Register of the Grant Allen Literary Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1887-1937

Accession number: 1989-0059R



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Descriptive Summary

Creator: Allen, Grant
Title: Grant Allen Literary Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1887-1937
Accession number: 1989-0059R
Shelf location: Vault
Provenance: The Lafayette Butler Collection, gift of Charles T. Butler, 1989.
Extent: 2 cubic feet
Repository: Pennsylvania State University, University Libraries, Special Collections Library

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Grant Allen Literary Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1887-1937, Accession 1989-0059R, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into two subgroups: Personal and Writing. The Personal subgroup contains the series Biographical, Clippings, Correspondence, Genealogy, and Photographs. The Writings subgroup contains the series Magazine Articles Manuscripts, Magazine Articles Proofs, Novels, Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Manuscripts.

The collection is arranged alphabetically by title of work within each series.

Biographical Note

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (Grant Allen), novelist and essayist, was born 24 February 1848, near Kingston, Ontario, Canada. From an affluent clerical family, he was the son of J. Antisell and Charlotte Catherine Ann (Grant) Allen. He married Caroline Ann Bootheway in 1868 but she died three years later. Allen later married Ellen (Nellie) Jerrard in 1873 and had one son. Partly educated in America and Dieppe, France, he attended King Edwards School in Birmingham, England, and graduated from Merton College, Oxford in 1871.

After three years of teaching at Queen's College in Spanish Town, Jamaica, he returned to England and devoted himself to literature and writing as a profession. His first work, Physiological Aesthetics, was published in 1877. He then wrote a series of popular essays on science. Allen was known as a disciple of Darwinism and wrote on various aspects of evolutionary and sociological thought. He presented his ideas in a prolific output of articles on travel, culture, and natural history and, after 1884, he wrote more sensational fiction on themes of romance, crime, and adventure.

Allen had been reluctant to turn to fiction and the demands of a publisher and frequently wrote under pseudonyms. His first novel, Philista, was written under the non de plume Cecil Power and appeared serially in Gentleman's Magazine. He wrote his first sensational potboiler novel, The Devil's Die, in 1888.

Allen loved to travel and his series of guide books gave him monetary support and time to follow his intellectual bent as a freethinker/socialist. He was a highly respected figure in the group of late Victorian agnostics.

In 1895, The Woman Who Did was published as part of his "Hill Top" novel series. The book advocated the concept of free love through the life of the heroine Hermania, who feels that marriage laws are unfair to women. Allen prefaced his book with an unusual note: "written at Perugia (Italy), Spring 1893, for the first time in my life wholly and solely to satisfy my own taste and my own conscience."

Allen published more than thirty works of fiction, as well as poetry and short stories, under his own name (though he never signed any of his literary work with his full name) and pseudonyms such as J. Arbuthnot Wilson, Olive Pratt Rayner, and Martin Leach Warborough. Novels included The British Barbarians, What's Bred in the Bone, Linnet, and The Scallywag.

Allen also published a similar number of nonfiction books, including collections of essays on natural history, local history and biography, botany, and anthropology. His several hundred articles appeared in various periodicals in England and America. He worked for ten years on the treatise, The Evolution of the Idea of God.

Allen was a close friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and collaborated with him on the work Hilda Wade, where he developed a female detective as the heroine. This was his last work, and on his deathbed he asked Conan Doyle to finish the last episode, ironically titled, " The Dead Man Who Spoke."

Grant died at his home in Hindhead, Surrey, England, on 24 October 1899, at the age of 51 from a disease that damaged his liver.

Scope and Content

The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Grant Allen, including correspondence, original works, publications, newspaper clippings, photographs, and memoirs. Correspondents include family, friends, and his publisher. There are letters received from readers of the controversial The Woman Who Did (1895).

Publications include manuscripts of poems, magazine articles, short stories, a play, and novels, as well as proofs of magazine articles and short stories.

