School Report Card Addressed to Maria Tonna, 1823 June 16
School report card, titled "Examination," addressed to Maria Tonna, likely for one of her children. Marks are given in subjects such as scripture, geography, history, dictionary, French, Italian, dancing, and others.
Poem on Life in Malta, circa 1830
Seven-page manuscript poem, light-hearted in tone, describing life in Malta. While the poem is unsigned, it was likely written by a cousin of the Tonna family.
Mary Louisa Philippides Cammenos Will and Biographical Document, 1890 February 19
Will of Mary Louisa Philippides Cammenos, leaving all of her possessions to her daughter, Emily Philippides Cammenos, along with a related document describing her and her daughter's background and current condition.
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School Records, undated
Letter copybook (front cover says Konya in Arabic script) in Arabic and Russian with various administrative information. Some entries are signed by inspectors D. Bogdanov and N. Bogoiavlisnkii. One entry is a cash saving request addressed to the chancellery of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Commmunity signed by the main teacher of the seminary of KH. M. Alla-Verdy.
Nathan the Wise: A Play or Book, undated
In English. Handwritten play on letterhead for The Liberty, A Syrian National Weekly, 8 Chrome St., Worcester, Massachusetts. Missing pages 41-49 and 67.
Instructional Notes, undated
In Arabic; description written by daughter in English in pencil on item: "All about baptisms, weddings, etc. who should be godfather, best man, etc. Pa took this from books. It is nothing he authored himself."
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Savannah River Baptist Association Minutes, 1802-1830
Consists of manuscript and printed copies of minutes of annual meetings of the Savannah Baptist Association from its origin in 1802 to 1830.
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Donald L. Gordon Papers, 1929-1946
Consists of correspondence and columns related to Donald L. Gordon's role as editor of the American News of Books and contributor to the Saturday Evening Post.
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Sara Teasdale Correspondence, 1907-1972 (mostly 1912-1928)
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Consists primarily of letters received by American poet Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernest Filsinger) from over 100 poets, authors, editors, and friends, many of whom enclose examples of their work and discuss their own and Teasdale's poetry.
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Sarah Ponsonby Collection, 1801-1822
Consists of selected letters of Sarah Ponsonby, one of the famous "Ladies of Llangollen."
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Sarah Goodspeed Papers, 1913-1915
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Consists of photographs, correspondence, and other papers of Sarah Goodspeed, a white Christian missionary for the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society (WABHMS), documenting her work on the Crow Indian Reservation in Pryor, Montana, in the 1910s. Materials include a linguistic journal, eighty photographs of Crow and Ojibwa (Ojibwe, Chippewa) people, handwritten poetry and notes, several letters and postcards, and printed and typescript articles and essays.
Phrase Book, circa 1913-1915
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Photographs, circa 1913-1915
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Saqui de Sannes Family Correspondence, 1756-1920
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Consists of professional and personal correspondence of an aristocratic family from Provence. Most of the letters date from 1756 to 1848 and illustrate how the family negotiated its place during France's Revolutionary era.
Official Letters from Les Syndics de la Noblesse de Provence, 1787 October- 1790 February
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These were most likely sent to Antoine Pons Elzéar de Saqui, baron de Sannes. Correspondence concerns meetings of the trustees of the nobility and taxation reports.
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Louis Kronenberger Correspondence Concerning The Cutting Edge, 1969-1975
Consists of twenty one letters from American author and critic Louis Kronenberger, mostly regarding his publication The Cutting Edge: A Collection of Witty Insults and Wicked Retorts, of Polished Snubs and Homicidal Repartee. Also included is manuscript material of The Cutting Edge, and biographical notes.
List of Recipients, 1971 October
List of recipients of author's copies of The Cutting Edge: A Collection of Witty Insults and Wicked Retorts, of Polished Snubs and Homicidal Repartee.
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Samuel Woodfill Correspondence, 1914-1915
The postcard "After the Battle - Ravine Where the Dead Have Been Thrown," dated November 3, 1914, features a photograph image of dead bodies.
