Finding Aid for the H. Rider Haggard Book Collection LSC.1608
Finding aid prepared by Jasmine Larkin, 2021
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2021 February 2.
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: H. Rider Haggard book collection
Creator:
Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1608
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(17 cartons and 2 oversize boxes)
Date: undated
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source and date of receipt unknown.
Henry Rider Haggard was born June 22, 1856 in Bradenham, Norfolk, England; attended Lincoln's Inn, 1881-85; called to the
bar, 1885; secretary to Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bulwer in Natal, South Africa, 1875-77; Master and Registrar of High Court
of Transvaal, 1877-79; returned to England in 1879 and began managing wife's estate in Norfolk in 1880; researched agricultural
conditions and rural populations in England, 1901-2; chair of the committee, Society of Authors, 1896-98; wrote many novels,
including Dawn (1884), King Solomon's Mines (1885), Allan Quatermain (1887), She : a history of adventure (1886), and Belshazzar
(1930); died in London, 1925.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
1470703
[Identification of item], H. Rider Haggard book collection (Collection 1608). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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