| Description | Manuscripts by William Robertson Nicoll and others on biography and other topics:
Manuscript of short biographies, in wrapper with typed description "Biographical Notes in W.R.N.'s own hand. (For 'Victorian Era of Literature'?) Date - after 1883" The persons treated include literary figures, but also theologians and politicians.
Notebook with notes for sermons in William Robertson Nicoll's hand. Titled "International lessons Jan. 1880. The Infant Messiah"
List of articles in various publications between 1865 and 1880
Printed materials:
The Sunday Magazine, Christmas story edition 1890: "The flight of the shadow" by George MacDonald (76 pages)
Leaflet "Printers' strike, 1911 and the Treasury intervention 1912", issued by the Master Printers' Association. London, 1912 (8 pages)
The Sphere and Tatler Ltd: Shareholder information circulars, with typescript letter of 12 March 1908 to William Robertson Nicoll
Harvey Orrin Smith: manuscript materials
Harvey Orrin Smith, later Harvey Orrinsmith (wood engraver, d. 1904): manuscript materials:
Manuscript (12 pages) with title "At random"; intended as a contribution to the Hampstead Annual. Signed and dated Harvey Orrinsmith, August 1897.
Together with an envelope listing titles "A sketch in Wensleydale and notes in Harvey's own hand etc." and other materials as follows:
Personal memoir [4 pages; fragment?] untitled and undated, author and subject unnamed, describing life and acquaintances (including George Bernard Shaw) in the 1870s
Short notes on various subjects including a meeting with Mazzini, wood engraving, binding
Collection of reminiscences and anecdotes concerning Leigh Hunt, Millais and Holman Hunt, Richard Redgrave R.A., and Carlyle and Charles Lamb. |