- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Coulborn, Rushton, 1901-1968.
- Title:
- Rushton Coulborn Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/th83kz40s
- Dates:
- 1939-1970
- Size:
- 20 boxes
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-20
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of papers of historian Rushton Coulborn, including manuscripts, correspondence, and bibliographic material.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of Coulborn's typescripts of his University College (London) doctoral dissertation, "The Economical and Political Preliminaries of the Crusade of Harry Despenser, Bishop of Norwich in 1383," a book entitled The Origin of Civilized Societies (1959), articles, reports on conferences, notes, commentaries, and a bibliography, as well as several unfinished manuscripts. In addition, there is some correspondence with professional colleagues as well as letters to Coulborn regarding the publication of The Origin of Civilized Societies.
- Arrangement
Arranged in this order: doctoral dissertation, book, articles, reports, unfinished manuscripts, notes, and correspondence.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Coulborn, Rushton, 1901-1968.
Rushton Coulborn was an English-born American historian and author.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
This collection was the gift of Dr. Imogen Seger Coulborn in 1974.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.
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.
- Credit this material:
Rushton Coulborn Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/th83kz40s
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-20
Find More
- Existence and Location of Copies
Publication by Coulborn: The Origin of Civilized Societies (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1959)
- Subject Terms:
- Civilization -- History.
Comparative civilization.
Crusades -- Finance.
Crusades -- Later, 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. - Genre Terms:
- Bibliographies -- 20th century.
Correspondence -- 20th century
Dissertations -- 20th century.
Historians -- United States.
Manuscripts -- 20th century. - Names:
- University College, London.
Despenser, Henry, Bishop of Norwich, 1343-1406
