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Primarily remembered today for his sexually frank reminiscences ( My Life and Loves, 3 vols., 1923-1927), Harris was an American expatriate writer who lived for many years in Nice, France. Born in Ireland (1856), raised and educated in the United States, Harris drifted to Europe for further education, eventually editing various magazines in England, becoming friends with Max Beerbohm, Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde, and gaining a literary reputation for books and short stories. He returned to the U.S. and edited Pearson's Magazine, but his pro-German sympathies during World War I forced him to retire in France, where he died in 1931. Harris's other major publications include Elder Conklin (stories, 1894), Montes the Matador (stories, 1900), Mr. and Mrs. Daventry (play, 1900), The Man Shakespeare (psychological study, 1909), Great Days (novel, 1914), Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (biography, 2 vols, 1916), and Undream'd of Shores (stories, 1924).
The collection consists primarily of typescript copies of literary works by the American expatriate author Frank Harris, arranged by form and genre. Many have been heavily revised and corrected. Most of his published books are represented in some part, though shorter pieces, such as articles and contemporary portraits, predominate. A major part deals with his criticism and interpretation of various works by Oscar Wilde, his biography of Wilde, and his own biography, My Life and Loves. Correspondence of Harris from his last decade (primarily letters from booksellers, translators, and publishers), as well as some financial and printed material, is also included
Further accessions include correspondence with Arnold and Blance Rittenberg, and Gordon Young.
Frank Harris (New York, Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1970) by Robert B. Pearsall was consulted during preparation of the biographical note.
No accruals are expected.
This collection was first bought from a bookshop in Nice shortly after Frank Harris's death in 1931. The material relative to Oscar Wilde has been collected; but the rest has been left largely as found, with the titles of each folder (where there is a folder, or a title) as left by Harris.
Purchased by the Department in August 2004.
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This collection was processed by John Delaney in September 2004. Finding aid written by John Delaney in October 2004.
One printed item was transferred to Rare Books Division for cataloging; the rest has been retained.
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Collection Inventory
Consists primarily of typescripts, often with holograph corrections, covering the whole range of Harris's literary production.
Except for a section of Harris's writings on works by the Irish author Oscar Wilde, the manuscripts of this series have been arranged in subseries by genre: A. Books, B. Oscar Wilde, C. Plays, D. Stories, E. Portraits, F. Articles, and G. Miscellaneous.
Physical Description7 boxes
Organized alphabetically by name.
Consists of files of manuscripts, primarily typescripts and proofs, relating to books Harris published or planned to publish, arranged alphabetically by title of the work. Some bear his holograph corrections/revisions.
Physical Description2 boxes
"Preface": two copies of one version and one of another, all 2 pp. each; with some corrections in pencil in a very shaky hand
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Typescript, with preface by Abe Tobin (with autograph corrections by FH); with a list of contents, with numerous deletions by FH in pencil. It looks very much as though this apparently unpublished book was made up of stray articles, gathered under a loose title and justified after the event. Among the subjects are: Quebec, and a visit to Savannah; the crucifixion of Danzic; Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians; books by Theodore Dreiser, Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, Upton Sinclair, etc. A good portion of the essays or sections announced in the list of contents are not here, but enough remains to show that FH was going through them with a view to a collected publication. A number have annotations in his (now very shaky) hand reading "Good" or "Fair to middle." With the original envelope annotated in pencil: "Chapter 22 (with exception of Emily Brontë) sent to Abe Tobin on 12/6/29," and (below): "Abe Tobin's Book."
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Proof copy (70 pp.) with some corrections, especially at the beginning
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A small sheaf of typescript papers (63 pp.) apparently relating to FH's book of this name (published 1909), with occasional corrections and additions in MS; with "The Critics on Frank Harris' 'The Man Shakespeare'" (2 pp.), a summary of the best reviews by George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, etc.; and with flyer for The Man Shakespeare, containing photo of FH and order form on p. 4.
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Miscellaneous proofs, press-cuttings, etc., including proofs for the new edition of Montes the Matador (1930), with a typed page of text which is probably the new preface, with annotations in pencil
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With some missing portions, this seems to be a virtually complete typescript draft of volume I of My Life and Loves. Typescripts, including sections or complete versions of the following chapters: "Chapter I", untitled, but the whole work headed "My Autobiography" (pp. 1-19); "Life in an English Grammar School" (pp. 7-28); "Chapter III" (pp. 1-22, plus three extra leaves after p. 9); "Chapter IV" (pp. 1-29); "Chapter V" (pp. 1-21); "Chapter VI" (pp. 1-29, plus some extra leaves), with corrections in FH's hand; "Chapter VII: The Great Fire of Chicago" (pp. 1-27, with an extra leaf), mostly paginated in FH's hand; "Chapter VIII" (pp. 1-24), with many corrections in FH's hand; "Chapter IX" (pp. 1-22), with some corrections in FH's hand; "Chapter X: Venus toute entière à sa proie attachée" (pp. 1-23), with some corrections in FH's hand; "Chapter XI" (pp. 1-26); "Chapter XII" (pp. 1-19, plus some extra leaves), with occasional corrections by FH; "Chapter XIII" (pp. 1-20), with corrections by FH; "Chapter XIV" (pp. 1-27), with a number of corrections by FH.
