Guide to the Elizabeth Robins Papers MSS.002

Fales Library and Special Collections

Collection processed by Janet Evander.

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on January 21, 2022
Description is in English.

Container List

Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Series V: Florence Bell Scope and Contents note Series V contains materials relating to Florence Eveleen Eleanor (Olliffe) Bell (1851 - 1930), a playwright and author, who met Elizabeth Robins around 1891 while Robins was active in the British theater. Bell and Robins formed a close friendship which remained strong and constant until Bell's death in 1930. In her will, Florence Bell stipulated that all of Elizabeth Robins's letters should be returned to her. The letters sent by Robins to Bell comprise the majority of this series and are personal in nature. The correspondence concerns domestic problems; news of friends; the illnesses which Robins suffered throughout her life; her travels in Europe and North America, including her journey to Alaska in 1900 which inspired the novel The Magnetic North (1904), and her frequent visits to her brother Raymond at his home, Chinsegut, in Florida; family members; Robins's relationships with David Scott, Octavia Wilberforce and Marjorie Hubert, all of whom lived at her Sussex County home, Backsettown. The personal quality of this correspondence offers a special insight into Robins's development throughout her middle years. Noticeably absent from the correspondence is commentary on Robins's involvement in the suffrage movement.
Subseries A: Elizabeth Robins to Florence Bell, 1892-1930
Box: 99	Folder : 1	1891-1892	1891 -1892
Box: 99	Folder : 2	1893	1893
Box: 99	Folder : 3	1894	1894
Box: 99	Folder : 4	1895	1895
Box: 99	Folder : 5	1896	1896
Box: 99	Folder : 6	1897	1897
Box: 99	Folder : 7	1898	1898
Box: 100	Folder : 8	1899	1899
Box: 100	Folder : 9	1900	1900
Box: 100	Folder : 10	1901	1901
Box: 100	Folder : 11	1902	1902
Box: 100	Folder : 12	1903	1903
Box: 100	Folder : 13	1904	1904
Box: 100	Folder : 14	1905	1905
Box: 100	Folder : 15	1906	1906
Box: 101	Folder : 16	1907	1907
Box: 101	Folder : 17	1908	1908
Box: 101	Folder : 18	1909	1909
Box: 101	Folder : 19	1910	1910
Box: 101	Folder : 20	1911	1911
Box: 102	Folder : 21	1912	1912
Box: 102	Folder : 22	1913	1913
Box: 102	Folder : 23	1914	1914
Box: 102	Folder : 24	1915	1915
Box: 102	Folder : 25	1916	1916
Box: 102	Folder : 26	1917	1917
Box: 102	Folder : 27	1918	1918
Box: 103	Folder : 28	1919	1919
Box: 103	Folder : 29	1920	1920
Box: 103	Folder : 30	1921	1921
Box: 103	Folder : 31	1922	1922
Box: 103	Folder : 32	1923	1923
Box: 103	Folder : 33	1924	1924
Box: 103	Folder : 34	1925	1925
Box: 104	Folder : 35	1926	1926
Box: 104	Folder : 36	1927	1927
Box: 104	Folder : 37	1928	1928
Box: 104	Folder : 38	1929	1929
Box: 104	Folder : 39	1930	1930
Box: 104	Folder : 40	Postcards: 1891-1929, n.d.	1891 -1929
Box: 105	Folder : 41	n.d.	n.d.
Box: 105	Folder : 42	n.d.	n.d.
Box: 105	Folder : 43	n.d.	n.d.
Box: 105	Folder : 44	n.d.	n.d.
Box: 105	Folder : 45	n.d.	n.d.
Subseries B: Florence Bell to Elizabeth Robins, 1891-1930
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 106	Folder : 1	1891-1899	1891 -1899
Box: 106	Folder : 2	1900-1904	1900 -1904
Box: 106	Folder : 3	1905	1905
Box: 106	Folder : 4	1906-1907	1906 -1907
Box: 106	Folder : 5	1908-1909	1908 -1908
Box: 106	Folder : 6	1910-1911	1910
Box: 106	Folder : 7	1912	1912
Box: 106	Folder : 8	1913	1913
Box: 106	Folder : 9	1914	1914
Box: 106	Folder : 10	1915	1915
Box: 106	Folder : 11	1916	1916
Box: 106	Folder : 12	1917	1917
Box: 106	Folder : 13	1918	1918
Box: 106	Folder : 14	1919	1919
Box: 107	Folder : 15	1920	1920
Box: 107	Folder : 16	1921	1921
Box: 107	Folder : 17	1922	1922
