Elizabeth Hudson collection of E. Œ. Somerville & personal papers, 1879-1970.

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Elizabeth Hudson collection of E. Œ. Somerville & personal papers, 1879-1970.

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Collection contains correspondence, writings, drawings and paintings, and other papers documenting the life of E. Œ. Somerville, as well as materials related to Elizabeth Hudson's interest in the military and her involvement in the relief efforts of World Wars I and II. Correspondence includes letters to Hudson from the Chiswick Press, Hildegarde Coghill, Geraldine Cummins, Edith Somerville, Moira Somerville, and A. J. A. Symons concerning the Somerville family's life in Ireland, Edith Somerville's writing, and efforts by Hudson and Somerville to publish a bibliography of the works of Somerville and Ross. Other letters include correspondence between Somerville and various individuals and some third-party letters. Writings include drafts and proofs of Hudson's Somerville and Ross bibliography, typescript copies of portions of Somerville's diary, and a typescript of Somerville's play Flurry's Wedding. Artwork contains original and reproduction drawings and paintings by Somerville. Photographs include pictures of Somerville, her sister Hildegarde Coghill and others. Other materials include notes and papers related to the bibliography and to Somerville's writing in general, as well as transcriptions of automatic writing and spiritual communications with Somerville, her cousin Martin Ross, and Hudson's friend and companion Dorothy Sturges. Papers related to war and the military document Hudson's service in the American Red Cross Military Hospital No. 1 during World War I, and her involvement in relief efforts for France during World War II. Included are letters to Hudson from soldiers, nurses and children, photographs of Paris, military hospitals, soldiers and nurses, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and other papers.

10.0 linear ft. (21 boxes) + 2 broadside folders + 1 ring.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8021061

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949

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E. Œ. Somerville, Irish author. From the description of E. Œ. Somerville Collection, 1935-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83632141 From the description of E. Œ. Somerville collection, 1935-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702161295 Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (1858-1949) was an Irish writer, illustrator, and painter. She wrote many books with her cousin, Violet Florence Martin (1862-1915, Martin Ross, Pseud.) as the co-authors somerville and Ross. ...

Ross, Martin, 1862-1915

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x0001b2 ...

Cummins, Geraldine, 1890-1969

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Coghill, Hildegarde.

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Somerville, Moira.

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Symons, A.J.A. (Alphonse James Albert), 1900-1941

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Alphonse James Albert Symons was born in a suburb of London and privately educated, until apprenticed to a furrier at age fourteen. With little experience in the book trade, he founded the First Editions Club, and soon published a bibliography of William Butler Yeats. An avid collector, he was editor of the Book-Collector's Quarterly, establishing himself as an authority on literature of the 1890s with essays and lectures. He wrote several biographies, notably The Quest for Corvo, an innovative ...

Hudson, E. H. (Elizabeth Harriot)

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Elizabeth Hudson, relief worker in France during World War I, and friend of E. Œ. Somerville. E. Œ. Somerville, Irish author best known for her collaboration with her cousin, Martin Ross, under the name Somerville and Ross. From the description of Elizabeth Hudson collection of E. Œ. Somerville & personal papers, 1879-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702161235 Elizabeth Hudson, relief worker in France during World War I, and frie...

Chiswick Press

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The founder of Chiswick Press was Charles Whittingham (1767-1840). Upon completion of his printing apprenticeship in Coventry, Whittingham set up his own press in London in 1795, a short-lived Tory journal The Tomahawk. He eventually settled in the Thameside suburb of Chiswick, giving the name of the town to the book publishing division of Charles Whittingham and Co. Whittingham's nephew, Charles Whittingham the younger, joined his uncle as a partner in the firm. The fir...