Print Guide to the Fales Manuscript Collection
ca. 1700-2000
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Descriptive Summary
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Creator: |
Fales, DeCoursey, 1888-1966.
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Title: |
Fales Manuscript Collection
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Dates: |
ca. 1700-2000 |
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Abstract: |
The Fales Manuscript collection is made up of some 50,000 items and was assembled by DeCoursey Fales from 1908-1966 and donated
to NYU. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, realia, ephemera, and other materials
primarily about English and American authors from 1700 to the present. There are special strenths in the Victorian, Edwardian,
English 1890s, and Transition Period writers.
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Quantity: |
118 linear feet |
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Call Phrase: |
MSS 1 |
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Biographical Note
De Coursey Fales (1888-1966) was a lawyer, banker, collector, bibliophile and yachtsman. In the last years of his life, Fales
devoted himself full-time to collecting. Fales' collecting started with Walter Scott materials, and around that core, his
collection grew to around 50,000 items pertaining to various authors spanning the 18th and 20th centuries. He began donating
parts of that collection to New York University in 1957, and portions of his collection were also donated to the New York
Public Library, Manhattan College, and the Morgan Library (of which he was a life fellow).
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Scope and Content Note
The Fales Manuscripts Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, realia, ephemera, and other
materials primarily about English and American authors from 1700 to the present. The collection is especially strong in materials
by Charles Washington Baird, Max Beerbohm, Hilaire Belloc, Arnold Bennett, E. F. Benson, Walter Besant, Paul Blackburn, George
Borrow, Cyrus Townsend Brady, John Burroughs, Erskine Caldwell, Hall Caine, Tom Clark, Wilkie Collins, Marie Corelli, Pearl
Marie Teresa Craigie, George Cruikshank, Esmond Samuel De Beer, Walter De la Mare, Louis Ferdinand Destouches (aka Ce´line),
Charles Dickens, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), George Dowden, Lord Dunsany, Jeffery Farnol, Ronald Firbank,
John Galsworthy, Robert Gessner, Allen Ginsberg, Edmund Gosse, Joe Gould, Samuel Greenberg, Christine M. Demain Hammond, Thomas
Hardy, Frank Harris, Holbrook Jackson, Sir William Jones, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Andrew Lang, Richard Le Gallienne, Harry
Lewis, E. V. Lucas, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Arthur Machen, John Masefield, Alice Meynell, A. A. Milne, Mrs. Mary Louisa Molesworth,
George Moore, Howard Moss, Jeff Nuttall, Eugene O'Neill, Amelia Opie, Baroness Emmunska Orczy, Sean O'Casey, Max Pemberton,
Eden Phillpotts, Arthur Pinero, The Provincetown Players, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sir Walter Scott, Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Smith and Austen-Leigh Papers, Bram Stoker, William Makepeace Thackeray, Francis Thompson, Giuseppe Verdi, Sir Hugh Walpole,
H. G. Wells, Octavia Wilberforce, Oscar Wilde, Thornton Wilder, and Charlotte Yonge. There are special strengths in the Victorian,
Edwardian, English 1890s, and Transition Period writers.
SERIES DESCRIPTION: The Fales Manuscripts are in one long series, sometimes entire collections are included within this collection
(see for example the Tom Clark Papers, the Frank Harris Papers, the Provincetown Players Archive. There are legal size, flat,
and bound volumes as well as the standard letter box portions of the collection.
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Related Material at the Fales Library and Special Collections
See the avant–garde collections such as Angel Hair, Second Aeon, El Cornu Emplamado, C: Comics; the Alfred Berol Collection
for Lewis Carroll materials; the Portrait and Theater files for illustrative materials; The Sterling Lord Papers for Beat
writers.
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Separated Material
There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically
separated or removed.
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Restrictions
Access Restrictions
Open for research without restrictions. Appointments are necessary to consult manuscript and archival materials.
