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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Mackenzie Bell papers
Creator:
Bell, Mackenzie
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0705
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(14 boxes and 4 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1860-1930
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. 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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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Purchssed from W.P. Wreden, 1962, 1975. Purchased from Winifred Myers, 1964.
[Identification of item], Mackenzie Bell Papers (Collection 705). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by Yvonne Schroeder, January 1961. Additions processed by Esther Vécsey.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942303653606533
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.
- Morris, William, 1834-1896--Portrait. See Related Material.
Picture Collection (Collection 99). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
- Collier, John. Richard Garnett. [London (?), ca. 1900] Photograph, mounted. (In Coll. ORIG. 99) 1 item. 22.5 × 18cm.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Manuscripts for publication
Poets, English -- Archives.
Authors, English -- Archives.
Bell, Mackenzie, 1856-1930--Archives.