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.
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Contributing Institution: 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 on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source and date of receipt unknown.

Biographical History

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

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 1470703 

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], H. Rider Haggard book collection (Collection 1608). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Processing Information

Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.

Scope and Contents

Monograph/serial collection.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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.