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HYDE, HENRY HYDE (1710-1753). "Undkan King of Tartary", circa 1730s
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Unpublished autograph draft of a play, in five acts, with dramatis personae listing names of professional actors and a loosely inserted "Prologue to the Spoken by Mr. Wilks" (2 pages). A drama set in the time of Genghis Khan, here called Zingis, King of the Mongols, concerning the love of Zingis for Princess Taxila, daughter of Undkan, King of Eastern Tartary, who suffers the enmity of her stepmother, Zamar, and the unwanted advances of Zamar's son, Prince Timur. The story appears to have been adopted from Zingis: Histoire Tartare by Anne de la Roche-Guilhem (1691). The actors' names include Mr. Mills, Sr. and Jr., presumably John (d. 1736) and William (fl. 1701-50) Mills, and Mr. and Mrs. Booth, possibly Barton (1679?-1733) and Hester (ca.1690-1773) Booth. These actors all worked at Drury Lane.
- Arrangement
Shelved alphabetically by author, or in some cases by title.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
AM 2017-95
Purchased 2016 .
- Custodial History
Holywell House, Hampshire, the home of the Villiers family, Earls of Clarendon.
- Appraisal
No materials were separated during 2003 processing.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Sylvia Yu and Teresa Basler in 2002-2003. Finding aid written by Sylvia Yu and Teresa Basler in 2002-2003.
Finding aid updated periodically with new accessions by Kelly Bolding, Faith Charlton, and Chloe Pfendler, 2013-2017.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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- Credit this material:
HYDE, HENRY HYDE (1710-1753). "Undkan King of Tartary"; Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, RTC01, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
Find More
- Bibliography
See the double issue of The Princeton University Library Chronicle devoted in its entirety to a survey of the Taylor Collection: Robert J. Wickenheiser, "The Robert H. Taylor Collection" (Vol. XXXVIII, no. 2 and 3; Winter-Spring, 1976-77), contains 13 articles by such scholars as G. E. Bentley, James Thorpe, Mary Hyde, Charles Ryskamp, E.D.H. Johnson ("Romantic, Victorian, and Edwardian: Part Two-Manuscripts, Letters, and Drawings," pp. 212-224), H. W. Liebert, Richard M. Ludwig, John V. Fleming, Earl Miner, and Thomas P. Roche. Also, the entire Winter, 1986 issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle focuses on the Robert H. Taylor Collection. See also: Robert H. Taylor, "Contemporary Collectors III: The Robert H. Taylor Library" in the Book Collector Vol. 3, no. 4 (Winter, 1954); "Association Copies from the Collection of Robert H. Taylor" in the Gazette of the Grolier Club [New series], (June, 1969), no. 10; and A.D. Wainwright, "Robert H. Taylor" in the Gazette of the Grolier Club [New series], (1986), no. 38.
- Names:
- Beerbohm, Max, Sir (1872-1956)
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron (1788-1824)
Pope, Alexander. (1688-1744)
Shaw, Bernard (1856-1950)
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Strachey, Lytton (1880-1932)
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
Trollope, Anthony
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
