are three manuscripts for Borstal Boy, including two substantial annotated typescripts and a copybook containing what appears to be the earliest preparatory draft written in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, in 1948, as well as notes in Irish relating to the work. (Note that the different versions of Borstal Boy are located within several of the genre types listed here (Books, Scripts, and Miscellaneous Notes).
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Horton Davies collection of Frederick Buechner, 1943-1982 (mostly 1978-1981)
Horton Davies was a Princeton University professor of religion; his wife, Marie-Helene Davies, is author of LAUGHTER IN A GENEVAN GOWN: THE WORKS OF FREDERICK BUECHNER, 1970-1980 (1983). Consists of papers relating to the novelist Frederick Buechner (Princeton Class of 1947) collected or created by Davies.
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Series 9: Photographs, 1940-1998
This series consists of photographs of Helenē Vakalo through the years including her photograph portrtaits, photographs with her friends, colleagues, artists, actors and actresses, academics, art critics, and politicians.
Helenē Vakalo Papers, 1933-2000 (mostly 1954-1990)
The Helenē Vakalo Papers consists of papers by and relating to the Greek art critic and poet Helenē Vakalo (1921-2001). Included are autograph and typed manuscripts of Vakalo's poetry, lectures, articles, and essays, as well as her correspondence, notebooks, loose notes, and memorabilia. There are also official documents, photographs, awards, printed material, and several works by prominent Greek writers and artists. Of particular importance are the unpublished works and early manuscripts, as well as Vakalo's correspondence with her husband, painter, stage designer, art critic, and writer Giōrgos Vakalo, and with numerous distinguished artists and literary figures.
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Archer, Glenn L., 1943-1980
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Files, 1943-1976
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Eisenhower, 1943-1963
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Correspondence, 1942-1990
The Correspondence series is composed of correspondence to and from Lewis over the course of his career. The series includes discussions between Lewis and other scholars about economic issues and recent publications, Lewis's correspondence as an officer of the American Economic Association and as an editor for publications, and correspondence between Lewis and his publishers. The series also contains congratulations and invitations from colleagues, letters from former students of Lewis seeking career advice and describing their work, and correspondence related to Lewis's work at the University of the West Indies, with the West Indies Federation, and while serving as an economic consultant in Ghana.
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Arthur Thornhill, Jr. Correspondence, 1943-1977 (mostly 1962-1964)
Consists primarily of letters from Katherine Anne Porter to publisher Arthur Thornhill, Jr., President and CEO of Little, Brown Company, which operated jointly with Atlantic Monthly Press. Also included are office memoranda and correspondence between Thornhill and two other executives at the company, Seymour Lawrence and Peter Davison. Most of the letters are typed and annotated by Porter with manuscript emendations and marginalia. The correspondence between Katherine Anne Porter and her publishers broadly cover questions of her contract and finances, particularly after the publication of Ship of Fools in 1962. In addition to the correspondence are documents related to Katherine Anne Porter's financial and publishing contracts; nine gelatin silver photographs of her; the original annotated typescript of her 1955 preface to The Retrial of Joan of Arc; and a 1968 copy of her foreword to an unpublished anthology of short stories.
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Office of Career Services Records, 1943-1977
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Originally established in 1912 as the Self-Help Bureau, the Office of Career Services is an organizational unit of the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life that provides career resources and programming for both undergraduate and graduate students. The records include three bound volumes of annual reports from the Princeton University Office of Career Services spanning the years 1943 to 1977. Topics covered include alumni appointments, work-study, study services and academic support.
