Robert Baldwin Ross Collection, 1888-1951

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x00005f Irish writer, poet, and playwright. From the description of Collection, 1851-1957 (bulk 1877-1957). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122625016 Irish poet, dramatist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Allan, Maud

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Epithet: dancer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000813.0x00036f Biography Maud Allan was born in Toronto, Canada in 1883; raised in San Francisco, California; performing debut, Vienna, 1903; best known solo performance, The vision of Salome, 1908; toured India in 1913, Southeast Asia in 1913 and 1923, South America from 1919 to 1920, and the U.S.; had a scho...

Max Meyerfeld

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Queensberry, Sibyl (Montgomery) Douglas, marchioness of, 1844-1936

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Constance Wilde

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Lykiardopulos, Michael.

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Nelson, J. O., Major.

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Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943

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Laurence Binyon was an English writer. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire literary papers. From the description of Laurence Binyon fonds. [1941]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 660202804 Binyon was born Aug. 10, 1869 in Lancaster, England; British Museum official for 40 years, as well as art historian, critic, translator, playwright, and poet; author of numerous works on art, including Painting in the Fa...

Jervis-Read, Harold Vincent, 1883-

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Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942

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Williamson compiled a four-volume catalog of J. Pierpont Morgan's collection of miniatures that was published 1906-1908. A fifth volume was to have been issued but never appeared due to Morgan's death. At the request of the collector's son, J.P. Morgan (1867-1943), Williamson prepared a typescript of his notes and papers in October 1932 and sent it to Morgan. A second supplementary volume, comprising a re-typed version of that portion of the text to have accompanied the hand-colored plates inten...

Ross, Margery, -1956

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Percy Sholto Douglas, 9th marquis, Queensberry, 1868-1920

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Hermann Struck

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Groves, G., Warder.

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Armstrong, Walter

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Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson

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Epithet: writer, al 'James Medborough' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x00014a ...

Smith, Frederick Stanley

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Confederate officer, 7th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers. From the description of Papers, 1863-1863. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20314774 Confederate Army officer and commissary first for Kershaw's Brigade, South Carolina Volunteers (Infantry) and later for Butler's Brigade, S.C. Volunteers (Cavalry). From the description of F.L. Smith military records, 1862-1864. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37521830 ...

Clifton, Arthur Bellamy, 1862-1932

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Lady Wilde, 1826-1896

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Leverson, Ernest D.

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Hargrove, Harold.

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Boutens, P. C.

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Reggie Turner.

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Anna (Dunphy), comtesse de Bremont, d 1922

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Davray, Henry-D., 1873-

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Epithet: journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x000383 Henry-D. Davray (b. 1873) was a French translator. From the description of Henry-D. Davray translations of Oscar Wilde poems, 1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367507466 From the guide to the Henry-D. Davray translations of Oscar Wilde poems, 1899, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Arthur Bellamy Clifton.

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Dupoirier, Jean.

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Hubert G. Kelly

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Turner, Reggie, 1869?-1938

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Turner was a British author. Beerbohm was a British author and caricaturist. From the description of Letters to Max Beerbohm, 1896-1938. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612375349 From the guide to the Reggie Turner letters to Max Beerbohm, 1896-1938., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) British novelist. From the description of Manuscript, 1912. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at A...

Christopher Millard.

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Harris, Frank, 1856-1931

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Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist, feminist, author, editor, and lecturer on politics, literature and the arts. She was born in Lithuania and died in Canada. Her lectures and publications attracted attention throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was associated with the anarchist journal Mother Earth from 1906 to 1917 and was imprisoned for publicly advocating birth control in 1916 and pacifism in 1917. In 1919 she was deported to Russia but had to leave because of her criticism of the Bols...

Clement King Shorte

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Leverton, Edith Waldemar.

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Millard, Christopher

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Rosen, Stanley, 1942-....

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Albert Sperisen

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Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921

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Epithet: Secretary, Independent Theatre Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x00029a Epithet: translator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x000025 ...

George, Meredith

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Holland, Vyvyan Beresford, 1886-1967

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Son of Oscar and Constance Wilde. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Montgomery Hyde, 1953 Apr. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270974215 ...

Meyerfeld, Max

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Methuen and Co.

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Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918

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Literary executor of Oscar Wilde. From the description of Typewritten letter signed with initials : London, to Christopher Millard, 1907 Feb. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657709 From the description of Typewritten letters signed (3) : London, to Charles Glidden Osborne, 1906 Sept. 26-1907 Jan. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657713 Robert Baldwin Ross was a British author. From the description of Letters to Norman, and to C. French, 1910-1...

Sir George Alexander

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Grant Richards.

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Walter E. Ledger.

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Eiloart, Arnold

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Schuster, Adela.

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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, 1870-1945

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Holland, Cyril, 1885- 1915

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Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931

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Ricketts designed this poster for Harley Granville-Barker's adaption of Hardy's play at the Kingsway Theatre in London (25 November 1914 - 7 January 1915). This is one of fifty proofs before lettering which were sold at the theatre; proceeds from the sale went to benefit the Soldier's Cigarette Fund. From the description of [The dynasts] [graphic] / CR [monogram]. [1914] (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 47248729 Epithet: artist and art collector; alias Jean Paul Raymo...

