Manuscripts Division
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Housed in Firestone Library, the Manuscripts Division of the Department of Special Collections includes material documenting 5000 years of recorded history and all parts of the world, with strengths in Western Europe, the Near East, the United States, and Latin America.
Our Collections
Lewis Cass Collection, 1832-1873
Lewis Cass, a nineteenth-century senator from Michigan, had prominent roles in the administrations of Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. This collection consists of selected correspondence, printed material, and ephemera of Cass.
Collection ID: C1031
Simon Hastings by F. M. Tibbott, 1942
Consists of a draft of author F. M. Tibbot's novel Simon Hastings (1942).
Collection ID: C0477
Oliver Stromberg Collection of William Beebe Book Collecting Files, 1912-1993
Materials collected by book collector Oliver Stromberg in preparation to write a book on American naturalist and explorer, William Beebe. Collection primarily consists of orders, invoices, book catalogs, and correspondence from booksellers.
Collection ID: C1595
Theodore Spencer Journals, 1937-1947
Consists of personal journals of Theodore Spencer, American poet and essayist, and distinguished Harvard University literature professor.
Collection ID: C1056
Ferdinand Lassalle Letters, 1862-1864
Consists of letters of Ferdinand Lassalle, the German "scientific" socialist who founded the Democratic Socialist Party and in 1862 proposed a theory (Lassalleanism) in opposition to Marxism.
Collection ID: C1106
J. B. Rhine Collection on the New Frontiers of the Mind, 1937
The J. B. Rhine Collection on the New Frontiers of the Mind consists of galley proofs of the book by the American educator, psychologist, and author J. B. (Joseph Banks) Rhine (1895-1980).
Collection ID: C0011
Sarah Ponsonby Collection, 1801-1822
Consists of selected letters of Sarah Ponsonby, one of the famous "Ladies of Llangollen."
Collection ID: C1172
Joseph François Chalard Translations of Four Novels by Alessandro Verri, 1810-1838
Consists of Joseph François Chalard's manuscript translations of four novels by the Italian author Alessandro Verri (1741-1816) into French, including "Les aventures de Sapho, poétesse de Mitylène" (Le avventure di Saffo poetessa di Mitilene), "La vie d'Erostrate" (La vita di Erostrato), and parts 1 and 2 of "Les nuits romaines au tombeau des Scipions" (Notti romane al sepolcro degli Scipioni).
Collection ID: C1632
Alice B. Toklas Collection, 1950-1965
Consists primarily of letters (1952-1965) Alice B. Toklas wrote to her friends Lloyd Frankenberg and his wife, the painter Loren MacIver. Toklas is best known as the life partner of writer Gertude Stein.
Collection ID: C1223
Peter N. Heydon Collection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Furniture, undated
Includes a few artifacts of British poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and Robert Browning (1812-1889).
Collection ID: C1466
Edmund Morford Collection, 1828-1830
Consists of manuscript drafts of two articles by nineteenth-century American editor Edmund Morford.
Collection ID: C1141
Princeton University Library Collection of Kōstas Zēmerēs Photographs, 1900-1999
Kostas Zēmerēs was born in 1886 in Katēchōri Pelion. He studied at the Commercial School of Volos, where he took his first lessons from the painter Iōannēs Poulakas. In 1904 he went to the United States where he worked in photo labs collaborating with painters and photographers. There he had the opportunity to study at the Art Institute of Saint Louis. He returned to Greece in 1912 where he was recruited during the Balkan Wars. Later, after the World War I, he remained in Athens working with great photographers, such as George Bouka and Nelly's. Finally he returned to Volos where he worked as a professional photographer and painter. He participated in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad, such as in Calais (France) in 1925 and Liverpoool (England) in 1926. He received the gold medal at the International Exhibition of Thessalonikē (Greece) in 1932 and 1936. Zēmerēs gave us the unique photographs of the painter Theophilos Chatzēmichaēl. He died at the age of 96. Consists of an open collection of silver prints depicting Greek landscapes by Kōstas Zēmerēs.
