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Princeton University Library Collection of Logan Pearsall Smith Materials
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The collection contains Logan Pearsall Smith's manuscripts, notes, and proofs for his last anthology, The Golden Shakespeare; and manuscripts for two articles, "Saved from the Salvage," which appeared in Horizons (March, 1943), and "Slices of Cake," an account of his meeting Henry James at Edith Wharton's shortly after the outbreak of World War I, published in The New Statesmen and Nation (June, 1943). Also included in the collection is correspondence and research materials, including bibliographical note cards on Jonathan Edwards. There are also two photographs of members of Smith's family.
Publication by Smith: The Golden Shakespeare (London: Constable & Co., 1949)
This collection was formed as a result of a Departmental practice of combining into one collection material of various accessions relating to a particular person, family, or subject. Materials have been acquired through multiple purchases and gifts. (AM 17578, AM 17872, AM 18631, AM 22077, AM 87-65, and AM 2017-152).
The letter from Smith to Siegfried Sassoon (1938) was donated to the University by Alexander D. Wainwright '39 in November 1991 in memory of Howell J. Heaney. (AM 92-49)
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.
Folder Inventory added by Kelly Rafey '16 in 2013
Finding aid updated by Faith Charlton in June 2017.
No appraisal information is available.
People
- Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945
- Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.
- James, Henry, 1843-1916.
- Russell, Alys Whitall Pearsall, 1867-1951
- Santayana, George, 1863-1952.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Faith Charlton
- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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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.
Collection Inventory
Includes Smith's manuscripts, notes, and proofs for his last anthology, The Golden Shakespeare; manuscripts of "Saved from the Salvage," about his recollections of Venice during the winter of 1897 and 1898, which appeared in Horizons (March, 1943); and "Slices of Cake," an account of his meeting Henry James at Edith Wharton's shortly after the outbreak of World War I, published in The New Statesmen and Nation (June, 1943); as well as a few miscellaneous writings.
Heavily marked and annotated, these manuscripts are representative of Smith's method of composition, which entailed constant revision of his work.
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Manuscripts consist of slips of paper pasted together and heavily revised.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of several typescripts and typescripts and manuscripts cut and pasted together, including two versions intended for publication in the Atlantic Monthly and two intended for publication inHorizon edited by Cyril Connolly.
One typescript for the Atlantic includes the poems published following the sketch. One typescript for Horizon does not have the poems, but does include a note about their reproduction in Connolly's hand, initialed.
Physical Description1 folder
Issue in which "Saved from the Salvage" appeared.
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Includes a cover sheet with an account, in Smith's hand, of the loss and recovery of the manuscript; and two manuscript versions, including a fair copy with revisions endorsed with the account of the loss and recovery of the manuscript, and a very rough revision of the fair copy, with sheets and parts of sheets pasted together and upon one another.
Physical Description1 folder
Two typescripts. One is a draft of the essay made up of pieces cut from an earlier manuscript, and an earlier typescript pasted together, and much revised, intended for publication in the Atlantic Monthly. The other, is a similar draft, though more drastically revised, intended for publication in the New Statesman.
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Includes a types copy made February 5, 1953, as well as notes describing the various manuscript versions of the article.
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Perhaps related to his Words and Idioms (1925); includes clipping from "The Great Dictionary"
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Consist primarily of letters from Smith to his sisters. Many include content about Edith Wharton and the Bloomsbury Set. Others frequently mentioned include Kenneth Clark, Cyril Connolly, Desmond McCarthy, and Roger Fry. Several letters also mention his niece (Mary's daughter by her first husband), Karin Stephen, and her marital troubles with her husband, Adrian Stephen, the brother of Virginia Woolf.
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Includes a letter from her sister Alys (December 16, 1922).
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Includes a letter from an unknown sender (February 12, 1927), likely a relation or close friend.
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Includes a letter to Siegfried Sassoon (November 25, 1938) and one to John Russell (November 3, 1945).
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Gosse recalls a meeting with Walt Whitman.
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Includes one letter or postcard from each of the following correspondents: John Carter, J. W. (John William) Mackail, Dame Una Constance Pope-Hennessy, and Percy Horace Muir; as well as two letters from Vincent Robin D'Arba Desborough and couple from a correspondent with intitials M. B., potentially Mary Berenson.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes two photographs. One is of his mother and sister, Hannah W. Smith and Alys Smith Russell; the other depicts Smith's sister, Mary (Mariechen) Berenson and her two daughters (likely Ray Strachey and Karin Stephen).
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