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).

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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.