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Finding Aid for the William Henry Wills Papers, 1835-1900

Processed by Brooke Whiting; machine-readable finding aid created by Alight Tsai
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
© 2003
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Finding Aid for the William Henry Wills Papers, 1835-1900

Collection number: 720

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division



Los Angeles, CA

Contact Information

  • Manuscripts Division
  • UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
  • Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
  • Box 951575
  • Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
  • Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
  • Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
  • URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
Processed by:
Brooke Whiting, 25 May 1961
Encoded by:
Alight Tsai
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Caroline Cubé
Text converted and initial container list EAD tagging by:
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Online finding aid edited by:
Josh Fiala, May 2003
© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: William Henry Wills Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1835-1900
Collection number: 720
Creator: Wills, William Henry, 1810-1880
Extent: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: William Henry Wills (1810-1880) was a contributor to magazines and McCulloch's geographical dictionary, served as one of the original literary staff of Punch, and was a contributer and sub-editor of the Daily news (1846) before becoming a contributor and assistant editor of Chambers' journal, Household words (1849), and of All the year round (1859-69). The collection consists of letters to William Henry and Janet Wills from various persons, and a few letters from various persons to relations and associates of Wills.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of 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, Department of 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 Department of Special Collections for in-house consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
  • Public Services Division
  • UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
  • Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
  • Box 951575
  • Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
  • Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
  • Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], William Henry Wills Papers (Collection 720). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4234006 

Biography

Wills was born in 1810 in Plymouth, England; became a contributor to the Penny and Saturday magazines and McCulloch's geographical dictionary; served as one of the original literary staff of Punch; began a lifelong association with Charles Dickens as a contributer and sub-editor of the Daily news in 1846; became contributor and assistant editor of Chambers' journal, Household words in 1849, and of All the year round, 1859-69; wrote Old leaves: gathered from Household words (1860); he died in 1880.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of letters to William Henry and Janet Wills from various persons, and a few letters from various persons to relations and associates of Wills. Correspondents include Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, George Cruikshank, Sir Henry Irving, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Wills, William Henry, 1810-1880--Archives.
Periodical editors--England--Correspondence.

Box 1

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Black, William, 1841-1898.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Bright, John, 1811-1887.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Brown, Hannah (Meredith) d. 1878.

Physical Description: 3 letters.
Box 1

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, baroness, 1814-1906.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Burdett-Coutts, William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett, 1851-1921.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Burke, Sir John Bernard, 1814-1892.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Chambers, William, 1800-1883.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Chappell, William, 1809-1888.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Combe, George, 1788-1858.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Cooke, Louisa, Mrs. Thomas Potter Cooke, d. 1864.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Cooke, Thomas Potter, 1786-1864.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Crowe, Eyre Evans, 1799-1868.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Cunningham, Peter, 1816-1869.

Physical Description: 3 letters.
Box 1

Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, 1810-1869.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Dixon, Edmund Saul, b. 1809.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Forster, John, 1812-1876.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Gladstone, Catherine (Glynne) 1812-1900.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Greenwell, Dora, 1821-1882.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Hall, Anna Maria (Fielding) 1800-1881.

Physical Description: 4 letters.
Box 1

Hervey, Eleanor Louisa (Montagu) Mrs. T.K. Hervey, 1811- .

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Howitt, Mary (Botham) 1799-1888.

Physical Description: 4 letters.
Box 1

Irving, Sir Henry, 1838-1905.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Jerrold, Douglas William, 1803-1857.

Physical Description: 3 letters.
Box 1

Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Knight, Charles, 1791-1873.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st baron, 1803-1873.

Physical Description: 2 letter.
Box 1

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of, 1831-1891.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Macleay, Sir George, 1809-1891.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Macleod, Donald, 1831-1916.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Marston, John Westland, 1819-1890.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Martin, Helena Saville (Faucit) lady, 1817-1898.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Martin, Sir Theodore, 1816-1909.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Mathews, Charles James, 1803-1878.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Meade, Richard.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Moncrieff, William Thomas, 1794-1857.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Nasmyth, James, 1808-1890.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Norton, Honorable Mrs. Caroline (Sheridan) 1808-1877.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Novelli, A.H.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Ormonde, James J.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Parkinson, Joseph Charles, b. 1832.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton, 1823-1896.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Priestley, Hugh.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Reade, Charles, 1814-1884.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Regnault, Amable, b. 1798.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Robinson, George.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Robinson, Sir John Richard, 1828-1903.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Sala, George Augustus Henry, 1828-1895.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Smith, Albert Richard, 1816-1860.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Spicer, Henry, d. 1891.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911.

Physical Description: 7 letters.
Box 1

Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Thornburg, George Walter, 1828-1876.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Torrens, William Torrens McCullogh, 1813-1894.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Wingfield, C.S.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Wood, Charles William, 1850?- .

Physical Description: 1 letter.
Box 1

Wood, Ellen (Price) 1814-1887.

Physical Description: 3 letters.
Box 1

Yates, Edmund Hodgson, 1831-1894.

Physical Description: 2 letters.
Box 1

Yule, Sir Henry, 1820-1889.

Physical Description: 1 letter.
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