Collection ID: C1342
Princeton Revolution Collection, 1777
Consists mostly of receipts for supplies and services delivered/rendered to the Continental Army, given to Enos Kelsey (Princeton Class of 1760), who at that time was a major in Colonel Chambers' Battalion of the New Jersey State Army, apparently buying supplies locally in Princeton.
Collection ID: C0032
Alice Raphael Collection of Faust Materials, 1938-1960
The Alice Raphael Collection of Faust Materials contains photographs and epherema relating to the Yale bicentennial of Goethe's Faust , for which Alice Raphael's translation was used, as well as information about other productions of Faust and about Raphael's other work.
Collection ID: C1431
Claude Esteban Letters, 1968-1988
The collection chiefly consists of 30 letters (1968-1988) received by the French poet, essayist, and translator, Claude Esteban, from the Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat, Octavio Paz, concerning translations projects.
Collection ID: C1613
Morris Weeks Manuscripts, 1969
Consists of manuscripts of Hello Mexico (1970), a work by Morris Weeks (Princeton Class of 1934) which describes the history, government, and culture of the people of Mexico.
Collection ID: C0620
Waterman Thomas Hewett Collection, 1914-1920
Consists of material about the burning of Columbia, South Carolina, during the Civil War collected from source material by Waterman Thomas Hewett, an American educator and editor.
Collection ID: C1082
Richard Roe Letters to John Thelwell, 1805-1808
Consists of eighteen letters by Richard Roe, an irish stenographer and writer, to English author John Thelwell concerning Roe's life, business endeavors, and books on the English language.
Collection ID: C1195
James Creese Letters to Thomas H. English, 1918-1971
Consists of approximately 175 letters by college president James Creese (Princeton Class of 1918) to his Princeton classmate and friend Thomas H. English, who became a professor of English at Emory University, Georgia.
Collection ID: C0678
Rose Cecil O'Neill letters to Mr. and Mrs. William Curtis Gibson, 1912-1927
Consists of letters by Rose Cecil O'Neill, the American children's book author and illustrator, and inventor of the Kewpie doll, to her friends William Curtis and Fannie Gibson.
Collection ID: C1153
Archive of the Commission for Refugee Women and Children from Crete, 1897-1899
Consists of material relating to the relief of refugees of the Cretan War of Independence.
Collection ID: C1179
Doubleday & Company File of Louis Kronenberger Correspondence, 1959-1981 (mostly 1970-1979)
Consists primarily of letters from critic, novelist, and biographer Louis Kronenberger to his editors at Doubleday & Company.
Collection ID: C1579
Reginald Lawrence Papers, 1939-1967
The Reginald Lawrence Papers consists primarily of typescripts of plays Lawrence (Princeton Class of 1921) wrote for theater, film, and television, as well as short stories, poetry, outlines and notes for various projects, some letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
Collection ID: TC038
Charles-Antoine Chancerel Manuscripts on Oidapa, 1888-1892
Consists of manuscript grammar books and a dictionary documenting an artificial language called Oidapa (Oïdapa, Oīdapa) that was invented by French civil engineer Charles-Antoine Chancerel in the late 19th century.
Collection ID: C1639
David Starr Hoyt Manuscripts, 1852-1853
Consists of two manuscripts by David Starr Hoyt, an officer in the Mexican War: an overland account in route to the California gold rush fields (1852) and an account of Native Americans drawn from Hoyt's experiences as a member of Isaac Stevens's exploring expedition surveying a route for the Northern Pacific Railroad from Oregon to Wisconsin in 1853. Images of this collection are also available online at Digital PUL.
Collection ID: C1407
Spanish Papal Nuncio Records, 1656-1675
Consists chiefly of financial records, household accounts, inventories of moveable property, and some correspondence of Galeazzo Marescotti (1627-1726), who seved as papal nuncio to the royal court of King Carlos II of Spain from 1670 to 1675.
