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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: John Galsworthy papers
Creator:
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0417
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1910-1933
Abstract: John Sinjohn Galsworthy (1867-1933) was born in Kingston Hill, Surrey, England. He studied law, but did not practice. He wrote
plays and novels including
The Silver Box (1906) and
Man of Property (1906). The collection consists of correspondence between John Galsworthy and Dr. J. Morris Slemons, and also Galsworthy
letters to various persons. Includes a typescript of
The Freelands, newspaper clippings relating to Galsworthy and theater programs for Galsworthy plays.
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.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. J. Morris Slemons, 1954.
[Identification of item], John Galsworthy papers (Collection 417). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by Brooke Whiting, November 1962.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9914704723606533
John Sinjohn Galsworthy was born August 14, 1867 in Kingston Hill, Surrey, England; studied law and called to the Bar in 1890,
but did not practice; traveled extensively, meeting Joseph Conrad in the far east; his first play was
The Silver Box
Date: (1906)
; his first successful novel,
Man of Property
Date: (1906)
, began the first of a series collectively known as
The Forsyte Saga; founded P.E.N. club; refused a knighthood, but accepted the Order of Merit in 1929 and the Nobel Prize in 1932; died January
31, 1933 in London.
Collection consists of correspondence between John Galsworthy and Dr. J. Morris Slemons, and also Galsworthy letters to various
persons. Includes a typescript with holograph corrections to
The Freelands. Also includes newspaper clippings relating to Galsworthy and theater programs for Galsworthy plays.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, English -- Archives.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933--Archives.