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Morris Longstreth Parrish (1867-1944) was a respected Philadelphia businessman who painstakingly built up in the course of his lifetime an impressive library of Victorian novelists at his residence, called Dormy House, in Pine Valley, New Jersey. The phrase "Parrish condition" became a trade word among bibliophiles for the highest quality standard of first editions, as exemplified by Parrish's purchases. However, it was just as important to Parrish that his books be read and enjoyed, and not be preserved on his shelves as museum pieces. Parrish authored three, privately printed bibliographies based on his library collection: Victorian Lady Novelists (1933) on the Brontës, George Eliot, and Mrs. Gaskell, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes (1936), and Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade (1940).

Parrish attended Princeton University briefly, as a member of the Class of 1888, but did not graduate. He received an honorary Masters of Arts degree from Princeton in June 1939. He bequeathed his entire library, including furniture and furnishings, to the Princeton University Library upon his death. The majority of printed books in the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists is housed in the Parrish Room , a recreation of Parrish's library at Dormy House, which is located in the Special Collections Department of the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library. The manuscripts and artwork in the Parrish Collection, however, are housed in separate locations within the Department.

A detailed summary of the growth of the Parrish Collection in the decade following its arrival at the Library was written by Alexander D. Wainwright, first curator of the Parrish Collection, who held the job until his death in January 2000. The following excerpts are from Wainwright's article entitled "A Summary Report and an Introduction," as published in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (Volume XVII, Number 2, Winter 1956, pp. 59-67):

The Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists consists primarily of a series of more than twenty author collections. When it came to Princeton it contained over sixty-three hundred volumes and (exclusive of the nearly eighteen hundred Lewis Carroll mathematical manuscripts), approximately one thousand manuscript items, mostly letters-the latter a comparatively small figure since Mr. Parrish had no pronounced enthusiasm for manuscript material - as well as many theater programs, playbills, photographs, clippings, and other miscellanea (pp. 59-60).

...As a result of these purchases and gifts, the Library has added to the Parrish Collection during the past ten years over five hundred volumes and some nine hundred manuscript items, mainly letters (p. 60).

...The Library places, for obvious reasons, a greater emphasis on manuscript material than did Mr. Parrish; for every author it is interested in acquiring letters related to any aspect of the composition, publication, and reception of his work, for several authors it is interested in any significant letter, and one of the ultimate aims is the possession of the manuscript of at least one major work of each author (p. 61).

*From "The Library of Dormy House" by John Carter (article reprinted in The Princeton University Library Chronicle , Volume VIII, Number 1, November 1946, p. 7): "... he [Parrish] cares... almost nothing for manuscripts."

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Morris Longstreth Parrish (1867-1944) was a respected Philadelphia businessman who painstakingly built up in the course of his lifetime an impressive library of Victorian novelists at his residence, called Dormy House, in Pine Valley, New Jersey. The phrase "Parrish condition" became a trade word among bibliophiles for the highest quality standard of first editions, as exemplified by Parrish's purchases. However, it was just as important to Parrish that his books be read and enjoyed, and not be preserved on his shelves as museum pieces. Parrish authored three, privately printed bibliographies based on his library collection: Victorian Lady Novelists (1933) on the Brontës, George Eliot, and Mrs. Gaskell, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes (1936), and Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade (1940). Parrish attended Princeton University briefly, as a member of the Class of 1888, but did not graduate. He received an honorary Masters of Arts degree from Princeton in June 1939. He bequeathed his entire library, including furniture and furnishings, to the Princeton University Library upon his death. The majority of printed books in the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists is housed in the Parrish Room , a recreation of Parrish's library at Dormy House, which is located in the Special Collections Department of the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library. The manuscripts and artwork in the Parrish Collection, however, are housed in separate locations within the Department. A detailed summary of the growth of the Parrish Collection in the decade following its arrival at the Library was written by Alexander D. Wainwright, first curator of the Parrish Collection, who held the job until his death in January 2000. The following excerpts are from Wainwright's article entitled "A Summary Report and an Introduction," as published in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (Volume XVII, Number 2, Winter 1956, pp. 59-67): The Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists consists primarily of a series of more than twenty author collections. When it came to Princeton it contained over sixty-three hundred volumes and (exclusive of the nearly eighteen hundred Lewis Carroll mathematical manuscripts), approximately one thousand manuscript items, mostly letters-the latter a comparatively small figure since Mr. Parrish had no pronounced enthusiasm for manuscript material - as well as many theater programs, playbills, photographs, clippings, and other miscellanea (pp. 59-60). ...As a result of these purchases and gifts, the Library has added to the Parrish Collection during the past ten years over five hundred volumes and some nine hundred manuscript items, mainly letters (p. 60). ...The Library places, for obvious reasons, a greater emphasis on manuscript material than did Mr. Parrish; for every author it is interested in acquiring letters related to any aspect of the composition, publication, and reception of his work, for several authors it is interested in any significant letter, and one of the ultimate aims is the possession of the manuscript of at least one major work of each author (p. 61).

Consists of letters, documents, manuscripts, and, occasionally, artwork of 27 Victorian novelists and some of their family members, particularly when these were also writers, such as the Trollopes, or devoted literary executors, Fanny Kingsley, Lady Ritchie, and Florence Emily Hardy, for example. Letters to and about the major authors are included, as well as a variety of related material such as illustrations by "Phiz," George Cattermole, and Henry Holiday, and adaptations, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Authors most extensively represented include Charles Reade, with approximately 449 letters, many documents (often drafted by Reade himself) concerning publication and production agreements (and disagreements), real estate, law suits, etc., nine notebooks and 130 poster-size notecards, and signed stories, plays, and novels, including Griffith Gaunt , and a set of extensively corrected page proofs for The Cloister and the Hearth ; Wilkie Collins, with approximately 670 letters, and signed holograph manuscripts of two stories and four novels in weekly parts; Charles Kingsley, with approximately 702 letters, including over 100 to his wife, and signed holograph manuscripts of 40 sermons; Anthony Trollope, with 689 letters, signed holograph manuscripts (carbons) of his travel letters from Australia, and manuscripts, partly holograph, of two books.

Other large holdings include over 590 letters of Edward Bulwer Lytton, holograph manuscripts (fair copies) of six novels by William Black, holograph manuscripts of five manuscripts by Charlotte Yonge, and a collection of C. L. Dodgson's mathematical manuscripts, approximately 1770 items. In addition, the collection has four albums of Dodgson's photographs, compiled by himself with autograph indexes, and the Household Words Office Book, listing title and author of all contributions to Dickens' periodical during its ten-year run.

Other writers and artists significantly represented in the collection are William Harrison Ainsworth, J. M. Barrie, M. E. Braddon, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, George Eliot, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hughes, Charles Lever, George Meredith, Ouida, Robert Louis Stevenson, and William Makepeace Thackeray.

In addition, the collection contains M. L. Parrish's correspondence (39 boxes) relating to his activities in creating the collection, including correspondence with booksellers, bibliophiles, and friends. Among those well-represented in this series are Michael Sadleir, Carroll A. Wilson, I. R. Brussel, Walter M. Hill, Elkin Matthews, Maggs Bros., Quaritch, and E. P. Dutton & Co.

Finally, it should be noted that approximately fifty manuscript items (letters, notes, drawings, etc.) contained within specific books in the Parrish Room have been indexed as manuscripts.

Detailed Author Holdings:

There are approximately 27 authors represented in the Parrish Collection. A brief biographical note for each author follows, with references taken from The Oxford Companion to English Literature and/or The Concise Dictionary of National Biography series. The individual entries in this series also incorporate excerpts from the descriptive catalogue of the Parrish Collection, a twenty-year-plus project of Alexander D. Wainwright, which is currently scheduled to be published in two large volumes in the year 2001. The catalogue entries by author can be viewed online at the following URL (in PDF file format): http://libweb2.princeton.edu/rbsc2/parrish/

All direct quotations from Wainwright's catalogue that reference the manuscripts in the Parrish Collection are indicated between the ' ' marks.

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) - Ainsworth wrote 39 novels, mostly utilizing historical settings, and edited periodicals including Bentley's Miscellany and Ainsworth's Magazine . The original Parrish collection contained only one Ainsworth letter. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' The collection now contains nearly 300 Ainsworth letters, including correspondence with Richard Bentley and Charles Kent, as well as [18] letters addressed to Ainsworth by John Forster and others. Also acquired were major parts of the autograph manuscripts of Chetwynd Calverley (1876) and Beatrice Tyldesley (1878), and leaves of several other manuscripts. '

The Princeton University Library has also acquired an oil portrait of Ainsworth that now hangs over the mantlepiece in the Parrish Room of the Library's Rare Books Department (replacing the "Alice" fresco that once hung in that spot in Parrish's library at Dormy House).

Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bart. (1860-1937) - Barrie was a Scottish playwright and novelist who moved to London in 1885 and had many stage successes there, including The Admirable Crichton in 1902. He may be best known, however, for authoring the internationally popular children's play, Peter Pan , which was eventually published in book form in 1911. He was conferred the title of baronet in 1913. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Mr. Parrish had acquired 130 Barrie letters, most of which are addressed to the second Mrs. Thomas Hardy... An addition to the author's portrait file is a caricature of Barrie by Harry Furniss, in pen-and-ink, for the artists' series of "Celebrities in Their Old Age." '

William Black (1841-1898) - Black was a Scottish-born novelist who studied art in Glasgow before moving to London in 1864 where he worked as a journalist and editor. His novels include The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton (1872) and A Princess of Thule (1874). The original Parrish collection contained no manuscript material of Black. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue concerning the Library's manuscript additions:

' ... They include the autograph manuscripts of six novels: The Handsome Humes (1893), Madcap Violet (1876), Stand Fast, Craig Royston! (1890), Three Feathers (1875), White Heather (1885), and White Wings (1880); the autograph manuscripts of four short pieces: "The Ballad of Pilgrim James," "The Heaven of Sad Lovers," "Ladies' Clubs," and "Romeo and Juliet: A Tale of Two Young Fools"; and 238 letters written by Black, as well as a number of letters addressed to him by various correspondents. '

Brontë Family - The Brontë family is represented in the Parrish collection by: Charlotte (1816-1855), who published Jane Eyre in 1847 under the pseudonym of "Currer Bell"; Emily Jane (1818-1848), who published Wuthering Heights in 1847 (her literary pseudonym was "Ellis Bell"); Anne (1820-1849), who published The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848 (she was "Acton Bell"); Patrick (1777-1861), the sisters' father who was an author as well as curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, in England, and who outlived all his children; and Patrick Branwell (1817-1848) , the brother who invented the imaginary kingdom of Angria with his sister Charlotte. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' The collection is not strong in manuscript material, with the Library deferring to Mr. [Robert H.] Taylor who actively collected the Brontës. It only includes nine Charlotte Brontë letters and the manuscripts of two of her French exercises. '

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) - Collins lived in London throughout his life and wrote novels, such as The Moonstone (1868), as well as plays and serial stories. He also collaborated with Charles Dickens on No Thoroughfare in 1867. He is credited for writing the first, full-length detective stories in English. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' The manuscripts [additions] make a far more impressive showing. When it came to Princeton the collection included fifty-one Collins letters, an unusually large number, revealing Mr. Parrish's interest in the author. It now contains nearly seven hundred of his letters, including correspondence with Francis Carr Beard, Chatto and Windus, Hunter, Rose & Co., Alberic Iserbyt, Charles Kent, and Frederick Lehmann, as well as a number of letters addressed to Collins. Other additions include the autograph manuscripts of four novels, Blind Love (1890), The Fallen Leaves (1879), Man and Wife (1870), and Poor Miss Finch (1872), and of two short stories, "The Captain's Last Love" (1876) and "The Ghost's Touch" (1885); part of a corrected page proof of the New Edition of The Woman in White (1861); corrected page proof of Little Novel (1887); a little packet of notes for The Moonstone (1868); two sepia wash and pencil drawings by Henry C. Brandling, illustrations for Rambles Beyond Railways (1851); sixty-four pen and pencil drawings by George H. Thomas, with eighteen proofs, for Armadale (1866); and a small pencil and crayon portrait of Wilkie Collins as a boy, attributed to his father. '

Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826-1887) - Miss Mulock, later Mrs. Craik, was best known for her 1856 novel, John Halifax, Gentleman (1856). She also wrote poems, children's books, short stories, and essays. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Mr. Parrish only had twenty-one Craik letters. There are now more than two hundred, including thirty-one letters and cards addressed to the publisher William Isbister. The twenty autograph manuscript additions to the collection include Chapters VIII-X of A Hero , which Mr. Parrish had given to Mrs. B. George Ulizio in 1928; "Meadowside House," an article on the Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children written in 1864; "Work for Idle Hands," an essay on providing work for the unemployed in Ireland, published posthumously in Concerning Men and Other Papers (1888); Mrs. Craik's translation of Henriette de Witt's Une famille a la Campagne (1867); and her translation of Francois Guizot's M. de Barante (1867), with page proofs of the translation corrected by herself and Guizot and two letters from Guizot to her. An unusual acquisition is the manuscript catalogue of the library of George L. Craik, who was a partner in the publishing firm of Macmillan and Co., and his wife, the novelist, compiled in the early 1880s. Mrs. Craik's own publications occupy ten leaves of the catalogue and include fourteen bound manuscripts. '

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - Dickens was an extremely prolific and popular novelist in his day who wrote such classics as Oliver Twist (1837-39), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1849-50), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1860-61). He also had a deep and abiding interest in amateur theatricals, collaborating with Wilkie Collins to write No Thoroughfare in 1867. In 1850 he founded the weekly periodical Household Words and, in 1859, All The Year Round , which he edited until his death. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' The Dickens collection formed by Mr. Parrish contained only ten Dickens letters and one of his checks.... The additions made by the Library to the collection include thirty-three Dickens letters (fourteen of which are addressed to Peter Cunningham), as well as nineteen letters of Charles Dickens, Jr., and a small number of letters from Catherine Dickens, W. H. Wills, and others, concerning Dickens and his publications. The most important additions are the Office Book of Household Words (1850-59), and three ledgers of the Guild of Literature and Art: Chairmans agenda for 1854-96, containing notations in Dickens' hand; Minute book for 1854-98, with twenty-six of the minutes signed by Dickens; and Minutes of general and council meetings for 1854-67. A fair number of drawings and illustrations have been acquired: six by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), five by George Cattermole, twenty-five by Joseph Clayton Clarke ("Kyd"), and one each by Harry Furniss, J. Mahoney, Thomas Percy, and John L. Roget. Three portraits of Dickens have also been added to the collection: a charcoal by Samuel Lawrence, circa1860; a pastel by E. Goodwyn Lewis, 1869; and a caricature by "Kyd." '

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) - Disraeli was a politician and prime minister who also wrote novels, spanning from Vivian Grey (1826) to Endymion (1880). He was created Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' No concerted effort [by the Library] has been made to acquire manuscript items. The collection contains sixteen Disraeli letters and a few letters by Lady Beaconsfield, Isaac Disraeli, and others associated with Disraeli. Also acquired were texts of two speeches delivered by Disraeli in Edinburgh in 1867, clipped from a newspaper and heavily revised for publication in book form; page proof of Endymion (1880); and eight pages of the manuscript of Alroy (1833) in the hand of Disraeli's sister. '

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1832-1898) - Dodgson, a mathematician and resident of Oxford's Christ Church College, wrote the beloved children's classic Alice in Wonderland (1865) under the pen name of Lewis Carroll. It was, in fact, the Alice and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) books that inspired M. L. Parrish to begin collecting Carroll's works and eventually be dubbed the "dean of Carroll Collectors." Excerpts from Parrish catalogue:

