Constable and Company Records
Collection ID
SCRC 20
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Collecting Areas
Description
Collection Summary
Title
Constable and Company Records
Dates
1894-1966, bulk 1900-1945
Collection ID
Creator
Constable (Firm)
Quantity
8.5 linear feet (21 boxes)
Repository
Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries
Language
Materials in English
Detailed Collection Information
Historical Note
Constable and Company was founded by Archibald Constable, a bookseller from Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1795. After Archibald Constable’s death in 1827, the company suffered financial difficulties until his grandson, also named Archibald, reinvigorated it in 1890. He opened an office in London but retired soon after, handing the company over to his nephew H. Arthur Doubleday in 1893. Doubleday added Otto Kyllmann and William M. Meredith as partners in 1895, with Michael Sadleir joining the company in 1912. Constable and Company became one of the foremost publishing houses in England. The firm published many distinguished and famous authors including George Bernard Shaw, Damon Runyon, Theodore Dreiser, Dorothy Sayers, and James Bridie. The often personal correspondence between the three main directors, Kyllman, Meredith, and Sadleir, and the authors represented demonstrate that these men were friend, confidant, and literary advisor to their clients, as well as businessmen. In 1999, Constable and Company merged with Robinson Publishing to become Constable and Robinson.
Collection Overview
The Constable and Company Records consist primarily of correspondence between two editors and directors of the firm, Otto Kyllmann and Michael Sadleir, and authors and publishers. Editors Ralph Arnold and William M. Meredith are also represented. The files include a limited amount of legal documents, typescripts, page proofs, financial documents, project files, and company letterhead samples.
Organization and Arrangement
This collection is arranged into seven series. Correspondence and manuscripts are generally arranged alphabetically by author.
Series 1. Correspondence
Series 2. Letters of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence
Series 3. Personal Correspondence
Series 4. Financial Records
Series 5. Legal Records
Series 6. Letterhead Samples
Series 7. Drafts and Project Files
Series 1, Correspondence (1894 – 1966, undated), includes letters from over 400 authors ranging from 1894 – 1966. The number of letters in the folder is indicated in parentheses after the author’s name. Where there are multiple folders for one correspondent, the total number of letters appears after the first folder.
Series 2, Letters of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence (1925 – 1937), contains correspondence documenting the collection and publication of the Letters of Sir Walter Scott (1932-37).
Series 3, Personal Correspondence (1937 – 1938), includes copies of correspondence between Kurt Hahn and Philip Henry Kerr, Marquis of Lothian, over the case of Hans Litten, who was arrested by the Nazi regime in 1933.
Series 4, Financial (1940), includes the royalty statements for multiple authors between January and July 1940.
Series 5, Legal (1932 – 1938), includes a legal review of an unidentified manuscript. Also, included are correspondence, court documents, and clippings from the “Laughing Torso” lawsuit, a libel suit brought by Aleister Crowley against Nina Hamnett for her novel Laughing Torso.
Series 6, Letterhead Samples (1901 – 1946), includes letterhead samples from Constable ranging from 1901 – 1946.
Series 7, Drafts and Project Files (1929 – 1938, undated), includes typescripts and proofs of works by authors James Bridie, Clark Kinnaird, and Arthur Schnitzler. The series also contains a photocopy of an article about Bridie by Michael Sadleir, a project file with documents pertaining to the collection and publication of the Sir Walter Scott letters, as well as four folders of letters from George Allen & Unwin, V. W. (Vincent Willem) van Gogh, Ferris Greenslet, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Walter Pach, Viking Press, Wereldbibliotheek, and others regarding various publications about artist Vincent van Gogh, including Letters to an Artist; from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885, translated by Rela van Messel; Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred Hamilton Barr of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); From Vincent van Gogh to Anton G.A. Ridder van Rappard 1881-1885; Vincent van Gogh's great period, Arles, St. Re´my and Auvers sur Oise; and a proposed collection of van Gogh letters by Irving Stone.
Patron Information
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Temple University’s online library catalog: http://diamond.temple.edu/record=b1610530~S12
Research Access
Collection is open for research.
Collections Stored Off-Site
This collection may be housed off-site at the Library Depository, and require up to 48 hours to retrieve. Please review the finding aid and be prepared to identify specific materials to be retrieved. Contact the Special Collections Research Center in advance of your visit, so that materials may be relocated to the reading room for research.
Publication and Copyright Information
The Constable and Company Records are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Temple University holds literary rights only for material created by university employees and to material given to the university with such rights specifically assigned. For all other material, literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], [Accession number], Constable and Company Records, 1894-1966, bulk 1900-1945, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Related Material
Michael Sadleir Papers. Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Purchased from the House of El Dieff, 1972-1973.
Processing Information
Initial processing occurred in the 1970s and 1980s by Carleton C. Schwager and others.
Reprocessed to modern archival standard by Kathleen McCarty, Temple University English 3085 intern, Fall 2012.
Index Terms
The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in Temple University’s electronic catalog:
Corporate Names
Constable (firm)
Personal Names
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948
Crowley, Aleister, 1875-1947
De la Mare, Walter John, 1873-1956
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890
Jameson, Storm, 1891-1986
Kyllmann, Otto
Meredith, William M.
Sadleir, Michael, 1888-1957
Santayana, George, 1863-1952
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
Subjects
Authors, English--20th century.
Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--20th century
Geographic Places
London (England)
Material Types
Correspondence
Manuscripts (document genre)
Page Proofs
Inventory
Box / Folder / Description
Series 1. Correspondence
1 1 Adrich, Stephen (1), August 1919
2 Agate, James (7), October 1916
3 Aldin, Cecil (1), May 1925
4 Aldington, Richard (5), October 1915 – March 1930
5 Armour, G. D. (George Denholm) (1), 1920
6 Ashley-Cooper, Frederick Samuel (1), July 1919
7 Asquith, Cyril (3), December 1934
8 Asquith, Margot (2), December 1935
9 Aubrey-Fletcher, Henry Lancelot, Sir (82), September 1926 – October 1938
10 Avebury, Lord (1), September 1905
11 Axford, W. H. (1), July 1956
12 Ayscough, John (1), September 1905
13 Babbitt, Irving (1), August 1919
14 Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron (1), April 1918
15 Bailey, Cyril (1), June 1928
16 Balbernie, Kitty (1), August 1918
17 Baring, Maurice (6), April 1914 – January 1918
18 Bartlett, Vernon (55), October 1925 – June 1928
19 Barton, Bruce (1), June 1927
20 Bashford, H. H. (Henry Howarth), Sir (19), December 1917 – March 1928
21 Bates, Daisy (12), May 1935 – September 1937
22 Bates, H. E. (Herbert Ernest), (8), October 1938 – July 1939
23 Bathurst, Seymour Henry (14), March 1927 – May 1928
24 Battiscombe, Georgina (5), 1955 – 1958
25 Bawden, Edward (1), August 1933
26 Bayley, John (3), May 1958
27 Begbie, Harold (17), April 1914 – 1921
28 Belloc, Hilaire (229), April 1911 – August 1923
29 Belloc, Hilaire, January 1924 – May 1933
30 Belloc, Hilaire, January 1934 – August 1941
31 Bennett, Arnold (14), May 1912 – September 1930
32 Benson, Sally (1), July 1938
33 Bentley, Edmund C. (42), January 1934 – December 1937
34 Bentley, Lucy (1), November 1938
35 Bentley, Nicolas (27), January 1937 – April 1939
2 1 Beresford, J. D. (John Davys) (3), September 1922 – December 1938
2 Bergonzi, Bernard (1), July 1966
3 Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron (15), October 1941 – September 1944
4 Bevan, Bryan (1), September 1955
5 Bibesco, Elizabeth (1), November 1919
6 Binyon, Lawrence (5), July 1904 – April 1925
7 Birrell, Augustine (39), April 1911 – February 1921
8 Black, Robert (3), May 1938
9 Blackwell, Benjamin Henry (1), October 1919
10 Blisset, Nellie K. (3), November 1905
11 Blücher (10), September – November 1927
12 Blücher, Evelyn (2), undated
13 Blunden, Edmund (1), October 1933
14 Board, John (1), 1956
15 Bond, Warwick (33), May 1936 – July 1937
16 Bosanquet, Theodora (6), November – December 1932
17 Boschére, Jean de (2), April – May 1919
18 Bottomley, Gordon (202), February 1918 – December 1921
19 Bottomley, Gordon, January 1922 – December 1924
20 Bottomley, Gordon, January 1925 – May 1929
22 Bowen, Elizabeth (3), January 1929 – February 1937
23 Bowen, Marjorie (4), February – April 1944
24 Boyd, Elizabeth I.M. (1), July 1917
25 Boyd, Martin (9), February – October 1936
26 Bradley, William Aspenwall (8), June 1933 – 1939
27 Brett-Smith, H.F.B. (Herbert Francis Brett), (3), June 1938
28 Bridie, James (18), February 1934 – September 1938
29 Brighouse, Harold (24), April 1914 – January 1921
30 Brighouse, J.H. (1), October 1914
31 Bright, Charles, Sir (3), November – December 1920
32 British Publishers Guild (4), November – December 1943
33 Brooke, Stopford (11), June 1905 – January 1927
34 Browning, Oscar (1), October 1905
35 Bryant, Arthur (10), January 1929 – October 1936
36 Bryher (4), April – June 1921
37 Buchan, John (5), April 1923 – 1928
38 Buchanan, George (9), November 1938 – March 1939
39 Bullett, Gerald W. (25), September 1914 – June 1928
40 Bury, J. B. (1), April 1899
41 Butler, A. S. G. (Arthur Stanley George) (3), April – May 1918
42 Butler, Josephine (4), April – August 1919
43 Bywater, Hector C. (Hector Charles) (14), March – November 1921
3 1 Campbell of Argyll, Lilalo (1), July 1956
2 Carter, John (57), December 1933 – May 1939
3 Cecil, David (66), December 1933 – March 1956
4 Chamberlain, Austen, Sir (2), October 1914
5 Chapman, Guy (6), January – March 1936
6 Chapman, Robert W. (4), January – March 1939
7 Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron (55), January 1916 – May 1924
8 Cherry-Garrard, Apsley (50), February 1922 – February 1937
9 Clark, Kenneth (18), April 1928 – January 1938
10 Clutton-Brock, A. (Arthur), (6), November 1905 – May 1915
11 Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir (5), March 1935 – December 1937
12 Coke, Desmond (6), 1928 – March 1931
13 Cole, G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) (1), December 1922
14 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley (2), March 1915 – June 1919
15 Collins, J. C. (2), March 1905
16 Comert, Pierre (8), February 1942 – October 1943
17 Connell, Vivian (43), November 1940 – February 1942
18 Coolidge, W. A. B. (William Augustus Brevoort) (2), March 1922
19 Corelli, Marie (13), April 1905 – May 1918
20 Courtney, Leonard H. (1), August 1914
21 Cox, Anthony Berkley (3), August – September 1937
22 Craig, Edward (2), March – April 1923
23 Cranston, Maurice (3), October 1958
24 Crawford, Arthur (2), December 1901
25 Crofts, Freeman Wells (1), September 1936