Separated Material

Ninety-two Grant Allen titles are cataloged separately in the Special Collections Library, including fiction and works on aesthetics, travel, the arts, and popular science.

Index Terms

These materials are indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Pennsylvania State University. Researchers wishing to find related materials should search the catalog under these index terms.

Personal Name Subjects

Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 -- Archives

Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 -- Correspondence

Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. The Woman Who Did

Topical Subjects

Novelists, English

Poets, English

Form/Genre Terms

Articles

Letters (correspondence)

Novels

Poems

Photographs

Container List

Biographical Series

Biographical, 1905-1920.

Box 4

Grant Allen by Richard LeGallienne

Box 4

Grant Allen by Herbert W. Tompkins. Gentleman's Magazine, Feb. 1905

Box 1

Folder 21

Harris, Frank. "Grant Allen: A Pen Portrait," Pearson's Magazine, August, 1920.

Clippings Series

Clippings, 1936.

Box 1

Folder 22

Newsclippings at Mrs. Allen's death, 1936

Correspondence Series

Correspondence, 1875-1937.

Most of the correspondence concerns reactions to The Woman Who Did.

Box 1

Folder 01

Aldis, James A. ALS, 10 pages, Queen May's School, Walshall. Long involved letter asking Grant Allen's assistance in getting a novel published, April 16, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Alexander, Margaret. ALS, 4 pages, Aberdeen. A fan letter, June 22, 1895

Box 1

Folder 06

Allen, Grant. ALS, 2 pages, 23 Dec. 1893

Box 1

Folder 06

Allen, Grant. ALS, (3 pages) [dictated], Bordighera, Italy, Dec. 3, 1892

Box 1

Folder 06

Allen, Grant. TLS, 1 page, Antibes, Dec. 14, 1892

Box 1

Folder 07

Allen, Grant. ALS, (with envelope), to Florence Farr, Nov. 5, 1895

Box 1

Folder 08

Allen, Grant. ALS, 8 pages, to Dearest Mother, Spanish Town, Jamaica, July 15, [1875?]

Box 1

Folder 09

Allen, Maud Violet. ANS, 1 page. Instructions to be followed at her death. Sister of Grant Allen, Oct. 3, 1932

Box 1

Folder 10

Allen, Grant. TLS, 1 page, to J. Grant Allen [son], July 6, 1897

Box 1

Folder 10

Allen, Grant. ANS, 1 page, to J. Grant Allen [son], Sept. 16, 1897

Box 1

Folder 11

Allen, Grant. 1 page, Lyme, Dorset. Letter to "Gentlemen," May 15, n.y.

Box 1

Folder 12

Allen, Grant. TLS, 1 page, to his sister, Violet Maud Allen, undated

Box 1

Folder 13

Allen, Grant. ALS, 16 pages, entitled "Metaphysics," undated

Box 1

Folder 01

Anon. ?, F. ALS, 6 pages, Oxford. Long thoughtful letter to "My Dear Allen," Feb. 15, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Anon. ALS fragment, 2 pages. Begins "I open my letter dear to remonstrate with Hermania . . . . ," undated

Box 1

Folder 01

Anon. ALS, 12 pages, London, to "My Dear Allen," Feb 19, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Anon. "A Woman Who Won't." ALS, 3 pages, n.p. Finds the book absurd, undated

Box 1

Folder 04

Anon. ALS, fragment (page 3 only), signed "Cousin[?]." undated

Box 1

Folder 04

Anon. ALS, 1 page, London, to J. Grant Allen, July 13, 1909

Box 1

Folder 03

Archer, William. ALS, 3 pages, Queen's, W.C. Noting that he is the author of the review in the Chronicle, Feb. 14, 1885

Box 1

Folder 03

Archer, William. TLS, 2 pages. Letter concerning his review and Allen's stance on "free love," Feb. 21, 1895