' The collection included a remarkably large number of Carroll's elusive pamphlets and leaflets, as well as many binding variants and association copies of the principal books. Other notable, and unusual, items in the collection were four albums of photographs by Carroll; a copy of the celebrated biscuit tin, given to Mr. Parrish by one of Carroll's sisters; and a leather wallet carefully indexed on the flap in Carroll's hand. Since Mr. Parrish cared "almost nothing for manuscripts," [quote by John Carter on his 1939 article about Parrish's book collection, "The Library at Dormy House"] it is not surprising that, despite his great interest in Carroll, there were only forty-odd letters in the collection, which included, on the other hand, the large accumulation [nearly eighteen hundred in number] of mathematical manuscripts that Carroll left when he died and Carroll's diary of his trip to Russia, privately printed by Mr. Parrish in 1928 under the title Tour in 1867 . ... The Library has added to the collection some sixty letters written by Carroll, as well as fourteen letters to him from William Holman Hunt, John Ruskin, and others; the manuscript of an acrostic addressed to Alice Compton; and "Story of the three sisters," eight pen-and-ink sketches on one side of a sheet, drawn by Carroll for May Mileham while on a train trip. Included among other additions are six pencil sketches by Henry Holiday and five proofs for illustration for The Hunting of the Snark (1876); six pen-and-ink drawings by Harry Furniss for Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893); a pen-and-ink drawing by F. Carruthers Gould for Hector H. Munro's The Westminster Alice (1902); a pen-and-ink caricature of Dodgson by Burr Shafer for The Saturday Review of Literature (1948); and a preparatory sketch in pencil by Carlo Pellegrini ("Ape") for a caricature of Dean Liddell published in Vanity Fair (1875). Also acquired were the manuscript libretto of "Alice in Wonderland," performed by the Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 15, 1898, signed by cast and management, mainly students or graduates of Harvard, M.I.T., Radcliffe, and Wellesley; the autograph manuscript of Derek Hudson's biography of Lewis Carroll (1954); and the first draft of Hudson's British Council pamphlet on Carroll (1958). '

George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier (1834-1896) - Du Maurier was an artist and novelist who was born in Paris and joined the staff at Punch in London. His novel Trilby (1894) was later dramatized and produced on the London stage in 1895. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' The Library has added to the collection seventeen Du Maurier letters and four drawings by him, including a pencil drawing of Taffy" in "The Cut Direct" for Trilby (1895). '

George Eliot (Mary Ann or Marian Evans, later Cross) (1819-1880) - George Eliot was the pen name used by Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans for her novels, which included Adam Bede (1859) and Middlemarch (1871-2). George Henry Lewes was her lifelong (though not legal) companion from 1854 until his death in in 1878. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Mr. Parrish had thirty-nine letters written by George Eliot; two notebooks ("quarries"), one for Romola , the other for an unfinished novel; an account book for the years 1855-1879; the autograph manuscript (bound) of George H. Lewes's Problems of Life and Mind , Problem II, with additions and corrections in George Eliot's hand; as well as nine letters from Lewes to George Smith and other correspondents. The Library has acquired for the collection sixty-four Eliot letters, forty-four of which are addressed to Elizabeth R. P. Belloc; a notebook containing three short philosophical essays; an unbound manuscript of Problems III and IV of Lewes's Problems of Life and Mind , with "notes in George Eliot's handwriting as arranged for her for publication"; a black-and-white chalk drawing by Lord Leighton, "The Peasant's Fair," for the 1880 edition of Romola ; a charcoal study of the author by Sir Frederic W. Burton for the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery; eight letters written by George H. Lewes to various correspondents; and 16 pages of autograph manuscript notes on the persecution of the Jews in Spain. '

Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorne Stevenson Gaskell (1810-1865) - Married to William Gaskell in 1832, she wrote her first novel, Mary Barton , in 1848, following the death of her son. She contributed to Dickens' Household Words and All The Year Round periodicals. She befriended and later wrote the first biography of Charlotte Brontë, the first edition of which had to be withdrawn on account of certain libelous statements. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' To the eleven Gaskell letters collected by Mr. Parrish the Library has added seventy-four, as well as thirteen letters addressed to her by Jane Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, and others. Other additions include the memorandum of agreement between Mrs. Gaskell and the publisher Edward Chapman, dated 23 August 1852, concerning the purchase of the latter of the copyright of Ruth , signed by both the author and publisher. '

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) - Hardy, the poet and novelist from Dorset, was the author of such novels as The Return of the Native (1878), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). He initially made a living from architectural work before devoting himself full-time to writing, and he married Emma Gifford in 1874. They eventually settled into the house he had designed himself, called Max Gate, near Dorchester, in 1887. Two years after her death, he married Florence Dugdale, in 1914. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Mr Parrish made no attempt... to acquire manuscript material for the collection, and as a result it included only eleven Thomas Hardy letters. There has been no sustained effort to acquire manuscript and other non-printed material for the collection... As it is, they include forty-nine letters written by Hardy and three pencil sketches drawn by him; an autograph receipt signed for payment for the final installment of The Return of the Native in the December 1878 issue of Belgravia ; two photographs of Hardy's study in Max Gate, one with an inscription by Hardy, the other inscribed by the first Mrs. Hardy; and eighty-six letters from Florence Emily Hardy [the second Mrs. Hardy] to Howard Bliss. Three drawings by Leo Bates to illustrate "The Turnip-Hoer" in Cassell's Magazine , August 1925, came from the Bliss collection. Finally, the Library acquired three portraits of Hardy: two by Reginald G. Eves, one in oil, the other in charcoal; and the third by Samuel J. Woolf, in charcoal. '

Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) - Best known for his novel Tom Brown's School Days , Hughes was educated at Oxford and later became a Liberal MP and county-court judge. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' When the collection came to Princeton it included eighteen Hughes letters. It now contains more than 325 letters from Hughes to various correspondents and a number of letters addressed to him, from Benjamin Jowett, James Russell Lowell, George McDonald, and others. Among other additions to the collection are correspondence and watercolor portraits of Hughes' father, John Hughes, and other members of the Hughes family, as well as a large photograph album containing four-two portraits of Hughes and members of his family. '

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) - Kingsley, author and clergyman, was educated at King's College, London, and Cambridge University. In 1844 he became rector of Eversley, in Hampshire, and married Frances Grenfell. He was honored with a professorship of modern history at Cambridge (1860-69) and the canonries of Chester (1869) and Westminster (1873), yet remained a controversial figure in his day. He wrote reforming ( Alton Locke ) and historical ( Westward Ho! ) novels, lectures, sermons, and stories for young readers such as The Water-Babies (1863). Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' There were only fifteen letters in the collection formed by Mr. Parrish. The collection now contains more than seven hundred letters written by Kingsley to various correspondents, including 105 to Mrs. Kingsley, fourteen to Lady Bunbury, 159 to Mr. William H. Cope, eleven to members of the Erskine family, ten to John Pike Hullah, twenty-one to Alexander Macmillan, twenty-three to John W. Parker, and eighty-five to members of the Stapleton family, as well more than ninety letters addressed to him by Anna Jameson, Harriet Martineau, Friedrich Max Müller, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, and others. Also acquired by the Library were the autograph manuscripts of fifty-four of Kingsley's sermons; the autograph manuscript of the essay on "Heroism"; the autograph manuscript of a lecture on the study of natural history, delivered in 1870; the autograph manuscripts of a number of poems and other short pieces; five pen-and-ink drawings of hunting in Ireland, "drawn by Charles Kingsley when a boy"; two pencil drawings by Edward Linley Sambourne for The Water-Babies (1885). Mrs. Kingsley and her family are also represented in the additions: Mrs. Kingsley by fifty-six letters to various correspondents, her letterbook containing transcripts in her hand of seventy-four letters to her from family and friends, and correspondence, agreements, etc. concerning Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life , and by 115 letters addressed to her (excluding those from her husband); "Lucas Malet," Grenville Arthur, Henry, Mary Henrietta, Maurice, and Rose Georgina Kingsley by miscellaneous correspondents. '

Charles James Lever (1806-1872) - Lever was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied medicine and later practiced in both Brussels and Ireland. In 1842 he gave up medicine to become editor of the Dublin University Magazine and published his own work in it. He lived out the last part of his life in Italy, where he wrote Roland Cashel (1850) and Lord Kilgobbin (1872), among other novels. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Mr. Parrish acquired only three Lever letters, and so the manuscript additions may be considered fairly substantial: some 90 letters from Lever to various correspondents; 39 letters from him to the publishers Chapman and Hall; more than 45 letters addressed to Lever by various correspondents; the autograph manuscript of his last novel, Lord Kilgobbin (1872); and a small "betting book" containing notes by Lever. Also acquired were seven drawings by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz") to illustrate Barrington (4), Davenport Dunn , Luttrell of Arran , and The Martins of Cro' Martin . '

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) - Bulwer-Lytton was educated at Cambridge and wrote novels such as Pelham (1828) and The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), as well as poetry and plays (the comedy Money was produced at the Haymarket in 1840). He also served as an MP both early (1831) and late (1852-66) in his life. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Despite his great interest in Lytton's publications, Mr. Parrish, as was pretty much his general policy, made no attempt to collect the author in autograph form. His collection included only twenty-five Lytton letters; a draft of the "Preface" for The Caxtons , dated August 1849, with two variant manuscripts of the text for the title page of the book; and the manuscript of a poem, "The Hollow Oak," dated August 22, 1862. The collection now contains more than 550 letters written by Lytton to various correspondents, forty letters to General and Mrs. Gascoyne, twenty-seven letters to Charles Kent, and sixteen letters to Edward Matthew Ward, as well as a few letters addressed to Lytton. The major autograph item acquired for the collection is the manuscript of Eugene Aram (1832). Other noteworthy acquisitions are: "Poetical attempts by E: G: Bulwer," an eighty-page notebook containing poems written by Lytton before the age of seventeen; "Epistolary Preface to the American Edition of 'Eugene Aram'," dated December 22, 1831; another draft of a "Preface" for The Caxtons , dated October 1849, with a manuscript of the test of the title page (from the collection of Harry B. Smith); the autograph manuscripts of the "Preface" and the prefatory poem in the 1850 edition of The Pilgrims of the Rhine , with the autograph manuscript of the "Preface" of the 1850 edition of Godolphin , the leaves mounted and elaborately bound with a portrait of the author and tear sheets of the texts as printed (from the library of George W. Childs); three pencil drawings by James Sant of Macready as Richelieu; and a caricature (pencil heightened with white) of Lytton by Carlo Pellegrini ("Ape") for Vanity Fair (October 29, 1870). '

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Maxwell (1837-1915) - Miss Braddon, who married publisher John Maxwell in 1874, authored approximately eighty books but is best known for the novel Lady Audley's Secret (1862). She also wrote plays and edited magazines, including the illustrated monthly Belgravia, to which Collins, Hardy, and Ouida contributed. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Mr. Parrish had only two Braddon autograph items: the ending of an 1891 letter and the "Form of Requiring Entry of Proprietorship" for the copyright of Lady Audley's Secret , signed by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and dated 21 November 1862. The collection now contains sixty-four letters written by the author to her actress friend, Lady Monckton, sixty-eight letters addressed to various correspondents, and a few minor manuscript pieces. '

George Meredith (1828-1909) - Meredith's respected literary career as a novelist and poet spanned fifty years. Educated in England and Germany, he wrote volumes of verse, such as Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth (1883), and novels, such as The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) and The Egoist (1879). Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' His collection included also twenty-two Meredith letters; a statement of accounts with Macmillan and Company, 1893-1894; and a receipt for payment for an article on contemporary literature in the April 1857 issue of the Westminster Review . The manuscript additions made by the Library to the collection are few in number. consisting of only fifteen letters written by and four about Meredith; the draft of an agreement between Meredith and William Waldorf Astor for the publication of Lord Ormont and His Aminta in The Pall Mall Magazine , signed by Meredith, 29 May 1893; a pen-and-ink drawing by Charles S. Keene for Evan Harrington ( Once a Week , September 15, 1860). '

Ouida (Louise de la Ramée) (1839-1908) - "Ouida" was the pen-name for the novelist whose writing career got started when William H. Ainsworth published her stories in Bentley's Miscellany in 1859-60. She wrote 45 novels, including Folle-Farine (1871), as well as animal stories and magazine articles. She spent most of her time in Italy from 1860 onwards, and lived lavishly in Florence before falling into debt and destitution in the last years of her life. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' A considerable number of her letters have also been acquired: more than 177 addressed to various correspondents and some 170 written to members of the Danyell family. The autograph manuscript additions include much of the manuscript of the novel Princess Napraxine (1884) on 210 folio half sheets, the manuscripts of two letters to an editor concerning dogs, and the manuscripts of two poems. '

Charles Reade (1814-1884) - Reade was a novelist and theater manager who spent much of his life in London and enjoyed great success in his day. Educated at Oxford, he dabbled in law, medicine, and even violin dealing, before embarking on a literary career in 1851. He turned his drama Masks and Faces (1852) into a popular novel titled Peg Woffington (1853). His other novels included It is Never Too Late to Mend (1856, later dramatized), The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), and Griffith Gaunt (1866). Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Mr. Parrish's Reade collection included forty-six Reade letters; four of Reade's notebooks; the manuscript of the part of General Rolleston in Foul Play , in the hand of Reade's secretary, J. G. Saunders; a draft in Reade's hand, based (without permission) on Anthony Trollope's novel Ralph the Heir . The manuscript additions made to the collection by the Library are many and varied. The collection now contains more than four hundred Reade letters; nine of his notebooks, including those for The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) and Hard Cash (1863); and 131 of his extraordinary large notecards. The additions-it should be noted that Reade's manuscripts, whether in his hand or in the hand of an amanuensis, whether bound or unbound, appear to survive mostly in incomplete or fragmentary condition-include: part of the manuscript of The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth (1857); the manuscripts of "Jack of All Trades" and "Autobiography of a Thief," which were published together under the title Cream (1858); the manuscripts (both incomplete) of The Eighth Commandment (1860) and Griffith Gaunt (1866); a portion of the manuscript of The Jilt (1877); the manuscript (incomplete) of Reade's last novel, A Perilous Secret (1884); as well as fragments of the manuscripts of a number of other publications. A more recent addition is a set of heavily corrected page proofs, dated 1860, for The Cloister and the Hearth . Also among the additions are manuscripts of nine of Reade's plays: the manuscript (incomplete) of Gold (1853); the manuscript of Masks and Faces (1854), in the hand of J. G. Saunders, the manuscript in Reade's hand of a new scene for Act I in "French's edition" of the play, and a transcription of the latter by an amanuensis, corrected by Reade; the manuscript in French of Act I of Le Faubourg Saint-Germain (1859); the manuscript of most of the text of the second and fourth acts of It's Never Too Late to Mend (1865), with the manuscript of a "Scene added to the last act of 'It's never too late to mend' for Miss Ellen Terry by her friend The Author"; the manuscript of all but the first two pages of Act I of Dora (1867); the manuscript of Kate Peyton (1872), an adaptation of the novel Griffith Gaunt , a rough draft in Reade's hand of Shilly Shally ; the manuscript of parts of The Countess and the Dancer (1883); and the manuscript of the fourth and fifth acts of Foul Play (1883). Other additions include: agreements, letters, etc. relating to several of Reade's plays; correspondence, legal documents, and other material concerning lawsuits initiated by Reade; real estate papers; a bank pass book for the years 1871-1875; and papers written after Reade's death about real estate, mortgages, insurance, etc., many in the hand of Reade's son, Charles Liston Reade. An unsigned portrait in oil of Charles Reade, bequeathed by him to Harper & Brothers, came to the Library in 1959 as the gift of the publishers. '

Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (1771-1832) - Scott was a Scottish novelist and poet who is credited with establishing the form of the historical novel. He published his novels anonymously through John Ballantyne and Co. (in which he secretly became a partner in 1805) before finally revealing his authorship in 1827. His verse romances included Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810), and his approximately 30 novels included The Heart of Midlothian (1818) and Ivanhoe (1819) . He was conferred the title of baronet in 1820. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' When the collection came to Princeton it included, perhaps simply as examples of their handwriting, four Scott letters and a letter written by his son-in-law, John G. Lockhart, and a head of Scott drawn in pencil by the American artist Francis Alexander when Scott called on him in Rome on 30 April 1832. The Library was able to acquire for the collection, by great good luck, the autograph manuscript of The Pirate , as well as a small portrait of Scott attributed to Samuel Mackenzie. ≫

