Title: Harold N. Hillebrand Papers, 1895-1925, 1934, 1937-43, 1947

Series Number: 15/7/20

Acquired: 05/26/2023. 11/29/1963;

Volume: 0.3 cubic feet

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146 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive (Prior Request Preferred)

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146 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive (Prior Request Preferred)	1-

Description:

Correspondence and manuscript material of Harold Newcomb Hillebrand (1887-1953), member of the English Department (1914-44) and Head of the Department (1939-44), including letters from Stuart Pratt Sherman about Urbana during World War I, 1918-19; Central Council for Nursing Education and friends and theatrical agents about Hillebrand's play Florence Nightingale; Ida Zeitlin, Sam Raphaelson and Brock Pemberton about the play, The Old Order; John Q. Adams and George Kittredge, about Hillebrand's Variorium Troilus and Cressida and Henry Arthur Jones, William Archer, Ernest A. Boyd, Thorton Wilder about other topics.

The papers include handwritten and typed copies of a prompt book of The Wasp, with descriptive notes; handwritten "Notes on 17th Century Plays;" a lecture on comedy; eight reprints on drama (1915-28) and twelve reprints (1895-1914) of geologist and chemist William F. Hillebrand, Prof. Hillebrand's father.

A 2023 acquisition consists of one small book edited by Hillebrand in 1928: "Antony and Cleopatra: the Arden Shakespeare"