Finding Aid for the Letters to William Morris Colles, 1890-1926 LSC.2007

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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Letters to William Morris Colles
Creator: Colles, William Morris
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2007
Physical Description: 2 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1890-1926
Abstract: William Morris Colles (1855-1926) was a prominent literary agent in London, and a author. The collection consists of letters from various authors to Colles and his associates. Correspondents include Sir James Barrie, Arnold Bennett, E.F. Benson, Ford Madox Ford, Rider Haggard, and Somerset Maugham.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Winifred A. Myers, purchase, 1972.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Letters to William Morris Colles (Collection 2007). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 999644843606533 

Biography

Colles was born in 1855; he became a prominent literary agent in London; his published works include Literature and the pension list (1889) and Playright and copyright in all countries, showing how to protect a play or a book throughout the world (with Harold Hardy, 1906); he died in 1926.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of letters from various authors to literary agent William Morris Colles and his associates. Correspondents include Sir James Barrie, Arnold Bennett, E.F. Benson, Ford Madox Ford, Rider Haggard, and Somerset Maugham.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:
  • A - B (Box 1).
  • C - G (Box 2).
  • H - O (Box 3).
  • P - Z (Box 4).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Literary agents -- England -- London -- Correspondence.
Colles, William Morris, 1855-1926--Archives.

 

A - B

box 1

A. Beckett, Arthur William, 1844-1909.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 1

Allingham, Helen (Paterson), 1848-1926.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 1

Archer, William, 1856-1924.

General Physical Description note: (4 items)
box 1

Arnold, Sir Edwin, 1832-1904.

General Physical Description note: (38 items)
box 1

Baring-Gould, Sabine, 1834-1924.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 1

Barnett, Edith A.

General Physical Description note: (20 items)
box 1

Barr, Robert, 1850-1912.

General Physical Description note: (12 items)
box 1

Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart., 1860-1937.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 1

Bayly, Ada Ellen, 1857-1903.

General Physical Description note: (8 items)
box 1

Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931.

General Physical Description note: (4 items)
box 1, folder 1-18

Benson, Edward Frederic, 1867-1940

box 1, folder 1

1897.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 1, folder 2

1899.

General Physical Description note: (20 items)
box 1, folder 3

1900.

General Physical Description note: (8 items)
box 1, folder 4

1901.

General Physical Description note: (31 items)
box 1, folder 5

1904.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 1, folder 6

1905.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 1, folder 7

1907.

General Physical Description note: (6 items)
box 1, folder 8

1908.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 1, folder 9

1909.

General Physical Description note: (27 items)
box 1, folder 10

1910.

General Physical Description note: (21 items)
box 1, folder 11

1911.

General Physical Description note: (31 items)
box 1, folder 12

1912.

General Physical Description note: (4 items)
box 1, folder 13

1913.

General Physical Description note: (3 items)
box 1, folder 14

1914.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 1, folder 15

1915.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 1, folder 16

1916.

General Physical Description note: (11 items)
box 1, folder 17

1919.

General Physical Description note: (6 items)
box 1, folder 18

1921.

General Physical Description note: (8 items)
box 1

Besant, Walter, 1836-1901.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 1

Birkerstaffe, Francis Browning Drew, count, 1853-1928.

General Physical Description note: (15 items)
box 1

Black, William, 1841-1893.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 1

Blackwood, William, 1836-1912.

General Physical Description note: (12 items)
box 1

Bland, Edith (Nesbit), 1858-1924.

General Physical Description note: (3 items)
box 1

Blatchford, Robert, 1851-1943.

General Physical Description note: (5 item)
box 1

Burgin, George Brown, 1856-1944.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
 

C - G

box 2

Caine, William Ralph Hall, 1865-1939.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Cannan, Gilbert, b.1884.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Canton, William, 1845-1926.

General Physical Description note: (23 items)
box 2

Childers, Hugh Robert Eardley, 1862-1912.

General Physical Description note: (13 items)
box 2

Clifford, Lucy (Lane) "Mrs. W.K. Clifford" d. 1929.

General Physical Description note: (16 items)
box 2

Coleridge, Gilbert James Duke, b.1859.