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Address to the presiding judge of the French court of justice trying FH for corrupting public morals by publishing My Life and Loves (vol. 2): five copies. The carbon boasts the names of H. L. Mencken, Paul Eldridge, and others as signatories to the protest at such censorship; but these copies also each have the original signatures of: Theodore Dreiser; James Branch Cabell; Benjamin de Casseres; Alexander Harvey; and Paul Eldridge. Dreiser has added the rider: "I have not read Harris book and so know nothing of its merits or sins. I have not even seen it. I sign because I believe in freedom for honest writing of any description. I hope Harris book fits this description."
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Typescript, largely complete: each of the 14 chapters separately paginated, and with some corrections in FH's hand.
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Typescript, apparently complete: 198 pp., numbered in rubber stamp, with numerous minor corrections in pencil, in pink folder (covers detached from each other). Inscribed in pencil on upper cover, "Returned by John Lane The Bodley Head," and on title page, "Printers | O draws attention to | correct spelling etc. | LH."
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"Preface to Pantopia": two versions, a two-page one and a short one-paragraph version, with autograph corrections.
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Typescript, 128 pp., apparently uncorrected. This is utopian fiction set on an an island reached by the narrator when a ship traveling from Liverpool to San Francisco wrecks. It was published by the Panurge Press (New York) in 1930.
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Outline (2 pp.) of a short story, entitled "The Turning Point," to be included in the book; 2 copies.
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Typescripts (most have different versions): introduction, "An Execution in Paris," "Thoughts on Morals," "Tolstoi's Last Days: A Woman's Jealousy," "The Art of Biography," "Review of Emil Ludwig's Napoleon," "Travel in France," "Joan of Arc," "Christopher Columbus," "Science and Immorality," "Great Cities of the World," "Gabriel d'Annunzio," "The Story of Emma, Lady Hamilton," "The Life of Rachel," "Natural Religion," and "A Strange True Story of Love."
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Organized alphabetically by name.
Consists primarily of typescripts by Harris about various published works of Oscar Wilde, arranged alphabetically by the Wilde or Harris title, followed by some copies of letters about Wilde. Some of the manuscripts bear holograph corrections.
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"Foreword" to a new edition of Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol: autograph manuscript in pencil, 4 pp., with carbon typescript, 3 pp., with one pencil correction.
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Unpublished portions of Wilde's De Profundis: galley proofs of a version of this work, taken apparently from press reports of the hearing of the action of Douglas v. Ransome and Others, April 1913. 7 galley sheets, with corrections in ink possibly in FH's hand.
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Typescript with very many autograph additions and corrections in pencil (plus a few notes in ink at the beginning), 19 pp. (plus one additional page 3a)
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Typescript, 37 pp., including some additional pages, with many autograph corrections by FH; and pencil notes at head of first page which imply that 500 copies were to be printed. With three copies of a finished typescript of the same, one of them with the title changed to "A Third Volume to 'The Life and Confessions ...'"; some light corrections by FH.
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Typescript, two copies, 3 pp. each. Contains accounts of some supposed errors in the book, with much characteristic boasting.
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"The Final Preface to the 'Life of Oscar Wilde'": typescript, 6 pp., apparently complete; with some corrections by FH. Contains what must be an entirely fictitious story about Esterhazy confessing to Wilde and FH the truth about the Dreyfus affair, "months before anyone else had heard of it."
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Carbon typescript, 9 pp. Includes some interesting and amusing Wildean stories, e.g., on The Story of Mr W.H.: "It always appeared to me a semi-satire of Shakespearean commentary. I remember Wilde saying to me after it was published that his next Shakespearean book would be a discussion as to whether the commentators on Hamlet were mad or only pretending to be."
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Typescript, 21 pp., giving a list of the subscribers and the amounts they paid, for a total (including trade subscriptions) of £1129.13.10. Names include Bernard Shaw, Adela Schuster, Andre Raffalovich and Hesketh Pearson. Two copies (one a carbon).
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Copy of the prospectus for this work, 4 pp. [1916?]
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Printed sheet (180 x 120 mm.) dated from New York, 14 June 1916, beginning: "I wanted to make this 'Life of Wilde' the best biography extant: Have I done it?"
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"Introduction to the 'Picture of Dorian Gray'": typescript, top copy, pp. 1 and 3-4. With some autograph corrections by FH. Also two carbon copies of a different version, pp. 1-6, with some autograph corrections by FH.
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Typescript, 1 p., with pencil corrections; with letter from Ray Henderson to FH, on behalf of Sir Herbert Tree (dated 30 January 1917, from Garrick Theatre, Philadelphia), relating a story of Wilde telling Tree that he was being referred to in Paris as "Lord Beerbohm, autrefois si bien connu sous le nom de Irving."The letter with some pencil notes of FH relating to the other story in the typescript.
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Copy of letter from Ross to FH, typed, dated 1 February 1917, 4 pp., about the Wilde estate. Also carbon copy (one page) of a letter from Cyril Holland attempting to " prevent the recurrence any such future annoyance by Lord A.D.," dated from Poona, 1 July 1914; and memorandum (4 pp.) by the solicitors of Robert Ross as administrator of Wilde's estate. With two more copies of these documents.
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Typescript copies of five letters (12 pp.) from Turner to Ross, sent from the deathbed of Oscar Wilde. A few pencil corrections and deletions by FH.
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Typescript copy of a letter from Wilde to Ross, dated 31 May 1897, 10 pp., with some pencil notes and some footnotes typed in.
