Finding Aid for the Mackenzie Bell Papers LSC.0705

Finding aid prepared by Yvonne Schroeder, January 1961, additions by Esther Vécsey; machine-readable finding aid created by Alight Tsai.
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Contributing Institution: 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 on this page.
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.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Mackenzie Bell Papers (Collection 705). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Processed by Yvonne Schroeder, January 1961. Additions processed by Esther Vécsey.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942303653606533 

Biography

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:
  1. Manuscripts and first editions of poems.
  2. Author's copy of his books on Christina Rossetti and Charles Whitehead, and typescript of book on Algernon Charles Swinburne.
  3. Miscellaneous manuscripts, photographs and ephemera.
  4. Illustrations, etchings and reproductions.
  5. Correspondence.
  • Morris, William, 1834-1896--Portrait. See Related Material.

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.

box 5

Spring's Immortality. Published by Ward, Lock, and Bowden, Limited, London, 1895.

General Physical Description note: 2 different copies.

Scope and Contents note

Author's copy. 2nd edition with some holograph revisions in preparation for next edition.
box 18

Spring's Immortality and Other Poems. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: Holograph manuscript. Bound in blue cloth.
box 1

Poems. Working copy vol.16. Published by Clark, London, 1909.

General Physical Description note: In original blue covers.

Scope and Contents note

Author's copy with programs, brochures, letters, notes, etc. attached and inserted throughout book.
box 1

Collected Poems.

General Physical Description note: In original lavender covers.

Scope and Contents note

Author's copy with holograph annotations and letters, notes, miscellaneous ephemera attached and inserted throughout book. First page lists poems that have been recited.
box 14

Manuscript of poems between 1898 and 1909. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: Bound in half calf and green cloth covers.

Scope and Contents note

Mostly holograph with pages of typescript, annotated proofs of published poems, and newspaper and magazine clippings of his published poems and articles with holograph notations, interspersed.
box 3

Pictures Of Travel and Other Poems.

General Physical Description note: Holograph. Bound in green calf.
box 7

Pictures of Travel and Other Poems.

General Physical Description note: Typescript with holograph corrections. 76 leaves.

Scope and Contents note

First leaf reads To a worker among the poor and other poems with final title penciled in below.
box 7

Pictures of Travel and Other Poems.

General Physical Description note: 23 sheets plus preliminary pages.

Scope and Contents note

Corrected galleys.
box 7

Pictures of Travel and Other Poems. Published by Hurst and Blackett Limited, London, 1898.

Scope and Contents note

Author's copy. Occasional holograph corrections.
box 5

Pictures of Travel and Other Poems.

General Physical Description note: 6 copies of book.
box 5

Christina Rossetti. Published by Hurst and Blackett Limited, London, 1898.

General Physical Description note: Binding lacking.

Scope and Contents note

Author's copy with copious holograph notes in ink, in preparation for revised edition. Note to the printer on first leaf.
box 1, box 2, box 3

Notebooks.

General Physical Description note: 4 items. Mostly bound in half calf and marbled boards.

Scope and Contents note

Diaries with occasional letters and miscellaneous pieces of ephemera inserted.
box 1, box 2, box 3

1. February 20, 1897-July 12, 1897.

box 1, box 2, box 3

2. November 4, 1890-April 4, 1891.

box 1, box 2, box 3

3. May 9, 1884-April 15 1885.

box 1, box 2, box 3

4. January 5, 1880-November 22, 1880.

box 4

A Forgotten Genius: Charles Whitehead. London, Elliot Stock, 1884.

General Physical Description note: Unbound. Most of the pages are cut into three parts and mounted separately on white paper.

Scope and Contents note

Author's copy.
box 4

Extract from an article about Whitehead by James Smith.... Holograph copy from direct transfer. Published in The Australian, July 28, 1894.

General Physical Description note: 22 leaves.
box 7

Swinburne and his Poetry. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: 208 leaves, Unbound.

