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May (James Lewis) Papers
MS.1976.013
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Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: James Lewis May Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS.1976.013
Physical Description:
3.0 Linear feet
1762 items
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1926-1940
Date (inclusive): 1814-1963
Abstract: The May papers include correspondence addressed to James Lewis May and his daughter, Barbara Lewis May, as well as manuscripts
of works by May and his correspondents.
Physical Location: Clark Library
Language of Material:
English
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[Identification of item, subseries and series], James Lewis May Papers, MS.1975.013. Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the
copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Clark Library purchase, 1976.
This collection was originally processed as a separate series within the Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle Collection, and
as such, is physically housed and interfiled with the Wilde collection under call number "MS. Wilde," even though it is now
described separately.
Many of the manuscript and print materials described within this finding aid have also been cataloged individually. Those
individual records for print materials are available via the UCLA Library's online catalog, while the records for manuscript
materials are accessible only through a physical card catalog located at the Clark.
James Lewis May was a prolific author, translator, and publisher of the first half of the twentieth century. In 1936, he published
John Lane and the Nineties, and throughout the 1920s and 1930s, wrote other studies of writers such as Charles Lamb, George Eliot and Anatole France.
In the 1930s, May converted to Roman Catholicism, and subsequently wrote a series of works on Cardinal John Henry Newman,
Father George Tyrrell, and issues of interest to English Catholics.
This collection contains correspondence addressed to James Lewis May from various figures in the literary world and from those
in the English Catholic community. His letters reflect his biographical and critical work on John Lane, Anatole France, Cardinal
John Henry Newman and others, as well as his growing involvement with the Roman Catholic Church. Many letters are from French
authors or concern his translation of works from the French. Also included here are letters written his daughter, Barbara
Lewis May as well as some letters written between some of his correspondents, manuscript works by May and by some of his correspondents.
The final series described in this finding aid also includes some May family papers dating back to 1814.
This collection is organized into the following series:
- 1. Letters to James Lewis May
- 2. Collections of Letters to James Lewis May
- 3. Letters to Barbara Lewis May
- 4. Miscellaneous letters
- 5. Manuscripts
- 6. May family papers
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors--England--20th century
Biographers--England--20th century
Catholic converts--England--20th century
Lockhart, John Gilbert, 1891-1960