Call Number:

C0798

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); R. A. Cecil Correspondence, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1946-1993 (inclusive)

Creator:

Cecil, R. A. (Robert Arthur), 1921-1994.

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century

Abstract:

Consists of letters to English curator R. A. Cecil primarily concerning the writing and publication of books about the Trollopes.

R. A. Cecil was curator of the Wallace Collection in London and a great-grandson of T. Adolphus Trollope (1810-1892) and Theodosia Garrow.

The collection consists of letters to Cecil primarily concerning the writing and publication of books about the Trollopes. Included are letters by N. John Hall, Helen Heineman, author of Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century (1978), Katharine M. Longley, Claire Tomalin, author of The Invisible Woman, the Story of Nelly Turner and Charles Dickens (1990), Herbert Van Thal, Harold Acton, and Lloyds Bank concerning the estate (1954) of M. R. Trollope. Also present are a small file of correspondence (1946-1947) of Cecil's mother, Beatrice Cecil, with Roger Senhouse, Michael Sadleir, and Bradford Booth, concerning her objections to parts of the book The Trollopes (1945), by L. & R. P. Stebbins, and photostats of the wills of Frances Eleanor Trollope and T. Adolphus Trollope.