Study Services and Academic Support, 1943-1964
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Series 1: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Project Records, 1943-1974
Series 1: The Papers of Thomas Jeffersion Project, 1943-1974 documents the Thomas Jefferson Papers Project from its conception and initial proposal in 1943 until the death of its first editor Julian P. Boyd in 1980. Contained in the records is correspondence with Princeton presidents Harold T. Dodds and Robert F. Goheen, who were active advisors in the early years of the project. Other notable correspondence is with Jefferson scholars, board members of the New York Times, and Jefferson Papers Project advisory board members. Also included are financial records, including Boyd's original cost estimations for the project. Other materials consist of an initial project proposal, annual reports, directives on handling of materials, typography, and editing procedures, and some photographs.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Project Editor's Records, 1943-1974
The Thomas Jefferson Papers Project was conceived of in 1943 by Princeton University history professor Julian P. Boyd, who was serving at the time as the historian of the Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial Commission. Contained in the records is correspondence with Princeton presidents Harold T. Dodds and Robert F. Goheen, who were active advisors in the early years of the project. Also included are financial records, including Boyd's original cost estimations for the project. Other materials consist of an initial project proposal, annual reports, directives on handling of materials, typography, and editing procedures, and some photographs.
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John Foster Dulles Collection, 1943-1974
John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), was a graduate of the Princeton Class of 1908 who served as Secretary of State of the United States for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The John Foster Dulles Collection consists of a small group of materials documenting Dulles' connection to Princeton, including materials on his undergraduate career and the Dulles Library.
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Erwin Panofsky Letters to the Burrages, 1938-1969
Consists primarily of letters by Erwin and Dora Panofsky to the artist Mildred Burrage and her sister Madeleine ("Bob").
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Series 1: Correspondence, 1939-1981
The correspondence series consists of correspondence received by Louis Kronenberger. Occasional outgoing letters are interfiled. The series is especially noteworthy for including correspondence with major literary figures, including W. H. Auden, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Malcolm Cowley, E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Bernard Malamud, Marianne Moore, V. S. Pritchett, Stephen Spender, Eudora Welty, and Edmund Wilson.
Louis Kronenberger Papers, 1939-1980
Louis Kronenberger was an American literary critic, novelist, and biographer. Contains correspondence with notable literary figures as well as editorial requests and drafts of Kronenberger's writings.
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Diaries of Frans and Gertrude Blom, 1943-1959 1943-1959
Consists of copies of diaries kept by Blom and his wife, Gertrude Duby Blom, from 1943 to 1959, while searching for Maya ruins in Chiapas, Mexico, in 14 volumes.
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Business records (1), 1943-1957
Contains admissions records, bank statements/deposit slips, general correspondence, and paid bills grouped by fiscal year. Some years also contain form letters, remittance slips, and current files. There is a file from 1946-1949 of general corresondence and miscellaneous documents with a notation "Things I would like to discard. Efd" which appears to be written by the secretary of Storer B. Lunt, who served as both Secretary-Treasuer and Vice-President.
Business records (2), 1915-1959
Contains admissions records, bank statements/deposit slips, general correspondence, and paid bills grouped by fiscal year. Some years also contain form letters, remittance slips, and records of elections and reinstatements. There is a file of completed business from 1956-1958, and for the year of 1958-1959 there are folders of files not included in other years. In addition, there are also miscellaneous items including constitutions and memebership lists from 1941-1958, menus from the 1957 Christmas party, 4 account books, an attendance ledger, 4 checkbooks, blank and returned checks, meeting minutes from 1941-1947, and 4 rubber stamps with the address of the club's bank and the name of the secretary-treasurer.
Series 1: Business Records, 1915-1959
Consists of business correspondence, bills, membership lists, constitution, meeting minutes, and other miscellaneous records.
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H. Struve Hensel Scrapbooks, 1943-1954
Herman Struve Hensel (1901-1991) was an international lawyer. This collection consists of two scrapbooks containing clippings, correspondence, press releases, photographs, articles and speeches relating to Hensel's service as assistant secretary of the Navy and to the Army-McCarthy Hearings.
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Photographs, 1943-1953
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.
