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Notebooks, 1950s-1990s

30 items
Collection Creator:
Mills, Stuart (1940-2006)
Dates:
1950s-1990s
Located In:
Box B-001820, Folder 1-7, Box B-001821, Folder 1-3
Extent:
30 items
Languages:
English
Scope and Contents

This series of materials contains notebooks that Stuart Mills kept through his career, beginning in the 1950s as an art student at Birmingham College of Art. Dating through to the 2000s, the notebooks also include a scrapbook with clippings of the Hertford Exhibition where Mills was an exhibiting artist, and a scrapbook of ephemera related to Trent Book Shop, Tarasque, and the Bux Gallery. The bulk of the materials are from the 1960s, when Mills' first began experimenting with poetry.

The notebooks contain a variety of Mills' drafts and compositions, and include: drafted letters to various collaborators, poets, and artists (such as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Lee Harwood, Edwin Morgan); diary entries; prose (including descriptive, autobiographical, fragment, reflections and critical essays about poetry, painting, art, philosophy, teaching, other artists, the "world of little magazines," etc.); poetry; drawings, sketches, and cartoons; writing notes; lists (such as authors, books, quotations, definitions, Q&As, glossaries, contact lists); scrapbooks; a poetry anthology mockup; and small collages.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.

Credit this material:

Notebooks; Stuart Mills Papers, C1654, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (mss): Boxes B-001820 to B-001821
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.

This collection contains digital files, which may require specific software or hardware for access. Refer to our Tips on Accessing Born-Digital Content for information on how to render these file formats.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Amy C. Vo in 2022. The dealer had primarily housed materials in plastic binder sleeves and binders. The majority of these binders were retained, and each sleeve contains item-level description from the seller. Materials were rehoused in folders and boxes in instances where binders were damaged or materials were loose in containers.

Several groupings of correspondence, which were separated by sender in the dealer's arrangement, were integrated to create the Correspondence series. The dealer groupings included the "Simon Cutts, Erica Van Horn, and Kay Roberts Correspondence to Stuart and Rosemary Mills" series, the "Ian Hamilton Finlay Correspondence" series, and a subseries of materials from the Aggie Weston's series called "Miscellaneous correspondence and orders from libraries, collectors, and dealers" (now called "Business") which actually also included correspondence related to Mills' work with Tarasque and Poet's Poems. A gift for Stuart Mills' son from Simon Cutts was also moved from the Tarasque series and added to Correspondence.

Finding aid written by Amy C. Vo in 2022, incorporating description written by the dealer, and retaining some dealer-supplied folder titles. Titles were changed to simplify arrangement and and title information was added to scope and content descriptions where appropriate.

The born-digital materials in this collection have been processed according to Princeton University Library's Born-Digital Processing Workflows. For more information on the workflow, please read our full Born-Digital Processing Information Note.

Collection Overview

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

This series of materials contains notebooks that Stuart Mills kept through his career, beginning in the 1950s as an art student at Birmingham College of Art. Dating through to the 2000s, the notebooks also include a scrapbook with clippings of the Hertford Exhibition where Mills was an exhibiting artist, and a scrapbook of ephemera related to Trent Book Shop, Tarasque, and the Bux Gallery. The bulk of the materials are from the 1960s, when Mills' first began experimenting with poetry.

The notebooks contain a variety of Mills' drafts and compositions, and include: drafted letters to various collaborators, poets, and artists (such as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Lee Harwood, Edwin Morgan); diary entries; prose (including descriptive, autobiographical, fragment, reflections and critical essays about poetry, painting, art, philosophy, teaching, other artists, the "world of little magazines," etc.); poetry; drawings, sketches, and cartoons; writing notes; lists (such as authors, books, quotations, definitions, Q&As, glossaries, contact lists); scrapbooks; a poetry anthology mockup; and small collages.

Arrangement

The notebooks in this series were not arranged.

Collection History

Appraisal

Photocopies of the Ian Hamilton Finlay notebook in the "Domestic Pensées" series were discarded, as the collection contains the original notebook.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Amy C. Vo in 2022. The dealer had primarily housed materials in plastic binder sleeves and binders. The majority of these binders were retained, and each sleeve contains item-level description from the seller. Materials were rehoused in folders and boxes in instances where binders were damaged or materials were loose in containers.

Several groupings of correspondence, which were separated by sender in the dealer's arrangement, were integrated to create the Correspondence series. The dealer groupings included the "Simon Cutts, Erica Van Horn, and Kay Roberts Correspondence to Stuart and Rosemary Mills" series, the "Ian Hamilton Finlay Correspondence" series, and a subseries of materials from the Aggie Weston's series called "Miscellaneous correspondence and orders from libraries, collectors, and dealers" (now called "Business") which actually also included correspondence related to Mills' work with Tarasque and Poet's Poems. A gift for Stuart Mills' son from Simon Cutts was also moved from the Tarasque series and added to Correspondence.

Finding aid written by Amy C. Vo in 2022, incorporating description written by the dealer, and retaining some dealer-supplied folder titles. Titles were changed to simplify arrangement and and title information was added to scope and content descriptions where appropriate.

The born-digital materials in this collection have been processed according to Princeton University Library's Born-Digital Processing Workflows. For more information on the workflow, please read our full Born-Digital Processing Information Note.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.

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.

This collection contains digital files, which may require specific software or hardware for access. Refer to our Tips on Accessing Born-Digital Content for information on how to render these file formats.

Credit this material:

Notebooks; Stuart Mills Papers, C1654, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (mss): Boxes B-001820 to B-001821

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