Letters to the Authors' Syndicate, Ltd., 1895-1925.

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948

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American novelist and non-fiction writer. From the description of Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton collection, 1907-1945. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 44590095 California author. From the description of TLS, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866384 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was an American novelist, short-story writer, biographer, and literary critic. From the description of Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton collection of ...

Federation of British Industries.

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The FBI was founded in 1916 on the initiative of the Midlands industrialist, Dudley Docker. He obtained pledges of 1,000 from each of 124 firms to launch a new representative organisation for industry. The Federation shied away from involvement in such basic issues as labour relations and (at first) tariff reform, but overall it did prove a success. It absorbed other smaller organisations which strengthened its regional and overseas work, and in 1923 was incorporated by Royal Charte...

Chapman and Hall

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Bourchier, Violet.

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Colony, Ian D.

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Chevalier, Albert, 1861-1923

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Epithet: comedian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x0002b6 ...

Furniss, Gerard.

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Ayscough, John, 1858-1928

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Epithet: Rear-Admiral British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001294.0x000255 English author. Francis Bickstaffe-Drew (John Ayscough) was born in Headingly, Leeds, England in 1858. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford and converted to Catholicism in 1878; he was ordained in 1884. Bickstaffe-Drew was appointed private chamberlain to Pope Leo XIII (1891); private chamberlain to Pope Pius X...

Shore, W. Teignmouth (William Teignmouth), 1865-1932

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Bourchier, Arthur, 1863-1927

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Grein, Alexander 1969-

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Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946

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English author and editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : West Hampstead, to Victor Plarr, [no year] Feb. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617349 The author was head of a Welsh organization, "Undeb Cymdeithasan Diwylliadd Cymreig Llundain" (letterhead reads : "Tymhor, 1902-1903".) Members included David Lloyd George. With this is filed a typed letter of transmittal from Louttit to Damon (Nov. 8, 1935). From the description of Letter, 1903, ...

Findlater, Jane Helen, 1866-1946

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Foss, Kenelm, 1885-1963

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Vallings, Harold

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Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924

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Burgin, G. B. (George Brown), 1856-

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Gwynne, H. A. 1865-1950.

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Collins, W. W. b. 1862

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Asche, Oscar, 1871-1936

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Sharpe, Alfred, 1853-1935

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Great Britain. Ministry of Information

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In 1917 the Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1863-1945) set up a Ministry of Information. The newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964) was put in overall charge of the organisation as Minister of Information. Other appointments included the Managing Director of United Newspapers Ltd, Robert Donald (1860-1933), who became Director of Propaganda in Neutral Countries) and Lord Northcliffe, (1865-1922), another newspaper magnate, who became Director of Propaganda in Enemy Countries. The Mini...

White, Silva.

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Crawfurd, Oswald, 1834-1909

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Epithet: diplomatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x000210 ...

Fraser, John Foster

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Edwardes, Tickner, 1865-1944

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Gilmer, J. W.

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Bancroft, G. C.

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Evans, Howard V.

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Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x0002c8 ...

Dean, Basil, 1888-1978

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Epithet: impresario British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0002ec ...

Metcalfe, Cranstoun

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Ollivant, Alfred, 1874-1927

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Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell), 1849-1923

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William H. Mallock was born into a wealthy, aristocratic family; after graduating from Oxford, he applied himself to writing, producing novels and non-fiction rife with social commentary. The key to Mallock's works were his conservative ethos and resistance to change, which incited him to oppose the profound social and political changes of the era and trumpet the need for orthodox beliefs. In addition to novels, he also wrote poetry, essays, and numerous articles in periodicals; his signature wo...

Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles)

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0001cb ...

Jepson, Edgar, 1863-1938

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Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964

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Born Nancy Witcher Langhorne, of Richmond, Va., and "Mirador," Albemarle co., Va. Married Robert Gould Shaw, 1897; divorced, 1903; one son, Robert Gould. Married Waldorf Astor (1879-1952) of Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, Eng., 1906; five children: William Waldorf (b. 1907), Nancy Phyllis Louise (b. 1909), Frances David Langhorne (b. 1912), Michael (b. 1916), and John Jacob (b. 1918). Elected first woman to Parliament, 1919, serving twenty-five years. From the description of Pa...

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...

Fletcher, J. S. 1863-1935.

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Colles, William Morris, 1855-1926

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Colles was born in 1855; he became a prominent literary agent in London; his published works include Literature and the pension list (1889) and Playright and copyright in all countries, showing how to protect a play or a book throughout the world (with Harold Hardy, 1906); he died in 1926. From the description of Letters, 1890-1926. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39287323 BIOGHIST REQUIRED English literary agent. Colles was the founder and manag...

Gadow, Hans, 1855-1928

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Hans Friedrich Gadow was a zoologist. From the description of Letters, 1906-1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466017 A prolific and diverse scholar, Hans Friedrich Gadow (1855-1928), wrote on such topics as birds, Mexican peoples and animals, reptiles, and other vertebrates. Born in Germany in 1855, he studied anatomy with Ernst Haeckel in Germany before moving to England, where his research on avian anatomy and systematics had broad influence. In 1892, Ga...

Authors' Syndicate, Ltd.

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The Authors' Syndicate, British literary agency founded by William Morris Colles. From the description of Letters to the Authors' Syndicate, Ltd., 1895-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82097316 ...

Lynch, H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse), 1862-1913

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Freshfield, Douglas William, 1845-1934

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Epithet: FRGS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000147 Douglas William Freshfield was born on 27 April 1845 in Hampstead. Educated at Eaton and Oxford he became an accomplished mountaineer, climbing extensively in the Alps. He published Exploration of the Caucasus in 1896. In 1914 he was appointed president of the Royal Geographical Society a post he occupied until 1917. He died in 1934. ...

Phillips, Lionel, 1855-1936

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Title: 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000243.0x000391 ...

Skilbeck, W. Wray.

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Lawrence, C. E.

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Renton, Richard

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Owen, Harold, 1872-1930

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