Galleys of Author hunting by Grant Richards with annotations by Beerbohm, 1934

Item — Volume: MS.1969.005 vol. 2

Identifier: Series 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

This subseries includes manuscripts of speeches, plays, poems, and other literary works created by Oscar Wilde and his coterie. Many are in the author's hand. Virtually all of the titles given to the works have been supplied by later catalogers and scholars. They are arranged alphabetically by author or originator, and then by title. Further arrangement is by date.

Dates

Creation: 1934

Creator

From the Collection: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Organization)

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 38.36 Linear Feet (90 boxes plus bound volumes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General Physical Description note

Galley proofs of chapters 1-17 of Author Hunting by Grant Richards, sent by Richards to Max Beerbohm for his comments. There are many annotations throughout the text in Beerbohm's hand, many of them offering his own strong opinions or anectdotes about the individuals described in Richards' text. The galleys have been cut into shorter lengths and pasted down into the bound volume. Laid in: typed carbon copies of letters from Majl Ewing to Rupert Hart-Davis and the estate of Max Beerbohm regarding reproducing these annotations in a privately circulated book for the Friends of the UCLA Library and the Zamorano Club, plus typed carbons of original bookseller description of this item, with 1969 notes by Clark Library staff.