Details

Subject(s)

• American literature [Browse]
• English fiction [Browse]
• English literature [Browse]
• English literature—Women authors—Sources [Browse]
• Novelists, American—19th century—Correspondence [Browse]
• Novelists, American—19th century—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Novelists, American—20th century—Correspondence [Browse]
• Novelists, American—20th century—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Novelists, English—19th century—Correspondence [Browse]
• Novelists, English—19th century—Manuscripts [Browse]

Collector

• Taylor, Robert Hill, 1908-1985 [Browse]
• Taylor, Robert Hill, 1908-1985 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Correspondence [Browse]
• Drawings [Browse]
• Manuscripts [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1280s-1958 1800s-1930s

Restrictions note

The collection is open for research.

Summary note

The Robert H. Taylor Collection consists of over 4,000 3,300 manuscripts illustrating in their wide range the scope of English literature from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. This finding aid focuses on the modern manuscripts, both bound and unbound, in the collection, which is designated "RTC01" within the Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections Department of the Princeton University Library. However, a brief listing of the collection's Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts is included.

OCLC

1365097892

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