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Letter, dated 16 August 1927, mentioning various people connected with Wilde, including Vyvyan Holland and Robert Ross, asking about the first edition of FH's book on Wilde; saying that Hugh Lunn (aka Hugh Kingsmill, who wrote a book about FH) is still on the continent.
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Typescript copy of an article in Le Journal, 25 May 1895. In French, 5 pp.
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Carbon copy of the first page of a letter from FH to Douglas, 15 December 1925, protesting at various wrongs, real or supposed. Incomplete.
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Copy of a letter from Adrian de Fleury & Co. to an unnamed bookseller threatening them with legal proceedings for selling a book which "contains the most infamous libels upon Lord Alfred Douglas," 25 October 1927.
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Two typed copies of a letter to The Bookman, 31 May 1930. First, a carbon copy of the draft, 2 pp., with autograph corrections by FH; the other, a top copy (plus a carbon of the same) of the finished letter, one page. Protesting about the truth behind the play Mr. and Mrs. Daventry, whose plot Harris bought from Wilde and wrote himself.
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Organized alpahbetically by name.
Consists of typescripts for parts of five plays Harris wrote, arranged alphabetically by title.
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Typescript, 13 pp., complete copy of Act 1 (but no more)
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Large group of papers, including drafts of various acts (several of Act I), some parts with much correction, some uncorrected. Altogether perhaps 200 pp.
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One page only from an early typescript, with corrections in FH's hand, with a copy of a letter to H. Dennis Bradley, 1925, on the verso. FH wrote this play as a reply to Shaw's Saint Joan.
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Three copies of a typescript, each 54 pp., with some holograph corrections, the third copy retitled "The New Commandment.". Apparently unpublished.
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Typescript, 3 pp. only.
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Typescript, 36 pp., apparently uncorrected, unpublished. Set in the office of John Gretton, a businessman.
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Arrangement has no apparent organization scheme.
Consists of typescripts of short stories by Harris, with occasional holograph corrections, arranged alphabetically by title.
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Typescript, 55 pp. A short story set in Vienna in the nineties. Possibly by FH and translated into German, but possibly by another writer.
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Carbon typescript, largely uncorrected, about 50 pp. A story in three parts, set in Colorado.
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Clean typescript, with no corrections, 23 pp.
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Typescript, 7 pp., three copies with different texts, and some corrections by FH. Apparently a short story.
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Typescript, 4 pp.
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Organized alphabetically by name.
Consists of typescript versions of portraits Harris wrote about various literary and political figures of his time, arranged alphabetically by the subject's name. This is followed by similar typescripts for the portraits Harris published in his fourth series of Contemporary Portraits (1923), arranged in chapter order. For many of these Harris has edited, often heavily, printed copies of the same portrait that was published earlier in Pearson's Magazine. Many of the manuscripts in this subseries bear holograph corrections, additions, and deletions.
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"Grant Allen," typescript, 6 pp.
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Typescript, 8 pp., with FH's name and New York address at head, and note "Cut by E—P through old Sir Berkeley Milne" [?]
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Typescript, 11 pp., a different article from the preceding, with a copy
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Typescript, 28 pp., different again, with FH's name and New York address at head
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Typescript, 28 pp. Presumably not by FH.
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"Albert Ballin," typescript, 5 pp., three copies
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"Balzac," typescript, 8 pp.
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Typescript, about 20 pp., with many corrections and deletions
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Typescript, 19 pp.
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"Lord Curzon and Lord Robert Cecil," typescript, 2 pp.
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"The Right Hon. Sir Charles Dilke": typescripts, three drafts, 6 pp. (one has 9), with manuscript corrections
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"Emma Goldman": a chaotic group of about 15 pages, with many deletions and additions in manuscript, apparently part of a portrait of her by FH
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"Maxim Gorki: An Outline": pp. 1-4 and 8-9, with many corrections and deletions, and with an additional page in manuscript. With another copy retyped in full, and a carbon of the same.
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"Yvette Guilbert," typescript, 6 pp.
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"Warren Harding," typescript, 4 pp.
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"W. E. Henley": typescript, 4 pp.. With two other versions of the same article, some corrections, each succeeded by the next item; "Arthur Pearson": pp. 4-5, with two other versions, as above; "Emile Zola," "Alphonse Daudet," "Yvette Guilbert," "Gaston Calmette and Perrin," each with corrections, as part of one of the copies of the Henley article above.
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"Otto Kahn: A Lover of the Ideal," printed text of an article from Pearson's for April 1922 (proof copy)
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"Maynard Keynes: Financial Adviser to the British Treasury," typescript, 15 pp., with many corrections
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"Lord Kitchener of Khartum," typescript, 7 pp.
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"Major Arthur Little: A War Hero," typescript, 3 pp.
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"A Great Unknown Novelist: David Graham Phillips," typescript, 4 pp.
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Typescript, 7 pp., on Pearson's Magazine notepaper
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Typescript, 21 pp., with a number of minor corrections
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"Leo Tolstoy," typescript, 8 pp.
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"W. B. Trites: A New Novelist," typescript, 7 pp., plus one extra leaf, with another copy in a different stage of composition
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"John Tyndall," typescript, 10 pp.
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"Paul Verlaine in England," typescript, 5 pp.
