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Title: Mackenzie Bell Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1860-1930
Collection number: 705
Creator: Bell, Mackenzie
Extent: 14 boxes (7 linear ft.)
4 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Mackenzie Bell (1856-1930) published numerous books, articles and poems. The collection contains holograph manuscripts, notebooks,
correspondence, pictures, and related ephemera. Includes holograph manuscripts of
Spring's Immortality and Other Poems,
Pictures of Travel and Other Poems, and
William Morris, Poet and Socialist, as I Knew Him. Also contains materials relating to the Rossettis, Algernon Swinburne, Theodore Watts-Dunton, William Morris, and Charles
Whitehead.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- W.P. Wreden, 1962,1975, purchase.
- Winifred Myers, 1964, purchase.
[Identification of item], Mackenzie Bell Papers (Collection 705). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Mackenzie Bell was born in 1856 in Liverpool, England; he settled in London in 1884; the same year saw the publication of
his book,
Charles Whitehead: A Forgotten Genius; wrote critical articles for
Academy,
Speaker,
Temple Bar and other publications; became a member of the Reform Club; other published works include
Verses of Varied Life (1882),
Spring's Immortality: and Other Poems (1893), and
Christina Rossetti: A Biographical and Critical Study; he died in 1930.
Collection contains holograph manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, pictures, and related ephemera. Includes holograph manuscript
of
Spring's Immortality and Other Poems,
Pictures of Travel and Other Poems, and
William Morris, Poet and Socialist, as I Knew Him. Also contains author's copy of collected poems, books about Christina Rossetti and Charles Whitehead, and a typescript of
Swinburne and his poetry, with holographs of William Morris. Also contains materials relating to the Rossettis, Algernon Swinburne,
Theodore Watts-Dunton, William Morris, and Charles Whitehead.
Arranged in the following series:
- Manuscripts and first editions of poems.
- Author's copy of his books on Christina Rossetti and Charles Whitehead, and typescript of book on Algernon Charles Swinburne.
- Miscellaneous manuscripts, photographs and ephemera.
- Illustrations, etchings and reproductions.
- Correspondence.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Bell, Mackenzie, 1856-1930--Archives.
Authors, English--Archival resources.
Poets, English--Archival resources.
Manuscripts for publication.
- Morris, William, 1834-1896--Portrait. See Related Material.
Picture Collection (Collection 99). Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California,
Los Angeles.
- Collier, John. Richard Garnett. [London (?), ca. 1900] Photograph, mounted. (In Coll. ORIG. 99) 1 item. 22.5 × 18cm.