26 Crow, Gerald (1), June 1922
27 Crowley, Aleister (5), December 1934 – July 1935
28 Conynghame, Henry, Sir (16), November 1921 – November 1923
29 Currie, Phyllis (2), October 1942 – August 1943
30 Curzon (1), December 1921
31 Cusack, Dymphna (1), April 1955
32 The Daily Worker (1), November 1943
33 Dane, Clemence (3), undated
34 Dangerfield, George (14), December 1935 – August 1936
35 Dark, Sidney (1), May 1922
36 Darwin, Bernard (8), March – June 1939
37 Davey, Norman (2), January 1920 – November 1923
38 Davids, Rhys (5), March – May 1922
39 Davidson, Olivia Maitland (1), February 1920
40 Davies, Walford (1), July 1923
41 Davis, H. W. Carless (Henry William Carless) (13), September 1914 – February 1915
42 Dawson, Coningsby (7), August 1914 – September 1919
4 1 Dearmer, Percy (1), November 1919
2 Delafield, Elizabeth (5), May – October 1942
3 De La Mare, Walter (460), March 1916 – December 1919
4 De La Mare, Walter, January 1920 – December 1921
5 De La Mare, Walter, 1922
6 De La Mare, Walter, 1923
7 De La Mare, Walter, 1924
8 De La Mare, Walter, 1925
9 De La Mare, Walter, 1926
10 De La Mare, Walter, 1927
11 De La Mare, Walter, 1928
12 De La Mare, Walter, 1929
13 De La Mare, Walter, 1932 – 1934
14 De La Mare, Walter, 1935
15 De La Mare, Walter, 1936 – 1937
16 De La Mare, Walter, 1938 – 1939
17 De La Mare, Walter, 1940 – March 1942
18 De Polney, Peter (60), May 1943 – February 1946
19 De Selincourt, Anne (72), March 1923 – September 1925
20 De Selincourt, Basil (3), July 1935
21 De Selincourt, Hugh (5), March 1916 – August 1926
22 Desmond, Shaw L. (4), July 1919
23 Dibdin, E. C. (4), March 1944
24 Diver, Maud (44), May 1917 – January 1920
25 Diver, T. (16), December 1918 – November 1921
26 Dixon, N. W. MacNeile (1), undated
27 Dixon, William S. (7), January 1920 – August 1922
5 1 Dos Passos, John (4), June 1941 – May 1942
2 Douglas, Norman (1), May 1915
3 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir (1), undated
4 Dreiser, Theodore (59), February 1926 – February 1946
5 Drey, O. Raymond (Oscar Raymond) (2), March 1919
6 Drinkwater, John (11), October 1916 – February 1928
7 Duclaux, Mary (7), November 1919 – February 1921
8 Duke, Winifred A. (2), July – August 1919
9 Durand, H. M. (3), September 1919
10 Earp, T. W. (7), April 1943 – February 1944
11 Ebbutt, Norman (25), November 1944 – June 1946
12 Ebury, Anne, Lady (88), March 1945 – September 1956
13 Eddison, Eric Rücker (21), December 1933 – October 1934
14 Ehrman, J. (1), undated
15 Ellis, Havelock (217), November 1915 – December 1921
16 Ellis, Havelock, January 1922 – December 1926
17 Ellis, Havelock, February 1927 – July 1939
18 Ellis, S. W. (2), 1928
19 Ellis, Vivian (2), December 1944
20 Elton, Godfrey (3), March – May 1922
21 Elton, Oliver (6), November 1905 – November 1926
22 Esdaile, Arundel (4), June 1916 – September 1923
23 Falconer, Alexander (12), January 1964 – April 1966
24 Falls, Cyril (2), February 1922 – October 1923
25 Farleigh, John (25), July 1933 – November 1935
26 Farrar, F.W. (1), April 1899
27 Farrell, James T. (James Thomas) (105), May 1935 – October 1936
28 Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), January 1937 – May 1946
29 Fausset, Hugh (2), undated
6 1 Feiling, Keith (3), December 1935
2 Fell, H. Granville (Herbert Granville) (1), November 1921
3 Field, Bradda (159), August 1927 – November 1940
4 Field, Bradda, January 1941 – August 1944
5 Figgis, Darrell (1), March 1920
6 Finnemore, Hiloc (1), July 1923
7 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (6), October 1916 – January 1918
8 Fisher of Kilverstone, John Fisher, Baron (1), October 1916
9 Fleming, Berry (5), August 1935 – July 1936
10 Fletcher, John Gould (6), April 1918 – November 1919
11 Fletcher, Joseph Smith (2), July 1918
12 Flint, Frank S. (3), June – December 1917
13 Ford, Ford Madox (2), May – August 1934
14 Forman, M. Brixton (2), July – October 1914
15 Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), (8), December 1921 – November 1923
16 Fox, Ralph (25), January 1925 – August 1928
17 Fox, Richard Michael (1), undated
18 Fraser, Lovat (2), July 1919
19 Freeman, H. W. (1), December 1924
20 Freeman, J. (1), October 1913
21 Freeman, John (1), undated
22 Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin) (11), September 1922 – August 1938
23 French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres (18), March 1919 – March 1920
24 Frere, A. S. (2), 1954
25 Freshfield, Douglas W. (35), May 1922 – October 1928
26 Friedlander, V. H. (1), July 1923
27 Frost, David (3), 1960
28 Fuller, Bampfylde, Sir (1), October 1923
29 Fuller, J. H. (2), August 1924
30 Fuller-Maitland, J. A. (John Alexander) (11), September 1919 – May 1923
31 Furniss, Harry (2), March 1918
32 Fyfe, Hamilton (3), April 1918 – May 1928
33 Fyleman, Rose (1), October 1923
34 Gairdner, James (9), June – August 1903
35 Galsworthy, John (2), April 1923
36 Gardiner, A.G. (2), May 1921 – August 1922
37 Garstang, John (31), March 1917 – June 1928
38 Gates, Reginald Ruggles (1), April 1928
39 Gauguin, John (4), September – October 1920
40 Geddes, Patrick (1), April 1899
41 Gibbings, Robert (29), March 1923 – July 1935
42 Gilkes, A. H. (1), April 1920
