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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
- Title:
- George Augustus Sala Correspondence
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sq87bt643
- Dates:
- 1857-1890 (mostly 1857-1894)
- Size:
- 4 boxes and 1.75 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-4
- Language:
- English
Abstract
George Augustus Sala was a nineteenth-century English journalist, artist, book illustrator, traveler, humorist, and novelist. The collection contains approximately 300 letters written to Sala by about 200 different people over the course of 40 years. Among the correspondents are prominent authors, journalists, artists, nobility, philanthropists, and other notables.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection contains approximately 300 letters written to Sala by about 200 different people over the course of 40 years. Included in the collection are letters, usually single, by prominent authors, journalists, artists, nobility, philanthropists, and other notables, such as Sir Edwin Arnold, P. T. Barnum, Dion Boucicault, M. E. Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Lady Mary Combermere, George Cruikshank, Charles Dickens, Jean Henri Dunant, Emily Faithful, Lord Ronald Gower, W. Holman Hunt, Sir Henry Irving, Charles G. Leland, Horace Mayhew, Arthur Orton (the Tichborne claimant), Charles Reade, Henry Vizetelly, Thomas Woolner, and Edmund Yates.
Additional accessions include letters written by Sala to various correspondents, including Richard Edgecumbe, William Powell Frith, Sir Charles Hall, Joseph Jefferson, Parke Godwin, Lady Monckton, and John Busrand Payne. Also included is a letter from Ralph Straus, who seems to have been the original owner of the 300 letters, to de. V. Payne Payne regarding Sala, dated Sept. 6, 1939.
- Arrangement
Letters sent to Sala have been removed from one large scrapbook, maintaining their original (random) order, and placed in folders with numbers corresponding to the former scrapbook pages. Arranged as follows: Box 1, folders 1-90; Box 2, folders 91-200; Box 3, folders 201-347; Box 4, Xerox copies of the letters, and letters sent by George Sala.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
George Augustus Sala was an English journalist, artist, book illustrator, traveler, humorist, and novelist. He was editor of Chat, founded and edited (1860-1866) the Temple Bar magazine, and was special correspondent in 1856 to Russia for Charles Dickens and for the Telegraph during the civil war in America. Sala was also a contributor to Household Words and many other publications, and the author of books of travel and novels, such as A Journey Due North (1858) and Things I Have Seen And People I Have Known (1894).
Collection History
- Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2002. Finding aid written in 2002.
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:
George Augustus Sala Correspondence; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sq87bt643
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-4
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- Subject Terms:
- Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Collectors and collecting -- England -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
English literature -- 19th century.
Illustrators -- England -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Journalists -- England -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Nobility -- England -- Correspondence.
Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 19th century
- Places:
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. -- Correspondence.
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
