- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
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Collection Overview
- Collector:
- Vinton, Sarah A.
- Title:
- Sarah Anne Vinton Papers on Leonard Alden
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9593tv21q
- Dates:
- 1816-1889
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists largely of correspondence between Sarah Anne Vinton and her cousin Leonard Case Alden, a Harvard graduate and lieutenant in the Civil War.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of letters to Sarah Anne Vinton from her cousin Leonard Alden, her uncle Frederic Vinton, and her sister Charlotte Vinton. Also included is a eulogy book on Leonard Alden compiled by Frederic Vinton, containing two albumen portraits of Leonard and Sarah, and a Harvard University medal awarded to Sarah's father, George. The collection is of special interest both for Alden's references to student life at Harvard and Mount Holyoke (where Sarah was enrolled) and for his narrative of life as a civil war soldier after he enlisted in 1863. Included in the correspondence are extensive exchanges on class readings and accounts of specific seminars and faculty.
- Arrangement
Arranged into the following file groups: Correspondence, 1859-1889; Leonard Alden Eulogy Book, 1864; Genealogical Material, undated; Miscellaneous, 1816-1880.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Vinton, Sarah A.
Sarah Anne Vinton was a cousin of Leonard Case Alden, a Harvard graduate who served as a lieutenant in the Civil War and died of illness in 1863. Her uncle Frederic Vinton was the librarian of the Chancellor Green Library at Princeton University, 1873-1890.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Bonham and Butterfields in 2011 (AM2011-80).
- Appraisal
The Emily Ann Brown Daybook and Travel Papers, which was acquired in the same lot, was processed as a separate collection.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Regine Heberlein in 2011. Finding aid written by Regine Heberlein 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.
- Credit this material:
Sarah Anne Vinton Papers on Leonard Alden; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9593tv21q
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
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- Subject Terms:
- College students -- United States -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Harvard University -- Students -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Eulogies -- 19th century.
Letters -- 19th century. - Names:
- Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1863
Alden, Leonard Case
Vinton, Frederic, 1817-1890
Vinton, Sarah A. - Places:
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