Collection ID: C0758
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Collection, 1922-1923
Consists of a small collection of correspondence and mansucripts of the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
Collection ID: C1315
Winthrop M. Daniels Correspondence, 1911-1942
Contains selected correspondence of economics professor Winthrop M. Daniels (Princeton Class of 1888).
Collection ID: C0734
H. Wright Johnson Collection on Harley Granville-Barker, 1947-1950
This collection consists of letters to H. Wright Johnson (Princeton Class of 1948) regarding Harley Granville-Barker, the subject of Johnson's senior thesis at Princeton. Included is Johnson's thesis, typescripts and correspondence concerning The Prevalence of Witches and Weekending, and correspondence between Johnson and George Bernard Shaw who worked closely with Granville-Barker in the English theater.
Collection ID: TC029
Townsend Martin Collection, 1928
This collection consists of two boxes of typescripts, screenplays, and scene descriptions by American playwright and screenwriter Townsend Martin (Princeton Class of 1917) as well as one box of similar material by other authors, such as Willis Goldbeck and Fannie Hurst.
Collection ID: TC031
Kernodle Collection of Louis E. Laflin, 1940-1973
The collection consists of letters by American educator and playwright Louis Ellsworth Laflin (Princeton Class of 1924) to George R. Kernodle (a friend from Yale Drama School), written over thirty-three years. Also included are Laflin's notes and papers on Asian/Indian, Egyptian, and Greek drama, copies of six plays written by him, and copies of two essays on the founding and history of Princeton's Theatre Intime.
Collection ID: TC037
Blaney Melodramas, 1896-1944
Consists mainly of typescripts of melodramas written by American dramatist Charles E. Blaney.
Collection ID: TC005
Edward C. Thomas Letters to Nicholas Biddle, 1801-1804
Consists of letters by Princeton graduate Edward C. Thomas to his friend and college classmate Nicholas Biddle about news of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).
Collection ID: C1289
Dag Hammarskjöld Collection, 1958-1961
Consists of selected copies of correspondence and manuscripts of Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-1961) and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Collection ID: C1074
Claude Adrien Meney Letters, 1734
Consists of contemporary manuscript copies of 38 letters (in a bound volume) written by the eighteenth-century French attorney Claude Meney during a visit to London..
Collection ID: C0893
Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh Letters, 1900-1918 (mostly 1900-1904)
Consists primarily of twenty-seven autograph letters by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, English critic and essayist, to his English publisher, Edward Arnold.
Collection ID: C1182
Wesley Halliburton Correspondence, 1939-1950
Consists of four small groups of correspondence between Wesley Halliburton and others after the death of his famous son Richard in 1939. Richard Halliburton was a celebrated adventurer and author known, among other things, for having swum the length of the Panama Canal.
Collection ID: C0284
Frank Graziano Working Files for Alejandra Pizarnik: A Profile, 1982-1988
Consists of Frank Graziano's working files for Alejandra Pizarnik: A Profile (Durango, Colo.: Logbridge-Rhodes, 1987), his critical work on the Argentine poet.
Collection ID: C0914
Thomas Picton Collection, 1768-1807
Consists of selected manuscripts of New Jersey Rev. Thomas Picton.
Collection ID: C1171
Daphne Du Maurier Letters to Douglas Black, 1947-1976
Consists of letters and cards by British novelist Daphne Du Maurier to her American publisher, Douglas Black, who was president of Doubleday &Co.
Collection ID: C0858
Selected Papers of Robert Thompson Sloss, 1881-1917
Consists of selected correspondence and other material of American journalist Robert Sloss.
Collection ID: C0005
Princeton University Collection of Willa Cather Materials, 1933-1982 (mostly 1933-1944)
Consists of correspondence, a typed manuscript, and printed material related to Willa Cather, one of the most respected American women novelists of the early twentieth century.
Collection ID: C1030
Nikos Kavvadias Papers, 1949-1972
Consists of papers of Nikos Kavvadias, a Greek poet who spent most of his life traveling the world as a wireless operator on ocean freighters.
