Call Number:

C0631

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 4 boxes
• 1.7 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Maria Hornor Lansdale Correspondence, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1884-1931 (inclusive) and 1900-1928 (bulk)

Creator:

Lansdale, Maria Hornor, 1860-

Form:

Correspondence.

Abstract:

Consists of correspondence and miscellanea of the American author Maria Hornor Lansdale (b. 1860).

Maria Hornor Lansdale was an American author.

The collecton consists primarily of letters to Lansdale written by her physician-friend Walter Biggar Blaikie of Edinburgh, with several containing comments on her book Scotland, Historic and Romantic (1905). This correspondence spans over a quarter of a century, from 1900 to 1928. Also included are letters from Lansdale's publisher Henry Holt regarding her translation of Grazia Deledda's Doppo il divorzio [After the Divorce] (1904), as well as letters from the artist Cecilia Beaux, the novelist Ellen Douglas Deland, and James E. Wood. There are also four photographs of Blaikie and a small selection of miscellanouse correspodence.