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) - Stevenson was a Scottish-born and educated author who traveled widely in his lifetime and wrote novels, poems, plays, short stories, essays, and travel pieces. Among his popular novels were Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886). He eventually settled at Vailima on Samoa (in the South Seas) in 1889 where, in 1894, he died suddenly and was buried, leaving his masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston , unfinished. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Very little manuscript material of Stevenson interest has been acquired for the collection since the publication of the catalogue [ Robert Louis Stevenson: A Catalogue of the Henry E. Gerstley Stevenson Collection, the Stevenson Section of the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists ...(1971)], but two acquisitions deserve mention: the autograph manuscript of "Hester Noble's Mistake; or a word from Cromwell," a drama in four acts, on three leaves, the gift of Robert H. Taylor '30; and a self-portrait of Stevenson in academic garb offering carrots to a donkey, entitled "Dominie-and I,' in pen-and-ink, signed, the gift of Thomas V. Lange. '

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) - Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, and educated in England. He contributed drawings and articles to Punch from 1842 to 1854, and his novel Vanity Fair (1847-48) established his literary reputation. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' When the collection came to Princeton it included only sixteen letters written by Thackeray, a letter from George Cruikshank to Thackeray, a drawing by Thackeray for Punch (1851), and a few other manuscript items of Thackerayan interest. Although no determined effort has been made by the Library to increase the manuscript holdings of the collection, some items of interest have been added. Among the additions are twenty-three letters written by Thackeray, a three-page manuscript headed "At seven o'clock in the morning the Poet was lying on his bed...," memoranda on two leaves for The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (1853), and a leaf of the manuscript of The Virginians (1859), in the hand of a amanuensis with a few changes in Thackeray's hand, written on the verso of a letter from Octavian Blewitt to Thackeray (11 August 1859). Also acquired for the collection were twenty-five letters from Lady Ritchie to various correspondents, as well as eighty-five letters from Lady Ritchie and her daughter to W. J. Williams of Smith, Elder & Co., mainly concerning the Centenerary Biographical Edition of Thackeray's Works , 1906-15. Finally, the additions include the originals of two illustrations (by Frederick W. Pailthorpe and Frederick Walker) and five portraits: a plaster statuette of Thackeray by Sir Joseph E. Boehm, a caricature of Thackeray by Joseph Clayton Clarke ("Kyd"), a watercolor portrait of the author by Richard Dighton (reproduced as the frontispiece in Van Duzer's A Thackeray Library (1919), a marble bust of Thackeray as a boy by Edward Onslow Ford after the bust by J.S. Deville, and a portrait of Thackeray's mother, in pencil and watercolor, attributed to Samuel Lover. '

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) - Trollope was born in London and served a lengthy career (1834-67) with the Post Office and traveled widely abroad on missions (Egypt, West Indies, United States). He wrote 47 novels, which included Barchester Towers (1857) in his highly popular "Bartsetshire" series. Trollope also authored several travel books, short stories, biographies, and an autobiography (1875-76) that was published posthumously in 1883. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Mr. Parrish's Trollope collection included a memorandum of agreement between the author and Chapman & Hall concerning the publication of Ayala's Angel , 21 November 1879, in Trollope's hand and signed by him; duplicates in Trollope's hand of travel letters Nos. 5-17 (1875), with galley proofs of letters Nos. 11, 12, and 17; and nearly three hundred letters written by Trollope, which Mr. Parrish contemplated publishing. The Library was fortunate in being able to increase substantially the manuscript and non-book resources of the collection. The additions include: the manuscripts of An Eye for an Eye (1879) and The Life of Cicero (1880); six manuscript travel books (1841-71); the autograph manuscript of a lecture on the Zulus (1879); a notebook kept by Trollope on a trip to South Africa in 1877; the duplicate in Trollope's hand of travel letter No. 18, with a galley proof of the letter; and some 370 letters (some fragmentary) written by Trollope, as well as a number of letters written to him by Sir John E. Millais and various correspondents. Among other additions are three portraits of the author: a portrait by Samuel Lawrence, in charcoal, pencil and chalk, signed by the artist and dated 1864; a caricature by "Sem" (Georges Marie Goursat), in pencil and wash; and a statuette by Gertrude Fass. '

Trollope Family - In addition to Anthony, the Parrish collection is represented by the following members of the Trollope family: Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1892), the older brother of Anthony, who settled in Florence and published many works; his wife and author, Theodosia Garrow (1825-1865), whom he married in 1848; and Frances Eleanor Ternan Trollope (1780-1863), Anthony's mother, who became a novelist to support her family as a result of her husband Thomas Anthony Trollope's failure as a lawyer and a farmer (he died in 1835). Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' The Library has been more successful with manuscript material. It acquired from the estate of Robert A. Cecil, correspondence of, and other material relating to, Mr. Cecil's great-grandparents, Thomas Adolphus and Theodosia Garrow Trollope, and to Frances Eleanor Ternan Trollope, as well as to Mr. Cecil's grandmother, Beatrice ("Bice") Stuart-Wortley; various literary papers, letters, and other items that had been in possession of the Robinson family; and Michael Sadleir's file of correspondence with Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Trollope and their daughter, Muriel. Also acquired, separately and from various sources: thirteen letters from Frances Eleanor Ternan Trollope to various correspondents; more than ninety letters of Frances Milton Trollope, and a set of fifteen proofs of Auguste Hervieu's illustrations for her The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw (1836); the appointment of Morgan Neville as attorney authorized to sell the bazaar in Cincinnati, dated March 13, 1830, and signed and sealed by Thomas Anthony Trollope and Thos Aspinwall, U.S. consul in London; a few letters of Theodosia Garrow Trollope; nearly one hundred letters of Thomas Adolphus Trollope; and letters and documents relating to other members of the Trollope family. '

Ellen Price Wood (1814-1887) - She was a novelist (née Price, known as Mrs. Henry Wood) who lived abroad in France for many years before returning to London in 1856. She achieved great success with her first novel, East Lynne (1861), and published nearly 40 books in all. She also wrote short stories, and owned and edited the periodical The Argosy , which published work by Reade, Kingsley, and Anthony Trollope. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' [Parrish collected]... just one [Wood] letter. [The Library has] acquired forty-seven [letters] (addressed to various publishers and other correspondents). Also acquired were the manuscript of a nineteenth-century dramatization of East Lynne , perhaps by a Miss M. Smith, and a pencil drawing by Charles Keene to illustrate the novel Verner's Pride for its appearance in Once a Week (1862). '

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) - Yonge was a novelist best known for The Heir of Redclyffe who also edited a girls' magazine, Monthly Packet , for over 40 years. She was educated at home and lived all her life in the Hampshire village of Otterbourne. Excerpt from Parrish catalogue:

' Mr. Parrish only had three Yonge letters. The collection now contains 178 letters in her hand, as well as a small number of letters addressed to her. The collection includes also the manuscripts of five of her stories, The Carbonels (1895), The Constable's Tower (1891), The Cock and the Captive (1894), The Cross Roads (1892), and The Wardship of Steepcoombe (1896), and parts of the manuscripts of six other books. '

The collection is housed in folders in 80 archival boxes, with 17 additional shelves for bound, cased, boxed, and oversize items. Some artwork has been moved to the Graphic Arts Collection. This remains an open collection, and additions continue to be made from time to time. The collection has been arranged in the following series:

"A Summary Report and an Introduction," Alexander D. Wainwright, The Princeton University Library Chronicle (Volume XVII, Number 2, Winter 1956, pp. 59-67).

M. L. Parrish bequeathed his library collection to the Princeton University Library prior to his death in 1944, and the Library has continued to accept gifts and make acquisitions of related material since that time.

For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.

This collection was processed by Sylvia Yu in 2000. Finding aid written by Sylvia Yu in 2000.

Restrictions on Lewis Carroll photographs were lifted in 2023 as part of a restrictions review project.

Some artwork has been moved to the Graphic Arts Collection.

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Sylvia Yu
Finding Aid Date
2000
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Consists of manuscripts, both bound and unbound, mostly oversize, and artwork/ephemera housed in a variety of oversize containers.

Arrangement

The artwork is arranged alphabetically, for the most part, by artist, and stored in boxes on shelves 1-6; the bound manuscripts are shown here in alphabetical order (but are shelved by volume number on shelves, 7-15). Miscellaneous material follows in alphabetical order (the archival boxes occupy shelves 16-17).

Physical Description

32 boxes

Scope and Contents

Consists of works by individuals such as Wilkie Collins, Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves, and Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as others.

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

18 boxes

Physical Description

1 box

charcoal and chalk illustration, "Miss Dinah in deshabille," for Lever's Barrington, 1863. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

charcoal and chalk illustration, "The Major 'departs'--but, not 'in peace,'" for Lever's Barrington, 1863. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

charcoal illustration, "Poaching," for Lever's Barrington, 1863. 1 box.
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1 box

charcoal and chalk illustration, "Not quite the sort of thing--(Aunt Dinah thinks)," for Lever's Barrington, 1863. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

pen-and-ink and wash illustration, "'My good fellow' Said Mr. Winkle extending his hand &c.," for Dickens's Pickwick Papers, 1836-1837. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

pen-and-ink and wash illustration, "I say how nice you look," for Dickens's Pickwick Papers , 1836-37, with photographic negative, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

pencil and chalk illustration of Florence Dombey for Dickens's Dombey and Son, 1846-1848. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

pencil drawing, "Lord Glengariff building a few castles," illustration for Charles Lever's Davenport Dunn , London, 1859, signed "Phiz" [missing as of 4/23/02], dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

colored pencil and watercolor vignette of Mr. Pickwick, signed "Phiz", undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

pencil and watercolor vignette of a woman ironing, signed "Phiz", undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

engraving, "Hugh & Barnaby Rudge," trial proof of plate for Dickens's Barnaby Rudge , mounted on sheet with watercolor vignette of woman ironing, 1841. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

engraving, "The Marchioness," trial proof of plate for Dickens's Barnaby Rudge , mounted on sheet with watercolor vignette of Mr. Pickwick, 1841. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

watercolor and pencil illustration of the Peckniff family and Tom Pinch for Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

pen and wash drawing, "Mr. Pickwick in the Fleet," for the Household Edition, p. 337, signed "Phiz", mounted with print of the same drawing, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

pen and ink drawing, "Mary Martin's Levee," for Charles Lever's The Martins of Cro 'Martin , 1847, opposite p. 6, signed "Phiz", dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

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1 box

"Blind Love." Original, autograph manuscript in 15 folders, contained inside an oversize, flat, clamshell case, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

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1 box

Drawing of a mansion. Original painting by Lewis Carroll's "Alice," dated September 14, 1883, and "presented to me [M. L. Parrish] by Caryl Hargreaves, the son of Mrs. Alice Hargreaves, 1935 January." Framed behind glass and contained inside an oversize flat box., 1935 January. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

Note: All manuscripts/artwork in this group are either in folders or matted, and contained inside six large clamshell cases (Solander boxes).

Physical Description

1 box

Charles L. Dodgson's correspondence with J. and E. Kish, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letter from Lewis Carroll to the Lowrie children (photostat), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Mathematical Manuscripts" (Dodgson's original envelopes), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Meeting of [Oxford] Common Room" printed agenda (Dodgson was the Common Room's curator at the time), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letter with illustrations signed "Charles" [Dodgson] (matted photocopy), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Childhood letter by Robert Louis Stevenson to his parents (matted photocopy; original letter is in Author Files), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The visit of Mr. Charles Kingsley in The Berkeleyan , dated, 1874 June 11. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Publication agreement by George Meredith to write Lord Ormont and his Aminta, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Galley slips of Anthony Trollope's Travel letters nos. 11, 12 and 17, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Autograph manuscript by Thomas Anthony Trollope, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Drafts of Agreement between Ouida (Louise de la Ramée) and Chatto & Windus, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"We are all Ouida's Dogs..." verse by Ouida, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Ouida's "Dog-murder" letter to an editor, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Ouida's "The Dogs of Florence" letter to an editor, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

3 boxes

Real estate papers: Brompton Road and other properties, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Real estate papers: Account with Mrs. Matilda Alice Napier (5 Albert Terrace); also for Nos. 2 and 4 Albert Terrace, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Real estate papers: 6 Bolton Row, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Real estate papers: 15 Half Moon Street, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Autograph manuscript of "Nehemiah's Work", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Autograph manuscript of "Reality", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Autograph manuscript of "Monopoly vs. Property", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Autograph manuscript of "Rus", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Autograph manuscript of "Single-heart", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Autograph manuscript of "Suspended Animation", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Autograph manuscript of "The History of a Charity", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Two draft agreements for Double marriage (play), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence relating to John Coleman's production of Reade's play, It's never too late to mend, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Legal documents relating to W. E. Mills' 1863 unauthorized production of Reade's drama, It's never too late to mend, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Agreements concerning a production of Reade's drama, Put yourself in his place , by John Coleman in the United States, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Insurance papers, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Reade vs. Seaman (libel case documents), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Draft of Reade's will dated August 7, 1883, and a letter concerning his estate, 1884 April 22. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Papers written after Reade's death, relating to real estate, etc., dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Hughes Family Portraits and Drawings, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Watercolor portrait of Thomas Hughes, 1822-1896. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

[Hughes Family]. Watercolor of spectators at some event, acquired with a group of drawings by or relating to members of the Hughes family, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Thomas Wilkinson portrait by A. Morton, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

A medieval battle scene copied by Gerard Hughes, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Portrait of two girls ("William H. Hughes, Henry S. Hughes" pencilled on back), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Portrait of John Hughes (father of Thomas Hughes) by A. Morton, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

John Hughes portrait, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Wilkinson portrait, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"The Age of Innocence" painted by Sir J. Reynolds as drawn by M. Wilkinson ("Margaret E. W. Hughes" pencilled on back), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

George Hughes drawn by J. Watkins, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

George E. Hughes portrait ("George E. Hughes of Offley Place Eldest brother of Henry Hastings Hughes" pencilled on back), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

John Hughes portrait, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"A mountain range, near Rugby, Tennessee," by Sarah J. Hughes, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"A stream, near Rugby, Tennessee," by Sarah J. Hughes, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Ojai Valley, California" by Sarah J. Hughes, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Pepper trees" by Sarah J. Hughes, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

"Story of the Three Sisters": original pen-and-ink sketches by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) to accompany his adaptation of "The Three Little Pigs" as told to May Mileham, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Pen-and-ink drawing, "As your friend, Rev. Dodgson, I feel bound to point out..." signed by the artist Burr Shafer, reproduced in Saturday Review of Literature , volume XXXI, No. 34 1944 August 21, 21, 1944 August 21. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Enlarged photocopy of Lewis Carroll's photograph of Alice Liddell, seated and wearing a wreath on her head, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Enlarged photocopy of Lewis Carroll's photograph of Alice Liddell, seated beside a fern, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Enlarged photocopy of an unsigned drawing after Lewis Carroll's photograph of Alice Liddell, seated beside a fern, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Etching, portrait of Charles Dickens by T. Johnson, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Photograph of Samuel Laurence's portrait of Dickens' character Boz, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Photograph of the cast of No Thoroughfare (a theatrical production co-written by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Pen-and-ink drawing of Dickens' "Bob Cratchit and Ebenezer Scrooge" by Harry Furniss, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Pen-and-ink caricature by Harry Furniss of J. M. Barrie smoking a pipe, signed "Celebrities in their old age", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Photograph of J. M. Barrie's mother and two sisters, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Photograph of J. M. Barrie and the cast of an all-star revival of The Admirable Crichton, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Photograph of "J. M. B. leaving the roof of the Wyndhams to write 'Continuation of Rehearsal on Roof of Wyndhams Theatre'", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Pencil study of "Taffy" for "The cut direct" in Trilby by George Du Maurier, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Photograph of Thomas Hardy by Barraud, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Watercolor-and-pencil drawing, "Flowers of Song from Chas. Kingsley's Water Babies," by W. J. Gibbs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Photograph of Charles Kingsley seated in a chair, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Pencil and wash caricature of Charles Reade signed SEM (Georges Marie Goursat), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Pencil and wash caricature of Anthony Trollope signed SEM (Georges Marie Goursat), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Caricature of Anthony Trollope as published in Vanity Fair (dated ), 1873 April 5. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Pencil portrait of Sir Walter Scott by Francis Alexander, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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Pencil and pen-and-ink portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson by Hearth Foley, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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Pencil-and-watercolor portrait of W. M. Thackeray's mother, attributed to Samuel Lover, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

5 boxes

Notecards, dates not examined. 4 boxes.
Scope and Contents

pproximately 126 large, heavy, stiff cards, roughly 20 x 30 inches in size, with handwritten, miscellaneous notes and references, also some periodical clippings with annotations; some cards bear titles of Reade's works and are not in his hand.