Collection ID: C0866
Carter Godwin Woodson Correspondence with Charles H. Wesley, 1925-1950
Consists, primarily, of a life-long series of correspondence between Carter Godwin Woodson, founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and Charles H. Wesley, African-American historian and college president.
Collection ID: C1310
John Hamilton Townley Family Papers, 1836-1855
Consists of family papers of New Jersey Presbyterian minister John Hamilton Townley (Princeton Class of 1837).
Collection ID: C0736
James Gibson Papers, 1858-1932 (mostly 1858-1859)
Consists of scrapbook pages and a diary kept by James Gibson from May, 1858, to May, 1859, while traveling in the United States and Canada and attending Princeton Theological Seminary.
Collection ID: C0774
Edward Robert Hughes Letters, 1883-1914
Consists of approximately 155 letters by English painter Edward Robert Hughes to his friend and patron Mrs. Sydney Morse.
Collection ID: C0743
British Military Mission to Greece Operational Intelligence Files, 1948-1949
Consists of summary reports (1948-1949) of operational intelligence of the British military mission to Greece during the Greek Civil War (1944-1949).
Collection ID: C0853
Al Hine Novels, 1951-1961
Consists of manuscripts for three novels by American novelist and children's writer Al Hine.
Collection ID: C0225
John Everett Millais Letters to His Daughter Effie, 1874-1889
Consists primarily of a series of over forty autograph letters by the English artist John Evereet Millais to his daughter Effie.
Collection ID: C1471
Crispin Family Genealogical Papers, 1939
Consists of transcripts of books and notes of genealogical interest to the Crispin family, dating back to their 11th-century French ancestors.
Collection ID: C0413
Donald Goodchild Collection, 1918-1968
Consists primarily of correspondence of Donald Goodchild, who was secretary of the American Council of Learned Societies in Washington, D.C.
Collection ID: C1065
Miguel Angel Asturias Papers, 1963-1969
Consists primarily of correspondence of Guatemalan author Miguel Angel Asturias, Seymour Lawrence, Gregory Rabassa, Jose Castillo, Tom Maschler, and others concerning Rabassa's English translations of Asturias's works and their publication in the United States and abroad.
Collection ID: C0624
Fulton McMahon Collection, 1882-1911 (mostly 1882-1884)
Consists chiefly of academic documents of American politician Fulton McMahon while he was attending the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).
Collection ID: C1119
Benedict Thielen Letters to Frederic Roderigo Gruger, Jr, 1918-1962
Consists of letters by American novelist Benedict Thielen (Princeton Class of 1923) to Frederic Roderigo Gruger, Jr.
Collection ID: C0285
Katherine Anne Porter Collection, 1940-1945
Consists of selected letters, holograph and typewritten, of Katherine Anne Porter.
Collection ID: C1175
Charles Gillispie Wartime Letters, 1945
Consists of thirteen letters from Charles Gillispie (1918-2015) home to his parents, Raymond Livingston Gillispie and Virginia Coulston, while he was stationed with the United States Army in France, Germany, and Austria during the final months of World War II in Europe. His letters, which span from March 9th to August 25th, 1945, are addressed from France, Germany, Austria, Bavaria, and Camp Shelby in Mississippi, and describe the conditions for American soldiers and prisoners of war in Europe, the state of the people and infrastructure in the German and French countryside, and other topics.
Collection ID: C1538
Cole Family Papers, circa 1848-1900
Consists of 12 letters from William, E. B., and Robert Patten to their brother-in-law and sister, George N. and Olivia Cole, along with additional Cole family documents.
Collection ID: C1548
New York Herald Tribune Papers of Robert Cresswell, 1935-1939
Consists of several business reports and analyses prepared by Robert Cresswell, business manager of the New York Herald Tribune.
Collection ID: C1133
Walter de la Mare Letters to Olive C. Jones, 1927-1956
Consists primarily of letters by British novelist and poet Walter De la Mare to Olive C. Jones, his secretary during the 1930s and, later, editor of Methuen's children's books.
