SOURCE: “The Achievement of Ridgely Torrence,” in The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. XII, No. 3, Spring, 1951, pp. 103-09.

In the following essay, Thorp offers a thumbnail sketch of Torrence's life, career, and contribution to American letters.

Friends of Princeton and friends of the late Ridgely Torrence '97 (for there are, happily, many who survive him) will welcome the good news that Mrs. Torrence (Olivia Howard Dunbar) plans to give his literary papers to Princeton University. They will add immeasurably to our records of his literary generation. We shall place them on our shelves beside letters and manuscripts of his friends E. A. Robinson and William Vaughn Moody which Mr. Torrence was instrumental in procuring for Princeton.¹ In his memory and in his honor the Library will hold, in the fall, an exhibition of Torrence's published and unpublished works.

His classmates of '97 may remember Ridgely Torrence as Hermann...