Finding Aid for the Chatto & Windus Records, 1871-1900
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Finding Aid for the Chatto & Windus Records, 1871-1900
Collection number: 426
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© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Chatto & Windus Records,
Date (inclusive): 1871-1900
Collection number: 426
Creator:
Chatto & Windus (Firm)
Extent:
2 boxes (1.0 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
B.F. Stevens & Brown, purchase, 1951.
Ex libris H.W. Thompson.
[Identification of item], Chatto & Windus Records (Collection 426). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4232677
Collection includes business correspondence to the publishing firm of Chatto & Windus from the following authors: Sir James
Alexander, concerning Cleopatra's needle, London; Frank Barrett; Karl Blind; Mathilde Blind; Ebenezer Cobham Brewer; Sir Charles
Wentworth Dilke; Lady Florence Caroline Dixie; Ignatius Donnelly, regarding the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy; Charles Gibbon;
Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming; John Ellard Gore; Tighe Hopkins; Joseph Knight; Sir Henry William Lucy; James Payne; Richard
Anthony Procter; and Thomas Wright. Also includes letters from illustrators Frederick Barnard, Arthur Hopkins, and Bertram
W. Richardson, seven miscellaneous letters, and a group of newspaper clippings relating to Artemus Ward (pseudonym for Charles
Farrar Browne).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Chatto & Windus (Firm)--Archives.
Publishers and publishing--England--Archival resources.
Note
Description derived from in-house card file.
Letters Received and Ephemera, 1871-1900
Creator/Collector: Chatto & Windus, Publishers
Physical Description: 777 letters and approximately 100 pieces of ephemera (2 boxes).
Scope and Content Note
Business correspondence from the following authors:
- Sir James Edward Alexander, concerning Cleopatra's Needle, London
- Frank Barrett
- Karl Blind
- Mathilde Blind
- Ebenezer Cogham Brewer
- Lady Florence Caroline Dixie
- Ignatius Donnelly, re Bacon-Shakespeare controversy
- Charles Gibbon
- Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming
- John Ellard Gore
- Tighe Hopkins
- Joseph Knight
- Sir Henry William Lucy
- James Payn
- Richard Anthony Procter
- Thomas Wright
- Frederick Barnard
- Arthur Hopkins
- Bertram W. Richardson