Collection ID: C0917
Fred Lewis Pattee Collection on The Poems of Philip Freneau, 1900-1905
Consists of correspondence of editor Fred Lewis Pattee and others relating to the publishing of The Poems of Philip Freneau (3 vols., 1902-1907). Freneau was an eighteenth-century American poet, often called the "poet of the American Revolution."
Collection ID: C1157
James Robertson photographs collection, circa 1854
James Robertson was one of the first prominent traveller-photographers to depict scenes of mid-nineteenth century Greece. Of Scottish descent, he has been identified as the engraver James Robertson, who worked in London around 1830. He first settled in Constantinople in 1841, where he spent forty years of his life working as a master engraver in the imperial mint. His photography career began in the early 1850's when he opened a photographer's studio in Peran, the European district of Constantinople. His photographs, which were immediately popular among the art lovers of his period, appeared in international exhibitions in Paris and London and were frequently reproduced in the leading periodical "The London Illustrated News". He died in 1888 in Yokohama. Robertson earned his place in the history of photography with his coverage of the Crimean war, and with his photographs of Constantinople and other historical Mediterranean sites, such as Athens, Malta, Damascus, Egypt and the Holy Land. A close study of his work in Athens reveals that he first visited the city in 1853-1854 and probably returned later with Felice Beato, another renowned, somewhat younger, photographer. The monuments of the Acropolis (Propylaea, Temple of Athena Nike, Parthenon, Erechtheum) and the city of Athens (Temple of Olympian Zeus, Tower of the Winds, Gate of Athena Archegetis, Lysicrates Monument) as well as the Temples of Poseidon in Sounion, Aphaia on the island of Aegina, and Apollo in Corinth were magnificently portrayed by his camera while contemporary Athens was only infrequently depicted or used as a setting for its ancient remains. Although he rarely photographed people in his early work, in later work he handled them with consummate skill as a means of alleviating the monotony of ancient ruins and as an allusion to contemporary paintings. (http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?id=1020101&lang=en) Consists of an open collection of photographs of Robertson.
Collection ID: C1380
George Morgan Collection, 1759-1806
Consists of an open collection of material related to George Morgan, a Princeton farmer and landowner. Included are a journal containing a survey register for lands in western Pa., a personal account book, and miscellaneous correspondence.
Collection ID: C1394
Greek-American Community of New York Photographs, 1940s
Consists of photographs of the Greek-American community of New York in the 1940s.
Collection ID: C0949
Nancy Mitford Collection, 1966-1973
Consists of letters by Nancy Mitford, Britsth novelist and biographer, to Elizabeth Forbes, manager of the London bookstore G. Heywood Hill, Ltd.
Collection ID: C1204
Meade Minnigerode Collection on The Terror of Peru, 1940
Consists of the typed manuscript and galley proofs of the novel The Terror of Peru by the American biographer and historical novelist Meade Minnigerode.
Collection ID: C0010
Alexander Scotland Collection, 1869-1893
Consists of works, correspondence, documents, photographs, a diary (1869), and a journal (1888) of Alexander Scotland (Princeton Class of 1874), most of which reflects the life he led in Colorado mining areas after leaving the East because of tuberculosis.
Collection ID: WC008
Caleb Frank Gates Papers, 1919-1932
Consists of papers of Caleb Frank Gates dating from part of his tenure as president of Robert College, Istanbul, including the years on leave (1922-1923) that he served as adviser to the United States high commissioner at the peace conference on Near Eastern affairs in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Collection ID: C0558
D. C. Herrin "Columbia River Scenery" Photographs, circa 1892-1897
Consists of 13 mounted albumen card photographs from Oregon photographer D. C. Herrin's "Columbia River Scenery" series that depict various scenes along the river, including views of waterfalls; sites such as The Dalles, the Columbia River Gorge, and Mount Hood; and steamships. Herrin took the photographs via The Dalles, Portland, & Astoria Navigation Company (DP&AN) steamers and via the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) line.
