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Sir Israel Gollancz Correspondence
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Sir Israel Gollancz was born in 1863. Educated at Cambridge, he later taught English at the university. In 1892, he was elected Quain lecturer at University College London. He was appointed the first lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1896, and held the position for a decade, but remained committed to London, where he was appointed to the chair of English at King's College in 1903. He retained the latter post until his death.
Gollancz was an editor and publisher of classic works of early English literature. Among the works that he edited were Pearl and other early English poems and the Shakespeare Library series. Additionally, Gollancz directed the Early English Text Society and was president of the Philological Society, chairman of the Shakespeare Association, secretary of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee, and secretary of the British Academy, which he also helped found. Gollancz was knighted in 1919 in recognition of his work. He later played a key role in providing books to the library of the Imperial University in Tokyo when it was refounded after its destruction in 1923. Gollancz died in 1930.
This collection contains approximately 500 letters from contemporaries of Sir Israel Gollancz. Also included is correspondence between Gollancz and his wife, Alide, and children and some manuscripts, including poetry and lecture notes on Shakespeare.
No further accruals expected.
Purchased from Christopher Edwards in January 2006 (AM2006-85).
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This collection was processed by Ran Tao in February 2006. Finding aid written by Danielle Ford in February 2006.
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- Danielle Ford
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- 2004
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Collection Inventory
Consists of approximately 500 letters from contemporaries of Gollancz, as well as family correspondence.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Physical Description1 linear foot
- Adams, A. A.: ALS to Gollancz's wife, 1919
- Alexander, S.: ALS, 1919
- Alma-Tadema, Sir Laurence: ALS, 1909
- Archbold, W. A. V.: ALS, 1923
- Archer, C.: ALS, 1925
- Arnold, Sir Thomas Walker: ALS, 1919
- Asher, S. J.: ALS, 1919
- Austen Leigh, R. A.: TLS, 1923
1 folder
15 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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- Bailey, John Cann: ALS, 1919
- Baker, Ernest A.: ALS, 1919
- Bancroft, Sir Squire: ANS, 1914
- Baker, Sir Ernest: ALS, 1929
- Barnett, P. A.: ALS, 1917
- Barrés, Auguste Maurice: ALS, 1916
- Bartlett, Charles B.: ALS, 1917
- Baudet, Jos: ALS, 1921
- Beck, James Montgomery: TLS, 1923
- Bell, R. W.: ALS, 1916
- Bell, Mackenzie: ALS, 1919
- Benares, Adolpho: ALS, 1919
- Benson, Frank R.: ALS, 1919
- Benson, Henry: ALS, 1919
- Besant, Sir Walter: ALS, 1886
- Biggs, D. K.: ALS, 1919
- Boerner, C. G.: ALS, 1906
- Bonham Carter, Sir Edgar: ANS, 1929
- Boutroux, Etienne Emile Marie: ALS, 1918
- Brandy [?], L. M.: ALS, undated
- Brown, Earnest William: ALS, 1891
- Browne, Edward Granville: ALS, 1919
- Bryce, Elizabeth Marion: ALS, undated
- Brynmor-Jones, D.: ALS, 1919
- Buckmaster, Edith: ALS, 1919
- Bullen, Arthur Henry: ALS, 1894
- Bunsen, Maurice de: ALS, 1916
1 folder
3 ALsS
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6 TLsS
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1 ALS, 1 TLS
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2 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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5 ALsS
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3 ALsS, 1 TLS, 1 ALS
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7 ALsS
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12 ALsS
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3 ALsS
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4 ALsS
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- Campbell, F.E.N: ALS, 1918
- Carr, Philip: ALS, 1919
- Carrington, J. W.: ALS, 1906
- Chamberlain, Austen: TLS, 1929
- Collins, Edwin: ALS, 1918
- Colvin, Sidney: ANS, 1919
- Coulton, George Gordon: ALS, 1923
- Court, W. del.: ALS, 1918
- Courtney, Janet Elizabeth: ALS, 1928
- Craig, Edward Gordon: ALS, 1929
- Cram, Ralph Adams: TLS, 1926
- Crawford, D. H.: ALS, 1928
- Cromer, Rowland Thomas Baring: ALS, 1919
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess: ALS, 1918
- Cust, Sir Lionel: ALS, 1918
1 folder
2 ALsS
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2 ALsS, 1 ALS
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1 ALS, 1 TLS
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- Dillow, Arthur: ALS, 1919
- Dobell, Bertram: ALS, 1906
- Dodgson, E. S.: ANS, 1918
- Dryhurst, Alfred Robert: ALS, 1919
