Box MS.2023.046 Box 1
Contains 69 Results:
George Egerton, letter to unknown correspondent
Letter fragment containing only the last page of a letter to an unknown person. The existing text reads: "Please accept this explanation as it is meant in all frankness. Mrs Murray [?] did not recognise you. Sends her best wishes. Always in all cordiality, Yours, 'George Egerton.'"
This page is pasted on a piece of heavy card, with another unknown manuscript fragment (by an unknown person) on the verso.
Ella S. Armitage, letter to "Dear Sir", 1900 Sept 2
Letter to an unknown American colleague. This letter accompanied a copy of her hymn published in Garrett Horder's Hymns Supplementary to Existing Collections, and also mentions her visit to America in 1899. Armitage also mentions having suffered from an eye disorder the previous winter, which has significantly delayed her response to this correspondent.
George Egerton to Unknown correspondent
Letter fragment containing only the last page of a letter to an unknown person. The existing text reads: "Please accept this explanation as it is meant in all frankness. Mrs Murray [?] did not recognise you. Sends her best wishes. Always in all cordiality, Yours, 'George Egerton.'"
This page is pasted on a piece of heavy card, with another unknown manuscript fragment (by an unknown person) on the verso.
George Egerton, letter to Charles E. Funk (The Literary Digest), 1934 October 11
Typed letter from Charles E. Funk of the Literary Digest writing to ask Egerton how to correctly pronounce her name, for their regular feature "What's the Name, Please?" Egerton's response is handwritten at the bottom of the original letter and is signed "M.C.E. Bright, 'George Egerton.'" Funk (or another editor) has written copy for the printed column in pencil on the left margin of the letter.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, cabinet photograph in character as Paula from Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, about 1893
Primarily consists of photographic material, but includes some letters.
Gertrude Atherton, Letters to "Mr. Paton" and newspaper printing of portrait of Atherto, about 1899-1900?
2 letters to Mr. Paton, of publishers Service and Paton. One letter about her recent book A Daughter of the Vine, the other about pending travel. Also includes a newspaper printing of a drawing of Atherton by Dorothy Donnelly, signed in ink by Atherton on top of the printed version of her signature.
Marie Bashkirtseff, carte-de-visite photograph as a young woman, 1870s?
Roughly contemporary inscription on verso in Russian.
Annie Besant, carte-de-visite photograph as a young woman, 1870s?
Photograph by Ray D. Chapman, 153 Eighth Avenue, New York. With a later label on verso of E. C. Walker, “Dealer in Freethought Books, Photographs, etc., etc., etc.”, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Matilda Betham-Edwards, Letters related to her novel Pearla, about 1882-1883?
1 letter to "Mr. Isbister," her publisher dated 11 November 1882. 1 letter to "Dear Sir" dated 12 November 1883.
Mathilde Blind, carte-de-visite, 1870s?
Ownership stamp of Henry Y. Porter on verso. This photograph was used as the frontispiece for A Selection from the Poems of Mathilde Blind (T. Fisher Unwin, 1897).