Kains-Jackson, Charles.

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Leverson, Ada

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English novelist. From the description of Letters from Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, ca. 1920-1935. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852975 Epithet: novelist, friend of Oscar Wilde British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x00001e Ada Leverson, 1859-1936, was an English novelist who belonged to London's world of wealth and fashion. Her six novels were...

Carrington, Charles, 1867-1921

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More Adey

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Hargrove and Co.

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Clifford, J., -1823

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Epithet: Dr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000174.0x00021d ...

Adela Schuster.

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Bright, R. Golding.

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Sherard, Robert Harborough, 1861-1943

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Epithet: of Add MS 36182 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0002ad Epithet: afterwards 4th Earl of Harborough; Prebendary of Salisbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0002b3 Robert Harborough Sherard was born in London on December 3, 1861, the fourth child of the Reverend Bennet Sherard Calcraft Ken...

Wilde, Constance, 1858-1898

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Johnson, H.H.

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O'Connor, John, 1850-1928

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Shannon, Charles Hazelwood, 1863-1937

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Charles Hazelwood Shannon was an English painter and lithographer. He met his partner, Charle Ricketts, at London's City and Guilds Technical Art School, where he studied wood engraving. In addition to contributing to their shared projects, including printing, Shannon worked in lithography, woodcutting, and painting. His greatest influences were the Old Masters; although he was aware of contemporary art movements, he preferred to work with classical style and themes. From the descrip...

Douglas, Alfred Bruce, 1870-1945

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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas was an English writer, best known for his controversial personality and scandalous relationship with Oscar Wilde. Born into an aristocratic family, Douglas attended Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he wrote and participated in sports, but didn't take a degree. His well-chronicled relationship with Oscar Wilde provoked Douglas' father to insult Wilde, prompting a disastrous lawsuit that ended with Wilde imprisoned for two years. Douglas had a strong...

Ebstein, Joseph.

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Lucas, E.V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938

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English essayist, playwright, and biographer of Charles Lamb. From the description of Friendship's gallery : AMs, [before 1930] / by E.V. Lucas. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122525226 From the description of Facets & angles : AMs, [between 1918 and 1930] / by E.V. Lucas. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122591792 Edward Verrall Lucas was an English author and editor. A remarkably prolific writer, he produced novels, ...

Mrs. Enthoren

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Holman, H. Martin.

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H. Martin Holman

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Wilde, Lady, 1826-1896

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Linguist, poet, Irish patriot, central figure in a London literary cirlcle, mother of Oscar Wilde. From the description of Letter to S.J. Odonaghue, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 68940816 ...

Stuart-Young, John Moray, 1881-1939

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Aitken, Charles, 1869-1936

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Robert Baldwin Ross

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Franz, Heinrich 1871-1942

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Smithers, Leonard C. (Leonard Charles), 1861-1907

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Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff.

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Bremont, Anna (Dunphy) comtesse de, d. 1922

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Martin, T., warder.

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Sullivan, Edward, Sir, 1852-1928

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Chambers, C. Haddon (Charles Haddon), 1860-1921

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Shaw, George Bernard, 1920

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Adey, More, approximately 1859-1942

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Norman Strouse

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Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., firm, publishers, Edinburgh.

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Levy, Hermann, 1881-1949

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Humières, Robert, vicomte d', 1868-1915

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Sherard, Robert Harborough, 1861-1943

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Epithet: of Add MS 36182 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0002ad Epithet: afterwards 4th Earl of Harborough; Prebendary of Salisbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0002b3 Robert Harborough Sherard was born in London on December 3, 1861, the fourth child of the Reverend Bennet Sherard Calcraft Ken...

Huntington, Constant.

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Frank Harris.

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Mellor, Harold.

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Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, Sir, 1853-1937

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English actor. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Grand Hôtel Mürren ; and 31 Clifton Crescent, Fotherstone, to Olga Nethersole, 1913 July 26 and 1915 June 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270126227 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Joan Severn, [1897?] Nov. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 763487288 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 11 December 1906, to an unidentified recipient, 1906...

Turner, Reggie

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Clatworthy, Ethel W.

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Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926

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Shorter worked as an editor with a number of British papers and journals, such as the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, before founding and editing three early twentieth century journals: SKETCH, SPHERE, and the TATLER. Shorter also wrote critically about Victorian literature and published bibliographies about prominent British writers. From the description of Letter-Manuscript, 1920. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122348081 British writer. The letters are written...

Stephenson, Henry Holder

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Murray, Francis Elizabeth.

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Methuen, Algernon, 1856-1924

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Harris, Frank

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Bell, T. H. (Thomas H.), 1867-1942

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Thomas Hastie Bell (1867-1942) was an American author and anarchist. His works include: Edward Carpenter, the English Tolstoi (1932), and Oscar Wilde without whitewash. His work on Wilde was never published in English but was published in Buenos Aires under the title Oscar Wilde: sus amigos, sus adversaries, sus ideas (1946). From the description of Papers of Thomas Hastie Bell, 1922-1942. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499689 ...

Gibb, William A.

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Wilde, William Charles Kingsbury, 1852-1899

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