Finding Aid for the Sidney Herbert Burchell Papers, 1898-1932
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Finding Aid for the Sidney Herbert Burchell Papers, 1898-1932
Collection number: 252
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Manuscripts, Outlines, Proofs, Typescripts
Who's Who in Literature. London: Literary year books press, limited, 1930.
Scope and Content Note
- 1. A list of Burchell's principal works, p.72.
- 2. Photograph of Burchell in frame. Photo of Studio.
- 3. Sidney Herbert Burchell String Quartet. Programs.
- 4. Printed Items:
- Thorley's Framers' Almanac and Diary for 1908.
- Leonard Hill Greenwood. The Influence of Increased Barometric Pressure on Man (Reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.77 & 79.)
- Henzey Leon: Les Fouilles de Chaldée. Extrait de la revue archéologique: November 1881. Paris 1882.
Scrapbook, 1898-1900.
Scope and Content Note
The Duke's Servants. London: Gay and Bird, 1899. Publisher's notice.
Short story [no title], August 28, 1899.
Daneil Herrick...., 1900. Notes.
The Language of Music, March 1900.
Mr. Pepys in the Bosom of His Family, May 1901.
Scope and Content Note
- 1. Notes . . .
- 2. Outline . . . 95 leaves. Autographed manuscript signed.
- 3. Typescript signed, May 1901. 51 leaves, typescript.
Short story [no title], June 9, 1901.
My Lady of the Bass. London: Gay and Bird, 1903.
Scope and Content Note
- 1. Notes....
- 2. Press notices, etc.
The Prisoner of Carisbrooke. London: Gay and Bird, 1904.
Scope and Content Note
- 1. Notes....
- 2. Press notices, etc.
The Mistress of the Robes; a Tale of Queen Anne's Day. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905.
Scope and Content Note
- 1. Notes....
- 2. Preliminary pages of a draft, 1905. 4 leaves. Typescript signed (part manuscript).
- 3. Press notices, etc.
The Grip of Fear. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1906.
Scope and Content Note
- 1. Press notices, etc.
The Beginnings of Freedom in Faith, 1907.
Scope and Content Note
- 1. Notes, etc....
- 2. Autographed manuscipt. 20 leaves. Autographed manuscript.
- 3. Typescript with manuscript corrections. 18 leaves. Typescript marked: Paper read at the Friends Meeting House, October 20, 1907.
The Old News-Writer; a Tale of Daniel DeFoe's Days, 1907.
S.B.H.'s ramblings, May 29, 1908.
Clods and Clover. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1908.
Scope and Content Note
- 1. Notes....
- 2. Correspondence with publisher re frontispiece, June-December 1908.
- 3. Press notices....
An Old Gray Coat, January 24, 1909.
Old Surry Farming Fold, 1909.
Scope and Content Note
- 1.Autographed manuscript. 29 leaves.
- 2. ---. ---., March 14, 1909. 21 leaves. Typescript. Paper read at the Friend's Meeting House, March 14, 1909.
- 1. Old Surrey Farming Folk. 1909. 29 leaves. Manuscript.
- 2. Old Surrey Farming Folk. 1909. 21 leaves. Typescript signed.
Note
Luke's Birthday, June 30, 1909.
Massacre of the Innocents, July 9, 1909.
Only in Jest [1909].
Mr. Preble's Still Small Voice [1909].
The Old South Church [1909].
The Claws of Fate [1909].
A Race for Love [1909].
The Bishop of Marchester [1909].
Uncle Silas [1909].
Priscilla's Stocking [1909].
An Old Grey Coat. [1909].
An Old Grey Coat, 1910. Paper read at the Friends Meeting House, April 24, 1910.
[Short story] January 1911.
Beginnings of Humor in English Literature, 1912.
Scope and Content Note
- 1.Typescript signed with manuscript corrections. 29 leaves. Typescript.
- 2. Manuscript chart to illustrate paper.
Word hunting in the south of England, 1913.
Scope and Content Note
- 1.Typescript signed with manuscript corrections. 12 leaves. Paper read before the Fortnightly Club, Redlands, California, January 30, 1913.
- 2. Press notice, January 1913.
Country Life and Speech in the South of England, 1913. Paper read before the Contemporary Club, Redlands, California, April 14, 1913.
English Country Lanes and Commons, 1915. Read before Fornightly Club, Redlands, California, April 15, 1913.
Jacob Peek, Orange Grower; a Tale of Southern California. London and Hancock, 1913.
Jacob Peek, Orange Grower; a Tale of Southern California. London and Hancock, 1913 [continued].
Scope and Content Note
- 1.Notes....
- 2. Manuscript draft. ca. 700 leaves. Autographed manuscript First draft(?).
- 3. Manuscript draft. 691 leaves. Autographed manuscript Second draft(?).
Jacob Peek, Orange Grower; a Tale of Southern California. London and Hancock, 1913 [continued].
Scope and Content Note
- 4. Notices. etc.....
Sent by the Gods, 1914.
Scope and Content Note
- 1.Manuscript draft. 411 leaves. Autographed manuscript first draft? Commenced October 13, 1914.
- 2. Typescript signed draft. 370 leaves.
Sent by the Gods, 1914 [continued].
Scope and Content Note
- 3. Typescript signed draft. 370 leaves.
Peek City; a Tale of Southern California, 1916.
Twixt Hammer and Anvil, April 22, 1916.