Samuel Woodfill Correspondence, 1914-1915
Consists of 64 pictorial postcards written by Samuel Woodfill, mostly addressed to Lorena "Blossom" Wiltshire. Written during Woodfill's time serving in the U. S. Army, the postcards feature images of San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Laredo, and Mexico and its inhabitants. Woodfill writes of camp life, daily activities, weather, training, and conflicts on the Texas-Mexican border.
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Samuel Warren Letters to Charles Kent, 1848-1871
Consists of 37 autograph letters by English novelist Samuel Warren to his friend Charles Kent, an editor of the London Sun and the Weekly Register.
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Samuel Sibbett Family Collection, 1835-1850
Consists chiefly of correspondence by members of the Sibbett family to one another. The majority of the letters relate to Samuel Sibbett, a nineteenth-century lawyer living in Mt. Alto, Pennsylvania.
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Samuel Ladd Howell Family Collection, 1797-1838
Consists of selected eighteenth- and nineteenth-century papers of Samuel Ladd Howell and other members of the Howell family of Woodbury, Gloucester, and Princeton, New Jersey.
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Samuel Jackson Reid Letters, 1901-1919
Consists of letters written by Samuel Jackson Reid (Princeton Class of 1906) to his mother, father, brother, and sister from 1901, the year before he entered Princeton, to his death in August, 1918, on a battlefield in France.
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Samuel Gillet Navy Journals, 1827-1834
Samuel T. Gillet (1809-1890) served in the U.S. Navy in the Mediterranean, 1827-1837. This collection consists mostly of travel journals from Gillet's service in the Mediterranean, 1827-1834.
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Samuel Finley Collection, 1756-1766
Consists of selected correspondence and documents of Samuel Finley, fifth president of Princeton University.
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A. W. Bradford Collection, 1843-1932
Contains some miscellaneous papers of A. W. Bradford, governor of Maryland during the Civil War, but the collection consists primarily of speeches, correspondence, documents, and printed matter of Bradford's son, Samuel Webster Bradford (Princeton Class of 1875).
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Samuel B. Fisher Civil War Letters, 1862-1865
Consists of nine letters sent by Union Army soldier Samuel B. Fisher to his sister in Camden, New Jersey, during the Civil War.
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Samuel A. Farrand Collection, 1848-1906
Consists of selected correspondence and documents by and about Samuel Ashbel Farrand, an American educator who was headmaster of the Newark Academy from 1859 to 1865 and 1875 to 1908.
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Ralph Rylance Letters to John Freeman Milward Dovaston, 1818-1833
Consists of a group of 25 letters, 1818-1833, addressed to John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782-1854) at Salisbury and London, England, by his friend and fellow author Ralph Rylance.
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Russian Orthodox Troper, circa 1700-1799
Russian Troper with musical notation in Old Russian neumes, for the sung portion of the Mass. Contains a selection of Troparia, Theotokia, and Evangelical Stichera for the Nativity of the Virgin, the Baptism of Christ, the Exaltation of the Cross, and other celebrations.
Russian Orthodox Troper, circa 1700-1799
Russian troper with musical notation in Old Russian neumes. Contains a selection of Troparia, Theotokia, and Dogmatika for the Annunciation, Nativity, Exaltation of the Cross, Resurrection, St. Alexander Nevsky (1221-63), and other celebrations.
Russian Orthodox Quadriptych, circa 1700-1899
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Portable folding cast-brass altar in four panels, with ogee-arch crests; highlighted in blue and white enamel. Quadriptychs of this type were manufactured for Old Believer use, 18th-19th centuries. Inscriptions on rectos and outer-panels in Church Slavic. When the quadriptych is fully unfolded, the panels show the following iconographical program, with Old Church Slavic inscriptions:
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George E. Hafstad Papers, 1942-1976
George Hafstad was a plant pathologist and a field technician with the U.S. Rubber Development Corporation in Brazil from 1943 to 1945. The George E. Hafstad Papers include a diary, several technician reports, and a folder of photographs from Hafstad's time as a field technician with the U.S. Rubber Development Corporation Amazon Division.
