Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Mackenzie Bell papers
- Dates:
- 1860-1930
- Creators:
- Bell, Mackenzie
- 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.
- Extent:
- 1 unknown (14 boxes and 4 oversize boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Mackenzie Bell Papers (Collection 705). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchssed from W.P. Wreden, 1962, 1975. Purchased from Winifred Myers, 1964.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Yvonne Schroeder, January 1961. Additions processed by Esther Vécsey.
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- Arrangement:
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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.
- 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.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-09-13 15:53:20 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Mackenzie Bell Papers (Collection 705). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988