Box 1

Folder 04

Batten, B. ANS, London, to Mr. Ionides. Accepting an invitation, March 25, 1892

Box 1

Folder 04

Bell, A.M. ALS, 4 pages, to Dear Mr. Harrison. Condolences on Grant Allen's death, Nov. 4, 1899

Box 1

Folder 01

Benecke, Ida. ALS, 8 pages, London, to "My Dear Nelly" (Mrs. Grant Allen). From a close friend. Elaborate response to the book, March 8, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Bird, Laura J. ALS, 1 page, London. Personal note of praise. Mrs. George Bird? March 3, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Boulnois, H. Percy. ALS, 4 pages, Salisbury. Is forwarding a copy of the book Miss Bloom, Feb 19, 1895

Box 1

Folder 04

Brooke, Emma. ALS, 2 pages, to Mrs. Grant Allen. On their collaboration on some plays, Oct. 2, 1904

Box 1

Folder 04

Buckley, Claude. ALS, 4 pages, Hanley, Staffordshire, Offers to sell a book title for five pounds. Serves (?) as a put on!, undated

Box 1

Folder 04

Campbell, H.? Lady Campbell. ALS, 5 pages, Colinsburgh, Fife, to Grant Allen. Praising his writings on nature and marriage, Feb. 28, 1897

Box 1

Folder 04

Campbell, Lewis. APS, S. Andrea, Alessio [?], Dec. 13, 1900

Box 1

Folder 01

Clark, Anne [?]. ALS, 4 pages, Chessington, Surrey. From a woman after a visit. Has read the book in proof sheets, which she is returning, Thursday 14th [1895]

Box 1

Folder 01

Clifford, John. Pastor. ALS, 2 pages. Thanks for a copy of the book, which he goes on to praise, April 19, 1895

Box 1

Folder 04

Cotton, James S. ALS, 4 pages, to Mrs. Allen. On the state of Grant Allen's health, mentions reviews of Allen's books and Andrew Lang, March 2, 1886

Box 1

Folder 04

Cotton, James S. ALS, 4 pages, to Mrs. Allen. On the state of Grant Allen's health, mentions reviews of Allen's books and Andrew Lang, undated

Box 1

Folder 01

Cox, Marian Roalfe. ALS. 4 pages, Kensington. A friend praising the book, Feb. 14, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Cummings, Arthur T. ALS, 2 pages, Upper Norwood. Praising the book, Feb. 22, 1895

Box 1

Folder 04

Day, Lewis F. American writer and photographer. ALS, 2 pages, London, to Grant Allen. Cordial letter on a recent collaboration and meeting, June 23, 1889

Box 1

Folder 04

De la Pasture, Elizabeth. ALS, 2 pages, London. Sending a play to read. This could be "E.M. Delafield," b. 1890, or her mother, also a writer. To J. Grant Allen?, undated

Box 1

Folder 01

Delamore, G. Thierry. ALS, 4 pages, St. Victor, Soulaines (Aube), France. An acquaintance sending a note on the book from a French review, undated

Box 1

Folder 04

Du Chaillu, Paul. French naturalist, specialist on gorillas. To Grant Allen, Jr. Autographed note, London, wishing they could go to Africa together and shoot gorillas, July 13, 1890

Box 1

Folder 04

Dunbar, Florence French. ALS, 4 pages, N.Y., to Grant Allen, Jr. On her thesis on William Sharp (Fiona McLeod), April 25, 1937

Box 1

Folder 01

Edwards, William C. Businessman. ALS, 2 pages, London. A friendly but negative letter, Dec. 1, 1896

Box 1

Folder 04

Eley, Mrs. ALS, 2 pages, Tower Hill. Laundress hopes that Mrs. Allen will patronize her again the next summer, undated

Box 1

Folder 01

Esmond-White, H.P. (Lt. Colonel). ALS, 4 pages, Travancore. On superiority of customers among the Naus, May 21, 1895

Box 1

Folder 04

Fenn, Frederick. Lawyer to Grant Allen, Jr. ANS, London. Wants to be paid, June 4, 1909