43 Gogarty, Oliver St. John (25), April 1937 – December 1938
44 Goldring, Douglas (4), October 1920 – July 1942
45 Goodchild, George (3), April 1939
46 Gordon, George S. (8), February – May 1919
47 Gordon, Home (7), March – September 1919
48 Gosse, Edmund (1), February 1923
49 Gould, Frederick James (3), July – September 1920
50 Gould, Gerald (1), December 1922
7 1 Graham, P. Anderson (1), November 1923
2 Graham, Rosa (2), March – June 1916
3 Graham, Stephen (36), April 1915 – February 1922
4 Greville, Sidney, Sir (3), February – December 1919
5 Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount (9), January 1920 – December 1928
6 Grubb, G. H. (2), August – October 1922
7 Guedella, Philip (80), September 1914 – February 1939
8 Gwynn, Stephen (26), February 1928 – April 1929
9 Gwynne, Llewellyn H. (1), undated
10 Hadow, W. H. (William Henry), (2), February 1920
11 Haliburton, W. (1), January 1920
12 Halifax, Robert (1), June 1911
13 Hall, A.D. (1), March 1920
14 Hamilton, Mary Agnes (1), November 1920
15 Hamilton, Patrick (174), December 1926 – December 1934
16 Hamilton, Patrick, January 1935 – September 1956
17 Hammond, J. L. (8), October 1924 – August 1936
18 Hanson, Lawrence (11), May – September 1950
19 Harcourt, Lewis Harcourt, Viscount (12), May 1921 – February 1922
20 Harding, F. J. A. (3), March – April 1935
21 Hargrave, John (10), August 1913 – May 1935
22 Harris, Frank (10), April – June 1938
23 Harrison, H. S. (1), March 1915
24 Hartley, L. C. (1), May 1938
25 Hartog, Philip, Sir (1), February 1920
26 Harvey, W. M. (2), March – April 1935
27 Hawkins, Anthony (1), April 1927
28 Hay, Marie (23), May 1913 – October 1920
29 Hayward, John (2), December 1941 – September 1955
30 Hearnshaw, F. J. C (Fossey John Cobb) (9), February – October 1920
31 Henderson, Donald (11), June 1942 – June 1943
32 Henriques, Robert (12), August – October 1937
33 Henson, Violet (9), April – September 1938
34 Herbert, Agnes (11), November 1934 – August 1942
35 Hewlett, M. (22), January 1919 – December 1921
36 Hilbery, Malcolm (1), April 1934
37 Hind, Arthur Mayger (15), May 1913 – October 1921
8 1 Hobbes, John Oliver (8), February – July 1946
2 Holmes, Charles, Sir (3), November 1913 – December 1935
3 Holmes, E. G. A. (34), June 1919 – November 1928
4 Holt, Winifred (5), October – November 1913
5 Hopkins, Gerard W. (1), undated
6 Horgan, Paul (16), June 1935 – August 1945
7 Hosken, Clifford (7), December 1927 – February 1928
8 Hosken, Emma (4), October – November 1928
9 Hubbard, Wilfranc (1), January 1921
10 Hudson, Derek (101), August 1945 – February 1949
11 Hudson-Lewis, G. (1), August 1945
12 Humphreys, Allen (1), September 1920
13 Hunter, Evan (2), November – December 1954
14 Hurry, Colin (1), undated
15 Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth), (8), October 1934 – July 1935
16 Hutton, Edward (39), April 1913 – August 1928
17 Huxley, Elspeth (1), September 1957
18 Huxley, Julian Sorrell, Sir (1), February 1926
19 Irwin, Margaret (8), March 1916 – November 1918
20 Jack, A. A. (2), August – October 1922
21 Jackson, Holbrook (1), November 1921
22 Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark) (2), December 1917 – January 1918
23 James, Henry, 1843 – 1916 (1), April 1898
24 James, Henry, 1879 – 1947 (1), August 1920
25 Jameson, Storm (222), December 1917 – September 1928
26 Jameson, Storm, July 1929 – April 1943
27 Jerrold, Sidney (1), December 1919
28 Jeudwine, J. W. (John Wynne), (3), August – November 1922
29 Joad, Cyril (2), undated
30 John, Gwen (1), May 1921
31 Johnson, R. B. (3), December 1920 – August 1922
32 Johnston, Mary (17), March 1920 – July 1922
33 Jones, Barbara (4), January – February 1938
34 Kaye-Smith, Sheila (3), March 1913 – January 1922
35 Keable, Robert (139), January 1921 – November 1923
36 Keable, Robert, January 1924 – March 1939
9 1 Keigwin, R. P. (Richard Prescott) (2), April – May 1919
2 Kendal, Madge (1), January 1935
3 Kendall, John Kaye (5), January 1924 – May 1927
4 Kennedy, Malcolm D. (12), October 1924 – January 1925
5 Kennedy, Milward (6), November 1935 – November 1937
6 Kenworthy, Joseph (1), March 1922
7 Kernahan, Coulson (7), June – December 1927
8 Keynes, Geoffrey (1), August 1928
9 Kinniard, Clark (1), undated
10 Kitchin, C. H. B. (Clifford Henry Benn) (21), July 1936 – March 1939
11 Kitching, G. C. (3), September 1936
12 Knox, Ann (1), June 1929
13 Knox, Ronald A. (10), April 1926 – January 1927
14 Kyllmann, Otto (11), October 1913 – September 1920
15 Lang, Andrew (6), July – October 1905
16 Langdon-Davies, John (1), April 1922
17 Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir (34), May 1905 – October 1921
18 Lansdowne, Henry (2), September 1922
19 Lansdowne, Kerry (52), August 1923 – November 1928
20 Laver, James (2), May 1938
21 Leavis, Q. D. (Queenie Dorothy), (3), March 1937
22 Lecky, William Edward Hartpole (1), April 1899
23 Lee, Sidney, Sir (3), November 1904 – December 1918
24 Leonard, Sterling Andrus (3), November 1920 – January 1921
25 Lewis, Alun (5), July – September 1939
26 Lewis, Wyndham (4), April – June 1921
27 Lindsay, Norman (7), 1925
28 Linklater, Eric (1), November 1938
