Weidenfeld & Nicolson Records, 1917-2012 (mostly 1960-2005)
Consists of the publishing and administrative records of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a British publishing company founded by George Weidenfeld (1919-2016) and Nigel Nicolson (1917-2004), which specialized in literary fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis on history, biographies and memoirs, books by world leaders and political figures, glossy illustrated books, travel guides, and reference books. The collection documents the operations of the firm from its establishment in 1948 through its sale in 1991, and also includes some later records from as recent as 2012 related to its continued operation as an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group.
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Warner Bros. Screenplays, 1928-1969
The Warner Bros. Screenplays consists of a large collection of scripts for films produced by the Warner Bros. studio.
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Arthur C. Warner Papers, 1819-2003 (mostly 1946-2003)
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Arthur Cyrus Warner (1918-2007) was an activist in the gay liberation movement, focusing his efforts on legal reform to protect the civil liberties of the gay community. Warner's papers document his involvement in legal reform and other issues pertaining to gay rights. The papers largely consist of legislative and court documents about cases affecting gay civil liberties, and related memoranda, correspondence, and writings.
Harvard University Course Materials, 1947-1950
Early Years and Education, 1855-1960
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Elementary Plates in Mechanical Drawing and Miscellaneous Letters, 1895-1896, 1923, 1947
Student Academic Work Collection, 1862-2009
This collection consists of essays, notes on readings, laboratory notebooks, drawings and similar academic work products created by Princeton students.
Series 1: Student Academic Work Collection, 1862-1985
Series 1: Student Academic Work Collection, 1862-1985 consists of essays, notes on readings, laboratory notebooks, drawings and similar academic work products created by Princeton students.
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Galbraith Ward and Marquand Ward Letters to Margaret Heyerdahl, circa 1890s-1952 (mostly 1905-1918)
Galbraith Ward, Class of 1915, and Marquand Ward, Class of 1917, were both Princeton graduates who served and died in World War I. This collection consists of many letters and postcards they wrote to their childhood nurse, Margaret Heyerdahl, plus a photograph album compiled after their deaths.
Post-war clippings, correspondence and photographs, 1919-1952
The Wards used racial slurs to describe people in a few of their letters.
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Fredric Warburg Publishing Files, 1945-1974
Consists of a small archive of files from English publisher and author Fredric Warburg (of Secker & Warburg).
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Everett S. Wallis Papers, 1935-1964
This collection consists of correspondence, reports, articles, lectures, notes, and printed matter of American chemist, Everett Stanley Wallis, dating primarily from his tenure as Princeton professor of chemistry (1930-1965) and chairman of its biochemical sciences program, and as a research consultant for Merck & Co. of New Jersey and for other pharmaceutical companies.
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Reports, 1947-1998
Consists of technical reports created by the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton University from 1947 to 1998.
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Alexander D. Wainwright Collection of Thomas Wolfe, 1924-1989
Alexander D. Wainwright (Princeton Class of 1939) was an avid bookman and collector. He had a lengthy career at the Princeton University Library, serving as assistant university librarian for collection development and as curator of the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists. His collection consists of of manuscripts, correspondence, drawings, and related material by and about Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, playwright, and storywriter.
Subseries 1A: Writings, 1936 March 14-1968
Consists of manuscripts of works by Thomas Wolfe, including "April, Late April" (original title "Noon in April"), "A Field in Flanders," and "Writing and Living," as well as others.
Subseries 1B: Correspondence, 1930 February 8-1967 December 21
Consists of several letters written by Thomas Wolfe.
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François Wahl Collection on Severo Sarduy, circa 1939-2013
The collection contains edited typescripts and copies of Cuban writer Severo Sarduy's poems, essays, and translations, along with writings about Sarduy, interviews, notes, clippings, photographs, and other printed materials. Correspondence includes a group of postcards sent to Severo Sarduy and his partner François Wahl in the 1960s and 1970s from various European and Latin American writers and philosophers, including Roland Barthes, Alain Badiou, Reinaldo Arenas, Octavio Paz, and Jacques Lacan, and additional correspondence of French editor and structuralist François Wahl.
Subseries 4: Photographs, 1939-2003
Includes personal and professional photographs of François Wahl and Severo Sarduy. Also includes photographs of friends, pets, and Wahl's home.
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Ira Owen Wade Collection, 1914-1969
Ira Owen Wade (Princeton Class of 1924) was a professor of French in Princeton's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His collection consists of typescript of his writings on Voltaire, professional correspondence, research notes, and some student work.
Correspondence, 1930-1969
Mixed correspondence, including a letter to Wade from Albert Camus and Wade's own graduate record at Princeton.
