- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Burgess, John Stewart, 1883-1949
- Title:
- John and Stella Burgess Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/kh04dp741
- Dates:
- 1884-1971
- Size:
- 7 boxes and 2.8 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-7
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of works, correspondence, photographs, a commonplace book, a genealogy, and printed matter of John Burgess (Princeton Class of 1905) and his wife, Stella Fisher Burgess, poet and translator.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
The collection consists of works, correspondence, photographs, a commonplace book, a genealogy, and printed matter of Burgess (Princeton Class of 1905) and his wife, Stella Fisher Burgess, poet and translator. The collection contains articles and speeches, many written during the years (1909-1915) they spent in China with the Princeton-in-Peking Program and, later, at Yenching University (1919-1926); a typescript of an unpublished autobiography by Burgess; and manuscripts of poems and stories by Stella Burgess. There are also photographs of the Burgess family and professional colleagues, such as Edward S. Corwin, and of Peking, Yenching University, and other Chinese scenes, as well as a genealogy of the Fisher family.
- Arrangement
Unprocessed.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Burgess, John Stewart, 1883-1949
John (Princeton Class of 1905) and Stella Burgess spent time in China with the Princeton-in-Peking Program (1909-1915) and at Yenching University (1919-1926). Stella Burgess was a poet and translator.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of the David S. Burgess.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory prepared by Alicia Corona '13 in 2011.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- 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.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
John and Stella Burgess Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/kh04dp741
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-7
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- Subject Terms:
- Education, Higher -- China -- Peking -- 20th century.
Poets, American - Genre Terms:
- Articles.
Autobiographies.
Commonplace books.
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Poems.
Sociologists -- United States.
Teachers, Foreign -- China -- Peking. - Names:
- Yanjing da xue
Princeton-in-Peking Program.
Fisher family
Burgess, Stella Fisher, 1881- - Places:
- Peking (China) -- Photographs -- 20th century.
