Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Chalmers (Stephen) Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1915-1931
Collection number: 632
Creator: Chalmers, Stephen, 1880-
Extent: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Stephen Chalmers (1880-1935) was born in Scotland. He became an active member of the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Society
of Saranac Lake (New York) and wrote many volumes about Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection consists primarily of letters
(ca. 1915-1922)to Chalmers discussing Robert Louis Stevenson and the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Society of Saranac Lake.
Includes material relating to the founding and activities of the RLS Memorial Society of Saranac Lake and the Stevenson family
circle.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary 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.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Library Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
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Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Rolland Thorpe, 1955.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Chalmers (Stephen) Papers (Collection 632). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
964175
Biography
Stephen Chalmers was born in Scotland in 1880; became an active member of the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Society of Saranac
Lake (New York); wrote many volumes about Robert Louis Stevenson; contributed to pulp magazines and wrote mysteries, historical
novels, and poetry; also wrote science fiction stories,
Star-Dust (1912) and
The Frozen Beauty (1914); died in California, 1935.
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of letters (ca. 1915-1922)to Chalmers from Katharine Osbourne, Isobel Field, Lloyd Osbourne,
Charles John Guthrie, and others. Most of the correspondence discusses Robert Louis Stevenson and the Robert Louis Stevenson
Memorial Society of Saranac Lake (New York). Includes material relating to the founding and activities of the RLS Memorial
Society of Saranac Lake and the Stevenson family circle. Also includes reminiscences of Stevenson by his college friend Charles
John Guthrie.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Letters from Isobel Field to Chalmers.
- Letters from Katherine Osbourne to Chalmers.
- Letters from Charles John Guthrie to Chalmers.
- Personal papers and correspondence of Stephen Chalmers
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Chalmers, Stephen, 1880- --Archives.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
Field, Isobel, 1858-1953--Correspondence.
Osbourne, Katharine Durham, b. 1870--Correspondence.
Guthrie, Charles John Guthrie, Lord, 1849-1920--Correspondence.
Authors, American 20th century--Archival resources.