Correspondence: General, A-Z, 1938-1971
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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Series 3, Federal Bureau of Investigation Files, 1942-1979
Series 3, Federal Bureau of Investigation Files, 1942-1979 contains the dossiers of several prominent Americans, which were compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Wilson began to collect the files in 1975 after Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act. Besides his own file, Wilson obtained the files of such notables as Vern Countryman, Alger Hiss, Nathan Singer, Duane Lockard, and Wilbur H. Ferry. It was Wilson's purpose to "...show the world how destructive, how stupid and how ridiculous the F.B.I. really is."
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Correspondence, 1943-1951
re: improvements in the Social Sciences Departments at Princeton, including the School of Public and International Affairs
Frederick H. Osborn Papers, 1941-1963
The Papers of Frederick H. Osborn, Class of 1910, (1889-1981) cover some of Osborn's service to, and interest in, the University as a charter trustee from 1943-1955 and as a member of several advisory boards, including the Curriculum Committee and Psychology Department Council.
Miscellaneous papers, 1941-1955
re: trustee and advisory appointments in 1941 and 1943, and an announcement of the honorary graduates of 1955
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Subseries 2A: Correspondence, 1942-1992
Consists of the correspondence of Guillermo Valencia, primarily with Karsen.
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Miscellaneous and Loose Negatives, 1943-1950
Miscellaneous negatives were found loose, outside of the envelopes labeled by J. Wayman Williams. Some of these negatives may have belonged with the "Activities" or "Public Relations" groups. They imclude images of laboratory equipment, maps of Princeton's main campus, cartoon tigers with a "P", Williams' Christmas greetings for 1948, a dance in front of a bandstand reading "Prince Tiger"; various groups of people, airplanes flying in formation, people at a stadium, football players posing, ice skaters in skirts, graduation ceremonies, tennis courts, and more.
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Correspondence, 1943-1948
Includes letters to Margaret K. McElderry from her mother, Eveline Bronte McElderry, as well as letters from Margaret to her parents. Also includes a photocopy of Margaret K. McElderry's birth certificate.
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Series 3: Correspondence, 1915-1963
Consists of correspondence with individuals such as David Chambers, L. Marsden Hubbard, Harold Montanye, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Series 2: Correspondence, 1938-1985
Consists of correspondence of P. J. Conkwright, arranged in chronological order.
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Finance and Accounts, 1935-2010
Includes payroll ledgers, sales account books, cash, journal, sales, etc.
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Arthur Friedman Collection of Programs and Playbills, 1893-1973
Arthur Friedman is an American collector in music and theater. His collection consists of bound scrapbooks of opera programs and playbills for theater and concert performances covering eighty years of regular attendance by Friedman in New York City at the Metropolitan Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and various legitimate theaters.
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Kostas and Linda S. Myrsiades Papers, 1942-2017
This collection consists of personal papers of Kostas and Linda S. Myrsiades, including correspondence, autograph manuscripts and typescripts, photographs, printed and audio material.
Research Material: Resistance Theater, 1942-1998
Consists of xerox copies of typescripts and printed material of several one-act plays and short stories or poems on Greek Resistance with penciled annotations. Includes also a xerox copy of a resignation letter by Aimilios Veakēs to the Board of the National Theater dated 1942 and a bibliography of primary texts and short stories about the "Literature of the Greek Resistance."
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Series 1: Correspondence, 1942-2012
The letters in Series 1: Correspondence are primarily personal in nature, though some business correspondence is also included. Most of the correspondence dates from the Birds' time living in the Middle East and India in the 1960s and 1970s, though there are also letters that predate and postdate Eugene's tenure with the Foreign Service. In addition to the Birds' outgoing letters describing their lives to family and friends, the series also contains a large portion of letters that the Birds received from their children and from other Foreign Service families.
Eugene and Jerine Bird Papers, 1932-2012 (mostly 1962-1984)
Eugene Bird (1925-) is a retired Foreign Service Officer who served primarily in the Middle East. During Eugene Bird's tenure with the State Department, he and his family lived in Jerusalem, Beirut, Cairo, Bombay, New Delhi, and the Saudi Arabian cities of Jeddah and Dhahran. His wife, Jerine "Jerri" Bird (1926-2012), was an activist who started the nonprofit organization Partners for Peace, which sponsored speaking tours by Israeli and Palestinian women throughout the United States. The collection contains Eugene and Jerine Bird's personal and professional correspondence, subject files on the Middle East, and writings, especially pertaining to Jerine Bird's unpublished manuscript on Saudi Arabian women.
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Series 5: Printed Matter, 1942-2000
This series consists of off-prints, playbills, flyers, brochures, and ballots, as well as clippings and road maps of Greece.
Off-Prints, 1942-1995
Includes off-prints, in Greek, English, German, and French, relating to the Cyprus issue, Greece and the Balkans, the Aegean Sea, international relations, Greek foreign policy, international law and relations, human rights and constitutional law, Byzantine studies, Greek Independence Day, and Greek poetry. A list of the title pages of the off-prints is available: http://libweb2.princeton.edu/rbsc2/misc/Xydes.pdf
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General, 1942-1992
The General subseries consists mainly of correspondence, memoranda, printed material, and reports that communicate the events and transformations that took place at the Tower Club. Some of these events were independent of the Princeton Prospect Foundation, but most are directly related to the Foundation. Also included are fundraising mailings sent to Tower Club members and alumni. The financial statements of the Tower Club are also incorporated into this subseries, as well as Tower Club newsletters. This subseries also contains operating procedures for the undergraduate officers of the Tower Club, compiled by former officers. There are also copies of the by-laws and certificate of incorporation for the Tower Club.
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Series 1: Completed Works, 1939-1996
Contains masters of Edward T. Cone's published compositions, most done in pen on vellum, and working copies used for performance, revision, or correction.
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Miscellaneous, 1942-1974
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Membership card for Museum of Modern Art (NY), "Scouts de México" membership card, certification of employment as professor of Theatre Arts, marriage certificate (photocopy), apartment lease, ISSSTE registration, authorization of JGP's wife to sign documents relating to the children on his behalf.
Juan García Ponce Papers, 1932-2004 (mostly 1965-2001)
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Contains the personal and working papers of Juan García Ponce, a Mexican novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and critic.
Series 3: Documents, 1932-2003
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Contains various forms of identification, medical records, contracts with various publishers, and miscellaneous documents.
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Dillon, Herbert L, 1942-1968
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Office of the Recording Secretary Records, 1939-2010 (mostly 1958-1984)
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Working in conjunction with the Office of Development, Princeton University's Office of the Recording Secretary receives and officially acknowledges gifts to Princeton on behalf of the president and the trustees of the University, and keeps donors informed as to the impact of their gifts. The files from the Office of the Recording Secretary consist of records of gifts donated to Princeton.
Series 2: Files on Dedications, Memorials, Inscriptions and Donors, 1939-2010
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Series 2: Files on Dedications, Memorials, Inscriptions and Donors, 1939-1978, 1991-1992, 2010 (bulk 1959-1975) consists primarily of correspondence and memoranda, along with a limited amount of architectural sketches and other planning documents related to various projects and events.
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Harold R. Medina Papers regarding Service to Princeton University, 1942-1966
Harold R. Medina was a well-known judge and active Princeton alumnus. These records document Judge Harold Medina's role as a trustee of Princeton University, a member of the Graduate Council, and a member of the advisory council for modern languages and literatures.
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Hecht, Ben, Materials, 1942-1962
Includes various materials, much of which are related to Hecht's book, Perfidy, such as a typed manuscript of the book under the earlier title, Perdidy in Israel, a book review of Perfidy authored by his wife, Rose Caylor, as well as correspondence, printed materials, such as a first edition stageplay and playbill for Hecht's A Flag is Born, and clippings and other ephemera.
O'Casey, Seán, to Jack Daly, 1931-1952
Includes 5 letters and an empty envelope addressed to Mrs. J. Daly.