Charles W. Yost (1907-1981) led a varied career as a diplomat, United Nations representative, writer, and scholar. He was a member of the foreign service intermittently between 1930 and 1971, after which time he devoted himself full-time to writing and teaching. Yost's papers document his professional life in the Foreign Service, as well as his time in academia, and include his correspondence, writings, and photographs.

Consists of a manuscript diary spanning forty-five years in the life of Helen "Nellie" Caroline Wordin (1842- ), an educated, single white woman living in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the 19th century who attended school in Petersburg, Virginia, during the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Consists of a bible given by John Paxton (1784-1868) and John Paton of the Norfolk Bible Society of Virginia to the Wills family in Amelia, Virginia, in the early 19th century. The Wills family were enslavers, and they used the beginning and end of the bible to extensively document the births of white family members as well as the Black people they enslaved. It is also possible that some of those described in the bible were the children of John Wills and women whom he enslaved.

Consists of two three-page letters from James A. Whipple (1808-1864) to his brother Charles K. Whipple (1808-1900), both of whom were involved in the radical abolitionist movement during the American Civil War. Writing from Hopedale and Worcester, Massachusetts, James Whipple describes his travels to Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, during 1861 and 1862. In his first letter, he mentions seeing thousands of troops lined up for review; attending sessions of Congress to hear John P. Hale, Lyman Trumbull, Hiram Wilson, Charles Sumner, Owen Lovejoy, Robert Wickliffe, Andrew Johnson, and other political figures speak about slavery; visiting government buildings in Washington D.C.; and meeting President Abraham Lincoln. In writing about his discussions with enslavers and enslaved people in Maryland, he reflects on the ignorance of white enslavers and describes enslaved African Americans as "the best part of society." The second letter discusses the political situation in the United States and mentions George B. Cheever, Gerrit Smith, Horace Greeley, and Wendell Phillips.

Consists of selected papers of George Woodruff (Princeton Class of 1785), a lawyer, and various members of his family of Trenton, N.J.

Receipt to General Anthony Wayne for Wayne's son in Princeton, signed by Woodruff; typescript of unpublished Woodruff notes, and Woodrufffamily tree

Consists of a letter album of Frank L. Wood, an American lawyer.

Consists of almost 200 eighteenth-century documents, mostly deeds to land, relating to several towns in Essex County, New Jersey, particularly Westfield, collected by Samuel Ross Winans (Princeton Class of 1874).

Consists of correspondence, diaries, memorabilia, and printed matter of Samuel J. Wilson, a ninteenth-century clergyman and teacher at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa.

An open collection of examples of British sigillography (matrices, royal charters with seals, seal impressions, and related material), collected by Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1986.

Great Seal on Royal Patent. For John Cooke, of Willington, 1852. County of Durham; accompanied by a certification, 1862. Housed in a 19th-century leather-covered Box with the gold-stamped inscription "E.P.H. Vaughan, Patent Agent, 54 Chancery Lane, London, W.C."

Consists of an open collection of Ethiopic magic scrolls, chiefly dating from the 18th to 20th centuries, collected by Bruce C. Willise (Princeton Class of 1986).

[Incipit now totally illegible.]

Consists of approximately 50 original autographs, including signatures of Washington Irving, Henry van Dyke, and Charles Guiteau (assassin of President James Garfield), and a letter written by Wendell Willkie.

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.

Dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In some cases, descriptions were creator-supplied or generated from transcriptions of captions on the photographs. In other cases, in which photographs lacked any identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. These items are identified in the description with the note, "Cataloger supplied title." However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.

Dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In some cases, descriptions were creator-supplied or generated from transcriptions of captions on the photographs. In other cases, in which photographs lacked any identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. These items are identified in the description with the note, "Cataloger supplied title." However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.

Dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In some cases, descriptions were creator-supplied or generated from transcriptions of captions on the photographs. In other cases, in which photographs lacked any identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. These items are identified in the description with the note, "Cataloger supplied title." However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.

Dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.

Dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.

Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian missionary in the Western United States in the 19th century. This collection consists of three portfolios with 576 photographic prints and 5 photomechanical photogravures of Native Americans and related subjects compiled by Jackson, possibly from negatives in the collections of the Bureau of American Ethnology and by ordering prints from various photographic trade catalogs.

Dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.

Dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.

Dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.

The papers of Violetta Susan Elizabeth White Delafield, consist of her writings, correspondence, documents, photographs, memorabilia, and miscellaneous material. Her writings and notes deal with her research in mycology and horticulture, and much of the correspondence reflects these topics. In addition, there is correspondence with family members such as her sister and brother, Lucy A. White Morris and Alain C. White. The documents contain papers of the White family as well as correspondence bearing on their estate. Material regarding the annual meetings of the Garden Club of America makes up the bulk of the miscellaneous material series.

The papers of Prosper Montgomery Wetmore, grandfather of Violetta White Delafield, consist of twelve bound volumes (1818-1874) of correspondence, as well as loose material including letters by Wetmore, genealogical papers, miscellaneous material, and printed matter. The bound volumes contain correspondence between Wetmore and his family, business, policial, civic, and Eleventh Regiment New York State Militia colleagues, also some of his poems and essays, documents, maps, miscellaneous material, and printed matter. Some of the correspondents included in the bound volumes are Townsend Harris, William H. Seward, Benson J. Lossing, William Cullen Bryant, and Martin Van Buren.

The papers of James Ross, U.S. senator and great-great-grandfather of John Ross Delafield, consist of correspondence, documents, estate papers, genealogical papers, miscellaneous material, visual material, printed matter, and papers of others. The correspondence contains legal and business letters, including letters by George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. Found among the documents and estate papers are deeds, insurance policies, wills, estate vouchers, and a survey book of the Ross proerty, as well as correspondence among Hopewell Hepburn, Hugh Brady Wilkins, and William Addison, the executors of the estate. The genealogical papers contain letters to Maturin L. Delafield and his sons, Joseph L. Delafield and John Ross Delafield, memoirs of James Ross by James Brownson and James Veech, biographical notes, and genealogies. There is miscellaneous material concerning the development of Tarantum, Pa., and Steubenville, Ohio, as well as some financial papers such as canceled checks, receipts, and account books (1801-1844). The visual material contains a photograph of a Thomas Sully portrait of Ross and architectural drawings of his summer home. The papers of others are those of James Ross, Jr., and include correspondence, documents, and miscellaneous financial papers.

The collection contains manuscripts related to four generations of the Blanco White family, spanning two centuries: including works, diaries, correspondence, documents, accounts and expense records, and printed material. Joseph Blanco White, the Spanish-English writer and religious figure, remains the focus of the collection; however, his brother Fernando, a politician and intellectual of 19th-century Seville, also accounts for a substantial part of the material. Of particular interest are autograph manuscripts of several of Joseph's literary efforts, as well as other genealogical material relating to the Blanco White family.

Consists of the correspondence of Guillermo Blanco y Nangle with individuals such as José L. Anguiano and Francisco de Solera, as well as others.

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.

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.

Consists of selected correspondence and several manuscripts of Princeton student William Stewart Cross Webster.

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.

Consists of selected papers of American Presbyterian clergyman and missionary W. Sott Watson.