In response to: He Thanked Princeton by Donating His Collection of Death Masks
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November 2024
Princetonians lead think tanks; the perfect football season of 1964; Nobel in physics.
In your biographical sketch of Laurence Hutton — honorary degree recipient, instructor in the Department of English, and donor of a collection of death masks — you omitted one other notable connection to Princeton. He is the namesake of the Department of History’s top prize, which resulted from a donation in Hutton’s memory in 1914 by his friend Samuel Elliott, a publisher and rare book collector in New York.