Fred Benjamin Millett (1890-1976), professor of English and Head of the Honors College at Wesleyan University. and Purchased on the George B. Alvord Fund, Library Associates Fund, William Robertson Coe American Studies Fund, and Francis O. Matthiesen Fund, 1960.
Dorothy Stanley letters to Constant Coquelin, 1886-1938
Container / Volume:
Folder [5]
Image Count:
91
Abstract:
99 letters from Lady Dorothy Tennant Stanley to the actor, Constant Coquelin, discussing affairs of the Comedie-Francaise, political events, including colonial engagements in Africa, particularly those with which her husband, the explorer Henry Morton Sta
Description:
Month and/or day provided by the author
Subject (Name):
Coquelin, Constant, 1841-1909, Stanley, Dorothy, Lady, d. 1926, and Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Manuscript, in several hands, containing two letters written by Elizabeth Montagu. The first letter, signed by Montagu and addressed "To Doctor Monsey," admonishes the recipient's attachment to "Miss B," warning him, "Do not sadden your retirement & embitter your life by hopeless love." She describes the recent marriage of her elderly brewer to "a jolly lass of 25," urges him to visit, and asks him in a postcript to get her a "bottle of eye water." The second letter, written in another hand and addressed to "The Revd. Dr. Percy," apologizes for Mrs. Montagu's illness and subsequent absence "when he did her the favour to call," and requests him to call again and "bring certain manuscripts in his pocket." The volume also includes an engraving of Elizabeth Montagu.
Description:
Binding: cloth covered boards; blue morocco spine. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
Subject (Name):
Montagu,--Mrs.--(Elizabeth),--1720-1800. and Percy, Thomas,--1729-1811.
Correspondence of C. A. Dawson Scott and her daughter Marjorie Watts. The bulk of the letters from Dawson Scott to her daughter date from 1920 to 1921. The lengthy letters, written in diary form, contain details of Dawson Scott's divorce, her writing, the Tomorrow Club, the founding of the P.E.N Club, and news and discussion of her literary associates. Later letters to her sister Nellie (Ellen Maude Dawson) include mention of the Survival League. There are letters to Dawson Scott from Karel Capek, E. M. Delafield, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair, and Rebecca West. Manuscript copies of two poems, "The Forest Road" and "The Pedlar" by Charlotte Mew, presumably were enclosed with letters from Mew. Letters to Marjorie Watts, many of them concerning her 1971 book about her mother and the early years of PEN, are written by E. M. Delafield, Storm Jameson, Francis King, Robert Neumann, and Rebecca West.
Correspondence of C. A. Dawson Scott and her daughter Marjorie Watts. The bulk of the letters from Dawson Scott to her daughter date from 1920 to 1921. The lengthy letters, written in diary form, contain details of Dawson Scott's divorce, her writing, the Tomorrow Club, the founding of the P.E.N Club, and news and discussion of her literary associates. Later letters to her sister Nellie (Ellen Maude Dawson) include mention of the Survival League. There are letters to Dawson Scott from Karel Capek, E. M. Delafield, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair, and Rebecca West. Manuscript copies of two poems, "The Forest Road" and "The Pedlar" by Charlotte Mew, presumably were enclosed with letters from Mew. Letters to Marjorie Watts, many of them concerning her 1971 book about her mother and the early years of PEN, are written by E. M. Delafield, Storm Jameson, Francis King, Robert Neumann, and Rebecca West.
Correspondence of C. A. Dawson Scott and her daughter Marjorie Watts. The bulk of the letters from Dawson Scott to her daughter date from 1920 to 1921. The lengthy letters, written in diary form, contain details of Dawson Scott's divorce, her writing, the Tomorrow Club, the founding of the P.E.N Club, and news and discussion of her literary associates. Later letters to her sister Nellie (Ellen Maude Dawson) include mention of the Survival League. There are letters to Dawson Scott from Karel Capek, E. M. Delafield, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair, and Rebecca West. Manuscript copies of two poems, "The Forest Road" and "The Pedlar" by Charlotte Mew, presumably were enclosed with letters from Mew. Letters to Marjorie Watts, many of them concerning her 1971 book about her mother and the early years of PEN, are written by E. M. Delafield, Storm Jameson, Francis King, Robert Neumann, and Rebecca West.