1 folder
5 ALsS, 1 ANS
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3 ALsS
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- Ekwall, Eilert: ALS, 1915
- Elton, Oliver: ANS, 1915
- Emanuel, M. R.: ALS, 1919
- Ettlinger, Jeannette (née Philip): ALS, 1919
1 folder
2 ALsS
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- Flower, Archie: ALS, 1919
- Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude: ALS, 1917
- Foster, Sir Gregory: TLS, 1919
- Frazer, Sir James George: ALS, 1919
- Fripp, Edgar I.: ALS, 1929
- Furness, Horace Howard: ALS, undated
- Fyfe, Henry Hamilton: ALS, 1901
1 folder
4 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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3 ALsS
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1 ALS, 2 ANS, 1 incomplete ALS
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- Gibbs, Vicary: ALS, 1912
- Gibson, Strickland: ALS, 1926
- Gilson, Alicia: ALS, 1919
- Grahame, R. B. Cunninghame: ALS, 1918
- Granville-Barker, Harley: ALS, 1924
- Graves, Alfred Perceval: ALS, 1919
- Gregory, Sir Richard Arman: ALS, 1927
- Greirson, Sir George Abraham: ALS, 1919
- Gundolf, Friedrich: ALS, 1929
- Guppy, H.: ALS, 1921
- Gwatkin, Frank Trelawny Arthur Ashton: ALS, undated
1 folder
3 ALsS
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poem
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29 ALsS, 6 ANsS
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3 birthday greetings
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2
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- Hawkins, Anthony Hope: ALS, 1907
- Hales, John W.: ALS, 1903
- Hales, J. F.: ALS, 1919
- Halliday, W. R.: ALS, 1929
- Hamilton, Ian: ALS, 1918
- Harding, J. Rudge: ALS, 1918
- Hardy, Theodore: ALS, 1918
- Hare, M. H.[?]: ALS, undated
- Harrison, Walter: TLS, 1919
- Herz, Carl: ALS, 1948
- Hill, Sir George Francis: ALS, 1918
- Hitchcock, Elsie Vaughan: ALS, 1919
- Holland, Sir Thomas Erskine: ALS, 1919
- Hunter, William T.: ALS, 1919
- Hilary (?): TLS, undated
- Heat, James Raymond: TL, 1900
- Hoyes, N. (?): ALS, 1919
1 folder
3 ALsS
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3 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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2 ALsS, 1 TLS
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2 ALsS
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25 ALsS, 5 ANsS
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2 ALsS
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1 ALS, 1 ANS
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2 ALsS
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- Jenkins, Claude: ALS, 1927
- Johnson, John: TLS, 1928
1 folder
- Tilley, John: TL w/pamphlet, 1928
- 3 copies of book catalogues: 1929
- carbon copy of schedule of exhibition
- Onosuka, Kiheiji: carbon copy of TL, 1929
- Arde (?): TLS, 1929
- Matsudaira: TLS, 1929
- Gwatkin, F. Ashton: carbon copy of 2 TLs, 1929, 1 TLS, 1929
- Mounsey, George: 2 TLsS, 1929, 2 copies of pamphlet
- Ichikawa, Sanki: TLS, 1929
1 folder
2 ALsS, 1 NS, 1 TL, 1 TLS
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2 TLsS
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- Knight, Joseph: ALS, 1904
- Krinkton(?), Edith: ALS, undated
1 folder
2 ALsS
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6 ALsS, 2 TLsS
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10 ALsS
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- Lamberton, A. B.: AMs, undated
- Law, Ernest: ALS, 1919
- Lee, Sir Sidney: ANS, 1919
- Leman, G.: ALS, 1920
- Luick, Karl: ALS, 1929
- Lyall, Sir Charles James: ALS, 1919
- Lyte, Sir Henry C. Maxwell: ALS, 1921
- Lytton, Victor Alexander, second Earl of: TLS, 1930
1 folder
2 ALsS
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2 ALsS, 2 TLsS
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1 ALS, 1 ANS
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1 ALS, 1 TLS
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- MacAlister, J. G. W.: TLS, 1919
- Macdonald, James Ramsay: TLS, 1928
- Mackail, John William: ALS, 1921
- McLean, Norman: ALS, 1906
- Magnusson, Erikur: ALS, 1909
- Matthew, Frederic David: ALS, 1891
- Metternich, Graf Wolff: TLS, 1955
- Meyer, Kuno: ALS, 1898
- Meynell, Alice: ALS, undated
- Meynell, Wilfrid: ALS, 1916
- Mond, Emile: ALS, 1919
- Mond, Violet: ALS, 1905
- Mond, Ludwig: ANS, 1909
- G. M.: ALS, undated
- Mapier, Arthur S. (?): ALS, undated
- Morris, D. (?): ALS, 1919
1 folder
1 ALS, 1 AMs
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2 ALsS
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9 ALsS
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4 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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6 ALsS
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- Neilson, George: ALS, 1913
- Newbolt, Sir Henry: ALS, undated
- Newman, Norman V.: ALS, 1919
