Laurence Hutton

Laurence Hutton (August 8, 1843 – June 10, 1904)[1] was an American essayist and critic.

[4] 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.

Frank Weitenkampf quotes Hutton and the Epoch magazine on its genesis:[8] "I began the collection in rather a peculiar way.

About 1864 or 5 I happened to be in the store of Fowler & Wells, when a boy brought in a death-mask of Cromwell.

I went there and found a large number, among them Washington (the Houdon cast), Franklin, Laurence Sterne (supposed to be authentic), Wordsworth and Walter Scott."...