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R. Ridgely Lytle World War I Collection, 1915-1916
Consists of World War I memorabilia, letters, photographs, and documents collected by R. Ridgely Lytle (Princeton Class of 1913) when he was a delegate in the province of Luxembourg for the Commission for Relief in Belgium and, later, a member of the American ambulance drivers in France.
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R. P. Hinks Letters to Robert Cecil, 1950-1963
Consists of approximately 200 letters and postcards (1950-1963) written by English art historian R. P. Hinks to friend and curator R. A. Cecil.
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Royalties Accounting and Receipts, 1962-1967
Accounting done by Willis Kingsley Wing of the literary agency, Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc.
Letters of Thanks, 1960-1961
Regarding the receipt of complimentary copies of Exodus Revisited, from various friends, writers, and leaders in Israel, Greece, and the United States. Includes several letters in Greek.
Exodus Revisited Exhibition Press Clippings, 1960-1962
Includes newspapers clippings, mainly in English with some in Greek and French, regarding the traveling exhibition for Exodus Revisited, along with several photographs and one negative of the exhibition at UCLA, reviews, invitations, photograph captions, and a list of persons invited to an opening.
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Maurice Hewlett Letters to Sir Henry Newbolt, 1903-1928
Consists of letters by English poet Maurice Hewlett to his fellow poet Sir Henry Newbolt, spanning the years 1903 or 1904 to 1921, though many letters are undated.
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Royal Danish Ballet Photographs, 1960
Consists of approximately 90 photographs of Royal Danish Ballet performances available from dance publicist Isadora Bennett, together with her detailed notes and numeration for each picture.
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Rowe Family Photographs, 1890-1950
Consists of over one hundred photographs documenting the Rowe family in Spokane and Edgecomb, Washington, and Lawrence County, Missouri. Photographs depict sawmills, steam engine threshers, store interiors, Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders," and snapshots of the Rowe family who operated engines and owned farms in Washington state, Missouri, and Kansas.
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Rose Cecil O'Neill letters to Mr. and Mrs. William Curtis Gibson, 1912-1927
Consists of letters by Rose Cecil O'Neill, the American children's book author and illustrator, and inventor of the Kewpie doll, to her friends William Curtis and Fannie Gibson.
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Luiz Forjaz Trigueiros Correspondence, 1935-1995
Consists of approximately 100 letters and postcards addressed to Trigueiros from seven correspondents: Jorge Amado (1967-1995), António S. Celestino (1973), Manuel Ferriera (1959-1966), Jesué Pinharanda Gomes (1960-1995), António Guedes de Amorim (1947-1971), Afonso Lopes Vieira (1935-1944), and José Rodrigues Júnior (1958-1987).
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Rodi (dintorni) - Terme di Calitea: Pergolato, circa 1950
Consists of (1) photo card (6 x 9 cm.) of the island of Rhodes (Greece) by Fratelli Alinari. Image depicts the surroundings of the Kallithea Springs. Printed number "57297", title and photographer's information "F.lli Alinari - Firenze, on the reverse.
Rhodes, Lindos and Villages of the Island; Rhodes, Fileremo and Calitea, circa 1950
Consists of two sets of (22) loose photo cards each of the island of Rhodes (Greece). Photo cards are kept in paper enclosures with printed titles on the cover both in Greek-English and Greek-Italian. All photographs bear a number, printed titles and the photographer's information "F[rate]lli Alinari - Firenze", on the reverse. There are seven photographs out of the twenty-two in the set of "Rhodes-Lindos and villages of the island" that they bear a stamp of two other firms: "Phōto Mangafa," and "Phōto Radion." One of the those photographs bears a handwritten dedication on the reverse dated December 12, 1950. A few of them are captioned in Greek and English on the recto below the image. All images measure approximately 6 x 9 cm.
