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Vanderbilt, Cornelius - Manuscript Material List, 1940-02-07

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Letter from Watkinson Library librarian to Wheaton J. Lane of the Nassau Club, Princeton University containing a list of Cornelius Vanderbilt manuscript material at the Watkinson.

[Of note, Lane's major work was "Commodore Vanderbilt, an Epic of the Steam Age," a definitive biography of the railroad pioneer. Published in 1942, the book won the Knopf Prize.]

Dates: 1940-02-07