Call Number:

C0021

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

32 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Laurence Hutton Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1880-1895 (bulk) and 1817-1904 (inclusive)

Creator:

Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904

Form:

Correspondence -- 19th century and Photographs -- 19th century.

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.

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.

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.