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Typescript, 5 pp., with a number of manuscript corrections and additions by FH, plus another version, much longer, incorporating an article from Pearson's for September 1921
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Typescript, 12 pp., plus two more fragments on Wagner
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Typescript, 3 pp., article or story (all in capitals), with plentiful additions in pencil by FH
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1 box
Five leaves in manuscript plus two in typescript
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Typescript, 1 p. (fragment only)
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"Gargoyles of Three Presidents and One German Official," typescript, 3 pp.
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Typescript of various reviews of Contemporary Portraits, 8 pp.
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Each different, headed "Contemporary Portraits," clearly intended as a checklist for the portraits to go into one of FH's volumes of (largely imaginary) portraits of people he had known: typescripts, one of 7 pp., the other of 4 pp.
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Typescript, 5 pp., with an extra carbon copy of page 5, with many manuscript corrections in FH's hand
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Typescript, 4 pp., with corrections
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"I The Admirable Crichton. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and the Honourable George Wyndham": typescript, 18 pp., with numerous corrections by FH. Manuscript note at head: "Carefully corrected March '23"; another typescript copy (15 pp.) of the article on W.S. Blunt and George Wyndham.
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"II Memories of Richard Wagner": typescript, 17 pp., with numerous corrections and additions by FH.
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"III Ivan Turgenieff: A Snapshot": typescript, 5 pp., with a few corrections by FH.
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Typescript, 4 pp., plus the printed text of an article in Pearson's for December 1921, with numerous corrections by FH.
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Typescript, 5 pp., with one leaf in manuscript and many heavy corrections
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"V John Tyndall": the printed text of an article in Pearson's for January 1921, with a few corrections and additions by FH.
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"VI Ernst Haeckel": the printed text of an article in Pearson's for May 1920, with a few corrections.
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"VII Grant Allen": the printed text of an article in Pearson's for August 1920, with a small section added at the end in MS by FH.
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"VIII Leonard Merrick" printed text of an article in Pearson's for September 1918, rather scruffy and repaired with tape, with a very few corrections by FH.
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"IX Herbert Trench": typescript, 11 pp., plus 3 extra pp. after page 5, a few corrections by FH, who has annotated the first page: "corrected finally FH – 4500 words."
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"X Max 'The Incomparable'": printed text of an article in the magazine Shadowland, with a few corrections by FH, and note at head: "Corrected: can supply plate of Max's caricature of himself & me at dinner". (This was the famous caricature which Max gave to Enid Bagnold when FH was imprisoned and which was used against his wishes to publicize the magazine Modern Society, of which FH was then editor.)
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"XI Henri Matisse and Renoir: Master Painters": printed text of an article in an unidentified magazine, with some corrections.
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"XII H. L. Mencken, Critic": printed text of an article cut from an issue of Pearson's for May 1921, with annotations by FH, and with an additional page of typescript.
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"XIII Senator La Follette": printed text of an article for Pearson's for June 1920, originally entitled "Presidential Candidates: Mr McAdoo and Senator La Follette;" with corrections by FH.
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"XIV Memories of Mark Twain": printed text of an article for Pearson's for November 1921, with corrections by FH.
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Typescript, 10 pp., with a number of corrections by FH
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Typescript, 5 pp., heavily corrected, with a retyped copy, less heavily corrected but still somewhat chaotic
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"XVI Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky: Two Great Captains": printed text of an article published in Pearson's for October 1920, with numerous corrections and additions by FH, including two sheets of manuscript; with (probably intended to be joined as part of the same chapter) "A Last Talk with Trotzky": printed text of an article originally published in Pearson's for June 1919, corrected as before.
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"XVII The Russian delegates at Genoa": one page of typescript plus cuttings of an article originally published in The Call Magazine.
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"XVIII Emma Goldman: The Famous Anarchist": typescript, 27 pp., plus many corrections by FH, and a sheet of manuscript at the end.
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"XIX Gargoyles: Geirhardt Hauptmann and Dr Bischoff": typescript, 10 pp., with a few corrections by FH.
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"XXI Jim Larkin, the Irish Labour Leader": printed text of an article originally published in Pearson's for June 1920, with a few corrections by FH.
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"XXII Olive Schreiner: Ad Memoriam": printed text of an article originally published in Pearson's for February 1921; with a few corrections by FH.
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"XXIII Sarah Bernhardt": typescript, 5 pp., with corrections and additions by FH, with "Sarah Bernhardt": typescript, 5 pp., another copy.
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Organized alphabetically by name.
Consists of typescripts of numerous articles by Harris, some bearing holograph corrections. These are arranged alphabetically by title.
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Proofs (3 galleys) for "Academy Eighteen," about his scandalous (and probably completely untruthful) reminiscences of Alexander Carlyle (FH alleged that Carlyle confessed his impotence to him, at their first meeting ...).
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Typescript, 3 pp., with pencil additions on separate sheets of paper.
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Typescript, 9 pp., with some pencil corrections.
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Typescript, 7 pp., with some pencil corrections.
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Typescript, 19 pp., with some manuscript corrections by FH.
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Typescript, 1 p., six copies.
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Different typescript, 1 p., contrasting those of "a saint" with those of "a modern."
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Typescript, 10 pp., apparently originally intended as a letter to the English Review. A few manuscript corrections.
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Untitled typescript, 2 pp.
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Typescript, two copies, each 4 pp., commentary on Proust's master work, comparing it with Joyce's Ulysses ("a good deal of it is written in a similar conversational jargon with similar lapses into smut"), and also on Maynard Keynes.