Box 1

Folder 01

Franks, Winnie. ALS, 4 pages, Upper Norwood. Congratulatory response, Feb. 24, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Gibbons, Charles Preston. ALS, 2 pages, Gravesend. Extravagantly praising the book, Feb. 25, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Gordon, Kathleen. ALS, 4 pages, Hyde Park. So moved by the book that she requests a visit to discuss it with him, July 12 [1895]

Box 1

Folder 01

H______, J. APS, Notting Hill. Close friend who had received a presentation copy, Feb. 14, 1895

Box 1

Folder 04

Hamilton, Eugene Lee. Poet, translator of Dante. ALS, 1 page, Florence, to Mrs. Grant Allen. Sending a quotation, Nov. 15, 1896

Box 1

Folder 01

Harker, Joseph. ALS, 1 page, London. Appreciative but negative letter from a preacher, undated

Box 1

Folder 01

Hertz, Fanny. ALS, 5 pages, Notting Hill. Close written response praising the book after receiving a presentation copy, Feb. 14, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Hertz, Fanny. ALS, 4 pages, Notting Hill. More praise and affection, Feb. 14, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Hertz, Fanny. ALS, 4 pages, Notting Hill. More praise and affection, undated

Box 1

Folder 04

Hume, Fergus. Australian, mystery writer, 1859-1932. ALS, 2 pages, London, to "Dear Mr. Welch." James Welsh. Wants to have Welsh read a play to see if a role would suit him, Oct. 24, 1901

Box 1

Folder 04

Jex-Blake [?], T.W. ALS, 3 pages, Rugby, to S.P. Unwin. Recommending Grant Allen for a position at Shipley School, May 4, 1877

Box 1

Folder 01

Kerr, Isabel. ALS, _____ pages, Killylugh, County Down, undated

Box 1

Folder 01

Kinney, J. Kendrick. ALS, 32 pages, Bath. Closely-written pages on the book and marriage, July 28, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Lagrange, G. ALS, 6 pages, Semmering, Austria. Requests the rights to translate the book into German, undated

Box 1

Folder 01

Lawson [?], Ethel. ALS, 6 pages, Westminster. Thanks for the book, lengthy reaction to hearing George Bernard Shaw read Mrs. Warren's Profession, Feb. 14, 1895

Box 1

Folder 04

Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn), 1822-1898. ANA, London, Christmas greeting, Dec. 25, 1885

Box 1

Folder 01

Linton, Elizabeth Lynn. Writer and translator. ALS, 4 pages. Loving letter but does not approve of the book, Feb. 14, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Livens, Herbert M. Minister. ALS, 3 pages, Bolton, Lancs. Praises the book, Sept. 17, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

Lovell, Emma. ALS, 3 pages. Returning proofs of the book, Dec. 7, [1894?]

Box 1

Folder 01

MacCartie, Justin C. ALS, 4 pages, Bloomsbury. Enthusiastic letter, Feb. 17, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

MacCartie, Justin C. ALS, 8 pages, Bloomsbury. Long reflections on the book in reply to a letter from Grant Allen, Feb. 17, 1895

Box 1

Folder 01

MacCartie, Justin C. ALS, 4 pages, Bloomsbury. Praises the book, Aug 9, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Mainwaring, Alex John. Managing Proprietor, the Hotel Tarrif Bureau, London. ALS, 2 pages. Poem "Epitaph," 8 lines, on back, inspired by the death of Hermania, Feb. 25, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

McDonell, Cicely. ALS, 4 pages, London. Letter from a stranger who finds herself mirrored in the book, April 8, 1895

Box 1

Folder 05

Morison, James Cotter. ALS, 4 pages, London, to Mrs. Allen. Describes his return to London from Florence, Jan. 25, 1880

Box 1

Folder 05

Morison, James Cotter. ALS, 3 pages, Hampstead, to Grant Allen. Arranging a visit to the Allens, June 11, 1884

Box 1

Folder 05

Morris, Jane (Mrs. William Morris). ALS, 3 pages, Hotel Belvedere, to Mrs. Allen; writing from a resort in France?, January 24, [n.y.]

