Call Number:

SCRC 148

Repository:

Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center

Extent:

0.01 linear feet (1 folder)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

[Description and date of item], Richard Le Gallienne Letters and Manuscript of "The Original Mousquetaires," SCRC 148, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Date:

1913-1941 (inclusive)

Creator:

Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947

Form:

Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Poems

Abstract:

Richard Le Gallienne, British journalist and author, was a prolific writer during the late 19th and early 20th century. His early mentor was Oliver Wendell Holmes. Le Gallienne wrote My ladies' sonnets (1887), and the romantic novel, The quest of the golden girl (1896). He published The romantic nineties (1926), while working as a journalist in New York. In 1927 Le Gallienne emigrated to France where he lived out the remainder of his life.

The collection includes several letters between William T. Dewart and W. Francklyn Paris regarding a manuscript by Le Gallienne entitled, The Original "mousquetaires." The subject of the piece is Alexandre Dumas' Three musketeers, and the 19th century French romance. Three letters each to Richardson Wright (novelist) and Arthur Hartmann (composer) included. In the first three letters, Le Gallienne compliments Wright on his new book and offers to write a review of it. Le Gallienne also comments on Wright's work on Russia and requests the latter's help in getting his daughter situated in New York. In the second three letters, Le Gallienne expresses deep appreciation to Hartmann for setting some of his poems to music. Collection includes six lines of Le Gallienne's poem, The Lonely Dancer. In his manuscript, The Original "Mousquetaires" Le Gallienne discusses D'Artagnan, Gatien Courtilz de Sandras, and Charles de Batz de Castelmore.