Month: May 2023
A Mayan Inkpot
By Will Noel I had a delightful lunch with Alfred Bush at the Witherspoon Grill a few months ago. Alfred was curator of Western Americana for 40 years from 1962 and is a member of the Friends of the Princeton University Library. I thought I […]
Now Available: The Discovering Toni Morrison Digital Portal
By Emma Sarconi The Toni Morrison Papers (C1491), housed in Firestone Library, is one of our most requested collections. Every year, researchers from all over the world and all over campus come to the reading room on C-floor to view draft copies of Beloved, letters […]
A Donne Deal
his unique item presents the very definition of research value. It is also one of the last sources for John Donne remaining in private hands, and so many, many thanks to the Friends for bringing it to Princeton, where it will be available for research and study by all.
Hello from Special Collections!
We’re bringing the bulk of our collections together under one blogging umbrella! If you’ve followed along on our previous blogs, don’t worry–our most-updated sites are still there for you. There will still be stories about Princeton University history at our redesigned University Archives blog (formerly […]