Mary Elizabeth Phillips papers relating to James Fenimore Cooper
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
27
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Papers consist of a draft, typescript, corrected, and other materials relating to Phillips's work on James Fenimore Cooper. Other materials include a bibliography of works relating to Cooper held by Rudolf Drescher, a memorandum of agreement between Phillips and the publisher John Lane Company, correspondence, page proofs, and printed ephemera. Correspondence includes letters from John Lane Company, Dodd, Mead & Company, The University Press, and other publishers.
Description:
Gift of Mary M. Bean, 2010., James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), American novelist., and Mary Elizabeth Phillips (1957-1945), biographer.
Subject (Name):
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 and John Lane Company
Subject (Topic):
American literature--19th century, Authors and publishers--United States, Authors, American--19th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Publishers and publishing--United States
Collection consists of correspondence, writings and other material by and about H. G. Wells. Box 1 contains autograph and typescript letters, signed, from Wells to friends, editors, and others including the writers Grant Allen, Philip Guedalla, Upton Sinclair, and William Wallace Whitelock; the literary agent William Morris Colles; the editors Robert Underwood Johnson and Perriton Maxwell; and the publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin. Autograph letters, signed, from Wells's wife, Catherine Wells, include those written on her husband's behalf to Perriton Maxwell and Maurice Browne, and to Philip and Nellie Guedalla. Box 2 contains autograph and typescript manuscripts, many signed, with additions and corrections by H. G. Wells including an introduction to his novel, Boon, the Mind of the Race, the Wild Asses of the Devil and the Last Trump (circa 1915); an essay, "The Human Adventure" (1926); a proof of Wells's review of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1917); a novel, The Research Magnificent (circa 1915); an introduction to the reprint of the article, "The Star" (undated); an article, "Stephen Crane, from an English Standpoint" (circa 1900); an essay, "The United States of America and the United States of the World" (undated); and an untitled story, with illustrations by Wells, written for his son, Anthony West (circa 1915). Also included in Box 2 are materials relating to Ruford Franklin's collection of H. G. Wells books and manuscripts, including Franklin's correspondence with book and manuscript dealers (1899-1934) and his autograph manuscript notes on Wells's writings.
Description:
Acquired by gift and purchase, 1945-1983. For more information consult the appropriate curator. and H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer, journalist, and historian.