- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
- Title:
- Student Correspondence and Writings Collection
- Repository:
- Princeton University Archives
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xw42n793q
- Dates:
- 1768-2020
- Size:
- 19 boxes and 4 digital files
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Boxes 1-18; S-000215
- Language:
- English
Abstract
The Student Correspondence and Writings Collection contains original materials from the university archives that document aspects of student life as experienced by students at Princeton University.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The Student Correspondence and Writings Collection contains original materials from the university archives that document aspects of student life as experienced by students at Princeton University. Materials included in this collection either date from the period that the student attended Princeton or the content of the correspondence and writings directly relates to the student's time at the university.
Notes within the contents list provide further details on the contents of individual folders.
- General
Many of the items which comprise the Student Correspondence and Writings Collection have been cataloged individually, and are searchable through the Princeton University Library's online catalog . The information presented in the folder list of this finding aid duplicates that found in the online catalog records.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
The documents which comprise the Student Correspondence and Writings Collection have been collected by the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library over a span of several years, primarily beginning in the 1990s. Whenever possible, accession numbers have been included with folder descriptions. In 2009, many items which were formerly a part of the General Manuscripts Collection were moved to the Student Correspondence and Writings Collection.
- Accruals
Additional student correspondence and writings will be added to the collection as accrued by the University Archives.
- Appraisal
Appraisal information was not recorded at time of processing.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Mudd Library Staff. Finding aid written by Daniel Brennan in March 2009. Description of AR.2014.070 created by Ada Rauch '17. Finding aid updated by Annalise Berdini in December 2020. Finding aid updated by Phoebe Nobles in 2022.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. The Trustees of Princeton University hold copyright to all materials generated by Princeton University employees in the course of their work. If copyright is held by Princeton University, researchers will not need to obtain permission, complete any forms, or receive a letter to move forward with non-commercial use of materials from the Mudd Library. For materials where the copyright is not held by the University, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. If you have a question about who owns the copyright for an item, you may request clarification by contacting us through the Ask Us! form.
- Credit this material:
Student Correspondence and Writings Collection; Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xw42n793q
- Location:
-
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibrarySeeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Boxes 1-18; S-000215
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- Subject Terms:
- Education, Higher--New Jersey
- Genre Terms:
- Born digital.
Correspondence. - Names:
- Princeton University