Box: 107	Folder : 18	1923	1923
Box: 107	Folder : 19	1924	1924
Box: 107	Folder : 20	1925	1925
Box: 107	Folder : 21	1926	1926
Box: 107	Folder : 22	1927	1927
Box: 108	Folder : 23	1928	1928
Box: 108	Folder : 24	1929	1929
Box: 108	Folder : 25	1930	1930
Box: 108	Folder : 26	n.d.	n.d.
Box: 108	Folder : 27	Postcards: 1893, 1902-1923	1893 -1923
Box: 108	Folder : 28	Postcards: 1924-1930, n.d.	1924 -1930
Subseries C: General Correspondence, 1891-1929 Scope and Contents note Subseries C includes Florence Bell's correspondence with others, including her husband and children. Many of these letters are from mutual friends of she and Elizabeth Robins, and their correspondence can also be found in Series Two: General Correspondence. Most notable are the letters from 1900 when Bell relayed messages from Robins's Seattle sickbed to her various English acquaintances.
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 109	Folder : 1	Florence Bell to Various People 1891,1900, n.d.	1891 -1900
Box: 109	Folder : 2	Various People to Florence Bell 1891-1929, n.d.	1891 -1929
Box: 109	Folder : 3	Bell, Elsa 1892-1919, n.d.	1892 -1919
Box: 109	Folder : 4	Bell, Gertrude 1894, n.d.	1894
Box: 109	Folder : 5	Bell, Sir Hugh 1892-1911	1892 -1911
Box: 109	Folder : 6	Bell: Hugo, Frances 1903,1926,1928	1903 -1928
Box: 109	Folder : 7	Bell, Molly 1893,1920-1929	1893 -1929
Box: 109	Folder : 8	Dower: Pauline (Trevelyan), John 1928-1929	1928 -1929
Box: 109	Folder : 9	James, Henry 1891, 1914	1891 -1914
Box: 109	Folder : 10	Johnson, Phyllis M. 1929	1929
Box: 109	Folder : 11	Olliffe, Laura 1892, n.d. General note F.B.'s E father.	1892
Box: 109	Folder : 12	Wilberforce, Octavia 1918-1928 Scope and Content See also Series VI: Octavia Wilberforce.	1918 -1928
Subseries D: Literary Productions Scope and Content note Subseries D contains some of Bell's works (which run the gamut from children's books to novels), including a complete four-act play and a preliminary sketch for a collaborative dramatization with Robins of Rossetti's ballad, "Sister Helen."
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 110	Folder : 1	The Dean of St. Patrick's, or Vanessa, Act I (1895)	1895
Box: 110	Folder : 2	The Dean of St. Patrick's, or Vanessa, Act II (1895)	1895
Box: 110	Folder : 3	The Dean of St. Patrick's, or Vanessa, Act III (1895)	1895
Box: 110	Folder : 4	The Dean of St. Patrick's, or Vanessa, Act IV (1895)	1895
Box: 110	Folder : 5	Marysienka, Act I
Box: 110	Folder : 6	A Rounton Alphabet 1924	1924
Box: 110	Folder : 7	Sister Helen (ideas for a dramatization) 1896	1896
Box: 110	Folder : 8	Stella, Acts I, II, and III
Subseries E: Printed Materials
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 110	Folder : 1	Printed Materials 1895-1930 Scope and Content See also Series V Box 111, Folder 3.	1895 -1930
Box: 110	Folder : 2	Nora is Four 1927	1927
Box: 110	Folder : 3	Nora is Five 1928 General note Illustrated by Pauline Trevelyan.	1928
Box: 110	Folder : 4	Nora is Seven 1930	1930
Legal Size Material
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 111	Folder : 1	Elizabeth Robins to Florence Bell 9 September 1920	1920
Box: 111	Folder : 2	A Pageant of Mount Grace n.d.	n.d.
Box: 111	Folder : 3	Printed Material 1895-1920	1895 -1920
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Container List

Series V: Florence Bell

Scope and Contents note

Subseries A: Elizabeth Robins to Florence Bell, 1892-1930

Subseries B: Florence Bell to Elizabeth Robins, 1891-1930

Subseries C: General Correspondence, 1891-1929

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Subseries D: Literary Productions

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Subseries E: Printed Materials

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