Mudd, Seeley G., Manuscript Library

Mudd, Seeley G., Manuscript Library is named for the dean of the University of Southern California School of Medicine whose will established a $44 million fund for American university and college buildings. The trustees of this fund made a grant of $1,125,000 to Princeton toward the $2,500,000 needed for a manuscript library; the balance was contributed by other donors.

The Mudd Library houses the personal papers of Bernard Baruch, James Forrestal '15, John M. Harlan '20, David E. Lilienthal, Adlai E. Stevenson '22, and other twentieth-century public figures. Located here also are the University Archives. Situated on Olden Street opposite the Engineering Quadrangle, the three-story library contains two levels of stacks for the storage of both bound and boxed papers, office space for visiting scholars, a reading room, conference room, and visitors' lounge, in addition to the usual office and work space for library staff. The building, which was completed in 1976, was designed by Hugh Stubbins and Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).