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Dora Marsden Collection, 1907-1961 (mostly 1909-1914)
C0283
4 boxes
1.60 linear feet
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Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Dora Marsden was an English author, editor, and suffragette. The collection contains correspondence about Marsden's books and periodicals, manuscripts sent to the periodicals, correspondence with other feminists, part of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and correspondence with contemporary literary figures.
Series 3, Professional Correspondence, 1907-1961
6 boxes
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Series 3, Professional Correspondence, 1907-1961, is the largest series in this collection, and contains correspondence to and from colleagues at Princeton, other educators, political leaders, and Supreme Court justices. Most of this correspondence pertains to constitutional issues facing the nation, his teaching, and his writings. Correspondents include U.S. Presidents from Woodrow Wilson through John F. Kennedy, and noted jurists Hugo Black, Benjamin Cordozo, Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan, Harlan F. Stone, and Earl Warren.
James V. Forrestal Papers, 1907-1958 (mostly 1940-1949)
MC051
208 boxes
1 folder
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Forrestal, James (1892-1949)
James V. Forrestal (1892-1949) was a Wall Street businessman who played an important role in U.S. military operations during and immediately after World War II. From 1940 to 1949 Forrestal served as, in order, assistant to President Roosevelt, Under Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Navy, and the first Secretary of Defense. The Forrestal Papers document his service from Under Secretary of the Navy to Secretary of Defense and include correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, and press releases.
Miscellaneous Letters and Notes, 1907-1958
1 folder
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Box 1, Folder 8
Includes some letters of a congratulatory nature from Arab, Turkish, and Persian publicists as well as a letter from Philip Hitti to Emile Zaydan (1958).
Series 6: Oversized Materials, 1907-1957
38 boxes
1 folder
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The Oversized Materials series includes appointment documents and award certificates, honorary degrees, index card files, memorabilia, photograph records of speeches and televisions appearances by Forrestal, photographs, printed materials, slides of military organizational charts, and scrapbooks. Most of the index card files are address cards, including a small set for Mrs. Forrestal, and also include records of condolences received, books Forrestal had from the Library of Congress, and Forrestal's testimony before Congressional committees. The photographs include images of Forrestal's visits to war areas in the Pacific and in Europe, maneuvers of ships in preparations of attacks, and during and after photographs of battles, notably the battle of Iwo Jima, portraits of Forrestal, and portraits of senior military commanders, presidents and prominent civilian government officials inscribed to Forrestal. The scrapbooks contain clippings from newspapers and some magazines, as well as copies of speeches, photographs, memoranda and telegrams, political cartoons, organizational charts, and government-published pamphlets. All of the scrapbooks are about World War II and the immediate post-war period, especially related to the reorganization of the U.S. military. Some contain information on the events in general and others focus on Forrestal's involvement in the events. The topics include the U.S. military and military strength, production and procurement, the organization of the U.S. military, world politics and world events, the American political climate and American Liberalism, and policies of the Soviet Union and numerous other countries. Also included is a scrapbook of correspondence Forrestal received from presidents Roosevelt and Truman.