John Stuart Verschoyle papers, 1884-1915, undated.

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John Stuart Verschoyle papers, 1884-1915, undated.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244929014

This collection includes approximately 400 letters written to John Stuart Verschoyle between 1881-1915 by a diverse group of leaders in late Victorian literature, politics, journalism, social reform and society. The majority of letters are related to Verschoyle's work as an assistant editor of the Fortnightly Review and the social circle he built as a result of this work, but Verschoyle's connections to colonial African mining interests are also well-represented. Many letters also document his commitment to and involvement in social reform causes. Frequent correspondents include Frank Harris, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Oswald Crawfurd, Frances Power Cobbe, Edward Dowden, Edmund Gosse and Emile Joseph Dillon. Other important names represented here include Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, W.T. Stead, and A.C. Swinburne.

1 linear foot (2 boxes)

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Verschoyle, John Stuart.

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Epithet: clergyman and editor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0000ce John Stuart Verschoyle was born in Ireland in 1853 to an Anglo-Irish family. After receiving his B.A. from Pembroke College, Cambridge University in 1881, he was appointed curate of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Marylebone, London in 1882. In the early 1880s, Verschoyle made the acquaintance of Frank Harris, whom he int...