RARE \"Essayist\" Laurence Hutton Hand Written Letter Dated 1898 For Sale

Up for sale a RARE!  "Essayist" Laurence Hutton Hand Written Letter Dated 1898. 

1904) was an American essayist and

critic. 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. 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. 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.