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William K. Selden Collection on the History of Health Services at Princeton University, 1880-1991
AC006
3 boxes
Selden, William K. (Class of 1934)
The William K. Selden Collection on the History of Health Services at Princeton University contains research materials gathered by Selden for the publication, The Heritage of Isabella McCosh (Princeton University Press, 1991). The collections contains drafts, comments on the drafts, photographs, manuscript notes and photocopies of documents made by Selden for the book.
William K. Selden Collection on Eating Clubs, 1906-1994
AC030
2 boxes
Selden, William K. (Class of 1934)
The William K. Selden Collection on Eating Clubs contains research materials collected by Selden for the publication, Club Life at Princeton; An Historical Account of the Upper-Class Eating Clubs at Princeton University. Selden donated the material to the Archives in 1994.
Prentice, William Kelly (1871-1964)
Consists of works, correspondence, and documents of William Kelly Prentice, a Greek scholar and authority on classical inscriptions, as well as selected papers of his father and various other family members.
William Jovanovich Papers, 1815-2006 (mostly 1950-1996)
C1505
61 boxes
32.8 linear feet
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Jovanovich, William.
William Jovanovich (1920-2001) was an American publisher, author, and businessman, who led the publishing firm Harcourt Brace Jovanovich from 1954 to 1991, as president and later as chief executive officer. The collection consists of Jovanovich's author and publisher files, including an extensive file on Charles A. Lindbergh, along with correspondence, writings, personal and family papers, memorabilia, and other files documenting his career as a major American publisher in the 20th century, his creative pursuits in fiction and nonfiction, and his interest in Yugoslav literature and textbook publishing.
William H. Tower Philatelic Collection, 1380-1950 (mostly 1700-1949)
C0911
20 boxes
15.4 linear feet
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Consists of envelopes both used and unused (also known as covers), letters, postcards, documents, postage stamps, and a variety of other philatelic material from around the world as collected and annotated by the Reverend William Hogarth Tower (1871-1950). The collection spans the topics of English Postal History, United States Postal History, War Covers, Philatelic Miscellany, and Franking.
Gibrán, Kahlil (1883-1931)
Consists of manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera by and about the Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist Kahlil Gibran, who, by fusing elements of Eastern and Western mysticism, achieved lasting fame with such poetic works as The Prophet (1923) and Jesus, the Son of Man (1928). This material was collected by William H. Shehadi.
William F. Shellman Papers, 1930s-1980s
C0906
20 boxes
Shellman, William F. (William Feay) (1916-1987)
William F. Shellman was a member of the Dept. of Architecture faculty at Princeton University faculty forty years (1946-1986). He taught introductory courses in architecture and the visual arts and courses designed to heighten architectural students' visual sensitivity. His collection consists of his papers, primarily lectures and notes for his classes, but including matted illustrations and photographs of sample forms of architecture, cassette tapes of lectures, slides, architectural drawings, and watercolors.
William Fitts Ryan Papers, 1947-1972
MC165
479 boxes
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Ryan, William Fitts (1922-1972)
The papers consist primarily of records maintained in William Fitts Ryan's congressional office in Washington, D.C. his district office in New York City, and campaign materials.
William F. Gekle Collection of Arthur Machen, 1936-1965
C0649
1 box
0.4 linear feet
Gekle, William F. (William Francis)
Consists of correspondence and miscellaneous material relating to the Welsh translator, novelist, and storywriter Arthur Machen (1863-1947) that was collected by the American businessman and author William Francis Gekle.
William Faulkner Collection, 1932-1961
C0211
3 boxes
1.2 linear feet
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Consists of manuscripts and letters of American novelist and Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner and related materials, including manuscripts of Maurice Coindreau's translation into French of four Faulkner novels.
William E. Colby Papers, 1935-1996 (mostly 1975-1995)
MC113
18 boxes
1 folder
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Colby, William Egan (1920-1996)
William E. Colby, Princeton University Class of 1940, was a career agent in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Director of Central Intelligence from 1973-1976. However, the bulk of the collection documents his post-CIA career and contains correspondence, speeches, writings, newspaper clippings, and subject files that reflect Colby's professional and private interests.