Collection ID: C1512
Ralph Ginzburg Letters to Leonard Lyons, 1963-1970
Consists of thirty-four letters and note cards of American periodical publisher Ralph Ginzburg to his friend Leonard Lyons, syndicated columnist of the "The Lyons Den" with the New York Post. The letters discuss Ginzburg's trial concerning his publication of the "obscene" periodical Eros, as well as his later publications, Fact and Avant Garde magazines.
Collection ID: C1338
George Madison Priest Papers, 1917-1941
Consists of papers of American literary historian George Madison Priest
Collection ID: C0329
Erwin Panofsky Letters to the Burrages, 1938-1969
Consists primarily of letters by Erwin and Dora Panofsky to the artist Mildred Burrage and her sister Madeleine ("Bob").
Collection ID: C0647
Jacques de Lacretelle Collection, 1920-1923
Consists of a collection of literary manuscripts of the twentieth-century French novelist Jacques de Lacretelle.
Collection ID: C1115
Emily Ann Brown Daybook and Travel Papers, 1861-1874
Emily Ann Brown was born in 1841. In 1873-1874, she went on a grand tour of Europe. Consists of one daybook with entries dated 1861-1862, one travel passport dated 1873, one travel diary chronicling her grand tour in 1873 and travels on the Rhine in 1874, and Brown's handwritten translation from the German of "A Forest Fable."
Collection ID: C1402
Auguste Plée Sketchbook, 1821
Consists of microfilm strips and prints from microfilm of French botanist Auguste Plée's sketchbook of American and Canadian views and a long letter (with typed copy) to his family in France describing his journey in the United States and Canada in 1821 as a botanist for the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
Collection ID: C0532
Walden, ou, La Vie dans les Bois, 1922
Consists of a typed manuscript, with holograph corrections, of Louis Fabulet's translation of Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
Collection ID: C0854
Anthony Wayne by Harry Emerson Wildes, 1941
Consists of American historian Harry Emerson Wildes's manuscript for his 1941 biography of Anthony Wayne, the noted American Revolutionary general.
Collection ID: C0357
Ottoman Turkish Documents from Greece, 1829-1906
Consists of various Ottoman Turkish documents (1829-1906), with some Greek annotations, pertaining to the areas of Trikala (Tricca), Ioannina (Janina), Karditsa and Thessaly in Greece.
Collection ID: C0629
Percy H. Williams Autograph Collection, 1852-1944
Consists of approximately 50 original autographs, including signatures of Washington Irving, Henry van Dyke, and Charles Guiteau (assassin of President James Garfield), and a letter written by Wendell Willkie.
Collection ID: C0900
George Seferis Photographs of Cyprus, 1953-1971 (mostly 1953-1955)
Consists of 138 photographs of Cyprus taken by Greek poet and Nobel Prize winner George Seferis.
Collection ID: C0782
Notes of James Lawson Norris on Woodrow Wilson Lectures, 1897-1899
Consists of six notebooks (1897-1899) of James Lawson Norris (Princeton Class of 1899) containing notes on lectures in jurisprudence, constitutional law, and English common law delivered by Woodrow Wilson in his courses at Princeton.
Collection ID: C0595
Peter R. Decker Collection, 1830-1843
Consists chiefly of a nineteenth-century diary of Peter R. Decker, resident of Shawangunk, N.Y.
Collection ID: C0993
William Yarrell Collection, 1830-1961 (mostly 1833-1856)
Consists of letters and drawings of William Yarrell, a nineteenth-century British naturalist, and related printed matter.
Collection ID: C0603
Groff Conklin Files for The Smart Set Anthology, 1929-1934
Consists of correspondence and documents American science fiction anthologist and author Groff Conklin compiled during the creation of The Smart Set Anthology (1934).