Physical Description

4 boxes

"Analysis of the Accounts (Reade and Bentley) Delivered previous to the Injunction" printed on silk cloth. Caption on cardboard frame reads: "Reade refused to allow Bentley to issue cheap editions of Peg Woffington and Christie Johnson . Nevertheless, Bentley did it. Hence the injunction. This is a Special Copy of Bentley's account.", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Children Should be Either-Handed" printed broadside with an inscription by Reade at the bottom, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Original manuscript of Gold: a true romance. Dramatic story , in two notebooks (pages folded in half and stitched) with autograph note on cover of notebook 2: "part of It is never to late to mend", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Periodicals and clippings about the "Reade vs. Seaman" libel case, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Framed quotation with poem, "My wife and I..." from the library of Robert Louis Stevenson at Vailima (Western Samoa) and Stevenson's home in Edinburgh, Scotland, contained inside a cardboard box, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

Note: Miscellaneous artwork, illustrations, periodicals, clippings, and other printed materials, either matted or grouped in folders, and contained inside a clamshell case with metal clasps.

Physical Description

3 boxes

Certificate of M. L. Parrish's 1939 honorary degree from Princeton University and his membership certificate for The Trollope Society, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Two typewritten poems by J. Kearsley Mitchell (signed "JKM") to M. L. Parrish: "To Morrie, In grateful remembrance of a happy week-end," mounted on a cardboard backing, and a 70th Birthday poem (see Author Files for another poem by Mitchell), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Illustrated Birthday card for M. L. Parrish, addressed "To M. L. Parrish on His 70th Birthday," featuring many signatures, and a matted illustration, featuring M. L. Parrish and the Alice in Wonderland character, inscribed "Happy Birthday to Uncle, Dormy House, ", 1937 November 5. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Alice in Wonderland 100th Anniversary/Pratt Institute Library exhibition poster and an Alice in Wonderland book poster (Knopf), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Doublets -- a verbal puzzle" by Lewis Carroll for Vanity Fair (March 29, 1879; later published in The Lewis Carroll Handbook, 1979 edition, pp. 102-103), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poster advertisement (mounted on cardboard) for St. Nicholas , "The Ideal Magazine for Young Folks: The Beautiful Christmas Number" (containing a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, among others), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Original color portrait of Ouida (Louise de la Ramée), matted, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Black and white portrait (reprint) of Ouida, matted, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Illustrated analysis of Wilkie Collins' hands (chiromancy) by Claud Warren, dated, 1881. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Three magazine clippings: "Letters to Eminent Persons. No. LXXII. To Mr. Wilkie Collins" in The World (June 6, 1883); "The Victims of Circumstances" by Wilkie Collins in The Youth's Companion (August 19, 1886); and a short story by Charles Reade, titled "Good Stories of Man and Other Animals," in Harper's Weekly, 1876 June 17. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Set of five old postcards: portrait of "Elizabeth Fry" by G. Richmond and four garden scenes from "Earlham Park." ANS (found loose in box; item association unknown, "1941" pencilled on bottom): "Season's greetings, Dave Randall" (David A. Randall was one of Parrish's many book dealers), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Map of "Trollope's Barsetshire" inspired by S. Van B. Nichols and painted by George F. Muendel, as published in Yuletide , MCMXXIV, and mounted on cardboard, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Vanity Fair caricature (clipping dated 1873 April 5) of Anthony Trollope with biographical sketch written by Jehu Junior pasted on the back, 1873 April 5. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Two caricatures of Thomas Hughes -- one from the July 10, 1872 issue of The Hornet , titled "Master Tom Brown" and matted, and the other from Vanity Fair , dated 1872 June 8, with a biographical opinion written by Jehu Junior pasted on the back, 1872 June 8. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Printed leaflets (13) for and (1) against the re-election of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1858, as well as four leaflets (mounted on stiff paper) nominating Charles Dickens as Lord Rector by the Committee of Independent Students, 1858. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

1. "Letters to the Conservative Club, by a Living Junius." 16 lines of anti-Lytton verse, printed on blue paper. 22.5 by 16 cm. 2. "An Ode for the Independents. . . . Vote for Bulwer." 20 lines of verse. 22.5 by 14.5 cm. 3. "A Peculiar Song by a Peculiar Man." 40 lines of anti-Lytton verse. 26.5 by 15 cm. 4. "A Poetical Dirge." 36 lines of pro-Lytton verse. 28 by 22.5 cm. 5. "What has Bulwer Lytton Done for Students' Rights? Nothing. . . . Uphold Shaftesbury and Downright Truth." Liberal Association, 8th November, 1858. 28.5 by 22.5 cm. 6. "To the Students of the University of Glasgow. . . . Vote for Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton." Conservative Club Committee Rooms, November 8th, 1858. Printed on green paper. 28.5 by 23 cm. 7. "To the Students of the University of Glasgow. . . . by enthusiastically returning The Right Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton." Conservative Club Committee Rooms, 8th November, 1858. George Richardson, Printer to the University. Printed on pink paper. 29 by 22.5 cm. 8. "To the Students of the University of Glasgow. . . . Vote for Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton." Conservative Club Committee Rooms, 10th November, 1858. Printed on yellow paper. 28.5 by 22.5 cm. 9. "To the Students of the University of Glasgow. . . . Vote for Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton." Conservative Club Committee Rooms, November 11, 1858. Printed on pink paper. 29 by 23 cm. 10. "To the Students of the University of Glasgow. The Conservative Club desires to take the earliest opportunity of reprobating, in the strongest terms, the proceedings of last night's Meeting." Conservative Club Committee Rooms, November 11, 1858. Printed on pink paper. 22.5 by 29. 5 cm. 11. "Hoop de Doodin Do." The Conservative Club Rooms, November 12, 1858. 50 lines of pro-Lytton verse, printed on yellow paper. 22.5 by 14 cm. 12. "To the Students of the University of Glasgow. . . . Vote for The Right Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton." Conservative Club Committee Rooms, November 15, 1858. Printed on pink paper. 23 by 29 cm. 13. "To the Students of the University of Glasgow. Gentlemen, The Conservative Club beg to congratulate the supporters of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton upon the success which has crowned their efforts during the recent Election. . ." 28.5 by 22.5 cm.

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1 folder

Booth's Theatre Bulletin (for week ending December 14th, 1872) of Lord Lytton's play, The Lady of Lyons, or, Love and Pride , starring the "Celebrated Tragedienne," Miss Neilson (mounted on brittle cardboard, 2 pieces have broken off), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Printed announcement for the "General Theatrical Fund 9th Anniversary, Monday, 1848 April 17, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. in the Chair", 1848 April 17. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Illustrated scenes from Lord Lytton's play, Money , a collection of printed quotes about Money compiled in "Theatre Royal, Hay-market, Opinions of the Public Press," and a clipping reviewing the "Command Performance" of Money at Drury Lane for the King and the Kaiser of Germany by The Daily Telegraph, 1911 May 18. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Seven London theatre broadsides and two theatre circulars ( The Play Bill and The Footlights ), ranging in dates from, 1852-1870. 1 folder.
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1 folder

A printed advertisement by T. B. Peterson & Brothers of Philadelphia announcing: "Published this day! February 18th, 1871: Charles Dickens' Last Book! The Mystery of Edwin Drood !" along with Mad Monkton and Other Stories by Wilkie Collins and T. A. Trollope's The Sealed Packet , etc. and an advertising poster for "The Chimes! A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In By Charles Dickens", dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Printed leaflet for a "Strictly Private Amateur Performance" of Ben Jonson's comedy, Every Man in his Humour , on 1845 November 15, starring Charles Dickens, among others, 1845 November 15. 1 folder.
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1 folder

A poetic address to "Charles Dickens, Esq. on the occasion of his presiding at the Annual Soirée of the Mechanics' Institution, Liverpool, Monday, 1844 February 26," printed on silk, 1844 February 26. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Two copies of a "Charles Dickens as Captain Bobadill" illustration (from an unidentified periodical) and a caricature of "Charles Dickens -- par Gill" on the front page of L'Eclipse, 1868 June 14. 1 folder.
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1 folder

An oversize poster titled "The Great International Walking-Match of February 29, 1868" (with "Charles Dickens" among the signatures) is contained inside an oversize, cardboard-backed, four-flap enclosure, dates not examined. 1 box.
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1 box

An oversize pen-and-chalk drawing of Charles Kingsley's wife, Frances Grenfell Kingsley, inscribed on verso "Mrs. Kingsley on the sofa reading the paper"; unidentified pen-and-ink drawing of Mount Vesuvius, undated. 1 box.
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1 box

J. G. Marks Album of Frederick Walker and William Makepeace Thackeray Illustrations, circa 1861-1871. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

The album contains illustrations (primarily proof engravings) by Frederick Walker (1840-1875) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), likely comprising the collection of J. G. Marks and annotated by him with title and other contextual information. The volume contains proofs of Frederick Walker's contributions to various periodicals and other items by him, as well as some text and drawings by William Makepeace Thackeray relating to his The Adventures of Philip, as serialized in Cornhill Magazine in 1861-1862, with relevant proofs.

In total, the album contains 144 images in a range of sizes from 8 x 9 cm to 23 x 17.5 cm, including 125 proof engravings, 5 items of manuscript material by William Makepeace Thackeray, 9 photographs of paintings and engravings by Frederick Walker, 3 designs for the Moray Minstrels, and 2 photographs of Halsway. The proofs consist of contributions to Once A Week, Cornhill Magazine, and Good Words, proofs of the illustrations for The Adventures of Philip and for Thackeray's unfinished novel, Denis Duval, as well as for Oswald Cray by Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood) and novels by Anne Thackeray Ritchie.

Physical Description

1 item38.1 x 48.3 cm

Scope and Contents

Consists of manuscripts of authors such as Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as others.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by author.

Physical Description

4 boxes

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2 items

"Chetwynd Calverley", circa 1876. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Incomplete autograph manuscript of "Chetwynd Calverley," with numerous deletions and revisions. Including "additional variations," at end.

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1 item

"True Account of Jack Sheppard the Housebreaker...", 1837-1838. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript in ink and pencil, comprising a collection of autograph manuscripts, drafts, and notes of the historical novel Jack Sheppard, including the greater part of "Epoch the First" of the novel, "Epoch the Second" and "Epoch the Third"; together with a synopsis of the novel under the earlier title "Scroope Darrell," and historical notes and extracts on the history of Jack Sheppard, with three autograph letters and two engraved portraits of Sheppard and Ainsworth, and fragments from the manuscript of Ainsworth's novel Old St. Paul's (1841) bound with the second volume.

Physical Description

1 itemBound in 2 volumes, the first 4to, red morocco gilt by Riviere & Sons, the second folio, morocco-backed green boards with spine lettered in gilt with material tipped to larger leaves.volume 1, 23.4 x 19.5 cm; volume 2, 30.8 x 22.7 cm

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1 item

"Life of Stevenson." T. & A. Constable, Printers, Edinburgh, 18 Mar 1901", 1901. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Stamp on final leaf. Unbound leaves in slipcase.

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1 item

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28. "Autograph Letters from J. M. Barrie to Mrs. Thomas Hardy", 1913-1937. 2 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Contains typed transcripts of the original autograph letters.

Physical Description

2 Volumes

"'Surprise' an Inspired Paragraph", 1900s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of Barrie's "'Surprise', an Inspired Paragraph," describing his piece written for a YMCA benefit entitled "The First Real Thing," n.d. Together with a typescript transcription (1 leaf), laid in.

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1 item

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"Charles Kingsley", circa 1906. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a speech about Charles Kingsley, with autograph corrections and additions. Spine title.

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1 item

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9 items

"The Handsome Humes", 1892. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of "The Handsome Humes," Brighton.

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1 item

"Ladies Club", 1880s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

"Proof to William Black, 4 Catherine Terrace, Lansdowne Road, S.W."

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1 item

"Mad Cap Violet", circa 1897. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of "Madcap Violet," undated.

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1 item

"The Pupil of Aurelius", undated. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript, bound.

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1 item

"Romeo & Juliet: a Tale of Two Young Fools." "Brighton, April 1886," "To Violet Honner Morton, From her Uncle, Brighton Nov. 13, 1886" (written in pen on front flyleaf). "To my cousin Kenneth Macleod Black on his wedding day. vols. H. M. Richmond, June. 07" (written in pen on front flyleaf), 1886. 1 item.
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1 item

"Stand Fast, Craig-Royston!" Brighton, 1889. 1 item.
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1 item

"Three Feathers", 1875. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Incomplete autograph manuscript.

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1 item

"White Heather", 1885. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript.

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1 item

"White Wings: a Yachting Romance", 1880s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript, undated.

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1 item

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2 items

"La jeune fille malade", 1822. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed autograph manuscript, dated Le 18 Avril 1822. Typed English translation, laid in.

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1 item

"La prière du soir dans un camp", circa 1822. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed autograph manuscript, dated Le 26 Avril. Typed English translation, laid in.

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1 item

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1 item

"Paddington Hill", circa 1848. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of a poem.

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1 item

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9 items

"Autograph Letters Addressed to Mr. Chatto", 1876-1890. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Approximately 130 autograph letters from Collins to Mr. Chatto of Chatto and Windus, discussing the writing of his stories and novels, arrangements for publication, rights of translation, etc.

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1 item

"The Captain's Last Love", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Original autograph manuscript with annotations and deletions, n.d.

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1 item

"Fallen Leaves", 1870s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Complete autograph manuscript, heavily corrected with many lines scored out and rewritten above, undated. Published in "The World," 1878-79.

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1 item

"The Ghost's Touch", 1870s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript, heavily corrected with many lines scored out and rewritten above, undated.

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1 item

"Little Novels", 1887. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Unbound, corrected page proofs. London : Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly.

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1 item

"Man and Wife", circa 1869-1870. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript, undated.

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1 item

"Memorandum Relating to the Life and Writings of Wilkie Collins", 1862. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript (4 pp.) containing autobiographical information. Together with 1 autograph letter (4 pp.) from Collins to "Dear Sir," dated 12 Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London.

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1 item

"The Woman in White", circa 1861. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Part of the original annotated proof copy. There are four notes to the printer in Collin's hand, initialled by him, on pp. 149, 150, 264, and 312; textual changes on 32 pages, which appear to be in his hand; and some 400 markings throughout by a printer's or publisher's reader, some of which may be by the author (corrections of misprints, changes in punctuation, indications of wrong fonts and of imperfectly printed words, etc.). Written on all but one of the gatherings is the word "Press," which, with two exceptions, has been lined out; also written on most of the gatherings are variously the words "Foundry," "Revise," or "Pull revise." "Machine [?] 10000 Cast" is written on p. 385 and 401. An instruction, "Revisse metal," "Revise metal carefully," "See metal," or "Pull revise," is written on 10 pages. The final leaf (pp. 415-16) is defective, with loss of text.

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1 item

"Fie! Fie! or, The Fair Physician: (Edited, Under the Instructions of Mrs. Crossmichael)", circa 1882. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript in ink with extensive author's revisions throughout, with a double-signed photograph of the author by Sarony pasted down to the verso of the upper cover. (London)

Physical Description

1 itemLeaves mounted on heavier paper and bound in blue levant half-morocco29.1 x 23.1 cm

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4 items

"A French Country Family", 1860s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript.

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1 item

"A Hero", 1870s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of chapters 8-10 of "A hero," undated.

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1 item

"M. de Barante", circa 1867. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of Craik's English translation of a work by Guizot, undated. Together with "A discourse delivered at the general meeting of the Historical Society of France 7th May 1867 by Mr Guizot, President."

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1 item

"Philip My King", circa 1867. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Proof copy of "Philip my King," written by Craik for her godson, Philip Bourke Marston. Later published in "Chamber's Edinburgh Journal," vols. 15, whole no. 374, Mar. 1, 1851, p. 144.

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1 item

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1 item

"Catalogue", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of a library catalog.

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1 item

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1 item

"Autographs / Birds / Ouida", undated. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

A bound volume in full morocco containing: a photograph of Ouida by Julia Margaret Cameron; the original manuscript of Ouida's essay "Birds," 24 pp., with typed transcription; and 4 signed autograph letters--to "Miss Duff," to a journalist of The Times (4 Oct. 1889), to "Mr. Trollope" (possibly Anthony Trollope), to "Mr. Chapman" (1876, probably Frederic Chapman of Chapman & Hall publishers)--with typed transcriptions.