Scope and Contents note

Typescipt with minor corrections.
box 5

School Recitations. London: James Clark & Company, 1909.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies.
box 5

Poems of Nature. London: James Clark & Company, n.d.

General Physical Description note: 6 copies.
box 5

Poems of Consolation and of Religion. London: James Clark & Company, , n.d.

General Physical Description note: 5 copies.
box 5

Trafalgar. Kingsgate Press, London [1913].

General Physical Description note: 24 copies.
box 6

Miscellaneous incomplete manuscripts.

General Physical Description note: Typescript and mimeograph with corrections. 3 items.
box 7

Notes, miscellaneous, mostly holograph.

General Physical Description note: 14 items. In mixed order.

Scope and Contents note

Includes short, incomplete manuscripts of articles, poems, etc., and some corrected and revised printed matter.
box 7

Ephemera.

General Physical Description note: 49 items.

Scope and Contents note

Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, pamphlets, brochures, broadsides etc.
box 5

Engraved steel blocks of The Heart's Summer, Holy Quietude, and Lyrics of Consolation.

General Physical Description note: Mounted on wood. 3 items.
box 5

Framed photograph of Mackenzie Bell and his sister Mary Elizabeth and Maggie, dated 1863.

box 4

Photographs of friends and acquaintances including prominent literary figures etc.

General Physical Description note: 2 envelopes, 36 items.
box 5

Christmas cards to Bell.

General Physical Description note: 45 pieces.
box 2

Illustrations for Christina Rossetti. Mounted reproductiohs of drawings etc.

General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 6

Original ink sketches for Pictures of Travel.

General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 15

Two framed, original etchings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1894 and one framed reproduction of poem by Theodore Watts-Dunton, , presented and signed by Watts-Dunton to Bell. 1891

box 15, box 16

Three mounted and one framed reproductions of drawings and paintings owned by Christina Rossetti until her death.

  • Also: one mounted photograph of her funeral, all presented to Bell by William Rossetti.
  • Also: photograph of family grave given to M.B. from Lisa Wilson. January 6, 1898.
box 15

Miscellaneous reproductions and photographs.

General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 17

Framed oil sketck of William MacDonald Sinclair by William Lockhart, 1887.

box 6

Reminiscences of Liszt, by George Liebling.

General Physical Description note: Holograph manuscript in pencil. 29 leaves.

Scope and Contents note

Written on Back of identical mimeographed publicity letters announcing Liebling's availability for the coming concert season and signed by his secretary, January 1900.
 

William Morris, Poet and Socialist, as I Knew Him. n.p., n.d.

General Physical Description note: Holograph and mimeograph with extensive ink notations.
General Physical Description note: 56 leaves.
 

Three pages of proof corrected in ink.

Scope and Contents note

With attached note: "Some sheets of Mrs. Henry Wood's Dene Hollow given to me at my request by Dr. Japp, September 15, 1893."
box 8, box 9

Correspondence and related ephemera from friends and literary figures, mostly addressed to Bell. 1851-1931.

General Physical Description note: 844 items.

General note

Added entries listed below:
box 10

Correspondence and documents for the year 1891, with a few letters dated 1890, 1892, 1893, and 1894.

General Physical Description note: 300 items.
  • Much of this material relates to the death of Bell's mother in 1891. Correspondents include Douglas Sladen and Theodore Watts-Dunton.
  • Also included are copies of Bell's letters.

General note

Separate purchase from Winifred Myers, London, August 1964.
 

