Collection context
Summary
- 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.
- Extent:
- 21 Linear Feet (35 document boxes and cartons, 7 flat oversize boxes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Raymond Toole-Stott circus collection, PA Mss 14. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Library purchase, 1972.
- Processing information:
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Collection was previously identified as Toole-Stott Circus Collection, Mss 126.
- Arrangement:
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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.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research. This collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Raymond Toole-Stott circus collection, PA Mss 14. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062