[Free Library of Philadelphia collection of letters and manuscripts of literary figures] -- 1761-1973.

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[Free Library of Philadelphia collection of letters and manuscripts of literary figures] -- 1761-1973.

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This is a collection primarily composed of autograph letters, manuscripts, typescripts, and fragments of literary works. Significantly represented authors include James Branch Cabell, Joseph Conrad, Alexander Dumas, Oliver Goldsmith, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Agnes Repplier, George Bernard Shaw, and Mark Twain. Other authors represented include Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Dixon, John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Swinburne, Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Oscar Wilde. Manuscripts in the collection include Conrad's Victory and Under Western Eyes; Thomas Dixon's The Clansman; Elizabeth Drinker Bowen's Lion and the Throne and Adventures of a Biographer; and Wilkie Collins' The Dead Alive, The First Officer's Confession, and Royal Love. Ezra Pound materials include correspondence to Carl Gatter and Elsie Gatter and to Miss Margaret Doolittle from Ezra and Dorothy Pound; photographs of Wyncote and of students at Cheltenham Military Academy (including Ezra Pound); and other papers.

5 linear feet

Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Free Library of Philadelphia: Rare Book Department

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This is a collection of manuscripts obtained by the Free Library of Philadelphia from various donations. The majority of the collection was donated by Philadelphia book collectors, Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Gimbel and William McIntire Elkins. The collection has an even mix of American and European authors. Although the majority of the authors are represented with only a few pieces of work, eight authors are better represented. These include: American authors James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), Ezra P...