Gordon Merrick Papers, 1936-1991 (mostly 1954-1988)
The Gordon Merrick Papers consist primarily of drafts of the manuscripts of Merrick's novels, written over a thirty-nine year period, from the late 1940s ( The Strumpet Wind, 1947) to the mid-1980s ( Measure of Madness, 1986). Also present is his business and financial correspondence with agents, publishers, and banks over a twenty-one year period, from 1967 until his death in 1988. In addition there is a clipping file which dates back to Merrick's first experiences as an actor in the 1930s, as well as photographs taken for publicity as well as for Merrick's personal collection.
Subseries 2B: Personal Correspondence, 1948-1954
The personal correspondence is minimal but includes nine items from E. M. Forster, the British novelist, one of which deals at length with Merrick's earliest work, The Strumpet Wind. A Christmas card, undated, includes a picture of Forster in his study. There is also a note from composer Leonard Cohen who knew Merrick from having spent much time in the Greek islands.
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Jerome Karabel Papers, 1936-1999
Jerome Karabel is an American sociologist known for his research on university admissions policies. Consists of materials compiled by Jerome Karabel while researching for his 2005 book The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The papers contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other documents.
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Historic, Descriptive and Subject Files Relating to or About the William Seymour Theatre Collection, Covering the Years of Operation as a Separate Library Unit, 1936-2000
Files include correspondence about the founding of Princeton University Libray's William Seymour Theatre Collection, the gala dinner opening night, efforts to enlarge the collection in the 1940 to 1960s, and descriptive writings about the collection by the various curators.
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Burgi Collection of Modern Greek Theater Playbills, Second Series, 1936-2001
This collection contains playbills from Greece.
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Léon-François Hoffmann Collection on Haitian Literature, 1936-2009
Consists of correspondence in French between Léon-François Hoffmann and Haitian poet René Depestre, including handwritten letters, faxes, and several other documents. Other additions include photocopies of correspondence between Haitian writer and politician Jacques Roumain and his wife Nicole Hibbert.
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George Segal Papers, 1936-2010 (mostly 1970-1999)
Business files, correspondence, photographs, artwork, writings, and clippings of George Segal (1924-2000), 20th-century American sculptor, artist, and photographer active from the late 1950s until 1999. The papers contain photographs taken by and of the artist, correspondence and all business files relating to exhibitions, records of the production of public commissions, writings by and about Segal, audio and visual media, and exhibition catalogs.
Subseries 7A: Education, 1937-1964
This subseries contains notebooks, transcripts, syllabi, correspondence, a yearbook, papers and projects corresponding to Segal's education at P.S. 70 in the Bronx and at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan from 1930 to 1941, Cooper Union School of Art from 1941 to 1942, Rutgers University (part-time) from 1942 to 1946, Pratt Institute of Design from 1947 to 1948, New York University from 1948 to 1949, and Rutgers University (Master of Fine Arts) from 1961 to 1963. The bulk of the material dates to Segal's time at New York University from 1948 to 1949.
Series 7: Education and Early Career, 1937-1964
This series contains material related to Segal's formative years as a student and an educator at a number of New York and New Jersey institutions. Materials include assignments, syllabi, projects, lesson plans, transcripts and ephemera accumulated over the course of Segal's primary, secondary, college-level and post-graduate studies as well as his experiences teaching from 1958 to 1964.
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D. Hugh Peniston, Class of 1941, Papers, 1936-2013 (mostly 1935-1942)
D. Hugh Peniston graduated from Princeton University in 1941. This collection includes his course notes and coursework along with his letters home during his undergraduate years.
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Subseries 1A: Correspondence, 1937-1981
Consists of correspondence of the Orchestra of America, including city and state officials, supporters of the orchestra, and the New York College of Music, as well as others.
Series 1: Orchestra of America, 1937-1981
Consists of papers of the Orchestra of America, including correspondence, legal documents, photographs, and printed material.
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Henry Martin Papers, 1949-2003 (mostly 1980-1999)
Consists of scrapbooks of tearsheets and clippings, original artwork in pencil and in pen and ink, correspondence, financial documents, periodicals, permission agreements, and contracts spanning Henry Martin's career as a cartoonist and illustrator.
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Series 1: Diaries, 1937-1956
Consists of the diaries of Robert Warren Anthony, including notes on a trip to Italy, the Conference of Science, Philosophy and Religion at Columbia University, and Activities as Field Secretary of the Servicemen's Council of the Federation of Churches of Greater New York.
