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Roger Hinks Papers
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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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R. P. Hinks was an English art historian.
The collection contains the diaries/journals of Hinks, with typed transcriptions, as well as drafts of John Goldsmith's edited version of them that was published in 1984 as The Gymnasium of the Mind: The Journals of Roger Hinks, 1933-1963. In addition, there are notes for a lecture entitled "Sacred and Profane Love," dealing with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and their wives; notes and related correspondence about "The Antique" and classical Greek art for a Penquin series; over forty small notebooks (1932-1963), some containing obvious source material for the journals; correspondence of Hinks, with his father, Arthur R., and brother, David A. G., with friends Bernard Berenson, Thure Bonde, Ian McCallum, Patrick Thursfield, and others; correspondence of Francis Wormald, a professor of paleography and Hinks's friend and executor of his estate (with McCallum); a few photographs of Hinks; his watch and a set of keys; and various estate-related documents, such as Hinks's will and an inventory of his household. Thursfield's detailed examination of the manuscript material left behind by Hinks at his death, entitled "The Journals and Diaries of Roger Hinks" (9 pp.) and dated July 1964, is included.
The brief biographical note on Hinks is taken from the "Prologue" of The Gymnasium of the Mind: The Journals of Roger Hinks, 1933-1963, edited by John Goldsmith (Salisbury, Wiltshire: M. Russell, 1984).
The collection was purchased from the estate of I. R. M. McCallum in 1991.
No appraisal information is available.
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- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 1998
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research use.
- 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
Consists of Hinks's diaries (and typed transcriptions of them), drafts of John Goldsmith's edited version of them which was published as The Gymnasium of the Mind, and several folders of notes on "Sacred and Profane Love," "The Antique," and miscellaneous other topics. The diaries are arranged chronologically and numbered consecutively, though there are some missing numbers: 1 (except a note), 24, 25, 42-46.
This series is arranged into three subseries: Diaries, Manuscripts, and Notes.
Physical Description7 boxes
Consists of diaries for the years 1933-1963.
Arranged chronologically.
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Consists of manuscripts for The Gymnasium of the Mind: The Journals of Roger Hinks, 1933-1963, edited by John Goldsmith, both the early and final drafts.
Arranged by draft.
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Consists of notes for "Sacred and Profane Love" and "The Antique."
Arranged by subject of note.
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Contains correspondence of Hinks with his father, Arthur R. Hinks, from 1929 to 1945; correspondence (1936-1948) with his brother, David A. G. Hinks; and correspondence with some friends, including Bernard Berenson (1950-1953), Count Thure Bonde (1937-1962), Ian McCallum (1959-1963), and Patrick Thursfield (1957-1963). In addition, there is a thick folder of Francis Wormald's correspondence (mostly 1963-1964) as executor of Hinks's estate, as well as correspondence between Hinks's father and brother, dating from 1928; however, most of it is undated.
Arranged by correspondent.
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Contains over 40 small notebooks, dating from 1932 to 1963. The contents of some have been crossed out with pencil marks. Many of the later ones are more like daily calendars of engagements rather than commentary. Placed at the end are a copy of The Arts (number two, 1946), containing Hinks's article "Mannerism", and a small amount of miscellaneous printed material.
Arranged chronologically.
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Includeds datebooks (1943-1957) for Amsterdam, Rome, Athens; small sketchbook (1955); writings on art; lecture notes.
Physical Description2 boxes
Consists of a matted photo of Hinks seated at a desk, labeled at the bottom "C. G., Amsterdam, 1949"-with several copies.
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Consists of a pocket watch and a set of keys, from whose keychain dangles a medallion depicting "La Vannée."
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Consists of a copy of Hinks's will (1959), a final accounting of Hinks's estate (1965), an inventory (1964) of Hinks's diaries and journals by Patrick Thursfield, and newspaper obituaries.
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