Finding Aid for Harold N. Hillebrand Papers, 1895-1947, 1953 | University of Illinois Archives

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Collection Overview

Title: Harold N. Hillebrand Papers, 1895-1947, 1953

ID: 15/7/20

Primary Creator: Hillebrand, Harold Newcomb (1887-1953)

Extent: 0.3 cubic feet

Arrangement: By type (correspondence and notes) and chronological thereunder.

Date Acquired: 05/26/2023. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Comedy, Drama, Faculty Papers, Nightingale, Florence, Nursing, Poetry, Promptbooks, Shakespeare, William, Theatre, Troilus and Cressida, Urbana, Illinois, World War I - Intelligence, Morale and Propaganda

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

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"

Subject/Index Terms

Comedy
Drama
Faculty Papers
Nightingale, Florence
Nursing
Poetry
Promptbooks
Shakespeare, William
Theatre
Troilus and Cressida
Urbana, Illinois
World War I - Intelligence, Morale and Propaganda

Administrative Information

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 11/29/1963;

Acquisition Source: Postal mail

Other Note: 0 Pages

PDF Box/Folder List

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1507020.pdf

PDF finding aid for Harold N. Hillebrand Papers (15/7/20)

Box and Folder Listing

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Box 1

Folder 1: Anthony and Cleopatra, Edited by Harold Newcomb Hillebrand, 1926
Folder 2: The Wasp, n.d.
Folder 3: Retirement in Barrington, Illinois and Palo Alto, California, 1946, 1953: Contains Letters to Isabelle Grant
Folder 4: Correspondence, 1918-1947
Folder 5: Notes on 17th Century Plays, n.d.
Folder 6: Lecture on Comedy by H.N., n.d.
Folder 7: HN Hillebrand drama reprints, 1915-28, 1938
Folder 8: William F. Hillebrand, 12 reprints, 1895-1914