• Autograph collection, 1446-2001

Text language:

• Texts in English, French, Latin, and Spanish.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• 1446-2001.

Extent:

• 2 boxes (90 folders)

Spatial:

• United States

Language:

• English
• French
• Latin
• Spanish; Castilian

Abstract:

• Consists of miscellaneous letters and documents written or signed by some of the figures prominent in European and American culture and politics. Includes signed autograph letters by Ansel Adams, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Joseph Bonaparte, Pablo Casals, James Fenimore Cooper, Oliver Cromwell, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, Pope Eugene IV, Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, Washington Irving, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Cotton Mather, Maximilian II, Napoleon I, Francis Parkman, John D. Rockefeller, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Siegfried Wagner, George Washington, etc. Also includes several deeds for land in Pennsylvania, and letters relating to the Presidents of Princeton University.

Call number:

• 68.5
• 120.2

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9934870393506421

Subject:

• Princeton University—Presidents
• Princeton University—History—Sources
• Authors, American—19th century—Correspondence
• Presidents—United States—19th century—Correspondence
• Princeton (N.J.)—History—Sources
• Legal documents
• Letters
• Correspondence
• Manuscripts

Collections:

• Music Treasures at Princeton
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
• The Scheide Library

Available online:

• Finding aid