29 Lockhart, Bruce (3), February – March 1914
30 Low, David (2), July 1938
31 Lowe, Emmo (1), undated
32 Lowell, Amy (1), August 1913
33 Lowes, John Livingston (7), July 1927 – January 1940
34 Lowndes, Marie Belloc (2), October 1939
35 Lucas, Edward V. (3), September 1905 – July 1931
36 Lucas, St. John (4), 1904
37 Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario), (10), July 1913 – January 1914
38 Lynd, Sylvia (4), March 1914 – April 1938
39 Lyons, Algernon de Courcy (20), September 1943 – January 1945
40 Macaulay, Rose (41), January 1918 – December 1938
41 MacCarthy, Desmond (7), September 1916 – July 1931
42 MacColl, D. S. (Dugald Sutherland), (6), May – December 1919
43 MacDonald, Greville (5), December 1919 – January 1922
44 MacDonnell, Archie (3), January 1921 – March 1939
45 Machen, Arthur (16), September 1940 – October 1941
46 MacIlvaine, H. C. (1), June 1911
47 MacKail, Denis (2), August 1921 – August 1932
48 Mackenzie, Compton, Sir (4), January – March 1943
49 Mackenzie, Faith Compton (118), June 1946 – July 1950
50 Mackinder, Halford John (2), May – November 1921
51 Mackworth, Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda (2), March 1936
10 1 Madariaga, Salvador de (28), January 1920 – March 1923
2 Magno, Paschoal Carlos (3), April – May 1944
3 Magriska, Hélène (1), October 1936
4 Mair, G. H. (George Herbert), (2), December 1921
5 Mais, Stuart P. (2), October – November 1919
6 Mander, Rosalie Grylls (55), June 1948 – June 1950
7 Mann, Francis O. (2), June 1919 – February 1931
8 Manners, Victoria (1), October 1905
9 Marjoribanks, Edward (2), February 1924
10 Marshall, Bruce (431), September 1944 – 1948
11 Marshall, Bruce, 1949 – 1952
12 Marshall, Bruce, 1953 – 1954
13 Marshall, Bruce, 1955 – May 1957
14 Marston, Robert B. (1), July 1918
15 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) (4), January – October 1934
16 Massey, William T. (7), June 1919 – February 1920
17 Massingham, H. J. (Harold John) (10), July 1919 – January 1922
18 Masson, Rosaline Orme (1), July 1921
19 Mathews, W. R. (5), January – March 1959
20 Maude, Aylmer (13), October 1916 – December 1919
21 Maurice, Frederick (6), March 1920 – June 1929
22 Maxse, Leopold James (9), March – September 1905
23 Maxwell, Christabel (104), September 1945 – September 1948
24 Maxwell, Henry (2), August 1938
25 Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington) (18), October 1924 – October 1937
26 Mayne, W. Erskine (2), March 1936
27 Mayne, Ethel Colburn (110), February 1923 – January 1929
28 Mayne, Ethel Colburn, February 1929 – March 1936
29 Mayor, F. M. (Flora Macdonald) (17), 1928
30 McCrone, Guy (41), August 1936 – May 1955
31 McCullagh, Francis (3), August – October 1921
32 McKay, George L. (George Leslie) (2), March 1935
33 Meade, F. (1), August 1917
34 Meston, James (3), December 1921 – February 1922
35 Metcalfe, John (3), August – October 1935
36 Metchnikoff, Olga (4), February – September 1921
37 Meyer, Kuno (1), August 1919
38 Meyerstein, Edward Harry William (7), January – May 1936
39 Meynell, Viola (2), February 1917
40 Meynell, Wilfred (2), undated
11 1 Millin, Sarah Gertrude Liebson (77), January 1924 – April 1936
2 Millot, Charles (1), November 1919
3 Milner, Alfred (3), November 1922 – March 1925
4 Mitchison, Naomi (12), January – October 1935
5 Monash, John (3), August – October 1919
6 Morgan, Charles (3), August 1932 – April 1948
7 Mortimer, John (2), July 1954
8 Mortimer, Raymond (5), February 1945
9 Moseley, Sydney A. (Sydney Alexander) (1), March 1919
10 Moss, Geoffrey (38), May 1922 – February 1936
11 Moult, Thomas (17), July 1919 – March 1923
12 Muir, Ramsay (51), May 1914 – August 1922
13 Murdoch, Walter (1), June 1921
14 Murray, Charles (11), January 1917 – June 1927
15 Murray, David L. (12), July 1923 – September 1928
16 Murray, John (1), December 1932
17 Murray, John Grey (1), February 1949
18 Murry, John Middleton (78), May 1916 – March 1956
19 Nathan, Robert (11), March 1935 – June 1936
20 Newbolt, Henry (3), November 1919 – May 1923
21 Newdigate, Bernard H. (Bernard Henry) (1), February 1922
22 Nicholls, Robert (1), undated
23 Nicoll, John (1), April 1922
24 Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), , Sir (1), January 1921
25 Nichols, Wallace (7), February – June 1920
26 Nicholson, William (2), August 1925
27 Nicolson, Harold (425), 1920 – 1922
28 Nicolson, Harold, 1923 – 1931
29 Nicolson, Harold, 1932 – 1937
30 Nicolson, Harold, 1938 – 1944
31 Nicolson, Harold, 1945 – 1960
32 Noel-Buxton, Noel Noel-Buxton, Baron (1), April 1922
33 Norris, W. E. (1), May 1911
34 Nosworthy, R. L. (1), April 1914
12 1 Ogilvie, William (41), November 1920
2 O’Leary, Con (5), December 1927 – April 1928
3 Oliver, Frederic (1), February 1920
4 Oliver, Frederick Scott (1), May 1920
5 Osgood, Irene (2), September 1919
6 Osler, Grace (3), January – March 1920
7 Osler, William (13), July 1916 – November 1919
8 O’Sullivan, Seumas (3), January – February 1938
9 O’Sullivan, Vincent (5), November 1919 – August 1938
10 Outhwaite, Leonard (2), February – May 1959
11 Overhill, Jack (8), April – May 1939
12 Packwood, S. (1), August 1917
13 Page, Walter Hines (2), September 1918
