- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Gulick, John Story, 1817-1884
- Title:
- John Story Gulick Collection of American Statesmen
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1z40ks83q
- Dates:
- 1785-1884
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of autograph letters of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Hancock, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and other American statesmen, collected by John S. Gulick and his wife, Elizabeth Milligan Gulick.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
This collection of autograph letters, dated 1785?-1898, by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Hancock, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and other American statesmen, consists of 24 letters, 3 signatures, 3 newspaper clippings, and a poem by Louisa C. Adams in pocket of front cover. Compiled by John S. Gulick and his wife, Elizabeth Milligan Gulick. Previously bound in a black lacquered binding with leather spine and pearl bosses in the four corners on upper and lower boards, with a painting of a bouquet of flowers surrounded by an ornate gold border on upper cover.
The following standard abbreviations, or their variations, are used to identify materials in this collection: ALS = autograph letter signed, TLS = typed letter signed, AMsS = autograph manuscript signed.
- Arrangement
Maintains the folio order of the original bound scrapbook.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Gulick, John Story, 1817-1884
John Story Gulick and his wife, Elizabeth Milligan Gulick, were American collectors.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Collected by John Story Gulick and his wife (AM12800).
- Custodial History
The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2004. Finding aid written in 2004.
In 2022, restrictions on two Thomas Jefferson letters where researchers were required to use surrogates were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.
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:
John Story Gulick Collection of American Statesmen; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1z40ks83q
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
Find More
- Genre Terms:
- Clippings.
Correspondence -- 18th century
Correspondence -- 19th century
Lacquered bindings (Binding)
Letters -- 18th century.
Letters -- 19th century.
Scrapbooks -- 19th century - Names:
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
Gulick, Elizabeth Milligan, compiler
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Madison, James, 1751-1836.