Lloyd Stephens Bryce Papers: Finding
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Lloyd Stephens Bryce Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1807-1895
Bulk dates: 1882-1895
Collection Number: mssHM 50518-50563
Creator:
Bryce, Lloyd Stephens, 1851-1917.
Extent:
46 pieces in 2 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
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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.
Language: English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Lloyd Stephens Bryce Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift of Ariel Appleton and Sylvia Bruce, September 1984.
Biographical Note
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.
Scope and Content
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.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author in 2 boxes:
- Box 1: A-D (mssHM50518-50541)
- Box 2: G-W (mssHM 50542-50563)
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Cooper, Edith.
North American review.
American periodicals -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Authors, American -- 19th century.
Periodical editors -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Correspondence.
Forms/Genres
Letters (correspondence) United States 19th century.
Manuscripts for publication United States 19th century.
Alternate Authors
Bryce, Lloyd Stephens, 1851-1917, correspondent.
Anderson, Mary, 1859-1940.
Arnold, Edwin, Sir, 1832-1904.
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887.
Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890.
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910.
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898.
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899.
McKinley, William, 1843-1901.
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925.
Modjeska, Helena, 1840-1909.
Morris, Clara, 1848-1925.
Oiuda, 1839-1908.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Seidl, Anton, 1850-1898.
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888.
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Arnold, Sir Edwin. The Duty and Destiny of England in India.
1892 HM 50518
Barnum, Phineas Taylor. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1889, Nov. 29 HM 50519
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant. Operations about Charleston, S.C..
1886 HM 50520
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant. The Shiloh Campaign.
1886 HM 50521
Beecher, Henry Ward. Progress of Thought in the Church.
1882 HM 50522
Beecher, Henry Ward. The Revision of Creeds.
1882 HM 50523
Beecher, Henry Ward. Shall Clergymen be Politicians?
1885 HM 50524
Boucicault, Dion. Opera.
1887 HM 50525
Burr, Aaron. To Cornelia L. Hopkins.
1807, Aug. 16 HM 50526
Burroughs, John. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1892 HM 50527-50529
Chamberlain, Joseph. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1891, Feb. 16 HM 50530
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. In Defense of Shelley's Wife.
1894 HM 50531
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. The Private History of the Jumping Frog Story.
1894 HM 50532
Cooper, Peter. Settlement of $3,000 per year on his grand-daughter Edith (Cooper) Bryce...
1879, May 31 HM 50533
Davis, Jefferson. The Indian Policy of the United States.
1886, Sep. 20 HM 50534
Davis, Jefferson. Life and Character of the Hon. John Caldwell Calhoun.
1887 HM 50535
Davis, Jefferson. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1889 HM 50536-50538
De la Ramée, Marie Louise. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1890, June 12 HM 50539
Dickens, Charles Culliford Boz. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1892, July 18 HM 50540
Dorsey, Mary E. (Krafft). To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
c.1890 HM 50541
Gilbert, John C. The Moral Influence of the Drama.
1883 HM 50542
Gladstone, William Ewart. The Elections and Home Rule: A Reply.
1892, July 30 HM 50543
Gladstone, William Ewart. Some Remarks on Colonel Ingersoll's Reply.
1888 HM 50544
Ingersoll, Robert Green. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1889, Nov. 21 HM 50545
McKinley, William. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1890, May 11 HM 50546
Mansfield, Richard. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1892, July 29 HM 50547
Miles, Nelson Appleton. The Lesson of the Recent Strikes.
1894 HM 50548
Miles, Nelson Appleton. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1890, Dec. 9 HM 50549
Modjeska, Helena (Opid). Success on the Stage.
1882, Oct. 6 HM 50550
Morris, Clara. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1891, Aug. 1 HM 50551
Navarro, Mary (Anderson) de. To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1891, Aug. 2 HM 50552
Roosevelt, Theodore. Degeneration and Evolution.
1895 HM 50553
Seidl, Anton. A Musician's Retort.
1895 HM 50554
Sheridan, Philip Henry. Lee's Surrender.
1883 HM 50555
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Army Camp-fires.
1888, Oct. 10 HM 50556
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Comrades and Friends.
1886, Feb. 12 HM 50557
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Grant, Thomas, Lee.
1887, Mar. 31 HM 50558
Stanton, Elizabeth (Cady). To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1892, May 14 HM 50559
U.S. Dept. of State. Passports for Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1883-1887 HM 50560-50561
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps). To Lloyd Stephens Bryce.
1892, Feb. 1 HM 50562
Whitman, Walt. Old Poets.
1890 HM 50563