Use Restrictions
Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director
of Fales Library and Special Collections. For more information, contact:
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012Phone: (212) 998-2596
Fax: (212) 995-3835
Email: fales.library@nyu.edu
URL: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/cdfa.htm
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Access Points
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Subject Names: |
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Baird, Charles Washington, 1828-1887 |
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Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 |
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Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 |
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Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931 |
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Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940 |
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Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901 |
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Blackburn, Paul |
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Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881 |
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Brady, Cyrus Townsend, 1861-1920 |
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Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 |
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Caine, Hall, Sir, 1853-1931 |
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Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 |
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Clark, Tom, 1941- |
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Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 |
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Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924 |
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Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa Richards, 1867-1906 |
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Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 |
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De Beer, Esmond Samuel, 1895-1990 |
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De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956 |
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Destouches, Louis Ferdinand / Ce´line, Louis-Ferdinand, 1894-1961 |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 |
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Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898 (aka Lewis Carroll) |
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Dowden, George |
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Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, 1878-1957 |
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Farnol, Jeffery, 1878-1952 |
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Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926 |
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Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933 |
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Gessner, Robert, 1907-1968 |
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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 |
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Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 |
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Gould, Joe, 1889-1957 |
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Greenberg, Samuel, 1893-1917 |
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Hammond, Christine M. Demain, fl. 1886-1910 |
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 |
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Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 |
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Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948 |
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L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), 1802-1838 |
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Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 |
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Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947 |
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Lewis, Harry |
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Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938 |
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Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873 |
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Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947 |
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Masefield, John, 1878-1967 |
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Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 |
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Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956 |
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Molesworth, Mrs., 1839-1921 |
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Moore, George, 1852-1933 |
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Moss, Howard, 1922-1987 |
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Nuttall, Jeff |
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O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964 |
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O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 |
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Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853 |
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Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947 |
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Pemberton, Max, Sir, 1863-1950 |
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Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960 |
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Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir, 1855-1934 |
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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 |
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Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832 |
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991 |
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Smith and Austen-Leigh Papers |
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Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 |
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Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 |
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Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907 |
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Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 |
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Walpole, Hugh, Sir, 1884-1941 |
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Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 |
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Wilberforce, Octavia, 1888-1963 |
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 |
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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 |
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Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901 |
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Subject Organizations: |
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Provincetown Players. |
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Subject Topics: |
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American Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism. |
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American fiction. |
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American literature -- 19th century. |
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American literature -- 20th century. |
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence. |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence. |
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Authors, American -- Correspondence. |
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Authors, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence. |
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Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence. |
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence. |
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Authors, English -- Correspondence. |
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English fiction. |
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English literature -- 18th century. |
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English literature -- 19th century. |
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English literature -- 20th century. |
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Theater -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown -- History -- 20th century. |
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Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century. |
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Correspondence. |
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Drawings. |
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Ephemera. |
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Galley proofs. |
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Manuscripts for publication. |
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Photographs. |
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Scrapbooks. |
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Administrative Information
Provenance
The Fales Manuscripts Collection was begun by DeCoursey Fales sometime after he began collecting books in 1908-09. By 1957
when Fales donated the collection to NYU, it had grown to over 15,000 items. He continued to build the collection until his
death in 1966, by which time it is believed that the collection housed some 50,000 items. Unfortunately, subsequent curators
did not treat the Fales Manuscript Collection as a separate collection with a distinct provenance. Instead, they added new
acquisitions into the collection, sometimes incorporating whole small archives, such as the Provincetown Players Archive,
the Tom Clark Papers, the Frank Harris Papers, the Smith and Austen-Leigh Papers, and many others. The collection was processed
in varying ways over the years. At some early point manuscripts style processing at the item level was done for letters A-C—the
collection is organized alphabetically by author. This processing was very incomplete, though cards still exist for the initial
portions of the collection. At some later date, the collection was foldered with several authors in each folder, making it
difficult to use the papers and to maintain control over the holdings. The current processing was undertaken to refolder the
collection, account for all materials currently held, and create a finding aid that would adequately reflect the collection
as it stands today. In addition, we have preserved the original box numbering so that past citations to the box numbers are
still identifiable. As much as possible where distinct collections have been identified within the Fales Manuscripts Collection,
separate finding aids have been created for those portions of the collection. These collections are still filed within the
Fales Manuscripts Collection, retaining their box and folder numbers as originally assigned.
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); The Fales Manuscript Collection; MSS 1; [box number]; [folder number], Fales Library
and Special Collections, New York University.