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1 item

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2 items

"Ein Weihnachtslied in prosa. Eine Geistergeschichte von Charles Dickens", 1868. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Fair copy of an apparently unpublished German translation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol . With handcolored frontispiece drawing, and five decorative initials in the text, 175 pp., bound, presumably, for presentation, in contemporary ribbed cloth, decorated in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. The preface, dated Christmas 1868 and signed "Laura," explains that the translation was done in the hope 'of bringing joy and pleasure' and that 'you may be nothing but satisfied with it.'

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1 item

8. "Minute Book: Guild of Literature & Art", 1854-1896. 3 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscripts of Guild meeting minutes. Kept by Dickens until his death in 1870.

Physical Description

3 Volumes

"Original Autograph Letters on Guild of Literature and Art", 1851 May 13-24. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Contains two autograph letters signed by Dickens to Joseph Jenkins Esq. (each 2 leaves) relating to the "Guild of Literature and Art" with the original pen-and-ink drawing and 3 proofs which form the subject of the letters.

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1 item

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2 items

"Endymion.", 1880. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Proof copy. "From Spottiswoode & Co. New-Street Square, London, E.C. for [L.] Reader, Esq. Author's proof Sept 20/80"--Stamp, vols. 1, cover.

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1 item

"Newspaper clippings of Disraeli's speeches in Edinburgh", 1867. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings of Disraeli's speeches in Edinburgh, Oct. 29-30, 1867. Pasted down in blank book with manuscript corrections and annotations.

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1 item

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4 boxes

"Drawings after (Sir John) Tenniel: Alice in Wonderland", 1875 August 3-September 25. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Bound series of 8 original postcard drawings (pen-and-ink) signed by "AB", addressed to "Miss Rachel Gray 78 High Street Ilfracombe N. Devon" and also "Miss Rachel Gray 4 Walton Place Leamington."

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1 item

"Introductory Chapter to a Short Treatise on Circle-squaring", 1882. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript to an intoductory chapter concerning circle-squaring. Includes diagrams.

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1 item

Dodgson Letter to C. H. O. Daniel and Poem, 1880-1931. 1 volume.
Scope and Contents

Small bound volume that conists of a signed autograph letter from Dodgson to C. H. O. Daniel dated November 23, 1880, concerning Daniel's request for Dodgson to contribute a poem for The Garland of Rachel in honor of his daughter Rachel's first birthday; and a printed version of Dodgson's original response to Daniel's request, an untitled sixteen-line satirical poem beginning with the line, "[O]h pudgy podgy pup! signed Lewis Carroll. It was set up in type (not by him) with a space left at the beginning for a decorative initial "O" but never issued.

Also included and bound in are proofs of pages 204-206 from Williams and Madan's A Handbook of the Literature of the Rev. C. L. Dodgson (1931), in which are printed Dodgson's letter to Daniel containing the first poem, and the second, published, poem. This poem was also untitled, beginning, "What hand may wreathe thy natal crown ..." and was printed by Daniel at his private press in Oxford.

Physical Description

1 volume

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"Problem", 1844. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript concerning geometry.

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1 item

"Rev. C. L. Dodgson's Leather Wallet", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

A leather wallet kept by C. L. Dodgson while traveling in Russia. Dodgson labeled each compartment of this "pocketbook" in manuscript: "1 Stamps, visiting cards, etc.; 2. Envelopes; 3. Note paper; 4. Stamped envelopes; 5. Scrap-book; 6. Letters needing answers; 7. do, not do; 8. Letter-cards; 9 [blank]; 10. Telegraph forms and 6d stamps" and, on the inside, in the same hand, "Rev. C.L. Dodgson, Ch. Ch., Oxford," n.d.

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1 item

"Tour in 1867", 1867. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript diary, kept by Dodgson, giving an account of a trip taken by him and Henry P. Liddon to Russia in 1867. Contains one small pen-and-ink drawing on fol. 14v (v. 2).

This has been published as Tour in 1867. . . from the Original Manuscript in the Collection of M. L. Parrish, Esq. Pine Valley, New Jersey . Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1928. One of 66 copies privately printed from the original manuscript owned by M. L. Parrish. "A diary by Dodgson of a continental tour in company with Canon Liddon, through Brussels, Cologne, Berlin, and Königsberg, to St. Petersburgh and Moscow, returning by Warsaw, Breslau, Dresden, and Paris, 12 July-14 Sept. 1867." There are two copies in the Parrish book collection.

Copy 1: Call number: Parrish – Dodgson # 599. Dark red flexible morocco-grained leather. T.e.g. Inscription on free front endpaper: From the Publisher to himself M. L. Parrish Oct 12th 1928.

Copy 2: Call number: Parrish – Dodgson # 600. Inscription in pencil on free front endpaper: Gift of Mr. Parrish, Dec.–1928. PL. Bookplate of Paul Lemperly.

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1 item

Photograph Albums, undated. 4 boxes.
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4 boxes

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2 items

"Quarry for Romola", circa 1861-1862. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript notebook containing notes concerning Savonarola and Florence, which Eliot compiled in 1861 in preparation for the writing of "Romola."

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1 item

"Three Essays", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript essays pertaining to the philosophical concepts of life, time, age, etc., undated.

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1 item

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1 item

"Three Sermons,", 1700s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Ms. sermons, probably written by a Rev. Fissenden of Rolvenden and Newenden Rectories in England (fl. 1687-1737). Sermons topics concern Corinthians 1 10:16, John 3:5, and Ecclesiastes 5:1. Bookplates of Car. I. Taboris. and Godfrey Wills. "Cha. Kingsley, Dulwich" and "Rev. Mr. Fissenden...," written in pen on front flyleaf.

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1 item

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1 item

"Letters.", 1932-1933. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Volume of 4 autograph letters and 1 typed letter to Mr. Madan of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, concerning Gozzaldi's chess table that was part of Falconer Madan's Lewis Carroll Centenary Exhibition in 1932

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1 item

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1 item

"M. de Barante.", circa 1867. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Corrected page proofs with 2 ALS from Guizot to Craik.

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1 item

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1 item

"Lewis Carroll Memorial Cot, &c", 1898. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Album of newspaper clippings relation to Lewis Carroll's death, compiled by Hatch.

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1 item

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1 item

"Cuttings: Letters of Lewis Carroll", 1932-1933. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Album of newspaper clippings, "Letters of Lewis Carroll Reviews."

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1 item

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1 item

"Original Sketches for the Hunting of the Snark, Henry Holiday", circa 1876-1923. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Contains original "Snark" drawings, engravers' proofs, and autograph letters, tipped in. Correspondence includes letter from Henry Holiday regarding the proofs and certain comments from Lewis Carroll (4 pp.) dated March 13th, 1922; autograph letter from George Sutcliffe, who was in personal communication with Mr. Holliday (2 pp.) dated March 24th, 1922; two letters from Henry Holiday to Henry Smith, one dated March 12th, 1923, the other "18-5-23" regarding sale of the book "Hunting of the Snark"; autograph letter from Henry Holiday to Henry Smith with thanks for payment of "Hunting of the Snark" (4 pp.) dated December 8, 1923.

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1 item

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66. "Lewis Carroll", 1900s. 9 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of a biography of Lewis Carroll.

Physical Description

9 Volumes

"Lewis Carroll", 1900s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of a first draft of a British Council pamphlet.

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1 item

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1 item

71. "Photograph Album", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Hughes family photograph album.

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1 item

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"Hunting in Ireland", 1834. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Contains 5 original pen-and-ink drawings for "Hunting in Ireland." Four of the illustrations have captions in pen, two have titles "Brought up" and "Brought down." One drawing is inscribed "Feb. 3, 1834 Kingsley."

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1 item

"The Lord Coming to his Temple", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Annotated galley proof, n.d.

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1 item

"The Lord is at Hand", circa 1846. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript sermon, in the hand of Kingsley. "Preached at Eversley 1846 1849."

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1 item

"Manuscript Sermons", circa 1845-1871. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Three autograph manuscript sermons dated Sept. 4, 1845 (Genesis xiii 6.); Sunday Apr. 26, 1846 (Matthew XIII 31.32); and Feb. 5, 1871 (Matthew vols. 13.14).

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1 item

77. "Sermons", circa 1853-1863. 8 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript sermons, in hand of Kingsley.

Physical Description

8 Volumes

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2 items

"Lilian", 1841 May 5. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript notebook containing 2 poems by Fanny Kingsley. Other title "O'Conner's Child, or, The Flower of Love lies bleeding."

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1 item

"Scraps of Letters &c.", 1886. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Letterbook and Manuscript notebook, kept by "Fanny G. Kingsley, Feb 6th 1886." Contains miscellaneous writings and letters to family and friends dated from 1880-84.

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1 item

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1 item

"12 Original Character Studies from 'The Old Curiosity Shop' Drawn in Colours by Kyd", circa 1883. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Contains 12 watercolor drawings by Kyd, a pseudonym for Joseph Clayton Clarke. Clarke executed a number of watercolor drawings of "Characters of Dickens." Contains drawings entitled: "Nell"; "Grandfather Trent"; "Quilp"; "Sampson Brass"; "Sally Brass"; "Dick Swiveller"; "The Marchioness"; "Coalin"; "Short"; "Mrs Jarley"; "Kit"; "Mr Chuckster."

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1 item

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1 item

"Charles Lever's Memorandum Book", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript book of miscellaneous notes and accounts, undated.

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1 item

150. "The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly", circa 1868. 2 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Lever's original manuscript for the novel "The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly," written in Charles Lever's small neat hand, and with his alterations and corrections, on rectos only, some finger-soiling and marks, occasional marginal repairs, one leaf partially excised, some pencillings in a later hand (mostly numbers); bound in 2 volumes, with green crushed morocco by Riviere & Son. Probably a late draft of Lever's sixty-nine chapter novel, which appears to be largely complete but without chapters twenty-eight to thirty inclusive, and possibly with one or two other pages lacking.

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2 Volumes

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3 items

"Problems of Life and Mind", 1870s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of "Problem III: The Sphere of Sense and Logic of Feeling," with notes in George Eliot's handwriting as arranged by her for publication, undated.

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1 item

"Problems of Life and Mind", 1870s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of "Problem IV: The Sphere of Intellect and the Logic of Signs," with notes in George Eliot's handwriting as arranged by her for publication, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Problems of Life and Mind", 1870s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript together with some annotated proof copy.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

5 items

"Autograph Letter Signed", circa 1826. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Concerns his poetry, possibilities for publication of some of his poetic works, thoughts on Cambridge, and his activities in Knebworth. Autograph letter (1 leaf) addressed "Knebworth-Nr Welwyn Sunday" to "My dear Sir" and bound together with a typed transcription (4 leaves). The date 1826 is written in pencil, in a later hand, at the top right corner of fol. 1.

Physical Description

1 item

"Autograph Letters", circa 1833-1871. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Bound collection of typewritten and autograph letters. Together with engraved portraits (3) of Lytton.

Physical Description

1 item

"The Caxtons", 1849. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed autograph manuscript of the preface, together with 2 versions of the title page. This preface was not used in the published version.

Physical Description

1 item

88. "Eugene Aram", 1831. 3 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Autograph Manuscript

Physical Description

3 Volumes

"The Pilgrims of the Rhine; Godolphin", 1849-1850. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of the preface and the prefatory poem of "The Pilgrims of the Rhine," with tear sheets of text as printed (27 pp.). Together with the autograph manuscript of the preface to "Godolphin," with tear sheets of text as printed (10 pp.). Includes 1 ALS from L. W. Bangs to G. W. Childs concerning the manuscripts, dated 17 June 1880.

Physical Description

1 item

"Poetical Attempts", circa 1817-1819. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph Manuscript

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"Scrapbook", 1890s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of photographs (both family pictures and souvenir pictures) and newspaper clippings, chiefly concerning the guests for the Dinner Party and Ball Masque at the Madeira home. Includes newspaper photo of a young Morris Parrish, captioned "Dinner Party before the Ball Masque at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Madeira." Some photographs by "E.J. Reilly Phila.," "Reilly & Way, Keith Theatre Building, Philadelphia." Persons identified: Savage Landor and S. Weir Mitchell, Richard Harding Davis, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"Scrapbook", circa 1860-1909. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and printed broadsides concerning Philadelphia local history, Philadelphia Quakers, book auction sales, railroad accidents, etc. Compiled by George Dillwyn Parrish.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

3 items

6. "Dormy House", 1917-1945. 3 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Guest books, kept by Parrish and others, of visitors to Dormy House, in Pine Valley, New Jersey. Includes signatures of guests, plus, photographs, autograph and typewritten letters, notes, artwork, newspaper clippings, magazine tear sheets, and other printed ephemera. Final handwritten entry dated Oct. 23rd, 1945."

Physical Description

3 Volumes

"Scrapbook of Photographs", 1900s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of photographs, mostly of an older Morris Parrish partaking in recreational activities.

Physical Description

1 item

"Scrapbook", circa 1937-1841. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of ephemera. Includes clippings about Parrish's collection of Victorian Novelists; printed invitations and announcements from "The Philadelphia Club"; typed letters and printed material concerning Parrish's honorary degree from Princeton, dated 1939; clippings, invitations, and announcements of exhibitions from the "Library Company of Philadelphia," etc. Newspaper clippings from the "Philadelphia Record," "Times Literary Supplement," "Philadelphia Inquirer," etc.

Physical Description

1 item

"Scrapbook", circa 1904. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and various typewritten pages of poetry and songs. Other topics include Yale and Princeton football, Samuel L. Parrish and Morris L. Parrish, and other Parrish family. Material pasted down in a "Mark Twain's perforated interleaved Scrap Book, patent number 477,050 ..."

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"Commonplace Book", 1871. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Commonplace book, kept by Miss Kate Perry, containing entries on Charles Dickens and Mr. Thackeray.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"Letters of Quiller Couch to Colvin", 1897. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Bound collection of signed autograph letters from Couch to Colvin regarding details of the forthcoming publication of "St. Ives." Each letter accompanied by a typed transcription.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

27 items

"Courier of Lyons", 1850s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Hermann Vezin's manuscript copy of a play translated by Reade. Contains hand drawn set designs, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Draft of a Contract for 'Put Yourself in his Place", circa 1868. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Original draft, in the hand of Charles Reade, of the contract with William Conant Church and Francis P. Church of Sheldon & Co., for the publication in "Galaxy Magazine" of Reade's story "Put yourself in His Place."

Physical Description

1 item

"Dora: a Pastoral Drama.", 1870s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript bound together with the printed version, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Duodecimo Digest 2.", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed notebook, kept by Reade, containing notes for various works, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"The Eighth Commandment", 1850s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript sheets of various sizes, being portions of "The Eighth Commandment," rough drafts of other portions with corrections, and some paragraphs not published. Also includes sheets of fair copy (3) with corrections by Charles Reade, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Foul Play", circa 1883. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript drafts of the fourth and fifth acts of "Foul Play," with annotated clippings of the text pasted down throughout.

Physical Description

1 item

"General Rolleston in Foul Play", circa 1868. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of the part of General Rolleston in the play "Foul Play," with annotation in pencil in a later hand, possibly the hand of a Newton Griffith who signed his name in pencil on fol. 16v. Exhibition ticket from "The Victorian Era Exhibition, London, 1897, Drama Section V.E.E.-D.S. 276," laid in.

Physical Description

1 item

"Gold", circa 1851-1852. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Part of the original autograph manuscript.

Physical Description

1 item

"Griffith Gaunt", 1860s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Incomplete autograph manuscript of "Griffith Gaunt."

Physical Description

1 item

"Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy: a Drama in a Prologue and Four Acts", 1875. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript together with some printed excerpts (clippings) from "Griffith Gaunt," pasted down throughout.

