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English literature mss.

Title: English literature mss.

This collection contains mostly correspondence from major figures in English literature between 1951-1993. It also includes literary works, including manuscripts and bound volumes; financial records; and legal documents. Consists of individual items acquired separately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety of sources, relating to English literature. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 80 items

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Macaulay, Rose, Dame, 1881-1958. And no man's wit, 1929 Apr - 1940 Feb.

Title: And no man's wit, 1929 Apr - 1940 Feb.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (494 p.) ; 29 x 22 cm.

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Haines, Todd, 1942-. The Todd Haines collection, 1864-1990 (bulk 1960-1980).

Title: The Todd Haines collection, 1864-1990 (bulk 1960-1980).

The Todd Haines collection consists primarily of correspondence and printed material by or about the British author Anthony Dymoke Powell. The original typed signed letters by Powell are addressed to bookseller Handasyde Buchanan, New Zealand author Patrick A. Lawlor, and John Lelliott, an admirer. The Powell-Buchanan correspondence complements the presentation copies from Powell to Buchanan in the Special Collections Research Center. Other Powell material includes page proofs of two of his works, 'Books do furnish a room' (1971) and 'Messengers of day' (1978), and a group of periodical issues containing articles by or about Powell. Included in this latter material are Powell's 'Dinner at the Muleygrubs' in the 'WineMine' (no. 24, winter 1972), his 'The nature of the connoisseur' in 'Sotheby's review' (Oct./Nov. 1990), and an inteview with Powell and symposium on his work in 'Summary' (Autumn 1970), the cover of which has a caricature of Powell by Sir Osbert Lancaster. The collection also includes two autograph letters from Dame Rose Macaulay to author Gerald Gould, a typed manuscript by Macaulay entitled 'On obeying orders', as well as an original signed cartoon by Sir Osbert Lancaster. Among the unrelated miscellaneous items completing the collection is a mourning envelope containing dried leaves and inscribed "These leaves were on Lincoln's coffin and were given to me by Col. O'Neil at Indianapolis. Mary E. H. Conover."

ArchivalResource: 1 linear feet (2 boxes).

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Macaulay, Rose, Dame. [Postcard] 1936 Dec. 2, 7, Luxborough House, Northumberland St., W.l [to] Managing Director, L. Jackson, ltd., [London] / Rose Macaulay.

Title: [Postcard] 1936 Dec. 2, 7, Luxborough House, Northumberland St., W.l [to] Managing Director, L. Jackson, ltd., [London] / Rose Macaulay.

Macaulay writes that her novel "They were defeated" (1932) was published under the title "The shadow flies" in the American edition and that the text is the same.

ArchivalResource: 1 card

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Macaulay, Rose, Dame. Rose Macaulay letters, 1922-1956.

Title: Rose Macaulay letters, 1922-1956.

Collection consists of 210 autograph and typescript letters, postcards and greeting cards from Rose Macaulay to Daniel George, literary critic and publisher's reader; Nancy Pearn, booking agent for Curtis Brown, ltd.; St. John Adcock, editor of The Bookman; E.G. Barlow; Gerald Reid Barry; Daniel Bunting, Henry A. Phillips; and Alan Ross. The correspondence spans the years 1922 to 1956. Also included are typescript drafts of two poems by Macaulay, and two versions of an obituary for Macaulay by Daniel George.

ArchivalResource: 1 document box.

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G. K. CHESTERTON PAPERS. VOL. XLV (ff. 194). Correspondence concerning The New Witness and G. K.'s Weekly; 1913-1938, n.d. Includes printed prospectus (ff. 30-32), memorandum of association, application for shares (f. 33) and advertisement for G. K.'..., 1913-1938

Title: G. K. CHESTERTON PAPERS. VOL. XLV (ff. 194). Correspondence concerning The New Witness and G. K.'s Weekly; 1913-1938, n.d. Includes printed prospectus (ff. 30-32), memorandum of association, application for shares (f. 33) and advertisement for G. K.'... 1913-1938

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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VOL. CCLXXincludes:f. 2 Cardinal Patrick Hayes, RC Archbishop of New York: Telegram to F. A. Chesterton from Cardinal Patrick Hayes: 1936.f. 4 Maurice Francis Healy, KC: Telegram and letter to F. A. Chesterton from Maurice Francis Healy: 1936.f. ...