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Typescript, 6 pp., with manuscript note at head: "Private. To be returned to F.H. 28 New Steyne, Brighton," and dated June 1915.
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Typescript, 5 pp., similarly annotated (though date, if any, illegible), quite heavily corrected by FH.
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Typescript, 22 pp., title altered to "In Memory of Roger Casement, an Irish Saint."
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Typescript, 10 pp., including several pages in pencil by FH; and with many corrections, including the title change.
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Typescript, pp. 2-8, incomplete revised version of the previous item, wanting the first leaf.
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Typescript, 19 pp., with several copies of the first few pages.
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Typescript, 19 pp., titled changed to "A Chinese Story," with manuscript corrections.
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Typescript, 5 pp., with three copies (6 pp. each).
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Typescript, 4 pp.
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Typescript, two copies, each 6 pp., on Abelard and Heloise.
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Typescripts, two versions, 6 pp. and 4 pp., two copies of each.
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Typescript, 4 pp., with manuscript corrections and signature at the end.
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Typescript, 6 pp., two copies.
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Typescript, 12 pp., a story in the form of a fable?
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Typescript, 9 pp., a review of Gerald O'Donovan's The Holy Tree, with many autograph corrections by FH.
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Typescript, 24 leaves variously (and inaccurately) numbered; with many manuscript corrections and additions.
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Typescript, pp. 27-32, possibly an extract from My Life and Loves.
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Typescript, 9 pp., with attribution in pencil in FH's hand, two copies. With another version.
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Six pages, of which pp. 1-2 are in typescript, the rest in manuscript, apparently incomplete.
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Typescript, 15 pp.
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Typescript, 5 pp., two copies but one has a revised ending.
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Typescript, 4 pp.
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Typescript, 5 pp., on the case of the anarchist Mooney, sentenced to death in California.
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Typescript, 2 pp.
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Typescript, 7 pp.
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Typescripts, three copies, two of 6 pp. and one of 4 pp., but with different texts; some corrections.
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Typescript, 29 pp., a long essay with some corrections by FH, reviewing Winston Churchill's biography of his father (first published 1906). FH had known Churchill at the time of this book's being written, but the review appears to have been written during World War I.
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Typescript, 4 pp.
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Typescript, 5 pp.
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Typescripts, two copies of 8 pp., a different version of 5 pp.
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Typescript, untitled, 4 pp., on the differences between types of men of letters.
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Typescript, pp. 2-3, incomplete.
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Typescript, 2 pp., putting the boot into Andrew Lang for praising Stevenson and Haggard, and Matthew Arnold for exalting Byron and Campbell.
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Approximately 100 pp. of typescript drafts, one with the title "The True Mussolini," another with "Mussolini's Rise and its Meaning."
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Typescript, 8 pp.
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Typescript, 6 pp., written at the request of the editor of the American Sketch.
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Typescript, 7 pp., on Joseph Conrad's The Rover; W. H. Lawrence's [sic] England, My England; and Emma Goldman's My Disillusionment in Russia.
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Typescripts, three copies, two of 3 pp., one of 5 pp., praising Mussolini's idea of selling noble titles to pay down the national debt.
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Typescript, 13 pp., two copies.
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Typescript, 18 pp.
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Typescript, 3 pp.
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Typescripts, two copies, 5 pp. and 6 pp., different texts, with autograph corrections.
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Typescript, 2 pp., a preface (by FH?) to a play of the same name ("A Fantasy in Duologue in One Act") by Gerald Hamilton, which is annexed.
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Typescripts, three copies of the article in various stages, two of 4 pp., one of 3 pp.(with additions in manuscript).
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Typescript, 12 pp., with numerous corrections in pencil by FH.
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Typescript, 3 pp., with manuscript additions.
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Typescript ("Editorial for Centre Page"), 3 pp., on the Russian Revolution, with the original manuscript in pencil
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Typescript, 9 pp.
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Typescript, 12 pp.
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Typescript, 13 pp., with a number of autograph corrections.
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Typescript, 5 pp., with some corrections.
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These questions, such as "What is the meaning of life to you," were presumably supplied by a magazine for FH to reply to.
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Typescript, 4 pp., first draft, with corrections by FH in pencil.
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Typescript, 3 pp., the corrected draft.
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Typescript, 6 pp.
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Typescript, 20 pp. (variously numbered), with manuscript corrections.
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Typescript, 6 pp., with one small manuscript correction.
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Typescript, 20 pp.
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Typescript, 3 pp., defense of the novel The Holy Tree by O'Donovan.
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Typescripts, six copies of this article (also entitled "All about Love"), 5 pp. (several copies are missing pages)
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Typescript, 7 pp., incomplete at end
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Typescript, 4 pp.
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Typescript ("Last Chapter," corrected from "Third Chapter"), 4 pp., about President Wilson.
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No apparent arrangement scheme.
About a dozen miscellaneous typescripts, often untitled or incomplete, some with manuscript corrections.
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Consists of a selection of letters written to Harris—many with copies of his reply—during the last decade of his life; these correspondents are primarily booksellers, translators, and publishers. Most of the letters are addressed to him in Nice, France. The largest files are those of R. A. Caton, Henry D. Davray, and H. G. Scheffauer.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
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ALS praising Joan la Romée, with copy of FH's reply, 1926. Allen was employed at the City Hall, Dublin.