Physical Description

1 item

"Griffith Gaunt, or, Jealousy", 1869. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Extra illustrated copy compiled by Attorney William D. Booth who represented Charles Reade, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and other literary and theatrical lights in the American law courts, with his clients original autograph letters. Includes ALS from Charles Reade (9); ALS from Wilkie Collins (5); ALS from Charles Dickens (1); and others (12); Miscellaneous manuscript. by Booth (2); printed texts of 3 offending articles; a printed reply from Reade; newspaper accounts of the trial and other pieces. Also includes other correspondence, mostly on theatrical matters from Bateman Crout, Laura Keene (regarding a copy of the playbill for April 14, 1865 and a piece of her stage gown stained with Lincoln's blood), Augustin Daly, E. H. Sothern, William H. Florence, & others.

Physical Description

1 item

"It's Never Too Late to Mend: a Drama in Four Acts", circa 1865. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Charles Reade's copy of an annotated prompt book for "It's Never Too Late to Mend." Later interleaved with extensive autograph stage instructions by William Seymour.

Physical Description

1 item

"Jack of All Trades: a Mechanic's Story", circa 1854-1857. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Complete autograph manuscript of "Jack of all Trades," contained in 5 notebooks (78 p., in the hand of the author; the balance in the hand of his copyist, J.G. Saunders, c. 1854-1857). Both scripts are heavily corrected by Reade.

Physical Description

1 item

"Kate Peyton, or, Jealousy: a Drama in a Prologue and Four Acts", 1883. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Laid in the Charles Reade manuscript of "Griffith Gaunt," held by the Library's Manuscripts Division, under the accession number AM 1982-71 and in the collection C0171. "Printed for private circulation." Written in pen on front cover. London: J.C. Durant, Clement's house, Clement's Inn passage, Strand, W.C.

Physical Description

1 item

107. "The Lyons Mail", 1800s. 3 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a play with autograph corrections.

Physical Description

3 Volumes

"Masks and Faces", circa 1879. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of a play by Reade.

Physical Description

1 item

"Miscell[aneous] Femina", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed notebook, kept by Reade, containing miscellaneous notes pertaining to female characters and fiction, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Notebook", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Notebook, kept by Reade, containing notes for "America." Contains notes pertaining to slavery and attitudes towards blacks in America, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Notebook", 1861 July 3-1862. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed notebook, kept by Reade, containing miscellaneous notes pertaining to characters and fiction, kept while at Oxford.

Physical Description

1 item

"Notebook", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed notebook, kept by Reade, containing "old notes for 'Cloister and the Hearth." Contains notes of incidents of travels, saints of the time, books, words and phrases, etc. for use while writing his book, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Notes for Hard Cash", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed notebook, kept by Reade, containing notes for "Hard Cash," undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Octavus Lex", 1850s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed notebook, kept by Reade, containing miscellaneous notes pertaining literary property, copyright, etc., undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Passbook", 1871-1875. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Bank passbook, kept by "Charles Reade Esq."

Physical Description

1 item

"The Perilous Secret", circa 1883-1884. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Incomplete autograph manuscript. A large portion probably written from dictation, with corrections and additions in Reade's hand.

Physical Description

1 item

"The Practical Advertiser", circa 1869. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed notebook, kept by Reade, containing miscellaneous notes and clippings pertaining advertisements for wine, furniture, etc., undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Reade's Picture Book & Dictionary", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed notebook, kept by Reade, containing miscellaneous notes and clippings pertaining to "odd stories," "odd fellows," etc. "Caroli Pict et Dict Lib," written on front cover, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

109. "Shilly Shally, or, Ralph the Heir", circa 1872. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Two sets of original manuscript sheets (folded) for Acts 1 and 2.

Physical Description

1 item

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"Shilly Shally", circa 1871. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of "Shilly Shally," Reade's unauthorized play based on the 1870 novel "Ralph the Heir," by Anthony Trollope, sheets tipped in. Contains portions of galley proofs with autograph corrections.

Physical Description

1 item

"Single-heart", 1880s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Incomplete autograph manuscript with corrections, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"The Pirate", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"East Lynne", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript, in unknown hand, of a play based on Wood's novel "East Lynne," undated.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"Guestbook", 1860-1874. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Manuscript book of dinner guests kept by Baroness Stanley. Names included novelists and literary figures, nobility, political figures, etc. Newspaper clippings (2) regarding Stanley's dinner guests, tipped in at front.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

21 items

"The British Grenadiers; The Brown Maid and Other Pieces", 1880s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph music manuscript by Stevenson. Contains three short compositions: "The British Grenadiers," The Brown Maid," and "Believe Me."

Physical Description

1 item

"Draft of a Contract: Between Robert Louis Stevenson of Vailima Apia, of the First Part and the Deutsche Handels und Plantagen Gesellschafft &c of the Second Part", circa 1892-1893. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Original autograph draft of a contract for the complete construction of an addition to the "House of Vailima," with annotations in Stevenson's hand. The draft is accompanied by an undated document of the detailed specifications, written in another hand, and signed in full by R.L.S. Vailima, 1892 and two representatives of the "Haupt-Agentur der Deutschen Handels- & Plantagen--Gesellschaft der Südsee-Inseln zu Hamburg."

Physical Description

1 item

"Forest Notes", 1880s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Printed proof with autograph corrections of an article by Stevenson printed in "Cornhill Magazine," 33 (May 1876).

Physical Description

1 item

"Hester Noble's Mistake, or, A Word from Cromwell", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Original autograph manuscript draft of a play (Act I, scenes 1-8).

Physical Description

1 item

"Hotel Tivoli", 1894. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Receipt from the Hotel Tivoli in Apia Samoa which Robert Louis Stevenson has dated "25 4 94" for "3/= Cash" and signed in full. The three entries are in pencil. "Bechyne" is written in pencil, in another hand, on the verso.

Physical Description

1 item

"Ille Terrarum", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed autograph manuscript in pencil of the poem "Ille Terrarum." Together with a calligraphic manuscript copy, in unknown hand. Also includes an engraved portrait plate of Stevenson by S. Hallyer at front.

Physical Description

1 item

"In the Highlands, In the Country Places", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript leaf of miscellaneous verse. Includes "In the Highlands, In the Country Places" (5 lines); and other "Verse jottings" (23 lines) said to be an early draft of "Over the Hand is April," undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"The Mother", 1880s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of a poem, undated.

Physical Description

1 item

"Original Manuscript and Letters", circa 1878. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

One leaf of autograph manuscript from "The Cruise of the Casco," undated. Together with three signed autograph letters to Charles Baxter from Stevenson.

Physical Description

1 item

"The Plague Cellar", 1864. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of a novelette concerning Edinburgh at the time of the plague. Written by Stevenson at a very early age.

Physical Description

1 item

"Preface to 'The Merry Men,'", 1880s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript, written in pencil, of the unpublished preface to "The Merry Men," undated. Together with typed transcription

Physical Description

1 item

"Random Memories: rosa quo locorum", 1894. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of an essay. Later published in "Essays of travel."

Physical Description

1 item

"Robert Louis Stevenson as a Musician", circa 1886. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Bound set of signed autograph letters by Stevenson to Miss Una A. Taylor at Bournemouth, concerning his musical attempts. Together with an original manuscript of a musical composition by Stevenson. Written at Bournemouth.

Physical Description

1 item

"Robert Louis Stevenson: His Classic Reply to the Request of an Autograph Collector", circa 1892. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Signed autograph letter from Stevenson, Vailima, Upolu, Samoa. Together with two portraits of Stevenson and a post office receipt from Vailima, dated March 14, 1892 and signed by Stevenson.

Physical Description

1 item

"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", 1885. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Original proof slip of the title page as originally intended and submitted for approval by the printers. Stevenson edited out the initials and substituted in his own autograph the words "Robert Louis." Includes other annotations in unknown hand.

Physical Description

1 item

117. "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", circa 1886. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Unpublished and canceled portion of the original autograph manuscript of "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," with an autograph letter written by the author on the reverse of the manuscript, and addressed to his cousin, Robert Alan M. Stevenson. Also includes a copy of the first London edition as published by Longmans, Green, and Co.

Physical Description

1 item

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"Their Laureate to an Academy Class Dinner" and "Late in the Night in Bed I Lay", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of two poems. Together with typewritten copy bound in.

Physical Description

1 item

"To a Gardener", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of a poem. Together with tear sheet of printed version.

Physical Description

1 item

"To Rosabelle, etc.", 1880s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of miscellaneous verse. Titles include "Cherish thou, O love, thine unknown lover ..." (11 lines); "To Rosabelle" (5 lines).

Physical Description

1 item

"Walking Tours", 1880s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Corrected proof copy.

Physical Description

1 item

"Weir of Hermiston", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of three early drafts of the beginning of the first chapter of his unfinished romance "Weir of Hermiston," undated. Together with typewritten comparison of each with the published version.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"Journal ", 1835-1836. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Journal kept by "Thomas Stevenson, Civil Engineer, 1838." pertaining to woodwork, masonry, ironwork, etc. Bookplates of Jerome Kern, John Wm. Roy Crawford, Henry E. Gerstley; From the Library of Robert Louis Stevenson at Vailima.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"Memorials of America", circa 1835. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook presented to Frances Eleanor Jarman Ternan, the mother of Ellen Ternan. Contains many announcements of forthcoming plays, portraits, and newspaper clippings of Mr. and Mrs. Ternan's and Marie's theatre appearances in America, Canada, and England. The album was presented by Sara and John Frost of Philadelphia who also state that the poems which are inserted are by T.L. Ternan.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"Letter and Drawings", 1852. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Bound volume containing an autograph letter from Thackeray, signed with initials and dated 1852. Together with two original pencil sketches: a half length figure resembling a character from "The Virginians"; sketch of Napoleon in characteristic pose, beside two faces of Italian brigands. Also includes an original pen-and-ink sketch for the figure of Mr. Osborne in the illustration "Mr. Osborne's welcome to Amelia"; another sketch of Mr. Osborne in pencil, with two partly finished figures on same sheet.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

12 Volumes

133. "The Duke's Daughter", 1951. 12 items.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of "The Duke's Daughter," written in pencil in 12 notebooks.

Physical Description

12 items

Physical Description

6 items

137. "Australia and New Zealand", 1873. 2 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Corrected page proofs in unknown hand. London : Chapman and Hall.

Physical Description

2 Volumes

"Calendar of Anthony Trollope Letters in the Parrish Collection", 1900s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Typed index of the Trollope correspondence found in the Parrish Collection, compiler unknown.

Physical Description

1 item

"Contract Concerning 'Ayala's Angel", 1881 August. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph agreement with Chapman and Hall publishers regarding "Ayala's Angel."

Physical Description

1 item

"Death of Commodore Goodenough", 1800s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

An autograph manuscript of his Letter XVIII, "The Death of Commodore Goodenough." Written on 5 pp., royal tissue paper in pencil and 4 pp. royal paper in ink, signed at the end. Approximately 3,300 words. Each leaf is marked "Duplicate" and on the verso of the last leaf is a note to that effect, also giving the title, n.d. Together with a corrected galley proof.

Physical Description

1 item

"An Eye for an Eye", 1870s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Complete autograph manuscript of "An Eye for an Eye," with annotations and corrections. Written in 1870 but not published until 1879.

Physical Description

1 item

135. "Letters", circa 1839-1882. 3 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Three volumes of signed autograph letters from Trollope. Letters are tipped in and accompanied by a typed transcription.

Physical Description

3 Volumes

"South Africa", circa 1874. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph notes pertaining to "South Africa."

Physical Description

1 item

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136. "Travel Diaries", 1841 September 15 - 1871 September 18. 6 Volumes.
Scope and Contents

Six manuscript travel books, dated from. As a member of the postal service, Trollope kept in these books a record of the distances he had traveled to determine his travel allowance. After he retired from the service, he continued to use the books as a travel record. He also recorded in them other income.

Physical Description

6 Volumes

"Zulus", 1879 October 23. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of a lecture on the Zulus delivered in Nottingham.

Physical Description

1 item

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"Villa a Ricorboli", 1870s. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Contains eleven photographs, by "L. Powers, Photographe, Florence" of Thomas Adolphus Trollope's villa, and of views from the villa, near Florence owned and occupied by him from 1865 until 1872, after he had sold the Villino Trollope in Florence following the death of his first wife, Theodosia Garrow.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"Office book of 'Household Words", 1850 March 30 - 1859 May 28. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Office book, almost entirely in the hand of W. H. Wills, assistant editor of Dickens's magazine called "Household Words." Records for each issue the date, serial number, author of each contribution (the contributions are anonymous in the periodical itself), its title, length in columns, price paid, date of payment, and memorandum. Dickens is always referred to as "Mr. C. D." and the record shows that he was not paid separately for his many contributions, which were doubtless regarded as part of his editorial work.

Physical Description

1 item

Physical Description

1 item

"A Little Earnest Book", circa 1851. 1 item.
Scope and Contents

Contains letters and clippings concerning the work "A little earnest book upon a great old subject" by Wilson. Compiler unknown. Contains 19 ALsS from Edward Lytton (3); William Wilson (1); Robert S. Mackenzie (3); Alfred Jackson (3); Charles F. Ellerman (1); William C. Bennett (1); [W] Sharp to Effingham Wilson (1); Le Page (1, incomplete); Thomas Carlyle (1, with envelope); Camilla Crosland (1); Alfred [Elmes?] (1)' [Ch.Ch.] Bradley (1); A. & C. Black to Effingham Wilson (1); L. Wilson [sister] (1, with on 4th page undated letter from his mother, M. Wilson); William Gurner (1).

Physical Description

1 item

Scope and Contents

Consists of miscellaneous papers of the Trollope family, Charles Reade, and Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll).

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by author.

Physical Description

10 boxes

Physical Description

5 boxes

L1-L43. Photographs, undated. 3 boxes.
Arrangement

Photographs L1-L16: box 109; Photographs L17-L32: box 110; Photographs L33-L43: box 111;

Scope and Contents

Most of the photographs were published in Edward Wakeling's "Catalogue of the Princeton University Albums" in Roger Taylor and Edward Wakeling, Lewis Carroll Photographer (2002): L(1-43) ["Loose Photographs"].

Physical Description

3 boxes

Falconer Madan material, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Mathematical Manuscripts, Nos. 1-62, undated. 4 boxes.
Physical Description

4 boxes

Miscellaneous Material, undated. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

notes on loose photographs

copy of will, "Proved May 13th 1898," 1 p.

sample of Carrollian chintz fabric

"List of Lewis Carroll Items, Property of Morris L. Parrish, Loaned to Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, for Centennial Anniversary Exhibition, October, 1931," 10 pp. (photostats)

Physical Description

1 box

Physical Description

1 box

Corrected page proofs for The Cloister and the Hearth, undated. 1 item.
Physical Description

1 item

Scope and Contents

Includes acrostics, poems, plays, translations from Italian, etc., some by Frances Eleanor Trollope, a few printed items, photographs, postcards, and later papers on spiritualist seances. AM 21442. In 2 boxes.

Note: The following box and folder list has been retyped from Alexander D. Wainwright's original typewritten list, dated 11/15/1988.

