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Meredith, George, 1828-1909. Autograph letter signed : Box Hill, Dorking, to [George] Stevenson, 1887 Apr. 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Box Hill, Dorking, to [George] Stevenson, 1887 Apr. 21.

Discussing the effects of ill health on his work: "I have been forced to discontinue prose, owing to indigestion and nerves. Verse does not tax me so heavily. Even letters have to be postponed." He goes on to criticize a speech by Gladstone: "We Liberals, Radicals, practical Christians, are going through a gloomy time ... It is ... distressing to observe one's countrymen befuddled by their alarums and selfish temporary interests. On Tuesday night I was ... introduced to Gladstone ... and heard a speech from him enough to make a cock robin droop his head despondently. We want a young leader [the word "leader" underlined]. This valiant, prodigiously gifted, in many respects admirable, old man is, I fear me, very much an actor. His oratory has the veteran rhetorician's artifices--to me painfully perceptible when I see him waiting for his effects, timing those to follow ... the majority, to judge of them by their temper, would stone him ..."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (8 p.) ; 18.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270871521 View

Meredith, George, 1828-1909. Autograph letter signed : Box Hill, Dorking, to "Sir Reynard" [Edward Clodd], 1908 June 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Box Hill, Dorking, to "Sir Reynard" [Edward Clodd], 1908 June 12.

About social engagements, written in a halting hand reflecting Meredith's paraplegia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270871523 View

Lydia Winston Malbin papers, 1891-1997, 1938-1997

Title: Lydia Winston Malbin papers 1891-1997 1938-1997

The collection consists primarily of files relating to individual works of art in the Malbin art collection, in addition to correspondence with artists, curators, dealers, museums and galleries; photographs; documentation regarding gifts and loans; material relating to Lydia Winston Malbin's collecting activities and related projects; a small amount of papers of Malbin's father, Albert Kahn; scrapbooks; and card files. The papers provide extensive documentation of a major twentieth-century collection which is no more and of individual works within the collection; as well as insight into some of the leading artists of this century, and particularly of the Italian Futurists, such as Umberto Boccioni. They also illustrate in detail the practice of art collecting as carried out by Malbin, one of the great American practitioners of that avocation.

ArchivalResource: 100 boxes (incl. 2 oversize boxes); 45 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.malbin View

Davis, Richard A. (Richard Allen), 1923-. Papers, 1974-1996.

Title: Papers, 1974-1996.

Consists of letters to Richard Allen Davis. For many years Davis made woodcut portraits of eminent people in the arts to whom he often sent copies. The letters in the collection were written chiefly to thank Davis for sending the portraits.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48447375 View

Indiana University. Museum of Art. Correspondence with Edward F. Fry, 1969-1970.

Title: Correspondence with Edward F. Fry, 1969-1970.

Information request from Indiana University Museum of Art regarding the work of David Smith.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (6 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212372679 View

Meredith, George, 1828-1909. Autograph letter signed : Box Hill, Dorking, to an unidentified aspiring novelist, 1892 Aug. 8.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Box Hill, Dorking, to an unidentified aspiring novelist, 1892 Aug. 8.

Returning and criticizing a manuscript submitted to Meredith as a reader for Chapman and Hall: " ... it contains much good matter and has an elevated aim, but is written in a convulsive style, that would be repugnant to readers who want narrative ...," and noting that tastes have transferred from Ouida to Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270871520 View