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Draft ALS from FH to "Ausman," 15 May 1924. A long letter full of self-praise, quoting Shaw on himself.
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Includes: draft ALS from FH to "My dear Bruno," 15 April 1924. A long letter giving details of his situation, and hinting that "There's a fortune in this second vol," apparently trying to get his correspondent to take on the U.S. distribution.
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Series of about 25 typed letters signed (and one autograph letter signed), plus three telegrams, all from Caton to Harris, with 29 carbon copies of Harris's replies (including one apparently retained draft copy, amended and signed by FH, plus one copy of a telegram), 1 October 1925 to 9 September 1926. There is much of great interest here for the publishing history of Harris's works in his latter period.
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Copy letter from FH to Chaplin, 18 November 1925, asking him to see if he could sell the film rights in the story of Montes the Matador to Douglas Fairbanks, as "I am in need of money for the first time in my life."
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Draft ALS from FH, from the American Express visitors' writing room, 30 November 1923, arguing about the numbers of copies (of the autobiography) sold in the U.S. Presumably this was never sent.
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TLS, 19 October 1925, a long adulatory letter (6 pp.) with a review from the American Mercury attached, probably Crandall's work.
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Copy letter from FH to Crowley, 6 December 1925, talking of progress on the autobiography, his desire to go to America (where he would be risking imprisonment), and his puzzlement as to why Crowley prefers Africa to Nice, and asking his opinion of the book.
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Also letters from: Chamberlin & Shropshire Co., booksellers of Bridgeport, Conn. (1923); C. H. Crawford of New York (2, both 1927); postcards from Mrs. Morris Clews of Biarritz (2, 1926); Wade Chance of Nice (5, 1926, all typed except one, with one copy letter from FH, 1925); Charles Chassé of Toulon (1, autograph in pencil, in French, plus an annotated copy of FH's reply); Felix S. Cabello of Colorado (1926, with a copy of FH's reply); Francis W. E. Clark of the Manchester Guardian (2, 1924 and 1926, autograph, with copies of three letters from FH in reply); Fred. E. Conover of New York; Teresa Cunningham of San Francisco (August 1919, sent to FH in New York). And copy letters from FH to Benjamin de Casseres of New York (2, 1926) and Donald Calhoun (1925).
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Series of 18 ALsS and TLsS (25 February 1926 to 26 April 1928), with copies of 23 letters by FH in reply. Davray and FH were introduced by Wilde, and Davray went on to translate the autobiography for FH. There is much mention of Wilde and Lord Aflred Douglas in this series of letters, also FH's difficulties in getting the autobiography published, and suppressing pirates.
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4 TLsS (14 August 1925 to 14 September 1926), with copies of 9 replies by FH, relating to stocks of FH's books held by them, deteriorating into a dispute about books which they had or had not sent to him
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1 ALS from P. J. Dobell to FH (7 June 1926), and copies of 6 letters from FH to the firm (27 October 1925 to 27 July 1926)
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5 TLsS (22 August to 24 September 1926) with copies of 5 replies by FH. Mainly relating to the action taken against FH by the French courts.
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3 ALsS, one ACS and two telegrams (7 June 1926 to 2 November 1928), with copies of 6 replies by FH. Apparently arranging to smuggle copies of the autobiography into the U.S. and Britain.
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Letters from C. F. Daly of New York (1912) and Compagnie Generale de Transports [&c] de Nice (1926), and copy letter from FH to Dermot Darby of New York (1925).
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ALS from the Villa Scevola, San Remo (7 January 1927), reassuring FH that "the Oscar Wilde will be a tremendous success in France – It is one of the great portraits studies [sic] of our age."
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2 accounts of money owing (and paid) to FH (12 March and 30 October 1928), and four copies of agreements and accounts, some annotated, on similar subjects, 1923-26. [See "Scheffauer," under S.]
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TLS (3 August 1927) from the Post Office Dept. in Washington, informing him that an expurgated edition of FH's autobiography has been forwarded to the postmaster in Chicago; and that the delay was caused by the necessity to refer it to the lawyers, "the unexpurgated edition being of a decidedly obscene nature and consequently unmailable."
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Draft letter from FH, typed but with manuscript additions (22 October 1925), about Shakespeare and sex, and protesting that he has not even been paid for the publication of The Man Shakespeare by his correspondent.
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ALS, no date, sending a cheque for £50 and promising an extra £150, as his investment in a magazine (illegible title), which he is to edit and into which he promises to put £100 per quarter. "I am getting enthusiastic about V.F. & M.S." – presumably Vanity Fair and Modern Society, in both of which at various times in the first decade of the 20th century Harris had an interest.
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TLS (7 September 1925) sending the latest number of the Bermondsey Book, with an essay by Osbert Burdett on FH's work, and FH's reply, refusing to send him a story.
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Copy letter from FH (23 November 1926) about his portrait of Joan of Arc
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TLS (27 February 1921) to FH at Pearson's in New York, about the recent criticism of Carlyle and sending his own contribution to the debate.
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Also: Bampton Hunt of Paris (1925) on "the Cohn v Harris affair," and five telegrams (1925), some from Hunt, about the situation at the printers, who are refusing to continue unless they get some money; E.J. Henke of Chicago (1930), about getting copies of the autobiography; H. Gilbert Hartley of Baltimore (1930) on the same subject; and another. With copy letters from FH to E. Hauptmann of Berlin (1924), and to Mr. Herold (1924) on contracts promised, the Oscar Wilde book, and the fourth series of Contemporary Portraits.