Physical Description

2 boxes

"The Wisdom of the Dove. A dramatic sketch in one act." MS. 28 leaves. On verso of final leaf: 8 (?) Ashburn Place S.W., undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"An Italian view of The duties of constitutional Sovereigns." MS. 37 leaves. Signed at end: J.J. Mottershed, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Baby Barton's Secret from the French." MS. 3 pp. Signed F.E. Trollope, 1891 October 28. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"To our Navy and our Army." MS. 9 pp. Signed F.E. Trollope, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Two Votes and a Veto. An unofficial conference." MS drafts. 10 p. Unsigned, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Various drafts of poems, etc. Unsigned, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

9 acrostics. MS., dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"The Swan, the crab, & the pike." MSS of poem. 1 p. 2 versions. Signed FET. Rome, 1898 April. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Dramas by Daylight. No 1. A Broken Thread." Typescript with some MS changes. 29 leaves, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Circumstances alter cases. A commedietta in one act." MS. 83 leaves, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

2 uncorrected galleys of Mrs. Trollope (alternative titles): Lieutenant Giles' Christmas Eve in Anson Street, Two Uncles, Uncles Neville and Uncle Giles. 1 complete, 14 sheets; 1 incomplete, 13 sheets, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Carte de visite photographs, and other photographs and pictures (none identified as members of the Trollope family). 22 items, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"The Wisdom of the Dove. A dramatic sketch in one act." MS. 38 leaves, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Lines written for little boy's album. Margate. 1877." MS. 2 pp., dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notebook containing notes on seances, with some fragments of MS. 2 calling cards of clairvoyants, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

In front: Album of postcards of scenes in France and Belgium, some addressed to Miss Gladys Wharton Robinson, Mr. & Mrs. E.B. Reece, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Laid in: photograph of Geoffrey Wharton Robinson in uniform, undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Too Clever by Half. A Comedy in Three Acts. (Printed at the G.M. Industrial Home.), dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Revue des Deux Mondes , 1873 June 15. Contains "Le Chagrin de Tante Marguerite," p. (815)-858, a reduction in translation of Frances Eleanor Trollope's Aunt Margaret's Trouble, 1873 June 15. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Large envelope of "Records of sittings (by Mrs. G.W.Reece) with mediums, Private ones and for G. Baker"; Mrs. Reece's Laundry Book, undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Corrected galley of Mrs. F.E. Trollope's "Two Uncles." 14 sheets, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"A Spring Storm." Poem translated from the Russian. MS. 1 p. Signed F.E.T. Rome, 1898 April. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"The Army." Typescript of poem. 1 p. by "J.E. Trollope." 2 copies, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"A Toast to our Navy & Army. Christmas 1911." MS. 8 pp., undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Pencilled record of a sitting, 1931 November 6. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

TLS from Bradford A. Booth to Mrs. Reece, 1947 June 26. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"The Rocking-horse." MS of a poem. 1 p., dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"A Broken Thread." Typescript of a play. 20 leaves, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Unfinished watercolor of a Chinese scene, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"To our Navy and our Army. The Navy." Typescript. 1 leaf. 2 copies. 4 printed fragments, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Calling card of Mrs. Rowland Taylor, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"A Slight Mistake." MS. At head of p. 1: Mrs. T. Adolphus Trollope. c.o. G. Wharton Robinson Esqr. 27. Sutherland Avenue W. 130 leaves, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Act 1 of a play set in "Morning room in Gerard West's country house in Surrey." MS. 59 leaves, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Il Canto dell'Amore. Translation." MS. 7 leaves, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

MS of an essay, in ink, 21 leaves. At head of p. 1, in pencil: Mrs. T.A. Trollope 27. Victoria Grove I think I should like the title Right about Face!, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Scope and Contents

Acquired from the estate of Robert Arthur Cecil (1921-1994), great-grandson of Thomas Adolphus Trollope. AM 1996-59. In 2 boxes.

Note: The following box and folder list has been retyped from an original typed list, dated 10/3/1996.

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2 boxes

Lists of descriptive material, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

AL to Theodosia Garrow, 1838 November 19, 3 pp., with envelope, 1838 November 19. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

7 photographs and other portraits, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

AL to Beatrice Trollope, 1876 December 1, 2 pp., 1876 December 1. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS (initials) to My Dear Friend, undated, 2 pp. Probably addressed to Joseph Garrow, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS to Joseph Garrow, Thursday Night, 3 pp. Defective with loss of text, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS to Theodosia Garrow, postmarked 1839 December 6, 3 pp., 1839 December 6. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS to Theodosia Garrow, postmarked 1839 December 14, 3 pp., 1839 December 14. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS to Theodosia Garrow, 1847 January 23, 1 p., 1847 January 23. 1 folder.
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1 folder

AMs, [of Theodosia Garrow's poems], 3 pp., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

W.S. Landor Criticism, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to his mother, Caroline, Lady Wenlock, St. Louis, 1862 February 2, 4 pp., 1862 February 2. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

7 letters to Mr. & Mrs. Charles Stuart-Wortley, circa 1913-1914. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Copy of telegram, Charles and Alice Stuart-Wortley to Mrs. Robinson, 1913 June 17. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Copy (ALS), Charles Stuart-Wortley to Mrs. Robinson, 1913 July 2, 2 pp., 1913 July 2. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to Lady Castletown, [Venice, 1876], 1 p., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to Louisa, n.p., Friday night, undated, 4 pp., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS to Violettina, 39, Montagu Square, Tuesday morning [ 1879 November 4], 8 pp., 1879 November 4. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS to Kereline, Rome, 1880 January 9, 4 pp., 1880 January 9. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Isa Blagden. ALS, undated, 4 pp., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

John Ruskin. ALS, 1876 December 19, 1 p., 1876 December 19. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Maria Ternan Taylor. ALS, 1879 October 11, 2 pp., 1879 October 11. 1 folder.
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1 folder

6 verses by or inscribed to her, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

4 watercolors, with an ALS, Charles Lindsay to Charles Stuart-Wortley, April 7, no year, sending one of them to him, April 7. 1 folder.
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1 folder

18 photographs and other portraits, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

One negative, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Program. R. Teatro delle Legge, Florence, 5 March 1873. Firenze: Società Tipografica-Editrice. Bice Trollope in the role of Henriette in Molière's Les Femmes Savantes , Act 3, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

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1 box

Hester Mulock Austin: 4 ALsS, with two enclosures, one being a copy of ALS, F.E. Trollope to Alfred Austin, 1892 March 16. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Amy Audrey Locke: ALS, 1912 March 30, 1 p., 1912 March 30. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Sir William Frederick Pollock: ACS, 1882 November 7. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Maria Ternan Taylor: 2 ALsS, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

4 photographs, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

4 letters to Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1881-1882. 1 folder.
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1 folder

2 letters to Mrs. James Stuart-Wortley, 1881. 1 folder.
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1 folder

3 letters to Beatrice Trollope, 1865, 1878, 1879, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

2 cartes-de-visite photographs, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

2 letters to Charles Stuart-Wortley, [1881], undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

40 ALsS to Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1883-1912. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS to Mrs. Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1891 April 10, 3 pp., 1891 April 10. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Telegram to Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1894 August 2. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Undated Memorandum from Frank N. Parsons with "enclosed photograph" (present), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Charles Stuart-Wortley. ANS, 1913 June 17. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Paris and the Parisians . Preface to the second edition. AMs, London, 1836 May 16, 8 pp. With an engraved portrait of the author, 1836 May 16. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

3 ALsS to Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1881. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

4 ALsS to Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1882 (2), 1886, 1892, 1882. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

7 letters to Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1899 (4), 1901 (3), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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2 boxes

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1 box

"In the noon-day's golden pleasance," AMs, 2.5 pp., dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Baby Beatrice," AMs, 4 pp., dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Baby Beatrice," AMs, corrected draft, 4 pp., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Magnetismo d'Amore," AMs, 1 p., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

20 watercolors and drawings, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Watercolor of a man and a woman, unsigned, with lower left corner burned (?) away. Inscribed on verso: "Recollections of a Fete Villa Salviati: Florence. J[-].", dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Watercolor of two women, unsigned, with lower left corner burned (?) away. Inscribed on verso: "Recollections of a Fete Villa Salviati: Jun[-].", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Watercolor of a paunchy man, unsigned. In pencil in upper left corner: Captn. Hardchett (?), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil sketch of Joseph Garrow, signed Eugenia Latilla. With a presentation inscription from the artist to Mrs. Trollope, Florence, 1851 June 23. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil sketch of Theodosia G. Trollope, reclining. Inscribed on mount: Füssli and dated Florence Jany. 1862, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil sketch of H.B. Stowe, signed T T and dated, 1857. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil sketch of R.L. Shiel, signed T.G., dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil sketch of Thiers, signed T T and dated on mount Sant' Andrea, 1852 May 9. 1 folder.
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1 folder

John Cook of Exeter. Pencil sketch of a man in uniform, uttering a condemnation of those who laugh when a man is being tried for his life, unsigned, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pen-and-ink sketch of Edmond Grainger of Exeter, unsigned, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pen-and-ink sketch of two men, unsigned, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Watercolor of "Grand Festa Nazionale Octr 5, 1856 Corse à Fantini," unsigned, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil sketch of a woman, unsigned, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a stout woman, inscribed: "She's all my Fancy painted her!" Casino Ball, Jany. 3d, 1852. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil sketch of Lady C. Fleming, unsigned, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Watercolor drawing of Lady C. Fleming, unsigned, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil drawing of a man and woman in Renaissance dress, on stiff dark paper, unsigned, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Watercolor drawing of a woman holding a child, inscribed on verso: Full length portrait of Beatrice Catharine Harriet Trollope in the eighth month of her age Novr. 1853, unsigned, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil sketch of the head of a man, inscribed: F T -- Florence 1848 May 22. Two rough pencil sketches on verso, 1848 May 22. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil sketch of a banjo player, signed T G T (?), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

17 pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate Canzoni Popolari Toscani, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Certificate (true copy) of her marriage to Thomas A. Trollope, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

True copy of certificate of birth of Beatrice ("Bice") Trollope, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

True copy of certificate of burial of Theodosia Trollope, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

8 newspaper clippings on death of Theodosia Trollope, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Handwritten copy of inscription on Villino Trollope ("Given to Bice ... in May or June 1881"), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

3 cartes-de-visite photographs, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

76 ALsS from Thomas Adolphus Trollope and Frances Eleanor Ternan Trollope to Beatrice Trollope, 1865-1870. 1 folder.
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1 folder

75 ALsS from Thomas Adolphus Trollope and Frances Eleanor Ternan Trollope to Beatrice Trollope, 1872-1876. 1 folder.
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1 folder

64 ALsS from Thomas Adolphus Trollope and Frances Eleanor Ternan Trollope to Beatrice Trollope, 1877-1878. 1 folder.
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1 folder

55 ALsS from Thomas Adolphus Trollope and Frances Eleanor Ternan Trollope to Beatrice Trollope, 1879-1881. 1 folder.
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1 folder

31 letters to Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1880-1891. 1 folder.
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1 folder

8 letters to Mrs. James Stuart-Wortley, 1881-1882. (2 are joint letters from T.A.T. and F.E.T.T.), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS to Anthony Trollope, Rome, 1876 May 23, 1 p., 1876 May 23. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Certificate of membership in Order of Sts. Maurizio and Lazzaro, with cross and brass emblem of the Order, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Certified copy of certificate of marriage to Frances Eleanor Ternan, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Handwritten extract from Guido Carocci, I Dintorni de Firenze (Firenze, 1881), p. 260, on the history of the Villino Trollope, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

10 photographs, one with an inscription from F.E. Trollope to Carrie Stuart-Wortley, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of files for individual authors that contain correspondence and manuscripts (previously housed in ten file cabinet drawers and now stored on C-floor).

Arrangement

The folders in the Author Files are filed alphabetically by name, and under a single name in roughly the following order: miscellaneous correspondence, i.e., letters to various correspondents; letters to certain individuals; letters addressed to the main entry of the folder; miscellaneous manuscript material and/or documents; manuscripts of and/or documents relating to individual works, alphabetically by title.

Physical Description

37 boxes

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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3 boxes

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1821-1849. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1850-1881. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence with Richard Bentley, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Samuel Cottam, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters addressed to Ainsworth (John Forster, Daniel Maclise, Charles Kean, Felicia Hemans), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Charles Kent, undated and 1850-1860, 1850-1860. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, 1835-1872. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts of sections of chapters VI and VII of Old St. Pauls, titled "Paul's Walk" and "The Amulet", with pencil sketch (12 x 20 cm.) by John Franklin for the plate titled "Leonard Holt conversing with the Masons before the portico of Saint Pauls."

Also included is a heavily-corrected autograph draft of the poem "Yusef and Zorayda," originally composed in November 1835, although the poem was not published for another twenty years, when it appeared in his Ballads: romantic, fantastical and humorous (London, Routledge, 1855). The text in the final published version differs considerably from the text here.

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1 folder

Miscellaneous Documents, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Manuscript of Beatrice Tyldesley, or The Lancashire Plot of 1694, an Historical Tale (1), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Manuscript of Beatrice Tyldesley (2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Manuscript of Beatrice Tyldesley (3), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Manuscript of Beatrice Tyldesley (4), Additional Leaves, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Manuscript of Beau Nash, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Manuscript of Chetwynd Calverley, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Manuscript of Crichton, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Manuscript of The Fall of Somerset, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Galley Proof of St. James's, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Charles Kent, 1861-1879. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to John Partington Aston (1802-1882), 1824 October-1827 November 5. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of 4 letters Ainsworth sent from London to his old school friend and literary collaborator, John P. Aston, a lawyer in the Ainsworth family firm, which were composed at a time when Ainsworth was finding his feet as a writer and a publisher. He writes of literary projects and collaborations with which he's engaged, including a collection of short stories and sketches that was to be published by Hurst and Robinson (it never was) that he describes in detail in a letter over twenty pages in length. In the letters, Ainsworth also insists that Aston continue to try to publish despite some setbacks.

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1 folder

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1 box

Lines suggested on reading Mr. J. M. Barrie's first book entitled Better Dead, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to W. M. Thackeray and his reply, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Mrs. Thomas Hardy: 1-20, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Mrs. Thomas Hardy: 21-40, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Mrs. Thomas Hardy: 41-60, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Mrs. Thomas Hardy: 61-80, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Mrs. Thomas Hardy: 81-100, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Mrs. Thomas Hardy: 101-120, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Mrs. Thomas Hardy: 121-124, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to James B. Pinker, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Half an Hour (last page of the manuscript of Barrie's one act play), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account for royalties of Two of Them, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters addressed to Bentley, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence (1 of 3), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (2 of 3), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (3 of 3), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Sir Walter Besant, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Edward Bradbury, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Mr. and Mrs. George Boughton and Flossie, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to James R. Osgood, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to John Pettie, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Sir Edward Russell, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters addressed to Black, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscripts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Autograph manuscript, signed: "A Day's Stalking", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Autograph manuscript, signed: "The Heaven of Sad Lovers", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to Falconer Madan, etc., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 9 ALsS, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Mimeographed film script of Wuthering Heights (Samuel Goldwyn, Inc.), 1938 November 28. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Manuscript of a libretto based on Alice in Wonderland , performed in Cambridge, Mass, 1898. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

2 ALsS concerning C. L. Dodgson, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

"Victorian Ladies" (review of Parrish's Victorian Lady Novelists book), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Original watercolor drawing of "Trotty Veck" (Dickens' character) by Kyd, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to William Holman Hunt, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence (1), undated and 1846-1869, 1846-1869. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (2), 1870-1879. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (3), 1880-1889. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to members of the Bartley family, with other pieces relating to Collins, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Francis Carr Beard, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Richard Bentley, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Andrew Chatto, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Richard Henry Dana, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Robert du Pontavice de Heussey, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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2 boxes

Letters to Albéric Iserbyt, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Harper & Brothers, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Hunter, Rose & Co., dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Charles Kent, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters, etc., to Frederick Lehmann and members of the Lehmann family, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Mrs. Mitchell, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence with Anne B. S. Proctor, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to William A. Seaver, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to William Winter, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters addressed to Wilkie Collins, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous autograph material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Contract between Wilkie Collins and Charles Lahure, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The last will and testament (photocopy), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Ms. in French: Armadale , Acte 3, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Moonstone : notes and related material, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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2 boxes

1st weekly part: dedication and leaves 1-15, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

2nd weekly part: leaves 16-29, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

3rd weekly part: leaves 30-41, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

4th weekly part: leaves 42-55, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

5th weekly part: leaves 56-67, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

6th weekly part: leaves 68-78, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

7th weekly part: leaves 79-89, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

8th weekly part: leaves 90-101, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

9th weekly part: leaves 102-112, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

10th weekly part: leaves 113-122, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

11th weekly part: leaves 123-132, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

12th weekly part: leaves 133-143, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

13th weekly part: leaves 144-154, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

14th weekly part: leaves 155-164, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

15th weekly part: leaves 165-176, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

16th weekly part: leaves 177-187, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

17th weekly part: leaves 188-198, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

18th weekly part: leaves 199-209, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

19th weekly part: leaves 210-221, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

20th weekly part: leaves 222-233, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

21st weekly part: leaves 234-245, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

22nd weekly part: leaves 246-256, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

23rd weekly part: leaves 257-268, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

24th weekly part: leaves 269-280, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

25th weekly part: leaves 281-291, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

26th weekly part: leaves 292-307 (end), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Quill Pen, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to Sir William, Sir Anthony and Alice Cope, from Rose, Mary and Maurice Kingsley, and others, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

"To Correspondents" (published poem), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence (1 of 2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (2 of 2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to William Isbister, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscripts, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"At a Tabernacle" (AM20870), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Meadowside House", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Work for Idle Hands", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

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1 box

AN by Alfred Lord Tennyson (in third person and in hand of Emily Tennyson), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Pen-and-ink drawing for Farina , by George Meredith, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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2 boxes

Miscellaneous Correspondence (1 of 2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (2 of 2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Alice Danyell and members of her family, with related material (1 of 2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Alice Danyell and members of her family, with related material (2 of 2), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Additional letters to Alice Danyell and members of her family, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letter to George Williamson, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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2 boxes

Letters to Herbert Danyell, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Isadore de Lara, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to J. Anderson Rose, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Charles Marriott, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to H. S. Salt, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to T. Fischer Unwin, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Lady Anna Chandos Pole, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Florence: 1321-1889", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Princess Napraxine (1 of 3), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Princess Napraxine (2 of 3), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Princess Napraxine (3 of 3), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Peter Cunningham, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Thomas Mitton, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS to George Reynolds, Octr. 13th [1841?], 1 p., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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2 boxes

Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896 (Son), Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896 (Son), Letters to The Lecture Agency, Ltd., 1891-1893. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Letters relate to North American lecture tours; one letter is addressed specifically to Gerald Christy, the company's managing director.