William Dodge Horne collection of Ernest Hemingway, 1928-2012
C1435
1 box
0.2 linear feet
Horne, William Dodge
William Horne and Ernest Hemingway were lifelong friends. Horne met Hemingway while a volunteer ambulance driver for the American Red Cross during World War I. They were stationed in Schio, Italy, and drove together on the same ambulance. After Hemingway's failed engagement to Agnes von Kurowsky, they shared an apartment in Chicago during the fall of 1920. When Hemingway married Hadley Richardson in September 1921, Horne was in the wedding party. When the writer died in 1961, Horne was an honorary pallbearer. Contains eight Horne-Hemingway items: a copy of a photograph of Frances Horne [Bunny] and Hemingway in Wyoming in 1928; an autograph signed letter by Ernest Hemingway (with postcript by wife Pauline) to "Dearest Bunny and Horney" [Frances and William Horne], dated 9 September [1929], 2 pp., with envelope; an autograph signed letter by Hemingway to "Dear 'Orny" [Horne], dated 1 June [1930], 2 pp., with 5 pp. of fishing gear advertisements with holograph annotations, with envelope; a typed letter (copy) (dictated to Pauline by Hemingway) to "Dear Horny," dated 23 November [1930], on hospital X-ray form; a typed letter (copy) (dictated to Pauline by Hemingway) to "Dear Horney," dated 26 December [1930], 1 p.; autograph signed letter by Hemingway to "Dear Horney" [William Horne], dated 25 March [1931], 1 p., with envelope; a color copy of a telegram sent by Mary and Ernest Hemingway to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dodge Horne on the occasion of their wedding, 17 September 1955; and a compact disc recording of "Memories of Ernest Hemingway by William Dodge Horne, Jr., whose grandson, William C. Horne, taped the conversation during an English class at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, IL on May 8, 1975"; 1 p.; Also included are a copy of Horne's first person article "The Hemingway I Remember," "as told to Virginia Kleitz Moseley," that appeared in November 5, 1979, issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and a short piece (2012) about Horne's gift of a Hemingway trunk to the Hemingway Museum in Oak Park, Illinois.
William Diebold Papers on the War and Peace Studies Group, 1929-1999
5 boxes
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The series is composed of materials created and gathered by William Diebold in the process of writing his unfinished book on the War and Peace Studies group. The series includes three boxes of publications: two boxes containing records of meetings and reports from groups within the War and Peace Studies project and one box of Irish publications. There are also two boxes containing Diebold's typed and handwritten notes, correspondence, chapter drafts, and other research materials.
William C. Seitz Notebooks, 1949-1950
C1514
2 boxes
0.8 linear feet
Seitz, William Chapin
William Chapin Seitz (1914-1974) was an art historian, painter, and museum curator who received the first PhD in modern art from Princeton University in 1955. The collection consists of ten notebooks Seitz kept for his early courses on ancient art and architecture in Princeton University's Department of Art and Archaeology in 1949 and 1950.
William Courtenay Papers, 1850-1965 (mostly 1870-1897)
C1645
1 box
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Courtenay, William (1832-1901)
The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and other papers of William Courtenay (1832-1901), an English settler, veteran of the American Civil War, and frontier businessman who held positions in the United States Department of the Interior as postmaster, clerk, and Indian Agent at Fort Berthold, Dakota Territory, from 1874 to 1882. These materials document conditions at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and are of particular interest for their documentation of frontier transactions, corruption and mismanagement within the reservation system, and the relationships between the people of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara), the Sioux people, and white settlers.
William Charles Smith Correspondence, 1935-1971
C1203
1 box
0.4 linear feet
Smith, William Charles
Consists chiefly of correspondence of British musicologist William Charles Smith related to music and to George Frederic Handel.
William Cattell Trimble Papers, 1931-1976 (mostly 1954-1968)
MC027
18 boxes
Trimble, William
William C. Trimble, Princeton University Class of 1930, was a career diplomat, serving as United States ambassador to Cambodia (1959-1962) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1965-1968) as well as serving in Brazil and Germany. The collection contains correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, photographs, and assorted memorabilia documenting Trimble's career.
