- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Collector:
- Caldwell, Robert Granville, b. 1882.
- Title:
- Robert Granville Caldwell Autograph Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/00000003z
- Dates:
- 1823-1902
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.25 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
The Robert Granville Caldwell Autograph Collection consists of correspondence and memorabilia of Caldwell, an American professor and public official.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of letters by several prominent 19th-century Americans collected by Caldwell, including seven signed, autograph letters (1823-1830) by Henry Clay, six signed, autograph letters (1850-1871) by Horace Greeley, and six signed, autograph letters (1844-1861) by Sam Houston. Autograph letters by P. T. Barnum, Millard Fillmore, James Garfield, Belva Lockwood (1st woman candidate to run for president), Cotton Mather, Winfield Scott, and William Sherman--among others--are also included.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Caldwell, Robert Granville, b. 1882.
Robert Granville Caldwell was an American professor and public official. Born in Bogota, Colombia, to American parents, Caldwell attended to the College of Wooster and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1912. His area of study was Latin America, and he worked in academia for several years before turning to government. He authored several books, including Lopez Expeditions to Cuba (1915), A Short History of the American People, Vol. 1 (1925) and Vol. 2 (1927), James A. Garfield -- Party Chieftain (1931), and Role of the Parties (1933). Caldwell died in 1976.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Robert Granville Caldwell.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Biography written by Jessica Marati, '08.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Robert Granville Caldwell Autograph Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/00000003z
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
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- Bibliography
The following sources were consulted during preparation of biographical note: Marquis Who's Who online database.
- Subject Terms:
- Autographs -- Collections.
Generals -- United States -- 19th century.
Presidents -- United States -- 19th century.
Statesmen -- United States -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Letters -- 19th century.