14 Page, William (3), April 1917 – February 1919
15 Paget, Stephen (26), August 1917 – October 1922
16 Palmer, John (4), March – June 1921
17 Pares, Bernard (10), August 1916 – December 1920
18 Parr, Olive Katherine (1), July 1920
19 Parrish, M. L. (2), March 1938
20 Patch, Blanche (18), December 1952 – October 1955
21 Patmore, Derek (18), November 1944 – August 1946
22 Pears, Gowin (1), January 1918
23 Pease, Howard (12), January 1918 – November 1920
24 Peel, Dorothy C. (5), May 1911 – December 1917
25 Peers, Edgar A. (7), February 1917 – October 1921
26 Pemberton, Max (1), August 1921
27 Penistan, C. (5), March – April 1945
28 Pepler, Douglas (1), July 1918
29 Petre, Maude Dominica (1), undated
30 Peyfrefitte, Roger (10), September – November 1952
31 Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) (16), September 1917 – July 1918
32 Philby, H. St. J. B. (Harry St. John Bridger) (15), August 1920 – December 1928
33 Phillimore, Walter G. F. Phillimore (Walter George Frank Phillimore), Baron (2), February 1938
34 Phillipotts, Eden (5), August – October 1917
35 Pim, Herbert Moore (2), December 1918
36 Pincombe, Henry (1), November 1919
37 Pinero, Arthur (1), September 1913
38 Pinto, Vivian de Sola (13), January 1925 – February 1926
39 Piper, John (20), August 1943 – March 1946
40 Pitt, Frances (22), December 1918 – October 1922
41 Pollard, A.F. (2), November 1905
42 Pollard, Graham (20), August 1934 – October 1938
43 Pollock, John, Sir (15), August 1917 – June 1919
44 Pope-Hennessy, James (1), May 1949
45 Poucher, William A. (4), July – November 1959
46 Pound, Ezra (1), April 1918
47 Powell, Dawn (8), March 1936 – October 1938
48 Powicke, Frederick J. (Frederick James) (1), December 1921
49 Powley, Edward B. (Edward Barzillai) (2), 1921
50 Prescott, H. F. M. (Hilda Frances Margaret) (87), January 1928 – August 1946
51 Prothero, G. W. (George Walter) (2), December 1905 – February 1919
13 1 Quennell, Peter (4), September – October 1945
2 Rackham, Arthur (15), April 1917 – June 1937
3 Ramsay, A. A. W. (Anna Augusta Whittall) (1), January 1928
4 Rawlence, Guy (7), February – July 1928
5 Redier, Antoine (1), March 1940
6 Reid, Ann (2), May – June 1928
7 Reid, Forrest (40), May 1923 – December 1939
8 Reitman, Ben (4), October 1935 – June 1942
9 Repington, Charles à Court (70), June 1917 – May 1925
10 Richmond, Bruce (2), June 1938
11 Rickard, Jessie L. (4), August – October 1923
12 Ricketts, Charles (2), undated
13 Ricketts, Percy (18), November 1922 – October 1923
14 Ridge, W. Pett (William Pett), (15), January 1926 – April 1928
15 Riding, Laura (6), November 1936 – July 1938
16 Rimington, Frank C. (1), January 1926
17 Roberts, R. Ellis (Richard Ellis) (1), undated
18 Robertson, C. Grant (15), October 1917 – July 1921
19 Robertson, John Henry (130), November 1946 – March 1951
20 Robertson, R. G. (13), May – December 1953
21 Robertson, William, Sir (10), May – September 1921
22 Rodel, Nancy (1), February 1940
23 Rogers, Stanley (3), February – January 1928
24 Rolleston, Thomas W. (1), October 1920
25 Rolt, Bernard (3), May 1928
26 Ronaldshay, Lawrence Dundas, Earl of (56), July 1922 – June 1923
27 Rose, John Holland (7), January 1906 – November 1922
28 Ross, J. MacLaren (2), May 1936
29 Ross Williamson, Hugh (13), September 1936 – June 1938
30 Rothenstein, William (9), June – October 1917
31 Round, Horace (1), November 1905
32 Royde-Smith, Naomi (33), October 1923 – July 1928
33 Rubinstein, Ronald (4), October 1939 – December 1940
34 Runyon, Damon (22), February 1936 – December 1937
35 Russell, Bertrand (2), December 1917 – February 1935
36 Rutland, Violet, Countess of (3), September – December 1917
37 Rutter, Frank (4), October 1919 – June 1928
38 Rutter, Owen (63), December 1921 – May 1928
39 Rutter, Rachel (1), April 1923
40 Sabatier, Paul (1), November 1916
41 Sackville, Margaret (1), February 1921
42 Sackville-West, Victoria (1), undated
43 Sadleir, Michael (42), May 1914 – January 1941
44 Sage, Robert (9), January – April 1940
45 St. Aubyn, Giles (8), June 1956 – September 1957
46 Saintsbury, George (16), April 1899 – May 1930
47 Salzman, L. F. (Louis Francis), (3), May – October 1921
48 Sampson, George (1), February 1921
49 Samuel, Herbert (1), October 1927
14 1 Santayana, George (248), 1919 – 1934
2 Santayana, George, 1935 – 1938
3 Santayana, George, 1939 – 1954
4 Sassoon, Sigfried (75), January 1946 – November 1948
5 Savoy Hotel (London, England) (100), November 1936 – 1950
6 Savoy Hotel , 1951 – September 1952
7 Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh) (27), September 1928 – March 1939
8 Schiff, Sidney (68), September 1923 – January 1938
9 Schiller, F. C. S. (Ferdinand Canning Scott) (4), March 1905 – December 1921
10 Schnitzler, Arthur (11), June 1929 – July 1954
11 Schuster, Arthur (8), January 1916 – February 1917
12 Scott, Geoffrey (28), April 1914 – October 1925
13 Scott-James, R. A. (Rolfe Arnold) (4), March – April 1956
14 Scott-Moncrieffe, Charles (3), October 1919 – July 1920
15 1 Seamen, Owen, Sir (16), May 1916 – January 1922
2 Seccombe, Thomas (1), December 1905
3 Sedgwick, A. (1), November 1925
4 Seliaslieb, Mary (1), October 1927
