| Description | Collection of letters to William Robertson Nicoll chiefly on publishing and personal matters,including correspondence from the Earl of Rosebery, Sir Ernest Hodder Williams, Dr Alexander Whyte 1902 - 1927; David Patrick, Frederic William Farrar John Sheridan Zelie 1908 - 1913, Theodore Watts-Dunton 1900 - 1913; John Adams 1921 - 1923; and others.
Originally wrapped with four sub-bundles: Rosebery, Whyte and others; Watts-Dunton, Patrick and others; Adams; and various.
Including (now bundled separtely):
envelope marked "Walter Pater & J M Barrie: autograph MSS" containing printers' manuscripts of three review articles:
Walter Pater, review of Oscar Wilde's "Portrait of Dorian Gray": original autograph manuscript, apparently printer's copy, of Walter Pater's review article "A novel by Mr Oscar Wilde", printed in The Bookman, Nov. 1891, pp.59-60. with Pater's additions, deletions and amendments, evidently as made in the process of composition
J M Barrie, essay on the Authors' Society, with the title "'Another', London", autograph manuscript, 6 pages, plus four of 5 pages (page 1 missing) of an essay on the American novel and the American novelist
William Minto[?], essay on Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd" and the 19th-century English novels, headed in pencil "Professor Minto", 16 pages manuscript, apparently incomplete |