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Scrapbook regarding Charles Lamb and his circle, 1825-1895 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear feet (1 volume)
Abstract:: This volume contains London-based newspaper clippings of literary reviews as well as a few music reviews and poems dating between 1825 and 1895 regarding Charles Lamb and his literary circle.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Adelaide Horatio Seymour Spencer commonplace book, 1848-1851 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: A volume comprising excerpts from the works read by Adelaide Horatio Seymour during the years from 1848 to 1851 providing a record of her reading interests with many contemporary titles included.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

John Louis Haney papers, 1885-1958 (inclusive) 1903-1958 (bulk)

Extent:: 8 linear feet (16 boxes )
Abstract:: This collection contains material related to the professional, academic, and personal life of John Louis Haney (1877-1960), a high school principal, scholar, and book collector. It contains correspondence; research notes on various topics; and manuscript drafts of essays, talks, and radio transcripts, as well as an inventory of his library and journals concerning his undergraduate and graduate education.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

William Tinsley Publishing Correspondence, 1866-1889 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box, 2 items, and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: The Tinsley brothers, Edward (1833-1866) and William (1831-1902), set up in the book trade business around 1854. They focused mainly on publishing fiction for the popular lending libraries, and specialized in luxuriously bound three-volume novels. Consists of 77 letters, 1866-1889, received by the Tinsley Brothers publishing firm of London, England.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Ralph Rylance Letters to John Freeman Milward Dovaston, 1818-1833 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of a group of 25 letters, 1818-1833, addressed to John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782-1854) at Salisbury and London, England, by his friend and fellow author Ralph Rylance.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists, 1806-1958 (inclusive) 1830s-1930s (bulk)

Extent:: 108 boxes, 161 items, 12 volumes, and 72.9 linear feet
Abstract:: The Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists, consisting of the library of books, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and ephemera as collected by Morris Longstreth Parrish, Class of 1888, came to Princeton University in 1944 as a bequest. This finding aid focuses on Parrish's original collection of manuscripts, both bound and unbound, and includes his correspondence (related to his collecting activities) and letters both to and from many of the Victorian authors, as well as the manuscript and related (non-book) items given to and/or acquired for the collection by the Princeton University Library in subsequent years.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

George Augustus Sala Correspondence, 1857-1890 (inclusive) 1857-1894 (bulk)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 1.75 linear feet
Abstract:: George Augustus Sala was a nineteenth-century English journalist, artist, book illustrator, traveler, humorist, and novelist. The collection contains approximately 300 letters written to Sala by about 200 different people over the course of 40 years. Among the correspondents are prominent authors, journalists, artists, nobility, philanthropists, and other notables.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Thomas Marc Parrott Papers, 1882-1957 (inclusive) 1915-1952 (bulk)

Extent:: 23 boxes and 13.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers of American Shakespearean scholar Thomas Marc Parrott (Princeton Class of 1888), as well as printed matter and some works of other authors.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

G. P. R. James Collection, 1825-1858 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.50 linear feet
Abstract:: George Payne Rainsford James was an extremely prolific English novelist and historian in the nineteenth century. His collection contains some of his correspondence with various editors and colleagues, along with some miscellaneous prose and poetry, unfinished letters, and James's autographs.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]