Laurence Hutton

Laurence Hutton (1843 – June 10, 1904)[1] was an American essayist and critic.

Dora Wheeler Keith, Laurence Hutton, 1894, Princeton University Art Museum

Biography

Hutton was born in New York City and educated privately there. He was an inveterate traveler and for about 20 years spent his summers abroad. From about 1870 he contributed continually to periodicals. He was the dramatic critic of the New York Evening Mail from 1872 to 1874. From 1886 to 1898 he was the literary editor of Harper's Magazine. He was one of the organizers of the Authors' Club and of the International Copyright League, and was a member of the Players' Club, the Princeton Club, and the Nassau Club. An ardent collector of literary curiosities, his collections are of remarkable interest. In 1892 he received the degree of A.M. from Yale University and an honorary Master of Art degree from Princeton University in 1897.[2][3] From 1901 until his death in 1904, he was a lecturer of English at Princeton.

Hutton died of pneumonia in New York City in 1904. He left a collection of papers (Laurence Hutton Papers), 801 rare books, and a collection of death masks to the Princeton University Library.[4] After his death, his friend Samuel Elliott donated $2,500 in his memory to endow the Laurence Hutton Prize, awarded annually to the top student in the Princeton University Department of History.[5][6]

Works

His writings on dramatic subjects include:

  • Plays and Players (1875)
  • Curiosities of the American Stage (1891)
  • Memoir of Edwin Booth (1893)
  • with Brander Matthews, Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and of the United States (1886–87)
  • A Boy I Knew (1899)

He edited the American Actor Series (1881–82) and published a group of delightful literary guidebooks, including:

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References
  1. "Laurence Hutton Dead," The New York Times, June 11, 1904, p. 9.
  2. "Hutton, Laurence (1843–1904)." In: New International Encyclopedia, Vol. 10. New York: Dodd, Mead, p. 352.
  3. HUTTON, LAURENCE (1843-1904), Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, retrieved 2019-05-07
  4. HUTTON, LAURENCE (1843-1904), Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, retrieved 2019-05-07
  5. ["The Laurence Hutton Prize Fund," The Caledonian (April 1915), p. 152.
  6. [Catalogue of Princeton University, 1916-1917. (Princeton: Princeton University, 1916), p. 409.
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