Robert Warren Anthony Papers, 1937-1959
The Robert Warren Anthony Papers consists of diaries, notes, reports, correspondence, and photographs of the American Presbyterian clergyman Robert Warren Anthony (1880-1960, Princeton Class of 1902).
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Selected Papers of William Meredith, 1937-1967
Consists, for the most part, of letters to American poet William Meredith (Princeton Class of 1940) from American authors, most of whom have been associated with Princeton.
Series 1: Correspondence, 1937-1982
Consists of correspondence with individuals such as R. P. Blackmur, Christian Gauss, Peter Rushton, and Allen Tate, as well as others.
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Borgese Family Collection, 1937-1970
Consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and clippings of Elizabeth Mann Borgese, her husband, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, and her mother, Katia Mann.
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William Oliver Strunk Collection, 1937-1979
Consists of selected papers of W. Oliver Strunk, who was a professor of music at Princeton University (1937-1966).
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Series 2: Correspondence Files, 1937-1999
Consists of the business ( QRL-related) and personal correspondence of Theodore Weiss (exceptions noted above in Series 1). Correspondents include many of the authors listed in the Author/Issue index.
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George R. Collins Papers, 1937-1985
Consists of notebooks and notes taken by George R. Collins during his years as an undergraduate and graduate student at Princeton (Classes of 1939, 1942) in the fields of art and architecture.
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Harlan Cleveland Papers, 1937-2006 (mostly 1960-1979)
Harlan Cleveland (1918-2008) was a public administrator, ambassador to NATO, and a political scientist. He served in several positions related to the administration of economic aid programs during the 1940s, as an assistant secretary in the State Department and as U.S. ambassador to NATO during the 1960s, and also held positions at three universities and the Aspen Institute. Cleveland's papers document his government service and his work at the Aspen Institute, and include his speech and writings files, as well as correspondence and photographs.
Series 4: Personal Files, 1946-2006
The Personal Files series includes biographical and autobiographical information about Cleveland, bibliographies of his writings, correspondence he received on his 70th birthday from colleagues which highlight his importance to his fields, and photographs from throughout his career.
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Awards Letters of Recognition, 1938-1949
Sigma Xi diploma, Joint Task Force One Electronics Program letter of thanks, War Manpower Commission letter of commendation, Phi Eta Sigma diploma and Phi Kappa Phi diploma.
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Hermann Broch Collection, 1938-1972
Consists of mostly English correspondence and manuscripts of the Austrian author Hermann Broch.
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1938-1950 Speeches, 1938-1950
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Series 1: 1938-1952 and General, 1938-1952
Series 1: 1938-1952 and General includes a memorandum on the content of the collection, a folder of speeches, and materials related to Adlai Stevenson's 1952 Presidential campaign.
W. Willard Wirtz Collection on Adlai Stevenson, 1938-2002 (mostly 1938-1966)
W. Willard (Bill) Wirtz was a lawyer, an arbitrator, a law professor, and served as undersecretary and secretary of labor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He was a speechwriter for, and close advisor to, Adlai Stevenson from 1952 to 1960. The W. Willard Wirtz Collection on Adlai Stevenson documents Stevenson's campaigns for president in 1952 and 1956, as well as Stevenson's political activities in 1960 and in between campaigns. Because Wirtz was a speechwriter in 1952, in charge of speech content in 1956, and a close advisor and occasional speechwriter at other times, this collection most strongly documents the campaign activities of drafting speeches and fine-tuning campaign policy.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Maria Chrousakē Photographs, 1938-1950s?
Consists of an open collection for Maria Chrousakē photographs of several places in Greece and Cyprus mostly Byzantine churches and monasteries and archaeological sites.
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Series 1, Correspondence and Subject Files, 1938-1977
Series 1, Correspondence and Subject Files, 1938-1977, contains correspondence and reference material. While some correspondence relates to Wilson's outside interests, a majority of the material in this series was compiled to aid in preparation for his course lectures. Many of these files relate directly to a particular course. Material for his courses includes syllabi, lecture outlines, and reading lists.
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Personal Correspondence to Renée and Theodore, 1938-1951
Includes letters from Renée's parents around the time of their marriage
Renée Weiss Papers, 1939-2006
Consists of professional and personal correspondence, travel diaries and related ephemera, notebooks, writings, and files relating to the Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL) of editor and writer Renée Karol Weiss (1923-2021). Some materials relate specifically to Renée's husband, poet and professor Theodore Weiss (1916-2003).