List of Correspondents:

box 8

Adams, William Davenport, 1851-1904.

box 8

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907.

box 8

Allen, Grant, 1848-1899.

box 8

Anderson, Jessie Annie.

box 8

Austin, Alfred, 1835-1913.

box 8

Bainton, George.

box 8

Bayley, Ada Ellen, 1857-1903.

box 8

Beaton, Rev. Patrick.

box 8

Bennett, William Henry, 1855-1920.

box 8

Bentley, George, 1828-1895.

box 8

Besant, Sir Walter, 1836-1901.

box 8

Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927.

box 8

Black, William, 1841-1898.

box 8

Broadbent, Albert.

box 8

Brotherton, Mrs. Mary Isabella Irwin.

box 8

Brown, Mrs. Mary Chadwick (Barrett) 1827-1887.

box 8

Bruce, Mary Louisa.

box 8

Bryan, Alfred.

box 8

Cable, Louise.

box 8

Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925.

box 8

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910.

box 8

Crawford, Francis Marion, 1854-1909.

box 8

Crockett, Samuel Rutherford, 1860-1914.

box 8

Cross, Frederick J.

box 8

Crowe, Eyre, 1824-1910.

box 8

Curtis, Albert Charles, 1867- .

box 8

De Vere, Aubrey Thomas, 1814-1902.

box 8

Dibdin, Edward Rimbault, 1853- .

box 8

Dibdin, Sir Robert William, 1848- .

box 8

Duckworth, Francis Robinson Gladstone.

box 8

Fawcett, Edgar, 1847-1904.

box 8

Fildes, Sir Luke, 1844-1927.

box 8

Fisher, Frederic Henry, 1849-1926.

box 8

Fitzpatrick, William John, 1830-1895.

box 8

Fletcher, James, 1852-1908.

box 8

Gissing, Algernon.

box 8

Green, James, 1841-1926.

box 8

Hake, Guy Donne Gordon, 1887- .

Scope and Contents note

[letter to Bell written at age 6]
box 8

Harraden, Beatrice, 1864- .

box 8

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.

box 8

Hunt, Edith Holman Hunt.

box 8

Hutchinson, Thomas.

box 8

Hyatt, Alfred H.

box 8

Jerrold, Walter Copeland, 1865-1929.

box 8

Lee, Arthur Hamilton Lee, viscount, 1868- .

box 8

Lee, Sir, Sydney, 1859-1926.

box 8

Leighton, Marie (Connor) d. 1941.

box 8

Liebling, George.

box 8

Lloyd, Charles Ellis, d. 1939.

box 8

Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895.

box 8

Matheson, Annie, 1853- .

box 8

Maxwell, John, 1824-1895.

box 8

Meynell, Alice (Thompson).

box 8

Miles, Alfred Henry, 1848- .

box 8

Morris, William, 1834-1896.

Scope and Contents note

(Includes 2 photographs of Morris)

General note

[See items removed from collection]
box 9

Nisbett, Hume, 1850-1923.

box 9

Pole, William, 1814-1900.

box 9

Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919.

box 9

Sambourne, Edwin Linley, 1844-1910.

box 9

Shields, Frederic James, 1833-1911.

box 9

Shorthouse, Joseph Henry, 1834-1903.

box 9

Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856- .

box 9

Smith, Albert, 1860- .

box 9

Sonnenschein, William Swan, 1855-1931.

box 9

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.

box 9

Swanwick, Anna, 1813-1899.

box 9

Tennyson Family.

box 9

Thomas, Henry, 1878- .

box 9

Thompson, Augustus Charles, 1812-1901.

box 9

Thornley, James L.

box 9

Thornton, J.

box 9

Walford, Mrs. Lucy Bethia (Colquhoun) 1845-1915.

box 9

Walton, Sir John, 1852-1908.

box 9

Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore, 1832-1914.

box 9

Waugh, Arthur, 1866-1943.

box 9

Westall, William, 1835-1903.

box 9

Whiteing, Richard, 1840-1928.

box 9

Williamson, David, 1868- .

box 9

Wright, Charles Theodore Hagberg, 1862- .

box 9

Wright, Sydney Fowler, 1874- .

box 9

Young, Sir Frederick, 1817-1913.