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Mario Vitti Papers, 1947-1992
Consists of papers of Mario Vitti, an Italian author, translator, and educator specializing in modern Greek literature. Included are letters (1947-1992) from Greek, Turkish, Italian, and other poets and authors, and manuscripts of Greek authors collected by Vitti.
Panagiōtopoulos, Iōannēs Michaēl, (1901- ), 1947-1972
Venezēs, Ēlias (1904-1973), 1947-1969
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James R. Vitelli Collection on Van Wyck Brooks and Elmer Adler, 1910-1993 (mostly 1951-1985)
This collection consists of materials collected by Dr. James R. Vitelli, an English professor at Lafayette College, during his research on American literary critic Van Wyck Brooks and American book designer Elmer Adler.
Subseries 1C: Writings of Van Wyck Brooks, 1910-1961
Consists of From the Shadow of the Mountain: My Post-Meridian Years, "The Soul: An Essay Towards a Point of View," and "Writers and the Future".
Subseries 1D: Miscellaneous Materials, 1944-1985
Consists of "Van Wyck Brooks and the Creation of a Historical Fable" as well as miscellaneous printed matter.
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"The I.T.O. Conference at Geneva", 1947 October 20
No Title, 1947 September 12
"The Situation in Germany", 1947 October 27
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Jacob Viner Papers, 1909-1979 (mostly 1930-1960)
Jacob Viner (1892-1970) is considered one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century. His career was spent at the University of Chicago and Princeton University, and he also frequently served as an advisor to the United States government. His primary academic interests included international economics, international economic relations, and the history of economic thought, but his investigations ranged across many disciplines. Viner's papers document his scholarship, as well as his government service, and include correspondence, manuscripts, reports, and research materials.
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Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse Villenave's Collection on Alina d'Eldir, circa 1829 - 1950s (mostly 1829-1845)
Consists of correspondence and other materials collected by Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse Villenave relating to Alina d'Eldir, including her biography, her work with magnetism treatments, and the Ordre Asiatique de Morale Universelle.
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Archivo de Idea Vilariño, 1893-2007
La colección consiste de borradores y pruebas de la poesía de Idea Vilariño; correspondencia con sus hermanas/os Numen, Poema, Azul y Alma; fotografías personales de la familia; cuadernos de investigación; material impreso sobre Vilariño y una colección anotada de libros sobre crítica literaria y otros temas, como Shakespeare, Homero, Rubén Darío y Octavio Paz, entre otros.
Agenda "Actividad Semanal" (poemas de 1952-2003), 1941-2006
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Agenda con actividad semanal y anotaciones varias. Contiene poesías manuscritas no incluidas en su Poesía completa con fecha de 1952 a 2003. Incluye un poema fechado en 1941, 8 hojas a máquina con poemas, 2 invitaciones a eventos, un email, fotocopia de un artículo de prensa y dos recortes de hojas manuscritas.
Cuadernos y agendas, 1941-2006
Incluye cuadernos y una agenda que Vilariño utilizó para realizar anotaciones sobre diversos temas como el tango, la crítica literaria, Octavio Paz, Roland Barthes, Arthur Schopenhauer, entre otros. La mayoría de los cuadernos incluyen las transcripciones de Vilariño de su poesía con índices.
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Victor Gollancz Author Files, 1931-1997
Consists of the British publisher Victor Gollancz's author files on Miguel Ángel Asturias, Edith Sitwell, and Richard Wright.
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Markos Veremēs Papers, 1908-1970
Consists of personal papers of Markos Veremēs, a Greek engineer. Included are photograph and postcard albums of Greece, the United States, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France, England, Turkey, and Romania; lantern slides and glass-plate negatives of Alaska, correspondence (professional and personal), typed manuscripts, official documents, and printed matter.
Series 3: Correspondence, 1920-1947
This series consists of professional and personal correspondence.
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Immanuel Velikovsky Papers, 1920-1996 (mostly 1930-1979)
The collection consists of manuscripts, writings, correspondence (both personal and professional), photographs, works of others, microfilm, printed material, and film reels, spanning more than 50 years, concerning Velikovsky's controversial ideas, the books that he wrote, and the history of opposition and criticism from the academic community that he received following the publication of his first book, Worlds in Collision, in 1950. Colleges and universities threatened to boycott the textbook division of the publisher, Macmillan & Co., which led to the transfer of the publishing rights to Doubleday & Co., even though the book had reached the number one spot on the best-sellers list. The book was eventually banned from a number of academic institutions, and several people lost their jobs because of it.
Subseries 1A: Manuscripts: Published Works, 1946-1983
This subseries includes Velikovsky's published works.
Subseries 1B: Manuscripts: Unpublished Material, 1940s-1979
This subseries includes several manuscripts and drafts of manuscripts that were not published. Folders are in their original order.