- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Murch, Herbert Spencer, 1877-1952
- Title:
- Selected Papers of Herbert Spencer Murch
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5t34sj64m
- Dates:
- 1852-1943 (mostly 1902-1943)
- Size:
- 2 boxes and 1.3 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-2
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, and a scrapbook of Herbert Spencer Murch, a professor of English at Princeton (1906-1944).
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, and a scrapbook of Murch, professor of English at Princeton (1906-1944). Letters between Murch and his sisters, Philura (Lura) and Jessie, and from his current and former Princeton students comprise the bulk of the correspondence. A photograph album contains 51 mounted and loose prints and 1 photographic postcard, the majority of which (44) are gelatin silver snapshots of Murch, his family, and their home "Lone Pine Farm" in Oregon. The scrapbook includes farm account records (1852), clippings, and Murch's impressions (1900-1901) on reading various works of English and German literature.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Murch, Herbert Spencer, 1877-1952
Herbert Spencer Murch was an American educator, editor, and author. He was a professor of English at Princeton University from 1906 to 1944.
Murch, Herbert Spencer, 1877-1952
Herbert Spencer Murch was an American educator, editor, and author. He was a professor of English at Princeton University from 1906 to 1944.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
This collection was the gift of Professor Albert Elsasser in 1962.
AM 17520
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '15 in 2013.
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:
Selected Papers of Herbert Spencer Murch; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5t34sj64m
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-2
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- English literature -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
Farm life -- Oregon -- Photographs.
Home economics, Rural -- Oregon -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence.
Faculty papers -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
Family papers -- Oregon.
Photograph albums. - Names:
- Princeton University
Murch family
Murch, Philura E., 1865-1939