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Radio Broadcasting Collection, 1938-1959
The Radio Broadcasting Collection consists of typescripts of scripts for "The Cavalcade of America" and "The Bookman" as well as promotional material for the major radio networks, such as ABC, CBS, NBC, the Mutual Broadcasting System, and the Municipal Broadcasting System (WNYC). Included is material regarding the coverage of news during the latter years of World War II and copies of clippings about the Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" in 1938.
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Alice Raphael Collection of Faust Materials, 1938-1960
The Alice Raphael Collection of Faust Materials contains photographs and epherema relating to the Yale bicentennial of Goethe's Faust , for which Alice Raphael's translation was used, as well as information about other productions of Faust and about Raphael's other work.
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Antonio Pace Correspondence with Princetonians, 1938-1976
Consists primarily of incoming correspondence to Antonio Pace (1914-2004), a professor of Romance Languages at Syracuse University and the University of Washington, from Princeton faculty, particularly those in the fields of language and cultural studies, as well as from former Princeton classmates (*43). Other notable scholars are also represented. Some correspondents include: Gilbert Chinard (1881-1972), Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), Julian P. Boyd (1903-1980), Kenneth McKenzie (1870-1949), Theodore Fred Kuper (1886-1981), and Giuliano Bonfante (1904-2005).
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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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Subseries 5F: Study Files, 1938-1990
Consists of music, clippings, and writings by others that Frank Lewin collected as study materials.
Series 5: Business of Composition, 1938-2008
Consists of business files relating to composition and other projects of Frank Lewin. Contracts (originally Subseries 5B within the donor's arrangement scheme) were retained by Lewin's literary executor and are therefore not present in the collection.
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Calvin S. Hathaway Collection, 1938-1974
The Calvin S. Hathaway Collection consists of correspondence (especially with Florence C. Quinby), photographs, postcards, offprints, slides, and newspaper clippings of American Curator Calvin S. Hathaway (Princeton Class of 1930) relating to his collection on equestrian statues of the world.
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Committee on Project Research and Inventions, 1938-1979
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Series 1: Office of Research and Project Administration Records, 1938-2007
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The Office of Research and Project Administration Records consist of annual reports, board minutes, policies, and interoffice correspondence of ORPA. Additionally, it contains files assembled for large-scale university research projects such as the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, as well as on research-related issues such as the use of human subjects and biosafety. Also included in the collection are research proposals submitted to ORPA from academic departments in both the sciences and the humanities.
Office of Research and Project Administration Records, 1938-2010
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The Office of Research and Project Administration acts as coordinator for all grants sought by the University, and also ensures the conformance of University practice with governmental regulations. The collection consists of annual reports, board minutes, policies, and interoffice correspondence of ORPA. Additionally, it contains files assembled for large-scale university research projects such as the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, as well as on research-related issues such as the use of human subjects and biosafety.
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Series 3: Personal Materials, 1938-1998
The Personal Materials series contains materials that fall outside the scope of the organizations and professional activities that are included in Series 1. This includes miscellaneous correspondence to Carl and Hedda Fields, high school and college documents (including alumni activities), military papers, and memorial service programs and correspondence received posthumously.
Carl A. Fields Papers, 1938-2009 (mostly 1960-1998)
Educator and advocate of minority education Dr. Carl A. Fields, the first African American to hold a high-ranking position at an Ivy League school, was appointed Assistant Director of Student Aid and then Assistant Dean of the College at Princeton before serving in other leadership positions outside the University. The Carl A. Fields Papers consist of correspondence, reports, research material on race relations and minority education, handwritten notes, project proposals, and other papers that document his life and career.
Copies of photograph, St. John's honorary degree and citation, clippings on Fields, 1944-1998
Also includes the text of a 1996 lecture, "Changing Faces," by Georgia Nugent.
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Series 1: Princeton Years, 1938-1999
The Princeton Years series documents Crespi's career prior to joining the USIA . It includes correspondence, research notes, clippings, reports, and published articles relating to Crespi's graduate research at Princeton on gambling addiction, his research on German public opinion of the United States, and other research projects on topics such as such tipping in America and the Kinsey Reports. Also included is correspondence relating to his professorship at Princeton in the psychology department, and his time at UCLA as an undergraduate.
Leo P. Crespi Papers, 1938-1999 (mostly 1940-1985)
Leo Paul Crespi was a leading public opinion researcher best known for his studies of U.S. prestige abroad. The collection consists primarily of Crespi's public opinion research files and his early research files on gambling addiction.
