Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Bryce, Lloyd Stephens, 1851-1917.
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of chiefly of manuscripts submitted to Lloyd Stephens Bryce (1851-1917) for publication while he worked as the editor for the North American Review in the late 1880s and 1890s and correspondence addressed to Bryce, chiefly concerning editorial matters.
- Extent:
- 46 pieces in 2 boxes
- Language:
- English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of an almost equal number of manuscripts and correspondence with a few miscellaneous items. All manuscripts within the collection were submitted to Bryce for publication while he worked as the editor for the North American review. All correspondence is addressed to Bryce and most of it concerns editorial matters. The collection's miscellaneous items include pieces that relate to the personal lives of Bryce and his wife, Edith Cooper, including a marriage settlement on Edith (Cooper) Bryce by Peter Cooper and two passports for Lloyd Stephens Bryce. Authors and correspondents include: Mary Anderson, Sir Edwin Arnold, Phineas Taylor Barnum, Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Henry Ward Beecher, Dion Boucicault, Aaron Burr, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Jefferson Davis, Charles Dickens, William Ewart Gladstone, Robert Green Ingersoll, William McKinley, Nelson Appleton Miles, Helena Modjeska, Clara Morris, Ouida, Theodore Roosevelt, Anton Seidl, Philip Henry Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Walt Whitman.
- Biographical / historical:
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Lloyd Stephens Bryce was a politician and author who was born on September 20, 1851, in Flushing, Long Island. After a boyhood in Georgetown, D.C., he traveled in Europe and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1874. Bryce returned to the United States and in 1879 married Edith Cooper of New York. After receiving a law degree he entered politics, winning a seat in the United States Congress in 1886. His novel Paradise appeared the next year and, following his defeat for re-election to Congress, Bryce turned to literature, publishing The Romance of an Alter Ego (1889; reissued as An Extraordinary Experience in 1891), Friends in Exile (1893), and Lady Blanche's Salon (1899).
At the same time, Bryce served as editor of the North American Review following the death of his predecessor, Allen Thorndike Rice, in 1889. Bryce assumed the editorship in September and continued in that capacity until 1896.
Bryce subsequently served as the U.S. minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg from August 1911 to September 1913. He was a delegate to the Opium Conference of 1913 and was an honorary vice-president of a Conference on Bills of Exchange. He died on April 2, 1917.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Ariel Appleton and Sylvia Bruce, September 1984.
- Arrangement:
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Arranged alphabetically by author in 2 boxes:
- Box 1: A-D (mssHM50518-50541)
- Box 2: G-W (mssHM 50542-50563)
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2191