Princeton University Library Collection of Fratelli Alinari Photographs, circa 1950
Fratelli Alinari was an Italian firm founded in Florence in 1852 by the three Alinari brothers, Romualdo, Leopoldo, and Giuseppe. Fratelli Alinari became one of the largest and most prolific European photography firms of the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1880 the firm employed over 100 people. Alinari specialized in views of Italy and the reproduction of works of art. [http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/guides_bibliographies/photography_greece/photographers.html] Consists of an open collection of photographs by Fratelli Alinari depicting several sites in Greece.
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Robillard Family Genealogical Table, 1792-1813
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Estillac Plantation Records, 1665-1813 (mostly 1752-1783)
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Consists of over sixty letters and related documents concerning the Estillac sugar plantation in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now the Republic of Haiti) from the late 1750s through the early 1780s. Many of the letters are addressed to A. Mabille, a Paris-based hatter, trustee, and creditor, and pertain to the operations and troubled finances of the plantation under the management of Guillaume Claude Besson and Jean Guillaume Robillard.
Correspondence and Documents, undated
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Roberts Lumber Company Photographs, circa 1900
Consists of a group of 36 photographs documenting the Roberts Lumber Company, which was founded around 1900 outside the Sierra County town of Loyalton, California.
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Robert Sewall Browne Letters on Prospecting, 1896-1904
Consists of letters from Robert Sewall Browne (1866-1904) to his wife Alice E. Gray Browne in Maine, detailing his overland travels and work as a prospector, miner, and rancher in Colorado, Wyoming, and the Yukon Territory from 1896 to 1901.
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Robert McKnight Collection, 1841-1876
Consists chiefly of correspondence to and miscellaneous essays and notes written by Robert McKnight, a member of the Princeton Class of 1839 and, later, a Pennsylvania congressman.
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Robert L. Patten Papers, 1961-1996 (mostly 1961-1962)
A scholar of nineteenth-century British literature, Robert L. Patten earned an M.A. in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1965 in the the Department of English at Princeton University. These papers are the files he kept on coursework in the English Department, together with his correspondence with Professor E.D.H. (Dudley) Johnson.
Department of English Graduate Coursework, 1961-1965
The coursework folders contain syllabi, examinations, reading lists, and handouts, as well as Robert L. Patten's course notes and typed papers. One folder contains Patten's comprehensive examinations; another contains questions for qualifying exams. The box also contains folders of material from the following courses: a Spenser seminar with Rosemond Tuve; 18th Century Literature with Louis Landa; Introduction to Graduate Methods with James Thorpe; Old English with Jack Campbell; a seminar on 19th-century drama with Alan Downer; Victorian Poetry and the Victorian Novel with E.D.H. Johnson; a seminar with D.W. Robertson; and a course on Renaissance drama with Gerald Eades Bentley. Other topics include: John Dryden; devotional poets; John Webster; Chaucer; medieval bibliographies; Renaissance criticism, historiography, pastoral, and prose; and Samuel Richardson. A photocopy of the cover letter from Patten describing the material is included in the box.
Correspondence with E.D.H. (Dudley) Johnson, 1963-1996
The majority of the correpondence was written by E. D. H. (Dudley) Johnson to Robert L. Patten as Patten completed independent work for his Ph.D. and saught positions in academia, first at Bryn Mawr and later at Rice University. Some letters from Patten to Johnson are interspersed. Sticky notes denote topics Patten identified in the letters as he worked on a eulogy for Johnson in 1996. Topics include work, reading, art collecting, and family.
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Robert J. Sommers 1928 Alaska Tour Album and Related Materials, 1921-1972 (mostly 1928)
Consists of a photograph album, loose photographs, and clippings belonging to Robert J. Sommers (1881-1972), primarily documenting his work as a highway engineer in Alaska in the late 1920s, as well as some materials related to his personal life and career as a civil engineer and businessman involved in construction. Of note is a photograph album documenting a tour of Alaska made in 1928 by Sommers with Governor George A. Parks and Major Malcolm Elliott.
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Robert H. Davis Collection, 1907-1929
Consists primarily of correspondence of American writer and editor Robert H. Davis with his friend, lawyer Thomas Baskerville, who was amassing a collection of autographs of famous individuals.