- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Boyd, James, 1888-1944
- Title:
- James Boyd Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x633f110f
- Dates:
- 1915-1944
- Size:
- 16 boxes
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-16
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of manuscripts of novels, articles, stories, and verse by the American historical writer James Boyd.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of manuscripts and galleys for four published novels by Boyd-- Drums (1925), about the American Revolution, Long Hunt (1930) and Bitter Creek (1939), about the American frontier, and Roll River (1935), set in his native Harrisburg, Pa.--as well as autograph and typed manuscripts for many articles, short stories, and verse. Also includes miscellaneous correspondence.
- Arrangement
Manuscripts arranged as follows: Boxes 1-5, Bitter Creek; Boxes 6-7, Drums; Box 8, Long Hunt; Boxes 9-12, Roll River; Boxes 13-15, miscellaneous correspondence, articles, short stories, and verse; Carton, card files.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Boyd, James, 1888-1944
In 1940, American novelist James Boyd (Princeton Class of 1910) organized the Free Company of Players, a group of American writers that produced a series of original radio plays in response to what they saw as antidemocratic attitudes prevalent in America due to the growing war in Europe.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Batak manuscript is a gift of the New York Times Company. Novel manuscripts are a gift of Katharine Boyd.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager '2015 in 2012.
Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager '2015 in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- 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:
James Boyd Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x633f110f
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-16
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- American fiction -- 20th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Fiction.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Manuscripts. - Genre Terms:
- Fiction -- 20th century.
Galley Proofs (Printing) -- 20th century.
Manuscripts -- 20th century. - Places:
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction.