General Physical Description note: (3 items)
box 2

Conyers, Mrs. Dorothea (Smyth), b.1873.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 2

Courtney, William Leonard, 1850-1928.

General Physical Description note: (18 items)
box 2

Crawford, Oswald John Frederic, 1839-1909.

General Physical Description note: (64 items)
box 2

Croker, Bithia Mary (Sheppard) d. 1920.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Curzon, George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st marquis, 1859-1925.

General Physical Description note: (4 items)
box 2

Daily Mail, London.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Davidson, Hugh Coleman, b.1852.

General Physical Description note: (37 items)
box 2

Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Edge, John Henry.

General Physical Description note: (13 items)
box 2

Emanuel, Walter Lewis, 1869-1915.

General Physical Description note: (1 items)
box 2

Field, Julian Osgood, 1849-1925.

General Physical Description note: (52 items)
box 2

Findlater, Jane Helen, 1866-1946.

General Physical Description note: (16 items)
box 2

Findlater, Mary, 1865-1963.

General Physical Description note: (12 items)
box 2

Findlater, Mora.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Finnemore, John, b.1863.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington, 1834-1925.

General Physical Description note: (7 items)
box 2

Fletcher, Josepy Smith, 1863-1935.

General Physical Description note: (38 items)
box 2

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Fowler, Sir Montague, bart., 1858-1933.

General Physical Description note: (4 items)
box 2

Freshfield, Douglas William, 1845-1934.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Furniss, Harry, 1854-1925.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Garvice, Charles, d.1920.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 2

Gilchrist, Robert Murray, 1868-1917.

General Physical Description note: (11 items)
box 2

Gissing, Algernon, b.1860.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Gosse, Edmund Wilson, 1849-1929.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Graham, Harry, 1874-1936.

General Physical Description note: (10 items)
box 2

Graham, James M.

General Physical Description note: (40 items)
box 2

Grand, Sarah (pseudonym), 1862-1943.

General Physical Description note: (5 items)
box 2

The Graphic, London.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 2

Graves, Alfred Perceval, 1846-1931.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 2

Gribble, Francis Henry, 1862-1946.

General Physical Description note: (4 items)
box 2

Griffith, Arthur, 1872-1922.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
 

H - O

box 3

Haggard, Sir Henry Rider, 1856-1925.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 3

Hall, Harold Fielding, 1859-1917.

General Physical Description note: (8 items)
box 3

Harraden, Beatrice, 1864-1936.

General Physical Description note: (3 items)
box 3

Hatton, Joseph, 1841-1907.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Hawley, G.

General Physical Description note: (11 items)
box 3

Heinemann, William.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Henderson, Myra.

General Physical Description note: (39 items)
box 3

Hewlett, Maurice Henry, 1861-1923.

General Physical Description note: (12 items)
box 3

Hicks, Beatrice M.

General Physical Description note: (6 items)
box 3

Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright, b.1866.

General Physical Description note: (4 items)
box 3

James, Mrs. Florence Glice (Price), 1857-1929.

General Physical Description note: (104 items)
box 3

Jepson, Edgar, b.1864.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Keiley, Jarvis.

General Physical Description note: (7 items)
box 3

Kennard, Mary E.

General Physical Description note: (59 items)
box 3

Kennedy, H.A.

General Physical Description note: (3 items)
box 3

Kernahan, Coulson, b.1858.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Kropotkin, Petr Aleksieevich, kniaz, 1842-1921.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Lean, Florence (Marryat) Church, 1837-1899.

General Physical Description note: (3 items)
box 3

Lely, John Mounteney, 1839-1907.

General Physical Description note: (29 items)
box 3

Lowndes, Marie Adelaide (Belloc), 1868-1947.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Lowry, Henry Dawson, 1869-1906.

General Physical Description note: (14 items)
box 3

Lynch, Harry Finnis Blosse, 1862-1913.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

McCarthy, Justin Huntly, 1860-1936.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

MacFall, Haldane, 1860-1928.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Macnaughtan, Sarah Broom, d.1916.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley, 1865-1948.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Maugham, William Somerset, 1874-1965.