Title: VOL. CCLXXincludes:f. 2 Cardinal Patrick Hayes, RC Archbishop of New York: Telegram to F. A. Chesterton from Cardinal Patrick Hayes: 1936.f. 4 Maurice Francis Healy, KC: Telegram and letter to F. A. Chesterton from Maurice Francis Healy: 1936.f. ... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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SOCIETY OF AUTHORS ARCHIVE. Vol. CLXVIII (ff. 258). 1. ff. 1-57. Rose Macaulay; 1927-1959. 2. ff. 58-60. Justin McCarthy; 1909-1910 3. ff. 61-95. Justin H. McCarthy; 1912-1931. 4. ff. 96-126. R. C. Macfie; 1918. 5. ff. 127-258v. E. J. MacGillivray; 1..., 1909-1959

Title: SOCIETY OF AUTHORS ARCHIVE. Vol. CLXVIII (ff. 258). 1. ff. 1-57. Rose Macaulay; 1927-1959. 2. ff. 58-60. Justin McCarthy; 1909-1910 3. ff. 61-95. Justin H. McCarthy; 1912-1931. 4. ff. 96-126. R. C. Macfie; 1918. 5. ff. 127-258v. E. J. MacGillivray; 1... 1909-1959

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books, post 1965

Title: Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books, post 1965

Collection includes about 570 Penguin books published after 1965.

ArchivalResource: circa 500 vols.

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Macaulay, Rose, Dame. Letter, 1923 March 6, Hedgerley End, Beacons Field [to] [Joseph Smith] Fletcher.

Title: Letter, 1923 March 6, Hedgerley End, Beacons Field [to] [Joseph Smith] Fletcher.

Autograph letter, signed, discussing Fletcher's fiction writing.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves.

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Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. E.M. Forster letters and catalog of books from his library, 1911-1971.

Title: E.M. Forster letters and catalog of books from his library, 1911-1971.

The collection contains twenty-three letters and postcards from Forster and one dealer's catalog of books from Forster's library (1971). Forster writes to Dear Sir, 1 February 1911, about a review of Howard's end; to Lunn [Hugh Kingsmill], 21 February and 11 August 1912, about Frank Harris's Montes the matador; from Egypt to [Wilson] Plant, 25 January and 14 February 1917, about Forster's books and other authors, commiserating on both being in hospitals. He writes to publisher [Edward] Arnold, 18 October 1927, praising Viola Meynell's A girl adoring [letter was laid into 1927 ed.]; to [Cyril] Lakin of the Daily telegraph, 6 December 1930, enclosing a book review [not included]; four letters and two postcards to publisher Stanley Unwin, 15 August 1939-6 January 1953, about Forster's books, proofreading, and [Parr Cooper's] Not at home (1939). He writes to Miss Butler, 22 March 1945, with thanks for condolences; to Mr. Henderson, 2 June 1945, that he's too busy to write an article for him; to Veronica Wedgwood, 29 January and 1 April 1959, about proposals for commemorating Rose Macaulay at the London Library. He writes to [Elga Liverman Duval] Mrs. Jean-Jacques Duval, 10 and 19 March 1960, and 19 June 1961, enclosing two carbon typescripts of letters to him from Teodor de Wyzewa [1910] and thanking her for sending her book, Teodor de Wyzewa, critic without a country. Wyzewa praises Forster's The longest journey and Howard's end which he reviewed in Revue des deux-mondes.

ArchivalResource: 24 items.

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MACAULAY, Rose (1881-1958) - letters to Eric Gillett, c1932-c1939

Title: MACAULAY, Rose (1881-1958) - letters to Eric Gillett c1932-c1939

ArchivalResource: 4 items

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Macaulay, Rose, Dame. Letter to [John] Cobb. London, Eng. 1929 Mar. 24.