- Nicolson, Janet R.: ALS, 1919
- Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Lord: TLS, 1919
1 folder
1 ALS, 1 ANS
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2 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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- Palgrave, Francis Turner: ALS, undated
- Peacock, Walter: ALS, 1918
- Peck, Mary Gray: ALS, 1915
- Platts, Charles: ALS, 1908
- Plymouth, Lord: ALS, 1909
- Popovic, Bogdan and Pavle: TN, 1919
- Popovic, Vladeta: ALS, 1928
- Potter, Agnes: ALS, 1915
- Powell, Frederick York: ALS, 1893
- clipping: undated
1 folder
2 TLsS, 1 ALS
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2 ALsS
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2 ALsS, 1 ANS
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2 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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- Queenborough, Lord: ANS, 1919
- Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur: ALS, 1921
1 folder
- Ramsay, Sir William Mitchell: ALS, 1919
- Ratcliff, S. C.: ANS, 1918
- Rawnsley, Harwick Drummond: ALS w/poem, 1910
- Reeves, William Peters: AMs, 1929
- Regnier, Henri de: ANS, 1916
- Reid, James Smith: ALS, 1919
- Richter, M.: ALS, 1915
- Ridout, B. M.: ALS, 1927
- Rodd, Rennell: ALS, 1916
- Rothenstein, Sir William: ALS, undated
- Rothschild, James de: ALS, 1913
- Rouse, William Henry Denham: ALS, 1919
- Rudmore-Brown, T. B.: ALS, 1914
- W. G. R.: ALS, undated
1 folder
9 ALsS, 2 ANsS
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Stanley, Arthur (ALS, 1918); Hall, John (ALS, undated)
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8 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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3 ALsS, 1 TLS
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2 ALsS, 1 TLS
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- Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest: ALS, 1916
- Samuel, Arthur: ALS, 1905
- Sandys, Sir John Edwin: ALS, 1919
- Scales, W. T.: TM, 1929
- Scott, W. R. (?): ALS, 1919
- Scott-Gatty, Sir Alfred Scott: ALS, 1918
- Shaw, George Bernard: ANS, 1918
- Shipley, Sir Arthur Everett: TLS, 1916
- Sidgwick, Elanor Mildred: ALS, 1930
- Skemp, Jessie D.: ALS, 1919
- Sloog, H.: TLS, 1919
- Smith, George Charles Moore: ALS, 1919
- Solomon, George G.: ALS, 1919
- Stainer, Sir John: ALS, 1891
- Stopes, Charlotte Carmichael: ALS, 1916
- Storrs, Sir Ronald: NS, 1919
- 3 illegibles (?): 1907, 1916, 1919
1 folder
2 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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4 ALsS
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2 ALsS, 2 copies of AMsS
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8 ALsS, 1 ANS
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4 ALsS, 1 AMsS
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2 ALsS
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2 ALsS
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- Terry, Dame Ellen: signed pamphlet, 1916
- Thomas, H.: ALS, 1918
- Thompson, Sir Herbert: ALS, 1925
- Thorndike, Dame Sybil: ALS, 1942
- Todhunter, Maurice: ALS, 1919
- Trench, Herbert: ALS, 1912
1 folder
7 ALsS
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18 ALsS, including 1 ALS from Helen Maunde Thompson
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5 ALsS, 1 TLS
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2 TLsS
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4 ALsS
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- Wagner, Siegfried: ANS, undated
- Walker, J. (?): ALS, 1916
- Ward, Sir Adolphus William: ANS, 1921
- Watson, Sir William: ALS, 1905
- Welldon, James Edward Cowell: TLS, 1919
- Wherry, Albinia: ALS, 1919
- White, W. (?): ALS, 1922
- Wollaston, Gerald W.: ALS, 1934
1 folder
2 ALsS
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1 ALS, 1 ANS
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4 ALsS
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3 ALsS
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- Yeaxlee, Basil Alfred: ALS, 1919
- Yoxall, Sir James: TLS, 1919
1 folder
1 ALS, 1 TLS
Physical Description1 folder
This series consists of manuscripts of Sir Israel Gollancz, including poetry, notes for eulogies, and lectures on Shakespeare.
Organized by topic.
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1 folder
AMs
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1 folder
1 folder
two copies of "The Shylock of Shakespeare" (1916); "Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, A Medievalist's Exposition" (1922); two untitled and undated lectures on Shakespeare; "Early English Poetry" (1924); "Baconian Heresy" (1923); "Shakespeare's Shylock and Scott's Isaac of York" (undated); "Anglo-Saxon Bookcraft" (1929)
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1 folder
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