Gift of A. E. Gallatin and J. Harlin O'Connell in January 1951.

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Additional Arthur Symons materials are to be found in the following Princeton University Library Collections:

Sylvia Beach Correspondence

Letters of Symons and his wife Rhoda to Sylvia Beach. Mostly business-oriented.

Rodin Collection

11 letters to Symons from Rodin (1902-1911)

J. Harlin O'Connell Collection of the 1890s

Correspondence

Autograph manuscript of Tristan and Iseult, two signed drafts of part of Act I, and the signed, revised draft of Act III in autograph and typescript. A letter of Symons to John Quinn is included.

Originial autograph manuscript of "Marseilles." Laid in is a letter from Symons to Edward Martin. 5 pp.

Proof sheets, with many correction, of the Fool of the World and Other Poems.

Manuscript notebook containing six manuscript pages of notes, in Symons' hand, for an article entitled "The Symphony of Snakes," with several pages of notes for a bibliography of Arthur Symons.

"Dieppe: 1895", pages from The Savoy, for January 1896, heavily corrected in Symons' hand.

Two third-person autograph letters to an unspecified correspondent, concerning George Moore's Martin Luther.

There are also several, very ephemeral pieces which include such items as a return address, torn from a package, in Symons's hand.

No appraisal information is available.

People

• Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795.
• Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798.
• Giorgone, 1477-1510
• Goldoni, Carlo, 1707-1793.
• Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
• Harris, Frank, 1856-1931
• John, Gwen, 1876-1939
• Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893
• Verlaine, Paul, 1844-1896.
• Vidocq, Eugène François, 1775-1857.
• Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Auguste, comte de, 1838-1889

Subject

• French poetry -- Translations into English
• Italian poetry -- Translations into English
• Romanies -- England
• Symbolism in art
• Symbolism in literature
• Poets, English

Occupation

• Critics -- England.

Publisher

Manuscripts Division

Finding Aid Date

2002

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