Title: Letter to [John] Cobb. London, Eng. 1929 Mar. 24.

Hoping to meet in the near future.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Macaulay, Rose, Dame. Letter to [?]. London, Eng. 1920 Oct. 21.

Title: Letter to [?]. London, Eng. 1920 Oct. 21.

Declining an invitation.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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A.P. Watt (Firm). A.P. Watt records, 1888-1982 (major authors Le-M).

Title: A.P. Watt records, 1888-1982 (major authors Le-M).

Major authors Le-M: Authors of major importance in the A.P. Watt firm records. Note that authors of special importance are listed in the general abstract for this collection.

ArchivalResource: About 300000 items (270.5 linear ft.)

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Autograph File, M

Title: Autograph File, M

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 10.5 linear feet (21 boxes)

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Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Title: Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Correspondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1986 ADDITION: One letter from James Monroe and two from Theodore Roosevelt. 1987 ADDITION: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and photographs dealing with American and English literature, and American and French history during the era of the Revolutions. Included are letters from Erskine Caldwell, Will Durant, Howard Fast, Rachel Field, Emil Ludwig. Edwin Markham, Christopher Morley, and John Howard Payne; manuscripts of John Drinkwater, Felicia Hemans, Romain Rolland, Louis Untermeyer, and Tennessee Williams; and documents of James Duane, Joseph Hopkinson, and Sir Walter Scott. 1988 ADDITION: Correspondence and documents dealing with American and English history during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are letters from Dubo and Demante de Millot (about the French fleet in Haiti in 1780), U.S. Grant, Victor Hugo, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robespierre, W.H. Seward, and Daniel Waldo; and documents of the Sultan of Borneo and James Madison. There are also photographs taken by Lee David Hamilton of Central Park and of Polaris submarines. 1989 ADDITION: Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents on American history and literature, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. There are letters and some manuscripts to the editor of ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICAL VERSE and LYRA MYSTICA dating from the 1920s and the 1930s; letters and autographs of early 20th century Americans and New York and Connecticut colonial documents signed by Isaac Huntington, Jacob Remer, and Thomas Dongon. Also included are photographs of foreign travels in a Packard motorcar, 1903-1904, and a photographic travelogue (photographs taken by Henry C. Rem) of the first European motorcar tour by Americans in a Packard, 1907-1910. 1990 ADDITION: Documents dealing with finance and land sales in New York from 1789 to 1879. There are land deeds resulting from the dispersal of the assets of John Lamb at the end of the 1790s, mortgage bonds, insurance policies, and papers about the insurance claims of Ebenezer Stevens for shipping seized by France in 1808. There is also a letter in rebus form, written in 1734. 1992 ADDITION: Three letters from Richard Le Gallienne to Margot Holmes, his photograph signed and inscribed to her, and a Berenice Abbott photograph have been added. 1997 ADDITION: Naval commission of Richard Morice as Commander of H.M.S. Tarrier.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (5 boxes, several oversized items)

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Sir William Rothenstein correspondence and other papers, 1887-1957.

Title: Sir William Rothenstein correspondence and other papers, 1887-1957.

Letters to English painter Sir William Rothenstein concerning both his professional and personal life as well as compositions by other authors.

ArchivalResource: 66 boxes and 2 volumes (33 linear ft.)

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Macaulay, Rose, Dame. Letter to J. S. Knapp-Fisher. Luxborough St. 1940 Sept. 28.

Title: Letter to J. S. Knapp-Fisher. Luxborough St. 1940 Sept. 28.

Giving him permission to have an article printed.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Letters from various correspondents, 1921-1951.

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1921-1951.

Letters to Englisheditor and scholar Henry Goddard Leach chiefly from English writers.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

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Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books, 1935-1965

Title: Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books 1935-1965

Includes more than 2,550 Penguin books published from 1935 through 1965, as well as about 175 reference items–books, serials, catalogs, and articles.

ArchivalResource: circa 2,500 vols.