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Helmut Meyer Papers, 1938-2000
Helmut Meyer was a German-born American citizen who fought for the United States in World War II and founded the Helmut Meyer Literary Agency in New York City. The collection contains files from the Helmut Meyer Literary Agency, propaganda from both the Allies and the Axis from World War II, manuscripts of Meyer's own work, and correspondence from friends and clients.
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Bernard — Poems & Notes (Family), 1938-2002
Occasional poems by Bernard Weissman written to celebrate family birthdays, David's bar mitzvah and other events; one celebrates the release of David's film The Cockettes, plus brief notes from David's father to David. Some photocopies, some originals.
Personal Papers, 1938-2011
Material documenting family relationships, childhood and youth, religious upbringing, and schooling, along with family correspondence. Also includes documentation on Weissman's father, Bernard, as well as material collected by Weissman's father on his son.
Bernie — Misc. Clippings, 1945-2006
Clippings of articles sent by Bernard Weissman to David Weissman, many dealing with Jewish history and culture; includes one short article from 2006 by Bernard Weissman. Mostly photocopies, some originals.
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Gilbert Troxell Correspondence, 1939-1949
Consists of letters to Gilbert Troxell from Sinclair Lewis, John O'Hara, and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, the wife of Eugene O'Neill, discussing the donation of manuscripts to the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University.
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Subseries 15B: French, 1939-1950
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English, 1939-1967
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Series 3: Clippings and Articles, 1939-1967
The Clippings and Articles series includes newspaper clippings, cartoons, and published articles. Clippings collected from the 1940s deal with World War II and include topics such as Mussolini, the Ciano Diaries, and Hitler and the Nazis. In the late 1940s the subjects transition to the Cold War and secrecy and security, focusing more on public statements by Dulles and articles relating to the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Wesley Halliburton Correspondence, 1939-1950
Consists of four small groups of correspondence between Wesley Halliburton and others after the death of his famous son Richard in 1939. Richard Halliburton was a celebrated adventurer and author known, among other things, for having swum the length of the Panama Canal.
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Glyphs and Bardic Glyph-Books, 1939-2021
Collection of Glyphs created on boards of various sizes. Several other glyph books including Fuck You, Recent Poems, A Gathering of Glyphs, Poems for Revolution, and Can Love Survive the Big Bang?
Ed Sanders Papers, 1939-2021 (mostly 1960-2010)
Consists of drafts, manuscripts, research files, correspondence, artwork, and other related materials of American musician, poet, writer, artist, and activist Ed Sanders.
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Rushton Coulborn Papers, 1939-1970
Consists of papers of historian Rushton Coulborn, including manuscripts, correspondence, and bibliographic material.
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Reginald Lawrence Papers, 1939-1967
The Reginald Lawrence Papers consists primarily of typescripts of plays Lawrence (Princeton Class of 1921) wrote for theater, film, and television, as well as short stories, poetry, outlines and notes for various projects, some letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
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Molly Shenstone Collection on Thomas Mann, 1939-1969
Consists of correspondence, photographs, souvenirs, printed material, and other miscellanea collected by Molly Shenstone about her friend Thomas Mann (1875-1955), the German novelist, essayist, playwright, and lecturer in the humanities at Princeton University.
Series 6: Printed Material, 1939 April-1964 October 24
Consists of offprints, articles, and clippings related to Thomas Mann.
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Levering Cartwright Collection on "Death Valley Scotty", 1939-1973 (mostly 1963-1971)
Consists of papers of journalist Levering Cartwright (Princeton University Class of 1926) relating to the association of "Death Valley Scotty" (Walter Scott, 1872-1954), an eccentric prospector, Wild West show entertainer, and hoaxer, with his friend and financier, Albert M. Johnson, an insurance company executive.
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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.
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.
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Series 1: Correspondence, 1939-1982
Consists of the correspondence of Robert H. Dicke, arranged by year.
Robert H. Dicke Papers, 1939-1996 (mostly 1953-1990)
Robert H. Dicke, born in 1916, was a Princeton physicist, educator, and author. The collection includes Dicke's professional correspondence, files from his work with the Office of Naval Research, NASA, and the National Science Board, and the National Science Foundation, and assorted other documents.
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Caroline Gordon Collection, 1939-1982 (mostly 1970-1980)
Consists of selected papers of American novelist Caroline Gordon, including some of her correspondence with various family members, friends, and literary associates.