 

Correspondence of the Rossetti Family:

box 9

Christina Georgina, 1830-1894.

box 9

Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.

box 9

Frances.

box 9

Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe, 1783-1854.

box 9

Maria Francesca, 1827-1876.

box 9

William Michael, 1829-1919.

box 9

Correspondence re Mackenzie Bell's book, Christina Rossetti.

General Physical Description note: 89 items.
box 9

Correspondence re Mackenzie Bell's book, Christina Rossetti.

General Physical Description note: 24 items.
  • Adams, William Davenport, 1851-1904.
  • Adams, Mrs. Estelle (Körner) Davenport
  • Anderson, John Parker, 1841- .
  • Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899.
box 9

Correspondence re Mackenzie Bell's book, Christina Rossetti

General Physical Description note: 26 items.
  • Dixon, Richard Watson, 1833-1900.
  • Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913.
  • Fairbairn, Andrew Martin, 1838-1912.
  • Fletcher, Alfred Ewen, 1841-1915.
  • Gosse, Edmund William, 1849-1928.
  • Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909.
  • Gurney, Alfred, 1845-1898.
box 9

Correspondence re Mackenzie Bell's book, Christina Rossetti.

General Physical Description note: 12 items.
  • Horder, William Garrett, 1841-1922.
  • Hughes, Arthur, 1832-1915.
  • Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910.
box 9

Correspondence re Mackenzie Bell's book, Christina Rossetti.

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
  • Ingram, John H., 1849-1916.
  • Jenks, George C.
  • Kernahan, Coulson, 1858-1943.
  • Kernahan, Mary Jane Hickling (Gwynne) Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, 1857- .
box 9

Correspondence re Mackenzie Bell's book, Christina Rossetti.

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
  • Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912.
  • Leighton, Robert, 1859- .
  • Lobb, John, 1840-1921.
  • Low, Sir Sidney James Mark, 1857-1932.
box 9

Correspondence re Mackenzie Bell's book, Christina Rossetti.

General Physical Description note: folder P-W: 8 items.
  • Webster, Thomas, 1809-1901.
box 9

Correspondence re Mackenzie Bell's book, Charles Whitehead.

box 9

Blanchard, Edward Litt Laman, 1820-1889.

box 9

Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947.

box 9

Pearson, Sir Cyril Arthur, 1866-1921.

box 9

Pollard, Alfred William, 1859-1944.

box 9

Tristram, William Outram.

box 9

Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877.

box 9

Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856- .

box 9

Correspondence re the election of John Beattie Crozier, 1849-1921, to the Athenaeum Club, v.p., 1904.

General Physical Description note: 38 items.
box 9

Baird, Helen.

box 9

Brabrook, Sir Edward William, 1839-1930.

box 9

Bruce-Joy, Albert, d. 1924.

box 9

Collier, Robert Collier, 2nd. baron Monkswell, 1845-1909.

box 9

Collins, John Churton, 1848-1908.

box 9

Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921.

box 9

Dalton, Frederick Thomas, 1855-1927.

box 9

Fildes, Sir Luke, 1844-1927.

box 9

Gann, Frederick.

box 9

Gosse, Andrew.

box 9

Harley, Robert, 1828-1910.

box 9

Hawkins, Sir Anthony Hope, 1863-1933.

box 9

Irving, Sir Henry, 1838-1905.

box 9

Jacobs, William Wymark, 1863- .

box 9

Kinnaird, Arthur FitzGerald, 11th. baron, 1847-1923.

box 9

Lee, Sir Sidney, 1859-1926.

box 9

Levenson Gower, Arthur Francis Gesham, 1851- .

box 9

MacAlister, Sir Donald, 1854-1934.

box 9

Mackail, John William, 1859- .

box 9

MacColl, Norman, 1843-1904.

box 9

Marten, Sir Theodore, 1816-1909.

box 9

Munby, Arthur Joseph, 1828-1910.

box 9

Raleigh, Sir Thomas, 1850-1920.

box 9

Ritchie, Anne Isabella (Thackeray) lady, 1837-1919.

box 9

Scott, Margaret (Mrs. Clement Scott).

box 9

Sinclair, William MacDonald, 1850-1917.

box 9

Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1929.

box 9

Watkins, Henry William, 1844-1922.

box 9

Wolf.

box 11

Morris, William, 1834-1896--Portrait.

