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Charles Coulston Gillispie Collection, 1779-1990 (mostly 1782-1826)
Consists of the working papers used by Charles Coulston Gillispie while researching his book The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784 (1983).
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Ernest Cushing Richardson Collection of Papal Seals, 1484-1903
This collection consists of twelve lead papal seals, ranging in dates from the 15th century to the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Gilbert Chinard Collection of French Historical Material, 1494-1905 (mostly 1761-1885)
Contains historical and literary manuscripts collected by Gilbert Chinard (1881-1972), a Franco-American scholar who was associated with the Institut Français de Washington from 1928 and was Pyne Professor of French at Princeton University, 1937-50. His published work was on French literature and the history of Franco-American relations.
Archbishops of Sens, Letters and documents, 1659-1821
Includes items of Louis-Henry de Gondrin (1620-74) and Hardouin Fortin de la Hoguette, (1643-1715)
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Lee Family Collection, 1780-1886
Consists of selected letters and documents by and about members of the Lee family of Virginia. The Lee family is a historically significant Virginia political family, whose many prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics and the military. They are descended from the Lees of Shropshire, England, and became prominent in colonial America when Colonel Richard Lee emigrated to Virginia and made his fortune in tobacco. Members of the family represented in this collection include Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797) and Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), both signers of the Declaration of Independence, Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee (1756-1818), and, most famously, Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), commander of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War.
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Princeton University Library Collection of John Ruskin Materials, 1840s-1933
Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and miscellanea of the nineteenth-century English art critic, social reformer, and educator John Ruskin.
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Anne Squire Correspondence, 1889-1920 (mostly 1900-1920)
Consists of primarily of letters to Anne Squire from literary figures and friends.
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Alfred Noyes Collection, 1903-1936
Consists of letters, photographs, and manuscripts of Alfred Noyes.
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Miscellaneous European Documents Collection, 1500-1900
Consists of miscellaneous documents and manuscripts from European and North African countries about politlcal, religious, or colonial matters between the 16th and 19th century. The countries include England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Ireland, and Poland.
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Series 5: Experiments, 1500-1999
Consists of data, notes, graphs, photographs, and inventories related to the experiments of Walker Bleakney.
Series 9: Unprocessed Additions (cartons), 1920-1969
Consists of unprocessed correspondence, receipts, reports, dissertations, travel documents, notebooks, lecture notes, and other miscellaneous materials.
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General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection, 1502-2012
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Consists of a closed collection of miscellaneous single-item acquisitions that span multiple collecting areas, topics, genres, and time periods. Many materials relate to United States literary, historical, and political figures, including business and personal letters, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and official documents due to the type of materials that were initially added to the collection.
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Stuttgart, with a photostat of the settlement dated 1515, wax seal, 1510
Concerns the question of a watercourse through a courtyard, Hans Amstetter is the petitioner, Hans Buttenfeld the respondent.
Albert T. Reyburn Collection of German Legal Documents, 1510-1719
The Albert T. Reyburn Collection of German Legal Documents consists of nine 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century German legal documents collected by Albert T. Reyburn (Princeton Class of 1931). All the documents are in German, some with wax seals in wood cases attached, and with notes in English made by Reyburn.
Stuttgart, with a photostat of the settlement dated 1540, wax seal, 1540
Concerns the case of offal and rubbish from a drain, by the heirs of Conrad Sliegten and Martin Wiersleen vs Staffel Körg.
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Radcliffe Family Papers, 1530-1779 (mostly 1699-1757)
Consists primarily of letters and assorted documents of the Radcliffe Family of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, partly concerning trade with the Ottoman Empire. Also included are letters and legal documents pertaining to the Clarke and Evelyn families of England.
Series 3: Papers of the Clarke and Evelyn Families, 1530-1780
This series includes family estate indentures (1592-1657), several of which concern the estate of John Evelyn (1620-1706) of Deptford, Kent, including 3 separate lists of tenants on lands in Surrey and Kent. Also included are two military commissions for Charles Clarke (husband of Evelyn Draper), one signed by Queen Anne (1708) and another by George II (1754); a group of drawings by Susanna Evelyn (later Draper), John Evelyn's daughter, and by her daughter Evelyn Draper (later Clarke); a large sheaf of dispositions made in the early 1660s against Sir Purbeck Temple (d. 1694) of Surrey, accusing him of corruption as a magistrate in allowing ale houses to function as bawdy houses; and a few printed pamphlets and maps. This series is organized by family and then chronologically.
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John Wild Autograph Collection, 1548-1904 (mostly 1800-1850)
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Consists of over 2,000 autograph items of prominent English and European figures from the 16th to the mid-19th centuries compiled by the English collector John Wild.
Autographs: Cardinals, etc., 1550-1738
6 letters in Latin written to Pope Julius III in 1550-1552--the beginning of the volume has detailed notes about each letter including identification of the writers (all clergymen).