Contents and Arrangement Expanded View

Collection Overview

Creator:
Burr, Nelson R. (Nelson Rollin), 1904-1994
Title:
Nelson R. Burr Papers
Repository:
Manuscripts Division
Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/7w62f8240
Dates:
1917-1956
Size:
18 boxes
Storage Note:
ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-18
Language:
English

Abstract

The Nelson R. Burr Papers consists of works, correspondence, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, juvenilia, and printed matter of American historian, Nelson R. Burr (Princeton Class of 1927). The collection contains materials from his book Education in New Jersey, 1630-1871 (1942), as well as notes, essays and personal correspondence from his undergraduate and graduate school years at Princeton.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Description:

The collection consists of works, correspondence, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, juvenilia, and printed matter of Burr (Princeton Class of 1927). The collection contains the typed manuscript (carbon) and photographs for Burr's book Education in New Jersey, 1630-1871 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1942), based on his Ph.D. thesis at Princeton, as well as undergraduate notes and essays, and letters written to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harris L. Burr, during undergraduate (1923-1927) and graduate school years (1928-1932) at Princeton and New York University (1929).

The bulk of the collection consists of letters written to Burr by his father, friends, clergymen, publishers, and libraries, much of it regarding Burr's histories of various parishes and churches in Connecticut and Washington, D.C. The correspondence reflects his interest in religious matters, especially the Episcopal Church, and there are letters concerning his book The Story of the Episcopal Church in the United States (1936). In addition, the collection contains scrapbooks kept by Burr when he was with the Library of Congress, as well as scrapbooks of the state anniversary exhibitions (1945-1948) mounted there, and includes a series of biographies for the "Liberty Ships" of the United States Maritime Commission written by him and others (1942-1944).

Arrangement

This is an unprocessed collection and remains in its original arrangement.

Unprocessed, except for four boxes of letters by Burr to his parents, which are in chronological order.

Collection Creator Biography:

Burr, Nelson R. (Nelson Rollin), 1904-1994

Nelson R. Burr (Princeton Class of 1927) is an American historian at the Library of Congress and a church historian.

Collection History

Acquisition:

Gift of the author.

Appraisal

No appraisal information is available.

Processing Information

This is an unprocessed collection. The contents list provided is a preliminary inventory.

The collection inventory was created by Michael Heist in August 2007.

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:

Nelson R. Burr Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/7w62f8240
Location:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Storage Note:
ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-18