General note

Removed from the Collection. See Related Material.
 

Correspondence

box 11, folder 1

A-G. v.p., v.d.

box 11, folder 1

[to unknown] from McKenzie Bell.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 1

Adamson, Thomas L.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 1

Caine, Hall.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 1

[to] Caine, Mary Hall.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 1

Coates, M.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 1

Crosby, Bell.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 2

Darton, Mary.

General Physical Description note: 13 items.
box 11, folder 3

Divine, Walter.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 11, folder 4

Gardner, Anne B.

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 11, folder 5

H-M. v.p., v.d.

box 11, folder 5

International Institute of British Poetry.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 5

International Society of Literature, Science and Art.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 5

Jones, Henry Arthur.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 11, folder 5

Kernahan.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 5

King, Maria.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 11, folder 5

Kirivan, Patrick.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 5

The League of Mercy.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 11, folder 5

M, A.P.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 5

Martin, Lydia.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 11, folder 5

Morgan, Olive.

General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 11, folder 6

Hunt, C.T.

General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 11, folder 6

Martin, William H.

General Physical Description note: 27 items.
box 11, folder 8

N-Z. v.p., v.d.

box 11, folder 8

Pointer, W.H.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 8

Sallmann, Otto.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 8

Society of Authors.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 11, folder 8

[to] Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

General Physical Description note: (copy). 1 item.
box 11, folder 8

Thoebold.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 8

Webster, Alex.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 11, folder 8

Williams, Fleetwood.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 11, folder 9

Watson, Alexander.

General Physical Description note: 8 items.
box 11, folder 10

Shakespeare Globe Theatre Memorial.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 11, folder 11

Statement of Bell's accounts.

General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 11, folder 12

Correspondence re publication of a sonnet by McKenzie Bell.

General Physical Description note: 13 items.
box 11, folder 13

Account of expenditures.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 11, folder 14

Manuscript notes in Bell's hand, 18 leaves. 1891.

box 11, folder 15

Notes. v.p., v.d.

General Physical Description note: Holograph. 21 leaves.
box 11, folder 16

Ephemera.

General Physical Description note: 17 items.
box 11, folder 17

King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts, by William Shakespeare, as arranged for the stage by Henry Irving, and presented at the Lyceum Theatre, on November 10, 1892. London, Nassau Steam Press, Limited, 1892.

box 11, folder 18

London Shakespeare League. Ephemera.

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 12, folder 1

Photographs of McKenzie Bell.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
 

Correspondence and Ephemera Regarding the London Shakespeare League Dinner on April 23, 1907

General note

(Arranged by McKenzie Bell)
box 12, folder 2

Draft of invitation.

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 12, folder 3

Refusals to dinner, A-F.

General Physical Description note: 18 items.
box 12, folder 4

Refusals to dinner, G-K.

General Physical Description note: 8 items.
box 12, folder 5

Refusals to dinner, L-R.

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 12, folder 6

Refusals to dinner, S-Z.

General Physical Description note: 13 items.
box 12, folder 7

Requests for tickets, A-F.

General Physical Description note: 22 items.
box 12, folder 8

Requests for tickets, G-L.

General Physical Description note: 27 items.
box 12, folder 9

Requests for tickets, M-R.

General Physical Description note: 18 items.
box 12, folder 10

Requests for tickets, S-Z.

General Physical Description note: 17 items.
box 12, folder 11

Clippings.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 12, folder 12

Correspondence re seating plan.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 12, folder 13

Seating plan.

General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 12, folder 14

Bell's program notes.