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4 ALsS (4 January to 17 January 1929), with one copy of reply by FH of 4 February 1929, advising him to read Lady Chatterley's Lover, which FH thinks "perhaps the best novel in English."
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Autograph telegram from FH apparently to Mrs. Kentner: "Niece has complete mental breakdown. Most urgent come at once. Communicate only with me. Wire time arrival. Will meet you. Harris."
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TLS, 5 September (no year), asking him to forget the debt he owes to him, as it is painful to see FH avoid him in the street.
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Also: copy letter from FH to Martin Kamin of Paris (1928), asking him to make an offer for his playlets or short stories, and to Mselle Kessler (1925).
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Copy letter from FH to Littauer of Ainslee's Magazine of New York (22 September 1925), about a dispute over copyright, with Littauer's tactful reply (4 November 1925) and enthusiastic desire to publish some of FH's short stories
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Brief TLS (8 March 1926) about Scheffauer [see under S], in German, with copy of FH's reply of 16 March
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Draft ALS (possibly never sent) from FH to Mencken, 22 December 1923, refusing the rate of 2c. per word, as he gets "more than double yr rate on 'The Saturday Review' wh. is good enough to feature all my stuff on the Cover . . . The second vol. Of 'My Life' is half finished & is infinitely more interesting than the first cd possibly be ... I've told more about Ruskin in 5000 words than can be found in the 2 vols of the orthodox Biography."
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Also: Robert Grier Monroe of New York, TLS (1924); copy letter to Frau Hermynta Sur Muehlen (1926?).
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ALS (7 October 1927), in French, about his books (which have been sent him by Allen Crandall)
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TLS (13 October 1927) asking for a copy of the English edition of the autobiography in order that they can consider a translation of the book.
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4 TLsS and 3 ALsS (2 March 1927 to 29 February 1928), plus one copy letter from FH to Parsons. Letters from a committed fan who seems to have fancied himself as a writer and was desperate to escape office life. He must be the Ernest Bryham Parsons whose play ("in seventeen acts"!) was published at Nice in 1930.
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TLS (26 September 1927). "Don't forget to send me the first copy you get of the Life of Wilde with your Final Preface ... I hear that Lunn [i.e. Hugh Kingsmill] is trying to arrange a complete edition of your works over here. Excellent!"
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ALS (21 March, n.y.), saying that Hesketh has asked her to send some poems, but that she cannot do anything more as he is away and not back until September.
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TLS (17 June 1924) about plans to import copies for sale: "As to Douglas I do not think that there will be much trouble in this direction."
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Small collection of letters from them (25 January to 2 March 1928) relating to books owned by FH and stored by them in Paris, with draft letter in reply by FH, undated.
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ALS (Paris, 27 November 1927): "So you've been lecturing in Berlin! Brave man!, Must everyone have your strength of character to get through this life creditably?", with copy letter from FH telling her that her story is "very slight, altogether too slight for its length."
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3 ALsS (March-May 1927) about the arrival of books
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3 ALsS and one TLS (25 July 1927 to 24 February 1928), and one copy reply by FH. Substantial letters by a Californian female admirer who clearly believed every word he wrote: "What a constitution you have! Your experience in a caisson – with bella donna & the black water fever in Africa! What you can stand!!!"
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3 TLsS relating to orders for books by FH
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Also: Paul Perpoest of Ghent (1927); E. D. Pressly of Mexico (1927); Peacock Printing Company of Seattle (1927); James B. Pinker, literary agent of London (1927); Felix Padilla of the U.S. Virgin Islands (2, 1927); copy letter from FH to Wilhelmina Paul of Pennsylvania (1928), encouraging her to write frankly about his autobiography; Noel Pistatour of Nice – two bills for binding books (1927-8); and a few others.
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TLS (22 February 1924) about reviews of his books and who is the "worst culprit" responsible for the war
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3 TLsS, with copious additions in manuscript (6 November 1926 to 4 March 1927), plus one telegram (1927); and one draft letter from FH in reply (29 December 1926), stating "I am in dire need of money. Please write to me openly and at length.". Also with one ALS from "Raymond" of the same company (15 Feb 1927) to FH, opening "Dear Master."
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TLS (4 June 1924), on various matters but particularly on the need to go through his third volume of Portraits and "edit" it, with a telegram from Richards to FH, 1925: "Do not part even with first bill till you hear from me." Also, several copies of a letter from Cecil Palmer to Richards (n.d.), about the stocks of FH's books which are left with him.
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8 TLsS from Harris to Arnold or Blance Rittenberg.
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5 ALsS, from Los Angeles, CA (n.d. and 16 April 1927 to 10 March 1928); and one TLS from FH (signed by a secretary) about money owing, with reply note by Robinson
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4 TLsS (19 September to 18 October 1927)
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ALS and TLS (1927), about having met FH ("The ladies in question quite envied my having met you and I had to tell them all about you") and promising to return to the U.S. and send orders from there.
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1 ALS and 4 TLsS (October 1925 to December 1927): on his books, Shaw, health, etc.
