Special Collections Department Richard Hoffman
Arthur Miller
Collection Manuscript Collection Number
Accessioned Gift of Richard Hoffman and purchase, December 2002 - January 2003.
Extent 2 linear ft.
Content Play scripts, screenplays, photographs, correspondence, financial documents, posters, flyers, periodicals, journals, theatre programs, news clippings, and ephemera.
Access The collection is open for research.
Processed February 2004 by Gerald Cloud for reference assistance email Special Collections or contact: Special Collections, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Table of Contents Scope and Contents Note Series Outline Contents List Biographical Note Richard Hoffman Richard Hoffman, the Brooklyn theater collector and bookdealer, built the Arthur Miller Collection over a period of fifty years. During his service in the United States Army, Hoffmans experience as an actor led to an assignment to create a television program titled Your Army in View, which consisted of interviews and live drama. After his discharge from the service in 1955, Hoffman taught in the drama department of The City College of New York. During this period he was awarded a Eugene ONeill fellowship for playwriting. He also seriously began to collect rare books and first editions of contemporary American dramatists, notably the playwrights Eugene ONeill, Arthur Miller, and Neil Simon. Richard Hoffman's interest in collecting first editions led to his career as an antiquarian bookdealer. | |
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