Guide to the Raymond Toole-Stott circus collection PA Mss 14
Project archivist: David Tambo; machine-readable finding aid created by David Seubert.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
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Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Title: Raymond Toole-Stott circus collection
Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 14
Physical Description:
21 Linear Feet
(35 document boxes and cartons, 7 flat oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1886 - 1970
Abstract: 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.
Language of Material:
English
.
Access
The collection is open for research. This collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.
Acquisition Information
Library purchase, 1972.
Arrangement
The collections is divided into the following series: Personal/Biographical, Correspondence, Writings, Manuscript writings
by others, Printed materials, Research materials, Scrapbooks, Separations, Photographs, Realia, Oversize.
Biography
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.
Among his other credits, Toole-Stott was the founder and original editor of the
Sawdust Review, a precursor to the British circus journal
King Pole. Recognized as the pre-eminent historian/bibliographer on the circus, he spent the later part of his life collecting numerous
books related to the circus, while compiling and writing his four-volume bibliography. Toole-Stott's accomplishments as a
scholar and circus aficionado are particularly notable, considering that he worked full time in the Treasury Solicitor's office
as a civil servant. Prior to his death in 1982, he had started to write the fifth volume in
Circus and Allied Arts series, which has since been published posthumously.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Raymond Toole-Stott circus collection, PA Mss 14. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Processing Information
Collection was previously identified as Toole-Stott Circus Collection, Mss 126.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a manuscript component and a larger book collection of several hundred volumes, both of which are
housed in Special Collections.
The manuscript holdings have been partially arranged and described. The following is a preliminary box level inventory of
the collection.
Publication Rights
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.
box 2, box 3
Correspondence (includes other research material and working papers)
Circus and Allied Arts (includes typescripts, proofs and reviews)
box 8
Vols. 1-4 (bound carbon copies)
box 10
Page proofs and typescripts (unsorted)
box 11
Manuscript writings by others
box 12
L'Union des Historiens du Cirque (U.H.C.) Etudes (4 bound volumes containing ca. 75 articles and essays by various authors, generally inscribed)
box 13, box 14, box 15, box 16, box 17
Children's books (uncataloged)
box 21, box 22, box 23, box 24, box 25, box 26
Pamphlets, programs, leaflets and other printed ephemera
box 29
Research Materials (including notebooks)
box 30, box 31, flat-box 51
Separations (material, including correspondence, removed from books cataloged separately in the Toole-Stott Collection)
box 32
Photographs (includes a few b/w negatives)
box 33a, box 33b, box 34a, box 34b
flat-box 1, flat-box 2, flat-box 3, flat-box 4, flat-box 6, flat-box 7, flat-box 43, flat-box 44, flat-box 45, flat-box 46, flat-box 47, flat-box 48, flat-box 49, flat-box 50
flat-box 36
Circus and Allied Arts (galley proofs)
flat-box 37
Monographs, portfolio, children's books, poster
flat-box 38, flat-box 39
Research materials (mostly photostats and artwork)
flat-box 42
Clippings (some on disbound scrapbook pages)