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Also: Henri Rosenthal , stamp-dealer of Nice (1927); Bruno Rudek of Cleveland, Ohio (3 ALsS, 1927); Samuel Rosenfeld of Philadelphia (2 TLsS, 1927); Reginald V. Rowe of Paris (on behalf of Miss Burgess, 1927); Gösta Rehn of New York (2, 1927); A. C. Rovelli of Nice (with a list of pictures for sale, as a way to make money "quik and big," 1927); Helen Raab of Milwaukee (1927); Joseph P. Roth of Albany, N.Y. (1927); James A. Roberts of Paris (18 August, n.y.); and several others.
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Correspondence between him and FH, with some from his wife Ethel Talbot Scheffauer: 3 TLsS and 1 ALS from Scheffauer (16 December 1922 to 26 Feburary 1926), and 4 replies from FH consisting of 3 autograph drafts and one carbon (two copies)
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3 typed copies of a letter from Shaw to Harris (10 March 1919) about FH's article "How the British Lion Crowns Himself with American Laurels."
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Long TLS (3 folio pp., 1 December, n.y.), ordering books and with much additional material, with several comments added in manuscript, and two TLsS from FH to Stuart-Young (who seems to have been a poet) attached, as they were returned to FH by his correspondent
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ALS (in German) to FH (18 June 1928) from Nice, with long article (in German)
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TLS (1924), ordering a copy of "your latest book dealing with your Confessions"
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TLS (1924), ordering a copy of the autobiography, with notes at foot in FH's hand
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Draft ALS from FH (1923), in French, asking for cash in advance of him sending a copy of the autobiography
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TLS (1923) ordering a copy of the autobiography
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TLS (1923), ordering a copy of the autobiography
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TLS (27 September 1926), announcing that she has translated several of his short stories and most of the autobiography, with copy letter from FH (16 March 1926), and a fragment of another letter from Vallentin
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TLS from New York (1928), with copies of The Haunted House and Other Poems and The Three Sphinxes and Other Poems (nos. 578-9 in the Little Blue Book series published by Haldeman-Julius), with notes by the author on the covers; and a typed article about himself
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3 TLsS from Harris to Gordon Young, 1 TL to "Dear Sir".
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Copy letter from FH on his distress at hearing that his books have not arrived
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TLS in admiration of his "frank and clear style of writing"
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File of correspondence, with copies of FH's replies.
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36 letters (mainly 1928-1929) from readers all over the world (mainly the USA, but including Britain, France and even New Zealand) asking the cost of ordering volumes of My Life and Loves, with copies of FH's answers.
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Arrangement has no apparent organization scheme.
Consists of several miscellaneous manuscripts and documents; invoices pertaining to domestic matters; some expenses; a folder of others' papers, including two typescript stories by Alexander Samaiman; various printed matter; and clippings relating to Harris and Oscar Wilde.
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Contains lists of Frank Harris's works; "Euston Libel Case," typescript copy (39 pp.) apparently of the report in The Times for November 1889 about this; "Peace Terms Settled January 26th. Frank Harris Says in Pearson's for April: Mr. Arthur Little Says the Same," typescript (5 pp., two copies); "List of Bookdealers who have bought First, Second, or Third original volumes of My Life by Frank Harris, From May 15th 1927 to October 15th 1927," typescript (2 pp.); small amount of material dealing with the Haldeman-Julius Company; legal document (two copies) drawing up articles for a company to be established in France in 1914, the principals to be FH, Enrique de Arraga Vidal, and Malaquin Henri, signed by all parties ("Lu et approuve") and dated 24 July 1914.
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Group of invoices (about 50) relating to domestic matters, and all dating from FH's last years in Nice, including bills from the doctor, butcher, haberdasher, booksellers (Dobell & Son of London), etc. Includes checkbook stubs.
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Includes American Express Company invoices (1923) and a small account book detailing personal money matters of FH from January to June of an unspecified year.
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Contains "Letter to the editor of The New Statesman," typescript (7 pp.), from New York (15 July 1915), with a few manuscript corrections; copy of a letter from Ernest Jones to Jonathan Davis (9 August 1855), with many manuscript corrections apparently in the hand of FH; a two-page essay by Frank Scully (FH's collaborator on his biography of Bernard Shaw) relating the confusion between Wild Bill Hicock and Oscar Wilde in the mind of a French interviewer; 14 pp. of typescript poems by Locke Miller; typescript stories "An Undertaker Dies" and "The Woman Always Plays" by Alexander Samaiman; extracts from poems of Ernest Dowson, about 10 pp., with extracts from Housman, Davidson, Swinburne, Browning, etc., and a small section in FH's hand; "Oscar Wilde's Unwritten Play by T. H. Bell," an offprint (from The Bookman for April-May 1930) of his article on Harris's play Mr. & Mrs. Daventry, which was based on a plot devised by Oscar Wilde, with a number of indignant manuscript notes in ink by FH; "Red Roses by Gerald Hamilton," typescript (8 pp.), with a very few corrections, possibly by FH.
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Copies of many articles by FH from Pearson's, some bearing manuscript corrections by FH.
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Various printed matter, including several copies of the flyers promoting a concert for the Societa Nazionale Dante Alighieri, comitato di Nizza, in which 'Signa. Nelee O'Hara (i.e., Nellie Harris) was to sing; "Do You Know This Man?", flyer from the Frank Harris Publishing Company, Inc., of New York; "Catalogue D'Articles D'Hygiène Et De Toilette Intime Dames & Messieurs," a catalogue of condoms, douches, etc., issued by Melle. Villameaux, Paris.
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Miscellaneous clippings from newspapers related to Frank Harris and Oscar Wilde.
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