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Title: |
Ruby T. Scott Papers, 1690-1966 |
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Repository: |
Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, The University of Toledo
http://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/index.html |
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Creator: |
Scott, Roby T. |
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Dates: |
1690-1966 |
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Quantity: |
1.8 linear feet |
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Abstract: |
Primary focus of the collection is a group of autograph letters and other documents of British origin (1690-1905). Other materials include correspondence, genealogical material, poetry, photographs, and a scrapbook that document Scott's professional and personal life. |
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Identification: |
MSS-006 |
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Location: |
Collection is housed at the M. Ward Canaday Center for Special Collection, Vault location 66/C/2 |
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Language: |
The records are in English |
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Sample Image: |
http://drc.library.utoledo.edu/handle/2374.UTOL/203 |
Scott was an English professor at Toledo University.
| Year | Life Events | |
| Born in Chrisman, Illinois | ||
| Earned A. B., DePauw University | ||
| Earned A. M., University of Chicago; then taught at DePauw University and at Illinois State Normal U | ||
| Studied at University of Grenoble | ||
| Came to Toledo University as assistant professor in English department | ||
| Retired from TU as associate professor |
The Ruby T. Scott Collection consists of correspondence, genealogical material, poetry, photographs, and a scrapbook. The size of her personally generated material, however, is small in comparison to that of her collection of autographs and ephemera.
The largest series in the collection is a group of autograph letters and other documents of British origin. Dating from 1690 to 1905, this series was assembled beginning in the 1830s by Mrs. Harriott (Maxwell) White and continued by her nephew J. Maxwell Savage of Liverpool. The content of these autograph letters varies from curt replies to florid gossip. Correspondents include a significant number of fashionable, if forgotten, women authors, aristocrats, military officials, and politicians (see folder list). There are autograph poems by Julia Pardoe, Agnes Strickland, Catherine Stepney, Caroline Norton, and others. The core of the collection of correspondence seems to have been begun by Lady Anne Hamilton (1766-1846), lady-in-waiting to Queen Caroline. Also included are a considerable number of engraved portraits, all but one of them of women writers or aristocrats. One remarkable 18th-century German volume of autographs contains inscriptions in verse and a number of illustrations. These skillful watercolor and ink-line illustrations include common scenes, portraits, and a panorama of a city, probably Nuremberg. Other ephemera relate to American education. These have evidential value for educational practices about 1800, as the "credit tickets" for one Caroline Frisbie show. Ruby Scott's scrapbook offers us her memories and impressions of school life, written in 1907 as a 16-year-old. There is little in the collection that reflects Ruby Scott's professional activities as professor of English. Two volumes of poems, some manuscript poems, and a pamphlet, however, provide us with evidence of her creative activity.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
"[Collection Name], Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, University of Toledo Libraries"