A Visit to a Shakespearean Theatre, 1916. Read at Redland High School, March 23, 1916.
Scope and Content Note
- 1.Manuscript. 14 leaves. Autographed manuscript signed.
- 2. Typescript signed. 13 leaves /2a. carbon.
- 3. Illustrative material.
- 4. Press notices.
A Lost Crusoe [ca. 1916].
A Lost Crusoe, A Tale of Defoe's Days.
London in Wartime, March 10, 1917. Read before the Fortnightly Club, March 15, 1917.
Wartime England, 1917.
Scope and Content Note
- 1.Notes.....
- 2. Manuscript. 24 leaves. Autographed manuscript.
- 3. Manuscript. 43 leaves. Autographed manuscript.
Shepherd of the People
Manuscript, 247 leaves.
Typescript signed draft with correspondence, 257 leaves, 1922.
Typescript signed, 25 leaves, 1923.
Galley proofs with manuscript corrections.
Letters from publisher about galley proofs.
Press notices, 1924.
Notes, 1922
A Bob-Major
Typescript signed (carbon), 298pp. [last 2pp. missing].
Typescript signed (original), 30 leaves, 1932.
A Midnight Interview
Typescript signed (manuscript corrections), 42 leaves.
A Murder Story of Beverly Hills
Typescript signed, 194 leaves.
A Rich to Coventry
Typescript signed, 60 leaves, incomplete (?).
A Trifling Mistake
Typescript signed, 38 leaves.
Across the Tracks
Holograph manuscript, 26 leaves, Berkeley, 1920.
An Inconvenient Marriage
Story, unpublished, holograph, 2, 5 leaves.
Plot outline, holograph, 1, 3 leaves.
An Isle of Dreams
Outline for novel or play? - holograph manuscript, 46 leaves, June 27, 1907.
An Old Naval Signal Book
Holgraph, 9 leaves.
Tablet Re Signal Books, holograph.
Typescript signed (carbon), 12 leaves.
Typescript signed with corrections, 12 leaves.
Cherry Time
Manuscript (signed), 28 leaves, October 18, 1924.
Farm
Outline and notes.
Manuscript, 151 leaves.
Four Open Doors
The Murder Mystery - typescript signed, 194 leaves.
Manuscript, 172 leaves & 18 leaves addenda, May 20-July 2, 1929.
In Shackles of Gold
Skeleton of story and suggested screen treatment, 30 leaves, 2 copies.
Mr. Wellsley Esquire
Manuscript, 207 leaves, incomplete.
Mukashi - Bamashi, a Story of Olden Times [play]
Manuscript (signed), 38 leaves. February 1928, Hoeve, Sussex, England.
Music is My Life
Typescript signed, 35 leaves.
Draft, holograph manuscript, Los Angeles, 1932.
Opening Chapters of Story...
re charcoal burners [outline of story with notes] - manuscript, 40 leaves.
Outline for a Novel
Manuscript, 16 leaves.
Manuscript, 12 leaves.
Pansy Hepple
13 leaves, typescript signed.
Paper Sir!
Typescript signed, 29 leaves.
Peggy Penny
Manuscript (signed), 107 leaves.
Poems
Poems.
Remarks on Shakespeare's Plays
Manuscript, 5 leaves, incomplete.
Richard & Richard
Typescript signed (original), 20 leaves.
Typescript signed (20 leaves), carbon copy.
Manuscript, 42 leaves, February 26, 1924.
Semi-Detached
Manuscript, 27 leaves.
Short Stories
Manuscript (signed), 29 leaves, September 26, 1924.
Miscellaneous notes for short stories.
Manuscript, 14 leaves.
Outline - manuscript, 9 leaves.
Outline - manuscript, 7 leaves.
Manuscript (signed), 43 leaves, August 15, 1901.
Manuscript, 21 leaves.
Manuscript, 11 leaves.
Typescript signed, 38 leaves, draft.
Manuscript, 44 leaves.
Short stories - plots and drafts - untitled, The Haunted House, uintitled.
Short story, untitled - Ebenezer Bashford ... , holograph, 10 leaves.
The Cricket
Typescript signed (carbon), 23 leaves.
Autograph manuscript (signed), 54 leaves, March 14, 1924.
Typescript signed (original), 25 leaves.
Typescript signed (original), 20 leaves, 1931.
Typescript signed (carbon copy).
Of Mice and Men [?] - manuscript (signed), 262 leaves, 21 June-October 5, 1931.
The Glue Girl
[?] - holograph manuscript, 214 leaves, November 1920.
The Goat Girl
Outline and notes.
The Grand - Mesnil Chronicles
Leigh, Stewart. Typescript signed and manuscript commentary, 28 leaves.
Tighe Hopkins's Romance of Escapes, Mifflin
Outline of Tighe Hopkins's Romance of Escapes, Mifflin, 1915 - manuscript, 31 leaves.
Un Poisson d'Avil
Typescript signed, 25 leaves.
Without the Gates
Typescript signed (original), 23 leaves.
Manuscript, 47 leaves, February 29, 1924.
Manuscript, 47 leaves.
Source Material
Dialects
Notes on dialects.
England
Photographs of England probably used as illustrative material.
Map of London, 1745 (reproduction), marked: Cut for mounting on linen.
Source material for stories, talks, etc. on early London.
Source material for stories, talks, etc on early England.