- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Lansdale, Maria Hornor, 1860-
- Title:
- Maria Hornor Lansdale Correspondence
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cr56n100g
- Dates:
- 1884-1931 (mostly 1900-1928)
- Size:
- 4 boxes and 1.7 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-4
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of correspondence and miscellanea of the American author Maria Hornor Lansdale (b. 1860).
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collecton consists primarily of letters to Lansdale written by her physician-friend Walter Biggar Blaikie of Edinburgh, with several containing comments on her book Scotland, Historic and Romantic (1905). This correspondence spans over a quarter of a century, from 1900 to 1928. Also included are letters from Lansdale's publisher Henry Holt regarding her translation of Grazia Deledda's Doppo il divorzio [After the Divorce] (1904), as well as letters from the artist Cecilia Beaux, the novelist Ellen Douglas Deland, and James E. Wood. There are also four photographs of Blaikie and a small selection of miscellanouse correspodence.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Lansdale, Maria Hornor, 1860-
Maria Hornor Lansdale was an American author.
Collection History
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Ran Tao, Princeton Class of 2006 in 2004. Finding aid written by Ran Tao, Princeton Class of 2006 in 2004.
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.
- Credit this material:
Maria Hornor Lansdale Correspondence; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cr56n100g
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-4
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- Subject Terms:
- Artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Publishers and publishing -- New York (N.Y.) -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Translators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Women authors, American -- Correspondence. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence.
- Names:
- Blaikie, Walter Biggar, 1847-1928
