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Eden Phillpotts Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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Phillpotts was a prolific and popular English novelist, playwright, and poet.
Consists of about 120 letters by Phillpotts to G. Herbert Thring and Denys Killam Roberts of the Society of Authors and Macleod Yearsley, his physician, regarding the publishing of his works, including new editions, foreign rights, stage performances, translations, arrangements with various publishing houses, and financial details, and containing comments on other writers, such as Thomas Hardy.
Additions to the collection include 64 letters (1946-1960) by Phillpotts to Waveney Girvan, editor of The West Country Magazine, letters to William Percival Farren, Mrs. K. Fraser, Malcolm Morley, and others, and copies of a few miscellaneous letters; also included is printed matter and newspaper clippings (1921-1960) about Phillpotts and his works.
Arranged alphabetically.
Purchased from David Holmes.
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This collection was processed in 2002. Finding aid written in 2002.
No appraisal information is available.
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- 2002
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