General Physical Description note: (5 items)
box 3

Maxse, Leopold James, 1864-1932.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th baronet, b.1845.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Merrick, Leonard, 1864-1939.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 3

Miles, Eustace Hamilton, b.1868.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Miller, Ester.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Molesworth, Mary Louise (Stewart), 1842-1921.

General Physical Description note: (12 items)
box 3

Muddock, Joyce Emerson Preston, b.1843.

General Physical Description note: (16 items)
box 3

Neufeld, Charles, 1856-1918.

General Physical Description note: (6 items)
box 3

Norris, William Edward, 1847-1925.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st viscount, 1865-1922.

General Physical Description note: (7 items)
box 3

O'Grady, Standish, 1846-1928.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 3

Ollivant, Alfred, 1874-1927.

General Physical Description note: (12 items)
box 3

O'Neill, John.

General Physical Description note: (7 items)
box 3

Orr, Alexander B.

General Physical Description note: (57 items)
box 3

Osbourne, Lloyd, 1868-1947.

General Physical Description note: (7 items)
box 3

Oswell, William Edward.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 3

Oxenham, John (pseudonym), 1852-1941.

General Physical Description note: (10 items)
 

P - Z

box 4

Pall Mall Magazine.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Parker, Sir Gilbert, bart., 1862-1932.

General Physical Description note: (6 items)
box 4

Parker, Joseph, 1830-1902.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Partridge, Sir Bernard, 1861-1945.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Paterson, Arthur Henry, 1862-1928.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Payn, James, 1830-1898.

General Physical Description note: (22 items)
box 4

Pemberton, Sir Max, 1863-1950.

General Physical Description note: (11 items)
box 4

Pendleton, John.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 4

Pollock, Walter Harries, 1850-1926.

General Physical Description note: (13 items)
box 4

Pryce, Richard, 1864-1942.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Quiller-Conch, Sir Arthur Thomas, 1863-1944.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Reeve, Henry Fenwick, 1854-1920.

General Physical Description note: (11 items)
box 4

Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946.

General Physical Description note: (12 items)
box 4

Rideing, William Henry, 1853-1918.

General Physical Description note: (12 items)
box 4

Roberts, Morley, b.1857.

General Physical Description note: (36 items)
box 4

Seaman, Sir Owen, 1861-1936.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Shelley, Henry Charles.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 4

Shepperson, Claude Allin.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 4

Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926.

General Physical Description note: (26 items)
box 4

Sidgwick, Cecily (Ullmann), d.1934.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947.

General Physical Description note: (6 items)
box 4

Smith, Elizabeth Thomasina (Meade), d.1914.

General Physical Description note: (19 items)
box 4

Spender, John Alfred, 1862-1942.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie (Webster), 1847-1929.

General Physical Description note: (8 items)
box 4

Stewart, John Alexander, 1846-1933.

General Physical Description note: (3 items)
box 4

Straight, Sir Douglas.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 4

Stodard-Walker, Archibald.

General Physical Description note: (14 items)
box 4

Sutcliffe, Halliwell, b.1870.

General Physical Description note: (4 items)
box 4

Swan, Myra.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Tanqueray, Mrs. Bertram.

General Physical Description note: (17 items)
box 4

Teague, John Jessop, 1856-1929.

General Physical Description note: (10 items)
box 4

Temple Bar.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Tirebuck, William Edward, 1854-1900.

General Physical Description note: (23 items)
box 4

Tweedie, Ethel Brilliana (Harley) d. 1940.

General Physical Description note: (3 items)
box 4, folder 1-2

Upward, Allen, 1863-1926

box 4, folder 1

1895-1900.

General Physical Description note: (63 items)
box 4, folder 2

1901-1922.

General Physical Description note: (55 items)
box 4

Vallings, Harold.

General Physical Description note: (34 items)
box 4

Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold), 1851-1920.

General Physical Description note: (2 items)
box 4

Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott, 1863-1921.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Williamson, C.M.

General Physical Description note: (4 items)
box 4

Yeats-Brown, Francis Charles Claypon, b.1886.

General Physical Description note: (1 item)
box 4

Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926.

General Physical Description note: (25 items)
box 4

Zimmern, Helen, 1846-1934.

General Physical Description note: (3 items)
box 4

Unidentified.

General Physical Description note: (6 items)