Collection ID: C1656
Cole Family Papers, 1883-1913
Consists of the papers of Harriet and Alma Cole, wife and daughter of Charles K. Cole, largely relating to the women's stakes in mining operations in Montana and Colorado.
Collection ID: C1465
Edmund Wilson Letters to Margaret Rullman, circa 1900-1977 1950-1971 (mostly 1950-1971)
Consists of over thirty letters and cards from American literary critic Edmund Wilson (Princeton Class of 1916) to Margaret Rullman, a childhood friend.
Collection ID: C0186
Horton Davies collection of Frederick Buechner, 1943-1982 (mostly 1978-1981)
Horton Davies was a Princeton University professor of religion; his wife, Marie-Helene Davies, is author of LAUGHTER IN A GENEVAN GOWN: THE WORKS OF FREDERICK BUECHNER, 1970-1980 (1983). Consists of papers relating to the novelist Frederick Buechner (Princeton Class of 1947) collected or created by Davies.
Collection ID: C0820
Ernest Poole Collection, 1922-1927
Consists of three manuscripts of American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Ernest Poole, as well as some other papers and correspondence..
Collection ID: C0180
Walter Magnes Teller Collection on Thomas Hood, 1860-1940
Consists of background material relating to Walter Magnes Teller's proposed biography of English poet Thomas Hood.
Collection ID: C0165
George Roden Civil War Letters to His Family, 1861-1864
Consists of twenty-eight letters sent by George Roden, Jr., while he was on tour during the American Civil War, to his family in Newark, New Jersey.
Collection ID: C1213
Spanish Military Documents Relating to 19th Century Cuba, 1845-1976
Consists of Spanish legal and military documents relating to the administration of Cuba in the 19th century.
Collection ID: C0646
The Great Circle by Carlton Beals, 1940
Consists of the printer's copy of Carlton Beals' travel book The Great Circle (1940), containing descriptions of his travels in Tunisia, Russia, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Turkey, and Germany.
Collection ID: C0606
William Seymour Family Papers, 1733-1967 (mostly 1870-1933)
Consists primarily of the professional papers of prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century American theatrical stage manager and director William Seymour (1855-1933). The majority of papers include correspondence as well as numerous production-related materials, such as playscripts, promptbooks, and sheet music. Family members, particularly other well-known theater figures, such as Seymour's sister-in-law Fanny Davenport (1850-1898), are also represented in the collection through correspondence, production materials, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.
Collection ID: TC011
Matthew Phipps Shiel Collection, 1892-1946
Consists of correspondence of Matthew Phipps Sheil, a prolific British writer of fantasy fiction, with editors, literary agents, publishers, and other authors.
Collection ID: C1199
Corson Family Collection, 1860-1892
Consists of correspondence and documents of members of the Corson family, particularly Theodore Corson, of Cape May Court House, New Jersey.
Collection ID: C1038
Alba Houghton Warren Papers, 1864-1940 (mostly 1938-1940)
Consists of selected papers of Alba Houghton Warren (Princeton Class of 1936), professor of English at Princeton (1945-1955), relating to his earlier work "Richard Hengist Horne: A Literary Biography," which apparently was never published.
Collection ID: C0462
The Intent of the Artist (Manuscript), Edited by Augusto Centeno, 1941
Consists of the printer's copy of the manuscript for The Intent of the Artist , edited by Centeno and published by the Princeton University Press in 1941.
Collection ID: C0127
Levering Cartwright Collection on "Death Valley Scotty", 1939-1973 (mostly 1963-1971)
Consists of papers of journalist Levering Cartwright (Princeton University Class of 1926) relating to the association of "Death Valley Scotty" (Walter Scott, 1872-1954), an eccentric prospector, Wild West show entertainer, and hoaxer, with his friend and financier, Albert M. Johnson, an insurance company executive.
Collection ID: WC037
John Dunn Gardner Papers, 1855-1859
Consists of selected papers of John Dunn Gardner, a nineteenth-century high sheriff of Cambridgeshire, England.
Collection ID: C0785