Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Thomas Pinney Papers
- Dates:
- 1807-1995, bulk 1807-1859
- Creators:
- Pinney, Thomas.
- Abstract:
- The collection contains research materials relating to English historian, poet, and politician Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) collected by English professor Thomas Pinney. The majority consist of photocopies of letters by Macaulay spanning his lifetime. These may be photocopies of original letters, copies from microfilm, copies of published letters, transcriptions, or excerpts.
- Extent:
- Approximately 800 pieces.
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item]. Thomas Pinney Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains research materials relating to English historian, poet, and politician Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) collected by English professor Thomas Pinney. The majority consist of photocopies of letters by Macaulay spanning his lifetime. These may be photocopies of original letters, copies from microfilm, copies of published letters, transcriptions, or excerpts. Pinney’s notecard index of Macaulay’s correspondence reflects the majority of the chronologically sorted letters. There are also folders of unsorted letters and letters of indeterminate date.
The series of correspondence by others consists of photocopies letters about Macaulay by family members and others, both during and after his lifetime.
Other research materials include collected biographical materials, published articles about Macaulay, catalogue information about collections of Macaulay letters and notable people, copies of literary and business works by Macaulay, and copies or transcriptions of journals and memoirs about Macaulay by family members.
Bound volumes include published works by Macaulay family members and a dissertation about Macaulay’s literature.
Oversize items include correspondence by Pinney as well as other printed material about Macaulay.
The index of letters is an index prepared by Pinney on notecards. It is organized by date. The completeness of this index has not been verified.
The microfilm series consists of four reels of microfilm.
- Biographical / historical:
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Thomas Pinney is a Professor of English, emeritus, at Pomona College. He has edited published volumes of the letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Rudyard Kipling, and is the author of A history of wine in America. He received a BA from Beloit and a Phd from Yale.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859, was an English historian, poet and politician. He attended Trinity College Cambridge, and received numerous awards for his poetry and prose there. He wrote numerous essays for the Edinburgh Review. A stout Whig in politics, he ultimately followed his abolitionist father's principles, spoke eloquently in favor of parliamentary reform and was prominent in the colonial government of India. Toward the end of his life he published a massive, yet incomplete, History of England, and also wrote an unpublished History of France, among other works. He was raised to the title of Baron in 1857.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Thomas Pinney, 2006.
- Arrangement:
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Organized in the following series: Correspondence by Macaulay (Boxes 1-10), Correspondence by others (Box 11), Research materials (Box 12), Bound Volumes (Box 13), Oversize (Box 14), Index of Letters (Box 15), and Microfilm (Box 16). Arranged primarily chronologically within each series. Correspondence by others is arranged alphabetically by last name, then in chronological order. No photocopies may be made of facsimile materials. Original letters (primarily to and from Pinney) and original transcriptions may be copied.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2007
- Date Encoded:
- Machine readable finding aid encoded by Diann Benti in March 2017 from PDF finding aid originally in the Huntington Digital Library.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
- Terms of access:
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No photocopies may be made of facsimile materials. Original letters (primarily to and from Pinney) and original transcriptions may be copied.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item]. Thomas Pinney Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2191