Call Number:

C1160

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Bliss Perry Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1899-1938 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954

Form:

Biographies -- 20th century., Correspondence -- 20th century, and Manuscripts, American -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of selected manuscripts and correspondence of Bliss Perry, an American scholar and editor especially noted for his work in American literature.

Bliss Perry was an American educator, author, and editor. He taught at Princeton University from 1893 to 1900 and at Harvard University from 1907 to 1930; he was Harvard lecturer at the University of Paris from 1909 to 1910. From 1899 to 1909, Perry was the editor of the magazine The Atlantic Monthly. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honour. He edited many volumes, including the works of Edmund Burke, Sir Walter Scott, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He wrote a number of books, including works on Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Thomas Carlyle, as well as novels, short fiction, essays, an autobiography, and studies of poetry.

The collection consists of selected manuscripts and correspondence of Bliss Perry. The correspondence includes a letter from Perry to John T. Morse, dated 28 November 1921, regarding Perry's biography of Henry Lee Higginson ( Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson ), who was at the time Boston's leading investment banker. There is one letter from Perry to Norman Armour, thanking him for volumes of Kipling that he received from Charles Scribner's Sons; two undated letters to Varnum Lansing Collins; and four letters to Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop More Daniels, Princeton Class of 1888. There is an unaddressed letter of recommendation from Perry for a Mr. C. H. Morton, dated 12 June 1899; two letters from Perry to Francis Charles Macdonald about his writing; and two autographed visiting cards of Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson to Mr. and Mrs. John T. Morse, thanking them and discussing the biography that Perry has written about her husband. The manuscripts include a report (6 pp.) written by Perry, titled "Report on Hutton Mss," dated 28 April 1931, which was sent with a cover letter to James Thayer Gerould, Princeton University Librarian, about Lawrence Hutton letters which Perry had examined for publication. Also included is a typewritten (10 pp.) biography of Higginson written by Joseph Lee, with a few holograph corrections.

Folders are arranged by accession number.