5 Seton, Ernest Thompson (6), June 1905 – June 1921
6 Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin (4), December 1904 – April 1905
7 Seton-Watson, R. W. (Robert William) (12), July 1916 – March 1917
8 Seymour, Beatrice Kean (1), September 1927
9 Shand, Alexander Innes (1), December 1905
10 Sharp, Cecil (1), February 1917
11 Sharp, Hugh (5), March – May 1937
12 Shaw, Bernard (12), July 1914 – October 1953
13 Shaw, Napier (4), November 1921 – March 1922
14 Sheppard, H. R. L. (Hugh Richard Lawrie) (3), February 1915 – February 1922
15 Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir (15), October 1916 – September 1921
16 Shively, George (1), February 1936
17 Shorter, Clement (20), October 1916 – May 1922
18 Sichel, E. (2), undated
19 Sichel, Walter (7), December 1905 – December 1927
20 Sickert, Robert O. (2), January 1906 – December 1927
21 Sidgwick, F. (1), July 1926
22 Sieveking, Lance (1), March 1927
23 Silberrard, L. (2), May 1911 – January 1928
24 Simon, Andre L. (7), November 1933 – September 1935
25 Simons, Walter (4), November 1927 – January 1938
26 Sinclair, William (1), April 1899
27 Sitwell, Sacheverell (12), October 1935 – October 1936
28 Slater, Gilbert (8), May 1928 – October 1934
29 Sleigh, Herbert (2), March 1927
30 Smith, C. Fox (1), March 1920
31 Smith, Logan Pearsall (133), September 1917 – December 1935
32 Smith, Logan Pearsall, February 1936 – June 1943
33 Smith, Pharall (2), June – July 1928
34 Smith, S. H. Nowell (1), August 1927
35 Smith, Winifred K. (2), January – February 1928
36 Smuts, J. C. (2), September 1934
37 Snaith, John C. (12), October 1905 – February 1924
38 Snowden, J. Keighley (2), September – December 1927
39 Soissons (1), November 1905
40 Southwold, Stephen (1), October 1931
41 Sparrow, John (9), June 1936 – September 1949
42 Spencer, Sarah (1), undated
43 Spiegelberg, W. (2), December 1905
44 Spring, Howard (21), November 1937 – March 1946
45 Squire, J.C. (1), undated
46 Stackpole, H. de Vere (2), June 1912
47 Steed, Henry Wickham (23), June 1912 – March 1940
48 Stein, M. A. (1), October 1905
49 Stewart, William (2), December 1956
50 Stockley, Cynthia (4), September – December 1912
51 Strachey, Lytton (3), September 1912
52 Straus, Ralph (2), February 1940
53 Sturgis, Howard O. (1), October 1905
54 Sutton, Eric (5), September 1928 – October 1935
55 Suematsu, Kencho (1), December 1905
56 Swinnerton, Frank (10), August 1912 – May 1936
57 Symonds, A. G. (Arthur G.) (1), June 1918
58 Symons, A. J. A. (Alphonse James Albert) (4), July 1922 – September 1923
59 Symons, Arthur (16), October 1905 – July 1927
60 Tallents, Stephen G. (8), December 1921 – April 1922
61 Taylor, Charles M. (1), August 1900
62 Tenison, E. M. (Eva Mabel) (1), June 1921
63 Terry, Charles Sandford (13), January 1920 – January 1921
65 Thomas, Edward (3), October 1913 – February 1914
66 Thorold, Algar L. Labouchere (1), undated
67 Thring, George Herbert (1), September 1927
16 1 Tilden-Smith, L. (25), June 1934 – October 1935
2 Tobin, Edgar (2), January 1933 – January 1934
3 Tomlinson, H. M. (2), April 1927
4 Topolski, Feliks (14), March 1939 – October 1940
5 Tower, Charles (2), November 1920
6 Toynbee, Arnold (12), March – July 1922
7 Toynbee, Paget Jackson(3), April – May 1922
8 Tracy, Don (2), January 1937
9 Treacy, A. (1), December 1920
10 Trench, Herbert (3), April 1921 – February 1922
11 Trend, J. B. (John Brande), (26), December 1920 – March 1928
12 Trevelyan, George Macaulay (27), January 1913 – November 1938
13 Trevelyan, Janet Penrose (9), November 1920 – February 1922
14 Trevelyan, R. C. (Robert Calverley) (1), March 1921
15 Trickett, Rachel (3), October – November 1957
16 Tuker, Francis Ivan Simms, Sir (2), June 1956
17 Tynan, Katharine (1), August 1921
18 Unwin, T. Fisher (Thomas Fisher) (1), April 1923
19 Van Thal, Herbert (5), July – August 1939
20 Verney, Harry (6), March – April 1956
21 Vibraye, Henri de (5), October 1941
22 Voight, Frederick (1), November 1945
23 Waddell, Helen (57), September 1916 – November 1938
24 Waley, Arthur (6), December 1918 – April 1937
25 Walker, Emery, Sir (47), April 1917 – September 1922
26 Wallas, Graham (3), June 1914 – May 1928
27 Walpole, Hugh (28), May 1924 – December 1938
28 Ward, Henry (2), May 1916
29 Ward, May A. (2), February – October 1915
30 Watson, H. M. Marriott (1), April 1921
31 Waugh, Arthur (3), October 1914 – November 1930
32 Webster, Angus Duncan (1), July 1920
33 Webster, Nesta Helen (32), May 1919 – October 1920
34 Wells, Catherine (1), August 1914
35 Wemyss, Mary C. E. (31), November 1913 – March 1919
36 Wendy, Arthur (5), January 1920 – November 1922
37 West, Rebecca (1), June 1942
38 Whibley, Charles (17), February 1904 – November 1919
39 Whitton, F. E. (1), May 1921
40 Wicksteed, Philip Henry (3), September – October 1894
41 Wiggin, Katie Douglas (1), December 1905
42 Wilkinson, Richard J. (1), June 1921
43 Wilkinson, Spenser (47), February 1894 – October 1922
44 Williams, Basil (56), March 1916 – September 1921
45 Williams, G. Valentine (1), November 1917
46 Williams, Harold (1), August 1918
47 Williams, Winifred (1), March 1936
48 Willis (1), September 1920
