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Title: Thomas Pinney Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1807-1995
Bulk dates: 1807-1859
Collection Number: mssPinney papers
Creator:
Pinney, Thomas.
Extent: Approximately 800 pieces.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
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.
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
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.
[Identification of item]. Thomas Pinney Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Gift of Thomas Pinney, 2006.
Biographical Note on Thomas Pinney
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.
Biographical Note on Thomas Babington Macaulay
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unpublished History of France, among other works.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.
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.
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Pinney, Thomas --
Archives.
Macaulay, Thomas
Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
College teachers --
California.
Historians -- England.
Letters (correspondence) -- 19th
century.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay,
Baron, 1800-1859.