Thomas Pinney Papers: Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Natalie Russell, October 15, 2007.
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Overview of the Collection
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.
Access
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
Administrative Information
Publication Rights
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
[Identification of item]. Thomas Pinney Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Provenance
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.
Scope and Content
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.
Arrangement
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.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Pinney, Thomas --
Archives.
Macaulay, Thomas
Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
College teachers --
California.
Historians -- England.
Forms/Genres
Letters (correspondence) -- 19th
century.
Additional Contributors
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay,
Baron, 1800-1859.
Correspondence by Macaulay
Box 1
Correspondence by Macaulay. 1807 - 1820
Physical Description: 34 folders
Box 2
Correspondence by Macaulay. 1821 - July 1831
Physical Description: 42 folders
Box 3
Correspondence by Macaulay. Aug. 1831 - July 1833
Physical Description: 44 folders
Box 4
Correspondence by Macaulay. Aug. 1833 - Oct. 1834
Physical Description: 33 folders
Box 5
Correspondence by Macaulay. Dec. 1834 - 1840
Physical Description: 55 folders
Box 6
Correspondence by Macaulay. 1841 - 1845
Physical Description: 46 folders
Box 7
Correspondence by Macaulay. 1846 - June 1850
Physical Description: 31 folders
Box 8
Correspondence by Macaulay. July 1850 - Mar. 1853
Physical Description: 23 folders
Box 9
Correspondence by Macaulay. Apr. 1853 - May 1856
Physical Description: 27 folders
Box 10
Correspondence by Macaulay. June 1856-1860 and [pre 1860]
Physical Description: 27 folders
Box 11
Correspondence by others.
Folder 4
Macaulay, Zachary, 1768-1838: 1794-1814, Apr. 8
Folder 5
Macaulay, Zachary, 1768-1838: 1914-1834
Box 12
Research Materials about Macaulay.
Folder 1
Letter transmitting Penal Code
Folder 2
Report of the Educational Section
Folder 3
Some Rhymes for a Little Girl
Folder 5
Memoir of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lady Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan
Folder 6
Extracts from Contemporary Correspondence about Macaulay
Folder 7
Catalogue of the Library at Wallington Hall, Northumberland
Folder 8
Index to Trevelyan’s Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
Volume 1
Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq.
Volume 2
Life and Letters of Zachary Macaulay
Volume 3
Selection from the Correspondence of the late Macvey Napier, Esq.
Volume 4
Memoirs of the Clan “Aulay”
Volume 5
Die Literaturkritik Thomas Babington Macaulays und ihre rezeption
Folder 1
Printed materials about Macaulay
Folder 2
Correspondence with libraries
Folder 3
A list of Macaulay letters of Trinity College Library
Folder 4
Introduction to Macaulays’ History of France
Box 15
Index of letters by date.
Folder 1
Reel #1, Macaulay Letters
Folder 2
Reel #2, Macaulay Letters, Trinity O.15.12A
Folder 3
Reel #3, Macaulay Letters, O.15.12B, O.15.12C, O.15.12H
Folder 4
Reel #4, Macaulay Letters, O.15.70-71