49 Willoughby de Broke, Marie (12), December 1923 – March 1924
50 Willoughby de Broke, Richard Greville Verney, baron (7), October 1920 – May 1921
17 1 Wilson, Carroll (3), January – March 1936
2 Wither, Ada (1), June 1917
3 Wolfe, Humbert (6), March – September 1939
4 Wolseley (1), April 1918
5 Woodham-Smith, Cecil (37), November 1942 – September 1950
6 Woodward, E. L. (3), March 1935 – January 1936
7 Woolf, L. S. (1), April 1913
8 Wright, A. E., Sir (27), January 1913 – August 1922
9 Wright, H. G. (2), April – May 1922
10 Wright, Margaret (1), undated
11 Young, Blamire (13), April – September 1922
12 Young, G. M. (4), April 1936 – January 1938
13 Zimmern, Helen (16), June 1917 – August 1918
14 Zwemmer, A. (1), November 1938
Series 2. Letters of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence
18 1 Bearsley, E. E. (7), April – June 1930
2 Browne, A. M. (10), February – November 1932
3 Buchan, John (5), February – March 1933
4 Chapman, R. W. (3), June – July 1929
5 Cook, Davidson (100), September 1927 – December 1929
6 Cook, Davidson, January 1930 – December 1932
7 Coutts Bank (1), February 1930
8 Coykendal, Frederick (6), March – October 1929
9 Cunningham, W. R. (2), March 1935
10 Curle, James (33), March 1927 – April 1937
11 Dalrymple, Hew (2), April – May 1925
12 Davidson, Randall Thomas (1), March 1929
13 Des Craz, C. G. (3), April 1929
14 Dobbie, Lady (1), October 1928
15 Douglas, David & William (5), June 1928 – September 1932
16 Drake, James (4), January – February 1929
17 Edwards, Francis (1), May 1929
18 Findlay, John, Sir (6), January – February 1929
19 Forbes-Gray, W. (10), October – November 1928
20 Freeling, Edward, Sir (3), March 1929
21 Glen, James (3), September – December 1932
22 Gordon, Glen (1), September 1932
23 Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, Sir (3), April 1932
24 Heffer, E. W. (6), August 1928 – March 1929
25 Hornell, E. A. (6), September – October 1928
26 J. A. Stargardt (Firm) (2), March 1930
27 MacDonald, Ramsay (14), February – April 1933
27 Mackenzie, Compton, Sir (3), September – October 1932
29 MacLeod, N. M. (2), March 1929
30 MacLehose (200), January 1928 – August 1931
31 MacLehose, 1932
32 MacLehose, 1933
33 MacLehose, 1934 – February 1937
19 1 Maggs, Ernest (7), March 1929 – April 1932
2 Milligan, James (16), March – June 1928
3 Morshead, O. F. (Owen Frederick), Sir (2), February 1929
4 Murray, John (11), May 1929 – September 1932
5 Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward) (1), January 1930
6 Nichols, Spencer van Bokkelen (3), January – February 1929
7 Northampton, Marquess of (5), January – December 1929
8 Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) (2), July 1932
9 Parker, W. M. (William Mathie) (104), October 1929 – November 1936
10 Phin, W. E. (2), April 1929
11 Pierce, Harold (3), March – April 1929
12 Pierpont Morgan Library (4), June – September 1930
13 Quaritch, Bernard (3), December 1929
14 Redden, Caroline (3), February – March 1929
15 Roberts, W. (1), April 1929
16 Robson & Co. (4), December 1929 – January 1930
17 Royce, Gabriel Welles (2), January – February 1929
18 Scheuer, Alwin J. (2), January – March 1929
19 Sloan, L. G. (2), November – December 1929
20 Stevenson, John (1), September 1932
21 Tregaskis, Hugh F. B. (2), March 1929
22 Walpole, Hugh (4), January 1929 – September 1932
23 Watson (2), June 1929
24 Watt, A. P. (1), February 1929
25 Wells, Gabriel (1), January 1929
26 Wood, Marguerite (60), March 1928 – March 1931
27 Young, Owen (24), November 1929 – July 1930
Series 3. Personal Correspondence
20 1 Copies of letters between Philip Henry Kerr, Marquis of Lothian, and Kurt Hahn regarding Hans Litten, September 1937 – March 1938
Series 4. Financial
2 Authors’ Royalty Statements (16), January – June 1940
Series 5. Legal
3 Legal Review of Unidentified Manuscript, circa 1938
4 “Laughing Torso” Lawsuit Correspondence, August 1932 – May 1935
5 “Laughing Torso” Lawsuit, 1932 – 1935
Court Documents and Clippings
Series 6. Letterhead Samples
6 Letterhead Samples 1901 - 1946
Series 7. Drafts and Project Files
7 Bridie, James, “What Say They?” Bound proofs, corrected, undated
8 Bridie, James, “What Say They?” Typescript of additions, undated
9 Bridie, James, “What Say They?” Carbon copy, corrected, undated
10 Kinnaird, Clark, Biography of Damon Runyon. Page proofs, corrected, undated
11 Sadleir, Michael,“How Variants Happen.” Book-Collector's Quarterly, no. 10, April – June 1933
12 Schnitzler, Arthur, “Casanova’s Homecoming.” Typescript, corrected, undated
13 Schnitzler, Arthur, “Hazards of the Dawn.” Typescript, corrected, undated
14 Schnitzler, Arthur, “Hazards of the Dawn.” Carbon copy, undated
15 Schnitzler, Arthur, “Doctor Gräsler.” Page proofs, corrected, undated
16 Schnitzler, Arthur, “Frau Berta Garlan.” Page proofs, undated
17 Project File: Letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1929 – 1931
18 Project File: Vincent van Gogh, November 1935 – May 1936
19 Project File: Vincent van Gogh, June – December 1936
20 Project File: Vincent van Gogh, January – October 1937
21 Project File: Vincent van Gogh, November 1937 – June 1938
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