Collection of author Raymond Toole-Stott, author of Circus and Allied Arts: A World Bibliography. The Collection includes correspondence, monographs, book drafts, printed ephemera and scrapbooks relating to the circus.

This collection was assembled by Raymond Toole-Stott (1910-1982), British author, journalist and compiler of the multi-volume Circus and Allied Arts: A World Bibliography, as well as other writings on the circus, conjuring, and Somerset Maugham. Toole-Stott also worked as a free-lance journalist for twenty years, eight of which he spent as the Chief Feature writer to Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia. During a few seasons in the 1930s, he managed a circus on his own.

21 Linear Feet (35 document boxes and cartons, 7 flat oversize boxes)

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

The collection is open for research. This collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.