William Byler Papers, 1715-2000 (mostly 1975-1995)
MC201
23 boxes
Byler, William
William Byler was Executive Director of the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA) from 1962 to 1980. After leaving AAIA, Byler continued advocating for the Native American community, first at Gerard, Byler and Associates and later at William Byler Associates. Byler's papers document his work on behalf of the Native American community after leaving AAIA. The papers include legal memoranda, draft and final agreements between Native American communities and companies or government agencies, and court documents, as well as topical files of related legislation and reports on the issues.
William Beebe Papers, 1830-1961 (mostly 1920-1959)
C0661
22 boxes
9.2 linear feet
Beebe, William
Consists of papers of American naturalist William Beebe, primarily relating to his association with the New York Zoological Society (NYZS).
William Alfred Eddy Papers, 1859-1978
MC041
24 boxes
1 folder
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Eddy, William A. (William Alfred) (1896-1962)
The papers of William A. Eddy (1896-1962), educator, diplomat, minister to Saudi Arabia, intelligence agent, and college president, focus on his presidency of Hobart College (1936-1941), his work in U.S. - Middle East policy, and his family life in the period from 1917-1962. The holdings of his personal and family correspondence is extensive. The collection contains all correspondence from his term as president of Hobart College, 1936-1941. Many military documents are included, especially in the years 1941-1946 (the planning of the North African landings, the FDR/Ibn Saud meeting, the Treaty of the Yemen). There are many geneological papers and letters from Eddy's relatives concerning American missionary work in the Middle East. There are numerous publications concerning 18th C. English literature, religious and civic duties, U.S. Foreign policy re Israel and the Arabs, and sociological accounts of the Middle East. The collection is composed of personal/professional correspondence, documents, diaries and notebooks, addresses, publications, manuscripts of Eddy's books and articles (including unpublished MSs), scrapbooks, photographs, negatives, and memorabilia.
William A. Fleet Papers, 1894-1983 (mostly 1916-1918)
C0775
1 box
0.4 linear feet
Fleet, William A. (William Alexander) (1883-1918)
Consists of selected papers of William Fleet, the first American Rhodes Scholar.
Willard Thorp and Margaret Farrand Thorp Papers, 1886-1981 (mostly 1930-1970)
C0292
33 boxes
14.1 linear feet
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Thorp, Margaret Farrand (1891-1970)
Consists of material which reflects the long careers of American educators, authors, and literary critics Willard and Margaret Thorp. Willard's papers (1923-1981) include correspondence, writings, class lecture notes, documents, journals and diaries, printed matter, photographs, and papers of others during his writing and teaching years at Princeton University. Margaret's papers (1917-1960) include writings, correspondence, journals, notebooks, and family sketchbooks and photographs.
Willard and Margaret Thorp Correspondence, 1933-1957
2 boxes
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Contains letters between Emily Hale, Princeton professor Willard Thorp, and his wife Margaret, who were also friends of Eliot's.
Box 117
Department: Aeronautical Engineering; contains photo; date reflects year of degree or last year of enrollment.
Wilkinson Collection of Mary Mapes Dodge, 1703-1955 (mostly 1869-1900)
C0114
8 boxes
2.70 linear feet
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Dodge, Mary Mapes (1830-1905)
Mary Mapes Dodge was an author and editor of St. Nicholas magazine. This collection consists of manuscripts and correspondence concerning St. Nicholas, and correspondence, documents, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the Dodge family.
Box 14, Folder 45
Several letters from Wilder and his wife, handwritten, typed, and typed copies, including letters to Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Davis, M. Cheruy, Miss Lipsey and Mr. Tanenbaum.
Box 117
Department: Biology; no photo; date reflects year of degree or last year of enrollment.
Box 117
Department: Architecture; no photo; date reflects year of degree or last year of enrollment.
Box 117
Department: Physics; no photo; date reflects year of degree or last year of enrollment.