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General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection

 Collection
Identifier: C0140

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of over 3000 miscellaneous items of primarily American literary, historical, and political figures, including business and personal letters, cards, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and official documents (deeds, wills, bonds, etc.). This miscellaneous collection provides a way of locating small accessions of material that are not part of the Manuscripts Division's provenance-based or topical collections.

The collection includes documents from United States presidents James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, Rutherford B. Hayes, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, William Howard Taft, and Martin Van Buren. The collection also contains original documents of Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass, Sigmund Freud, Langston Hughes, Victor Hugo, Herman Melville, J. P. Morgan, Samuel Morse, Benito Mussolini, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Revere, J. D. Salinger, Jean-Paul Satre, William Tecumseh Sherman, Upton Sinclair, Henry Morton Stanley, John Steinbeck, Bram Stoker, Alexis de Toqueville, Jules Verne, Booker T. Washington, E. B. White, and Virginia Woolf, to name only a few of the most famous.

Dates

  • Creation: 1502-2012

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research use.

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.

Extent

75 boxes

40 linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Consists of over 3000 miscellaneous items of primarily American literary, historical, and political figures, including business and personal letters, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and official documents.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by the name of the creator.

Physical Location

mss

Physical Location

hsvm

Physical Location

Boxes 59 and 63 are stored in special vault facilities.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The collection has resulted from miscellaneous purchases and gifts of numerous donors over the years.

Appraisal

No material was separated during processing.

Accruals

The collection is open and will continue to grow.

Existence and Location of Copies

Parts of this collection are available on microfilm, cataloged separately as RCPXM-7497696.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Lisa Yankowitz during the summer and fall of 2010 . The finding aid was written by Lisa Yankowitz in January 2011 and is regularly updated with new acquisitions by Faith Charlton and Kelly Bolding.

Title
General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection, 1502-2012 : Finding Aid
Date
2011
Description rules
Finding Aid Content Adheres To That Prescribed By Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Revision Statements

  • 2012-05-02T13:47:31.94-04:00: Run through PULFA 2.0 normalization routines.
  • 2012-05-22T10:57:10.42-04:00: Run through PULFA 2.0 normalization routines.
  • 2012-07-11T11:17:56.101-04:00: Run through PULFA 2.0 normalization routines.
  • 2012-09-04T15:10:35.578-04:00: Run through PULFA 2.0 normalization routines.
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  • 2012-12-12T14:34:28.813-05:00: Run through PULFA 2.0 normalization routines.
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  • 2013-10-21T15:08:10.47-04:00: Run through PULFA 2.0 normalization routines.
  • 2013-11-05T09:42:03.428-05:00: Run through PULFA 2.0 normalization routines.

Repository Details

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