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Container List
[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]
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Unidentified |
undated |
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Unidentified : Re Abraham Lincoln |
undated |
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3a |
Abbott : Austin |
undated |
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3b |
Abbott, Eleanor H. |
undated |
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3c |
Abbott, Jacob |
undated |
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3d |
Abbott, Lyman |
undated |
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4a |
A´Beckett, Gilbert Arthur, 1837-1891 |
undated |
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4b |
Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of, 1784-1860 |
undated |
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4c |
Aberdein, Jennie Watson |
undated |
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4d |
Abersonley, Almy F. |
undated |
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Acton, Harold |
undated |
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6a |
Adams, Charles Follen |
undated |
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6b |
Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886) |
undated |
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6c |
Adams, Frederick Baldwin |
undated |
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6d |
Adams, George Matthew |
undated |
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Adams, Henry |
undated |
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Adams, John Quincy |
undated |
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6e |
Adams, William Taylor |
undated |
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7a |
Adcock, Arthur St. John |
undated |
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7b |
Adderley, James Granville |
undated |
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7c |
Addington, John Gellibrand Hubbard, 1st Baron |
undated |
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7d |
Ade, George |
undated |
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Folder |
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Date |
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[AE : see Russell, George William, Box 150] |
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7e |
Ainslie, Robert |
undated |
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8a |
Ainsworth, W. H. |
undated |
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8b |
Ainsworth, W. H. |
undated |
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Airy, George Biddell, Sir |
undated |
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10a |
Alcott, Abigail May (Mrs. Bronson) |
undated |
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10b |
Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888) [see also Henry Barnard papers] |
undated |
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10c |
Alcott, Louisa Mae (1832-1888) |
undated |
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10d |
[Alcott, Louisa Mae] Houghton, K. : To Heaven in a Swing [Play based on Alcott.] |
undated |
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11a |
Alden, Henry Mills (1836-1919) |
undated |
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11b |
Alden, Isabella (Macdonald) (1841-1930) |
undated |
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12a |
Aldington, Richard (1892-1962) : Correspondence |
1915-28 |
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12b |
Aldington, Richard (1892-1962) : Correspondence to Aldington |
undated |
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
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12c |
Aldington, Richard (1892-1962) : MS. A Tourists Rome [autographed proof] |
undated |
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12d |
Aldington, Richard (1892-1962) : MS. W. B. Yeats |
undated |
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12e |
Aldington, Richard (1892-1962) : Contracts: Four Seasons Co. |
undated |
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13a |
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907) |
undated |
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13b |
Aldridge, John W.; Alexander, George, Sir (1858-1918) |
undated |
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14a |
Alexander, George, Sir (1858-1918) |
undated |
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14b |
Alexander, John W. |
undated |
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14c |
Alexander, William Lindsay (1808-1884) |
undated |
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15 |
Alford, Henry (1810-1871) |
undated |
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Alger, William Rounseville (1822-1905) |
undated |
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Algren, Nelson (1909- ) |
undated |
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Alison, Archibald, Sir, bart. (1792-1867) |
undated |
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18b |
Allen, Elizabeth Ann (Chase) Akers, Mrs. (1832-1911) |
undated |
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Allen, Grant [see also Oversize MS.] |
undated |
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Allen, Hervey (1889-1949) |
undated |
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20b |
Allen, J. A. |
undated |
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20c |
Allen, James Lane (1849-1925) |
undated |
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21a |
Allibone, Samuel Austen (1816-1889) |
undated |
| 1.1
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21b |
Allingham, Helen (Paterson) |
undated |
| 1.1
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21c |
Allingham, William (1824-1889) |
undated |
| 1.1
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Allred, James V. |
undated |
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22b |
Allston, Washington (1779-1843) |
undated |
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Folder |
Title |
Date |
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Alma-Tadema, Lawrence, Sir |
undated |
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2a |
Almgren, A. J. |
undated |
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2b |
Alston, Theodosia (Burr), Mrs. (1783-1813) |
undated |
| 2
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2c |
Alvanley, William Arden (1789-1849) |
undated |
| 2
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2d |
Amis, Kingsley |
undated |
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Anderson, Margaret (Hecht, Ben to Anderson)
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[1959?], 1966-1967 |
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Anderson, Sherwood : Dunsany, E. J. M. D. P.: the book shelf scrapbook [see also Legal Size] |
undated |
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5a |
Andre´, Marius |
undated |
| 2
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5b |
Andrews, Mary Raymond (Shipman) |
undated |
| 2
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5c |
Angell, Norman, Sir |
undated |
| 2
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6 |
Anonymous Mat : (Wallenstein) |
undated |
| 2
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7 |
Anster, John (1793-1867) |
undated |
| 2
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8 |
Anthony, Susan B. |
undated |
| 2
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9a |
Apperley, Charles James |
undated |
| 2
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9b |
Arago, Etienne Vincent |
undated |
| 2
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9c |
Archer, William |
undated |
| 2
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9d |
Argyle, Elizabeth |
undated |
| 2
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10 |
Arlen, Michael (1895- ) |
undated |
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Armstrong, Martin |
undated</ | |