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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS to "Dear Sir," Decr. 21, 1831 from Bradenham House, [2] pp., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Alroy, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to members of the Hatch family, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letter with enclosure to Mary Louis Jackson, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence with J. and E. Kish, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to E. Gertrude Thomson, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to James Welton, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters addressed to Dodgson, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Acrostic to Alice Crompton, AMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

"Alice in Wonderland: The Christmas Gift of Lewis Carroll," television script, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"A Logical Paradox," Ms., dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll , typescript (1 of 3), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll , typescript (2 of 3), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll , typescript (3 of 3), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Through the Looking-glass (Y. R. Chao's translation into Chinese), positive photostat of corrected page proof, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Materials Viewable Online
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"What the Tortoise said to Achilles," Ms., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to Falconer Madan, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Drawings, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to James Storey, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Elizabeth Rayner Parkes Belloc (1 of 2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Manuscript Notes on the Persecution of the Jews in Spain, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to Elizabeth Rayner Parkes Belloc (2 of 2), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account book, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Quarry," AMs in notebook for an unfinished novel, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Correspondence ... concerning his marble bust of W. M. Thackeray as a boy, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to W. J. Williams of Smith, Elder & Co., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Material relating to The (Robert Louis) Stevenson Society, Stephen Chalmers, and 2 ALsS from sculptor Gutzon Borglum, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

6 original pen-and-ink drawings for or related to Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno concluded, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Proof, suppressed state, of an illustration for Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno , p. 96, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pen-and-ink drawing of Hall Caine, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters addressed to Mrs. Gaskell, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (included in Chapple and Pollard edition), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (not in Chapple and Pollard edition), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

"Not under the Law, but under Grace," Ms.; letters from various correspondents (including 1 ALS from M. E. Gaskell) to S. Farrington; letters from S. Farrington to Horace [?], undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Stevenson's 'In the South Seas'," AMS, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

"Tea at the Hotel Cecil" pen-and-ink drawing after Tenniel, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Sentiment written for his daughter Fanny's (later Mrs. Charles Kingsley) album, 1831 August 26. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Resolutions, AMss, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Howard Bliss (1 of 3), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to Howard Bliss (2 of 3), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Howard Bliss: envelopes (3 of 3), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters addressed to Mrs. Hardy, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

2 pencil sketches of an ancient font re-erected, Stinsford Church, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Pencil drawing of "The Old Church. Fawley. Berks.", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Traced drawing of "Mr. Thomas Hardy's Birthplace", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

2 photographs of his study, inscribed by Hardy, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to Freeman Wills and TLS from Wills concerning an adaptation of Eugene Aram, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Material relating to C. L. Dodgson, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

On the death of George Meredith, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to Samuel Lover, "May 19 Tuesday", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Correspondence and oversize document dated "Michas 1831", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

5 ALsS to Octavius R. Wilkinson, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Oversize document dated "Michas 1824" and signed by John Hughes, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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2 boxes

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material and tax document, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (1 of 4), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (2 of 4), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (3 of 4), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (4 of 4), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Frederick William Chesson, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Dana Estes, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Frederick William Farrar, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters (9) to William Rossiter; Letter to John concerning Rossiter, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Octavius R. Wilkinson (his uncle), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters addressed to Hughes, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Rough proof of Preface to a new edition of Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke , and a pen-and-ink sketch of Mount Snowdon and surroundings in Wales, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to Octavius R. Wilkinson, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910), Letter to His Godson Holman, 1891 May 13. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to James R. Osgood, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Tales from Trollope , typescript of a play in three acts, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters and cards addressed to Miss Jackson, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letter concerning Robert Louis Stevenson, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

"Expences from October 2nd 1867" [in connection with Dickens's trip to the United States], undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to Kent concerning the Dickens Dinner, 1867. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

The Black Cottage , A dramatization in one act of Wilkie Collins' story of the same name (typescript), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Physical Description

6 boxes

Miscellaneous Correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters addressed to Kingsley (AM 18511), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters addressed to Kingsley, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Lady Bunbury, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Sir William Cope, undated (1 of 4), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Sir William Cope, 1850-1859 (2 of 4), 1850-1859. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Sir William Cope, 1860-1869 (3 of 4), 1860-1869. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Sir William Cope, 1870-1874 (4 of 4), 1870-1874. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to members of the Erskine family and 3 short manuscript pieces, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to John Pyke Hullah, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Francis Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Francis Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, 1851. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Francis Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, 1874. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letter to Grenville Arthur Kingsley, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letter to Mary Lucas Kingsley, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Alexander MacMillan, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to John W. Parker, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to members of the Stapleton family (1 of 2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to members of the Stapleton family (2 of 2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence with Susanna Winkworth (three letters from Kingsley), dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, 1836-1871. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes an autograph fair copy of the poem, "The Tide River" (here untitled), originally published in The Water Babies (1863), among other manuscripts.

Also included is a drawing by Kingsley.

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1 folder

"Address By The Rev. Charles Kingsley on Education," galley proofs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Part First: The Music to The Antigone of Sophocles (with autograph corrections by Kingsley), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Charles Kingsley's American Notes: Letters from a Lecture Tour, 1874 , edited by Robert Bernard Martin, typescript and galley proofs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Dan Bacchus asleep on the shore did lie," AMss. of poem, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Heroism," AMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Juventus Mundi," AMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Lecture on the Study of Natural History," AMs, loosely stitched, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letter addressed to "Sir" concerning religion, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"The Little Jewish Maid" sermon, AMs in a bound notebook, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Parody of "Awake my Soul" titled "Midsummer 186 ?" (3 verses of poem) and a draft of satiric verses, AMss, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Ode to Bunkum," AMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Review of China from a Medical Point of View book by C. A. Gordon, AMs., dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

7 sermons, AMss (1 of 4), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

11 sermons, AMss (2 of 4), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

11 sermons, AMss (3 of 4), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

11 sermons, AMss (4 of 4), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

28 sermons, AMss, undated. 28 folders.
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28 folders

17 sermons, AMss, undated. 17 folders.
Physical Description

17 folders

dinner invitation for Charles Kingsley from Windsor Castle, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

typed genealogical chart of the Kingsley family, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

unidentified manuscript essay on literature including Charles Kingsley, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Sermon, Acts VIII:18-19 , AMs, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Sermon, "The just shall live by his faith," AMs, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Seven sermons, etc., 1844-1878. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Collection of seven Charles Kingsley sermons (1848-1878, some in the hand of Fanny Kingsley), notes for a sermon, a list of deeds (1876)

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1 folder

Town Geology, AMsS, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Water-Babies , manuscript fragment, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letter to Thomas George Bonney along with a Photograph of Kingsley and His Wife, Frances Grenfell, 1868 June 13. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letter to "My dear John", 1860 September 29. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Concerns Kingsley's preparation of lectures (of which "The Roman and the Teuton" were published in 1864) for his position as Regius Professor of History at Cambridge.

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1 folder

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2 boxes

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Sir William Cope, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to members of the Stapleton family, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters and other items removed from her letterbook, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters addressed to Mrs. Kingsley, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters addressed to Mrs. Kingsley (1 of 2), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters addressed to Mrs. Kingsley (2 of 2), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence, agreements, etc., concerning the life and letters of Charles Kingsley; also material relating to Kingsley's literary estate, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

2 boxes

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lectures on French art, TMss (some with holograph corrections), undated. 7 folders.
Physical Description

7 folders

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

"Memorandum for the consideration of Mr. Dickens...," AMsS, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

2 boxes

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Edward Burbidge, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Edward Chapman and Chapman & Hall, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Chapman & Hall, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Smith, Elder & Co., undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters addressed to Lever, with some manuscript material (AM 18479), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Fortunes of Glencore , autograph manuscript fragment, probably in the hand of an amanuensis, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lord Kilgobbin , early drafts of manuscript, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

2 boxes

Volume I, Chapters 1-7, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Volume I, Chapters 8-14, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Volume I, Chapters 15-21, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Volume I, Chapters 22-28, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Chapters 29-36 (Volume II, Chapters 1-8), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Chapters 37-44 (Volume II, Chapters 9-16), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Chapters 45-51 (Volume II, Chapters 17-23), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Chapters 52-58 (Volume II, Chapters 24-30), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Chapters 59-65 (Volume III, Chapters 1-7), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Chapters 66-72 (Volume III, Chapters 8-14), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Chapters 73-79 (Volume III, Chapters 15-21), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Chapters 80-85 (Volume III, Chapters 22-27), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Sir Jasper Carew , one leaf of autograph manuscript, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Papers, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

"'Culture and Anarchy': A Reply" galley proof and ALS to Howard Bliss, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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1 box

ANS for Miss May Hughes, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

2 boxes

Miscellaneous Correspondence (1 of 6), 96 letters, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (2 of 6), 75 letters, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (3 of 6), 103 letters, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (4 of 6), 82 letters; 1 leaf of verse, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (5 of 6), 91 letters, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (6 of 6), 64 letters, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Lady Barbarina Dacre, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to General and Mrs. Gascoyne; with four related items, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Charles Kent, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Frederick and Nina Lehmann, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Miss Wheeler, afterwards Lady Lytton, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Peter George Patmore, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence with George Routledge and Sons, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Anna Caroline Wood Steele, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Edward Matthew Ward, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters addressed to Lytton, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Caxtons , title page and preface, manuscript, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Eugene Aram : "Epistolary Preface to the American Edition of 'Eugene Aram.', undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Legal opinion on "... Sorrow on Sea", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Letters to William Wetmore Story, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Mrs. Talbot, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Article of Agreement with Chapman and Hall, Publishers, dates not examined. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (1 of 3), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to American Publishers, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letter to General Bulwer, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letter to Sir Philip, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Helen Taylor, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letter to J. H. Ingram, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (2 of 3), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence with Frederic Chapman, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to "My Dear Friend", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (3 of 3), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (photostat of page in ledger), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Description

1 box

Correspondence and other items concerning the Lewis Carroll Centenary Exhibition in London, 1932. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence with Morris L. Parrish, 1924-1926. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence with Morris L. Parrish, 1927-1929. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence with Morris L. Parrish, 1930-1934. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letters to Madan from C. H. W. Dodgson and others; notes and clippings, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence, notes, etc., concerning C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Supplements to the Dodgson Handbook, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Material concerning the Dodgson family, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to H. F. Chorley, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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2 boxes

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Lady Monckton (1 of 2), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Lady Monckton (2 of 2), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Lady Anna Chandos Pole, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lady Audley's Secret , copyright registration, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Accounts with MacMillan & Co., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

1 ALS to Miss Clementina Black, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Scope and Contents

[Note: 2 other poems to Parrish are in Box 104]

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1 box

"To Morrie" (poem addressed to Parrish), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Maurice Colles and others, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Agreement with Godfrey Hamilton authorizing dramatization of R. L. Stevenson's Prince Otto, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

1 ALS to Mrs. [Maria Ternan] Taylor, with a message for Mr. [Thomas Adolphus] Trollope, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

"Actaeon in Hades," with three other items, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to Nicholas Longworth and miscellaneous papers, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Papers and Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence (1 of 3), 110 letters, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Correspondence (2 of 3), 68 letters, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Scope and Contents

[Note: For more of Reade's Real Estate Papers, ]

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence (3 of 3), 107 letters, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Cassell and Company, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Wilkie Collins, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to M. de Wailly, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Hunter, Rose & Co., dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Laurie and Keen, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Frederick and Nina Lehmann, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Tom Taylor, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Anthony Trollope and Son (Henry), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Benjamin Webster, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to Emile Zola, including 5 photographs of Weybridge, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters addressed to Reade, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miscellaneous Manuscript Material, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Specification and Estimate for Sicilian Marble Tomb... for C. Reade, Esq.", dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Reade vs. Seaman: material relating to the libel proceedings (1 of 3; 2 of 3 folder is in oversize box 3B), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Reade vs. Seaman: material relating to the libel proceedings (3 of 3), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Real Estate Papers: 6 Bolton Road, 1862-1883. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Real Estate Papers: 15 Half Moon Street, 1866-1868. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Real Estate Papers: 5 Albert Terrace, 1866-1873. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Real Estate Papers: Brompton Road and other properties, 1866-1874. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Insurance Papers, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Reade vs. Pawle, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Reade vs. Thorpe, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Papers written after Reade's death, relating to real estate, etc. (1 of 2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Papers written after Reade's death, relating to real estate, etc. (2 of 2), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"The Autobiography of a Thief": notes and drafts in two stitched notebooks, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Manuscript entitled "Hear both sides" ("The bloomer") in one stitched notebook, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Christie Johnstone : AMs, one leaf, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Double Marriage : agreements, letters, etc., relating to the play, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The Countess and the Dancer : manuscript of Acts I and III, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Doubles": one leaf of manuscript, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Le Faubourg St. Germaine , Act I: rough draft in one stitched notebook, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

It's never too late to mend : notes, preliminary drafts, etc., for the novel, in two stitched notebooks and loose leaves, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

It's never too late to mend : Acts 2 and 4 of drama in four stitched notebooks, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

It's never too late to mend : unauthorized production, 1863 (Reade vs. Mills), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

It's never too late to mend : John Coleman's production, 1865-1867. 1 folder.
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1 folder

It's never too late to mend : unauthorized production, 1867. 1 folder.
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1 folder

It's never too late to mend : "Scene added to the last act... for Miss Ellen Terry by her friend the author", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The 'jilt' : partial manuscript, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Love me little, love me long": AMs, one leaf, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Masks and Faces : changes to Act I, Scene 1, in hand of author, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Masks and Faces : changes to Act I, Scene 1, in hand of an amanuensis, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Masks and Faces agreements. etc., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Put yourself in his place : agreement concerning Coleman's proposed U.S. production, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to Edmund Gosse, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Correspondence and other material relating to his Anthony Trollope collection (1 of 2), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence and other material relating to his Anthony Trollope collection (2 of 2), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to Miss Furman, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Branwell Brontë: a play in three acts , in a bound notebook, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to W. J. Williams of Smith, Elder & Co. (1 of 2), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters to W. J. Williams of Smith, Elder & Co. (2 of 2), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Letters addressed to Lady Ritchie, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"The Life of Jane Austen," original MS andd proof, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

ALS to Jonas Levy, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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2 boxes

Letters from Henry M. Trollope and his wife, Ada, and daughter, Muriel, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Articles, clippings and other material relating to Anthony Trollope, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Typescripts and notes concerning Anthony Trollope, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Items removed from extra-illustrated Anthony Trollope: a commentary , Boston, 1927. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous correspondence and material, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Correspondence relating to the sale of the "MacGeorge Pickwick" to M. L. Parrish, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

"Mr. Charles Reade and his Critics. To the Editor of the Era." Also includes 3 ALSs to George Robert Sims, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832, Correspondence, 1803-1829. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to Seaver concerning Wilkie Collins, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

LS to the Rt. Hon. John Burns, London, 1917 February 8. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kingsley and to Rose Kingsley, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Correspondence and Documents, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Miscellaneous Correspondence, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder