- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Peters, Erskine
- Title:
- Erskine Peters Correspondence
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jw827b714
- Dates:
- 1977-1997 (mostly 1980-1989)
- Size:
- 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-2
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of approximately 170 letters received by American Afro-American studies professor Erskine Peters.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
The collection consists of approximately 170 letters received by Peters. Included are letters from friends, fellow educators, authors, poets, playwrights, black activists, and prison inmates, such as Angela Davis, Carlos Baker, Wolfgang Binder, Frances Foster, Leon Chai, Doris Davenport, Jim Haynes, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Walker, and Richard Yarborough.
- Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Peters, Erskine
Erskine Peters was a professor of English and Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Notre Dame.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Susie J. Stevens.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Feng Zhu '2014 in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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- Credit this material:
Erskine Peters Correspondence; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jw827b714
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-2
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- Subject Terms:
- African American authors. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
African American dramatists. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
African American poets -- 20th century -- Correspondence
African American women authors. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
African Americans -- Education -- United States -- 20th century
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Dramatists, American. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Educators -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Gay people -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Human rights workers. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Poets, American. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Prisoners -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Women authors, American. -- 20th century -- Correspondence - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century