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Correspondence and papers relating to Eleanor Farjeon's membership of P.E.N. Includes: Menu for a luncheon to inaugurate Norwegian P.E.N., 31 Mar 1941; programme of lectures given in London, 1-13 Sep 1941; letter from Arthur Koestler to P.E.N.; lette..., 1941-1998

Title: Correspondence and papers relating to Eleanor Farjeon's membership of P.E.N. Includes: Menu for a luncheon to inaugurate Norwegian P.E.N., 31 Mar 1941; programme of lectures given in London, 1-13 Sep 1941; letter from Arthur Koestler to P.E.N.; lette... 1941-1998

ArchivalResource: 1 file

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Macaulay, Rose, Dame. Correspondence file, 1928-1930, from Boni & Liveright and Horace Liveright, Inc.

Title: Correspondence file, 1928-1930, from Boni & Liveright and Horace Liveright, Inc.

ArchivalResource: 31 items (34 l.).

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POETRY BOOKSHOP PAPERS. Vol. XIX (ff. 285). General correspondence including letters of condolence upon the death of Harold Monro in 1932 and relating to the closure of The Poetry Bookshop in 1935; 1914-1969. Partly signed.Robert Laurence Binyon, CH;..., 1914-1969

Title: POETRY BOOKSHOP PAPERS. Vol. XIX (ff. 285). General correspondence including letters of condolence upon the death of Harold Monro in 1932 and relating to the closure of The Poetry Bookshop in 1935; 1914-1969. Partly signed.Robert Laurence Binyon, CH;... 1914-1969

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Macaulay, Rose, Dame. Letters, 1923-1953.

Title: Letters, 1923-1953.

Five letters to Graham Greene and one to Miss [H.] Finnemore on Greene's works, literary criticism and the cinema.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

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G K Chesterton Papers, 1877-1988

Title: G K Chesterton Papers 1877-1988

ArchivalResource: 299 volumes (556 parts)

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Macaulay, Rose, Dame. Letters, 1924-1951.

Title: Letters, 1924-1951.

A letter declining an invitation, an answer to a request of William Gaunt, and a post card to an autograph collector.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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British authors collection, 1840-1953.

Title: British authors collection, 1840-1953.

Literary manuscripts and letters of writers of the British Commonwealth. Correspondence, literary manuscripts, commonplace books, autographs, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

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G. K. CHESTERTON PAPERS. VOL. CCLXIX (ff. 113). Correspondence of Frances Alice Chesterton (b.1869, d.1938); 1876-1945. Includes two posthumously addressed letters, one of 1944 to Dorothy Collins, and one of 1945 concerning permission to reprint a po..., 1876-1945

Title: G. K. CHESTERTON PAPERS. VOL. CCLXIX (ff. 113). Correspondence of Frances Alice Chesterton (b.1869, d.1938); 1876-1945. Includes two posthumously addressed letters, one of 1944 to Dorothy Collins, and one of 1945 concerning permission to reprint a po... 1876-1945

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Vol. xvii (ff. 181). Lynch, Lawrence – Martin, Frank.includes:f.1 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: Laurence P. Lynch: Letter to Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh from Laurence P. Lynch: 1959.f. 8 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: H. D. Lyon...

Title: Vol. xvii (ff. 181). Lynch, Lawrence – Martin, Frank.includes:f.1 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: Laurence P. Lynch: Letter to Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh from Laurence P. Lynch: 1959.f. 8 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: H. D. Lyon... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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WRENCH PAPERS. Vol. IV. 1928-1937. ff. 348. 350 x 250mm.includes:ff. 5, 61 Enoch Arnold Bennett, author: Letters to Sir Evelyn Wrench from Enoch Arnold Bennett: 1928-1929: Signed. f. 6 Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin, sportswriter and essayist; son o..., 1928-1937

Title: WRENCH PAPERS. Vol. IV. 1928-1937. ff. 348. 350 x 250mm.includes:ff. 5, 61 Enoch Arnold Bennett, author: Letters to Sir Evelyn Wrench from Enoch Arnold Bennett: 1928-1929: Signed. f. 6 Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin, sportswriter and essayist; son o... 1928-1937

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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