John Howell Westcott Collection, 1915
Consists chiefly of manuscript material for an edition of Einhard's Vita Caroli Imperatoris (or The Life Charlemagne) by classicist John Howell Westcott..
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Princeton History of New Jersey Series collection, 1929-1960
Thomas J. Wertenbaker was a professor of history at Princeton from 1910 to 1936, serving as department chairman from 1928-1936.
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Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker Papers, 1910-1959
Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker was an American historian who taught at Princeton from 1910 to 1947. He was internationally recognized and wrote a number of important historical works. In 1947, he was president of the American Historical Association. His papers consist of Wertenbaker's works, correspondence, photographs, miscellaneous material, and printed matter.
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Max Werner papers, 1933-1955
Werner (pseudonym of Alexander Schifrin) was a Russian native who was exiled to Germany (1923-1933) and subsequently lived in France (1933-1939) and the United States (1940-1951). Consists of selected papers of Werner
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Elmer C. Werner Papers, 1937-1945 (mostly 1942-1945)
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The records of Elmer C. Werner (diaries, notes, clippings) document an impeded Internal Revenue Service investigation into contributions from Brown & Root, Inc. to Lyndon Baines Johnson's 1941 United States Senate campaign.
Diary, 1942
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Diary, 1943
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Kurt Weitzmann Papers, 1930-1991
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Kurt Weitzmann left his native Germany in 1935 for Princeton where he spent the remainder of his life, at the Institute for Advanced Study as a permanent member (1935-1972) and as a professor in Princeton University's Dept. of Art and Archaeology (1945-1972). Included are personal and professional correspondence, related files, course outlines, lectures, manuscripts and notes for various published works, scrapbooks of clippings, and printed matter.
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Theodore Weiss Publishing Correspondence, 1966-1982
Consists primarily of correspondence between American poet and editor Theodore Weiss and his editors at Macmillan Publishing, Arthur Gregor and Ray Roberts. Also included are a few clippings, advertisements, event programs concerning Theodore Weiss' work, and a printed interview with the poet.
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Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL) Records, 1943-2000
Consists primarily of the issue and correspondence files of the independent literary journal of the same name that was founded in 1943 by Warren Carrier, and co-edited and published from 1944-1999 by the husband and wife team of poet and former Princeton professor Theodore (Ted) and editor and author Renée Weiss. Also present in the collection are manuscripts of, and associated material from, eleven of Theodore Weiss's thirteen published books of poetry.
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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).
Travel-Related Materials, circa 1950-1990
Includes travel diaries and notebooks, photographs, and souvenir ephemera
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson Records, 1917-2012 (mostly 1960-2005)
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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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F. Carrington Weems Papers, 1857-1919 (mostly 1906-1913)
Consists of papers of F. Carrington Weems (Princeton Class of 1907) primarily from his student days at Princeton and several years thereafter, during which he traveled in Europe, worked for the Alaska Road Commission, and became an army colonel in World War I.
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William R. Weeks Papers, 1746-1897
The Papers of William R. Weeks, Esq., consist of three folders of material researched and correspondence written for the furtherance of a book on Princeton University's early history Weeks planned to write. The title of the book was to be, "History of the First Endowment of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University." It is highly doubtful that the book was ever written; there is no copy of it on record.
New Jersey Archives relating to the College of New Jersey, 1746-1761
--charters, commencement announcements, post appointments
Final research for the book, 1747-1758
Compiled in 1901: board of trustees meeting notes, reprinted editions of The First History of the College and The Diary of Rev. Samuel Davies, excerpts from records of the Presbyterian church, papers belonging to Jonathan Belcher and Nathan Fitzrandolph. 14 pages were removed for photocopying.
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William S. C. Webster Collection, 1862-1887
Consists of selected correspondence and several manuscripts of Princeton student William Stewart Cross Webster.
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Orlando F. Weber Collection, 1791-1903 (mostly 1820-1832)
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Consists of mostly nineteenth-century material collected by Orlando F. Weber, a prominent industrialist with an interest in the history of corporate practices and economics.
Letters, 1850-1903
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Letters from John Taylor to Robert S. Garnett, 1824 January
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John Watts Letters to Thomas Champion, 1813-1819 (mostly 1814)
Consists of forty-eight letters by former chaplain John Watts to his friend Thomas Champion, a merchant at Mssrs. Rhodes &Champion in Sheffield.
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Selected Papers of W. Scott Watson, 1822-1924 (mostly 1896-1904)
Consists of selected papers of American Presbyterian clergyman and missionary W. Sott Watson.
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Clara Erskine Clement Waters Papers, 1869-1932
Consists primarily of manuscripts of Clara Erskine Clement Waters, an American art historian and world traveler.
"St. Christopher", circa 1871
AMs, pp. 1-10. Published, see pp. 74-77 in Waters' "A Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art" (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871)
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Princeton University Library Collection of George Washington Materials, 1750-1799
Consists of photostats of over 100 George Washington letters in the private collection of Edward Ambler Armstrong, as well as 14 original Washington letters and documents, and several supplementary items.
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Guy Warszawski Correspondence, Postcards, and Ephemera Related to the Collège de 'Pataphysique, 1950-2019 (mostly 1970-2019)
This collection comprises correspondence, postcards, and ephemera related to the Collège de 'Pataphysique, collected by Guy Warzawski, a Polish-Belgian professor. The Collège de 'Pataphysique was founded in Paris in 1948 and is dedicated to the furtherment of pataphysics, a parodistic "science of imaginary solutions" invented by French symbolist writer Alfred Jarry.