- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904
- Title:
- Laurence Hutton Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/rv042t08n
- Dates:
- 1817-1904 (mostly 1880-1895)
- Size:
- 32 boxes
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 1-31; B-000699
- Language:
- English
Abstract
The Laurence Hutton Papers consists of materials of editor and essayist Laurence Hutton. Included are bound volumes, such as letterbooks (1868-1904), clippings of Hutton's contributions to the press, and several volumes of family photographs.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
This collection contains the manuscripts of eleven of Laurence Hutton's stage and theater books, such as Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States, Curiosities of the American Stage, Plays and Players, Portraits in Plaster, and four of his literary landmarks books, covering London, Oxford, Florence, and Scotland. Also included are many shorter works representative of Hutton's interest in collecting books, autographs, and death masks and of his work in the history of the theater. In addition, the papers include some of Hutton's correspondence, mainly from 1885-1895, several documents, photographs and illustrations, and some works on the theater written by other people. Bound volumes include letterbooks (1868-1904), clippings of Hutton's contributions to the press, and several volumes of family photographs.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904
Laurence Hutton was literary editor of the "Literary Notes" Department at Harper's Magazine from 1886 to 1898. In 1897, Hutton received an honorary M.A. from Princeton University, and from 1901 to his death in 1904 he was a lecturer on English at Princeton.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
The collection primarily consists of gifts of Laurence Hutton that he donated circa 1915. It also includes purchases made by the Library over the years.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder Inventory for Boxes 1-16 added by Hilde Creager '15 in 2013.
Finding aid written in 2001.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Laurence Hutton Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/rv042t08n
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 1-31; B-000699
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- Subject Terms:
- Actors -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Actors -- United States -- 19th century.
Actresses -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Actresses -- United States -- 19th century.
Journalists -- United States -- 19th century.
Literary landmarks -- England -- London.
Literary landmarks -- England -- Oxford.
Literary landmarks -- Italy -- Florence.
Literary landmarks -- Scotland.
Masks (sculpture)
Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 19th century
Photographs -- 19th century. - Names:
- Princeton University