General Physical Description note: Holograph. 11 l.
box 12, folder 15

Guest list, notes, tickets.

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 12, folder 16

Correspondence with various persons re arrangements for London Shakespeare League dinner. n.p., 1907.

General Physical Description note: 37 items.
box 12, folder 17

Correspondence and advertisements re trade services.

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 12, folder 18

Publicity.

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 12, folder 19

Entertainment.

General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 12, folder 20

Printing.

General Physical Description note: 13 items.
box 12, folder 21

Receipts.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 12, folder 22

Addresses.

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 12, folder 23

Clippings.

General Physical Description note: 13 items.
box 12, folder 24

Clippings.

General Physical Description note: 17 items.
box 12, folder 25

Programs.

General Physical Description note: 12 items.
box 12, folder 26

"The Graphic Gallery" of Shakespeare's Heroines. London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Limited, 1888.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
 

With this advertisement.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 12, folder 27

Ephemera.

General Physical Description note: 22 items.
box 13, folder 1

The Athenaeum, Pall Mall. Ephemera.

General Physical Description note: 10 pieces.
box 13, folder 2

McKenzie Bell's manuscript notes regarding his candidacy for membership to the Athenaeum Club. v.d.

General Physical Description note: 25 items.
 

Correspondence re Bell's Candidacy for Membership to the Athenaeum Club, 1901-1902

box 13, folder 3

A - F.

General Physical Description note: 24 items.
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Anderson, S.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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[to] Archdeacon of London.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
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Brabrook, Sir Edward William, 1839-1930.

General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 13, folder 3

Brown, A. Theodore.

General Physical Description note: 3 items.
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Bruce-Joy, Albert, d.1924.

General Physical Description note: 6 items.
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Caine, W.S.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Collins, John Churton, 1848-1908.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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[to] De Vere, Aubrey Thomas, 1814-1902.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Dicksee, Sir Francis Bernard, 1853- .

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 13, folder 3

Parrar, Frederick William, 1831-1903.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 13, folder 4

G - L.

General Physical Description note: 23 items.
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Harley, Robert, 1828-1910.

General Physical Description note: 19 items.
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Hawkins, Sir Anthony Hope, 1863-1933.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Kinnaird, Arthur Fitzgerald, 11th baron, 1847-1923.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 13, folder 4

Levenson Gower, Arthur Francis Gesham, 1851- .

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 13, folder 5

M - R.

General Physical Description note: 8 items.
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MacAlister, Sir John Young Walker, 1856-1925.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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MacColl, Norman, 1843-1904.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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MacWhirter, J.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Morris, Sir Lewis, 1833-1907.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Munby, Arthur Joseph, 1828-1910.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Ritchie, Anne Isabella (Thackeray), lady, 1837-1919.

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Ritchie, Richmond.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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S - Z.

General Physical Description note: 20 items.
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Scott, Clement William, 1841-1904.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 13, folder 6

Saunders, T Bailey.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Tedder, Henry Richard, 1850-1924.

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 13, folder 6

[to] Tennyson, Lord Alfred.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Tristram, H.N. (?)

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Watkins, Henry William, 1844-1922.

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
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Young, Sir Frederick, 1817-1913.

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 13, folder 6

Unidentified.

General Physical Description note: 22 items (5 leaves, 17 envelopes).
box 13, folder 8

Correspondence, 1921.

General Physical Description note: 3 items (5 leaves).
box 13, folder 8

Unidentified.

box 14

Manuscript of poems between 1898 and 1909.

General Physical Description note: Bound in half calf and green cloth covers.

Scope and Contents note

Mostly holograph with pages of typescript, annotated proofs of published poems, and newspaper and magazine clippings of his published poems and articles with holograph notations interspersed.
box 15

Various etchings, reproductions of drawings and paintings, and photographs.

General note

See above for complete list.
box 16

One framed reproduction of painting owned by Christina Rossetti until her death. Portrait of Beethoven. Photograph of a port town.