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Edmund Yates Collection
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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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Edmund Yates was an English novelist, and he founded The World, a weekly society newspaper in 1874.
The collection consists of Yates's correspondence, photographs, and memoranda, as well as papers of others, relating to his founding and editorship of the London newspaper The World. Much of the correspondence is addressed to Charles Thomas, another World editor, and to the newspaper in general, including letters to the editors, cover letters for works submitted for publication, and letters by contributors to the paper's "Acrostics" column, but there are letters by Yates as well. In addition, the collection contains a photograph of Wilkie Collins and newspaper clippings, including some describing Yates's imprisonment for libel in 1885.
Among the papers of others are some letters by a group of minor Victorian novelists, W. B. Maxwell, Mrs. F. Cashel Hoey, Charlotte Riddle, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. In addition, there are reminiscences of Yates by Braddon, Sir Francis Burnand, Joseph Ashby-Sterry, and "Nemo."
The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.
Purchased from David Holmes in 1987-1994 and George Robert Minkoff, Inc. in 1993. Additions are a gift of David Holmes in 1955 (AM 88-2, AM 90-110).
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Folder inventory added by Feng Zhu '2014 in 2012.
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- 2008
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The collection is open for research.
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