Box 1

Folder 02

Moulton, Louise Chandler. American poet. ALS, 6 pages, London. Strong positive reaction after having read the manuscript. Strong letter on the right to terminate a marriage without love, July 5, [1894?]

Box 1

Folder 02

Mundy, M.E. ALS, 6 pages, Salop. Calling attention to similar works in German literature, April 25, 1895

Box 1

Folder 05

Myers, Thomas [?]. ALS, Cambridge. On a lost brooch, Nov. 1, 1896

Box 1

Folder 05

Nichols, John Beverly (Beverly Nichols?). b. 1899. ALS, 3 pages, Marlborough, to Mrs. Grant Allen, undated

Box 1

Folder 02

Noble, James Ashcroft. Critic and author of Impressions and Memories. ALS, 6 pages, Wandsworth, to "My Dear Nellie" (Mrs. Grant Allen). Intimate letter on the book, Feb. 15, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Noble, James Ashcroft. ALS, 4 pages, Wandsworth. Friendly, personal letter, Feb 28, 1895

Box 1

Folder 05

Norman, Henry. ALS, 4 pages, London, to Mrs. Allen. Sends a gift, and thanks for hospitality on a recent visit, December 31, 1894

Box 1

Folder 05

Norman, Muriel. ALS, 4 pages, Westminster, to Grant Allen. More on similarities in a character in her book, Gallia, to a character in The Woman Who Did, April 18, 1893

Box 1

Folder 06

Notes of where to send large paper copies of Attis.

Box 1

Folder 06

Notes on where to send copy of Science in Arcady.

Box 1

Folder 02

Osborne, C. F. ALS, 2 pages, Reitfontein, Transvaal, South Africa. Has only read reviews of the book but agrees with Grant Allen's premise on unhappy marriage, March 21, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

P_______, Lalla. ALS, 3 pages, London, to "Dearest Grant and Nellie." Friendly personal letter, Feb. 25, 1895

Box 1

Folder 05

Pelham, Henry F. ANS to Juliet Ogilvie, 1 page, Trinity College, Oxford. Changing the date of a meeting, Feb. 26, 1900

Box 1

Folder 02

Platt, William. Writer. ALS, London. From author of Women, Love and Life which was privately printed. Full of praise, Feb. 16, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Preston, John A. ALS, 3 pages, Lyme, Dorset. Elderly man, effusive letter from an acquaintance, Feb. 22, 1895

Box 1

Folder 05

Proctor, Adelaide (1825-1864). English poet? ALS, 3 pages, London. On illuminating letters. Collected as an autograph (?) Mrs. Proctor was active in the women's movement, [undated]

Box 1

Folder 02

Radford, George. H. APS, Surrey. Notes a legal error in the book, April 19, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Radford, George H. APC, Surbiton. Gives Allen the reference to the point of law discussed in his previous note, April 24, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Reed, Launcelot William. ALS, 2 pages, Birchington-on-Sea. A stranger, praising the book, Aug. 29, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Richards, Franklin T. TLS, 1 page, London. Thanks for the book. From his brother-in-law, married to Mrs. Allen's elder sister. Of Trinity College, Oxford, Feb. 23, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Richards, Franklin T. TLS, 1 page, London. Presents his reactions to the book, Feb. 23, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Roberts, Edith. ALS, 8 pages, Ladies' Country Club, Hanover Square, London. Wants a sequel, undated

Box 1

Folder 05

Robins, Elizabeth (1862-1952). ALS, 2 pages, Slough, to Mrs. Allen. Arranging a breakfast to celebrate the release of 30 suffragists from prison, Feb 20, 1907

Box 1

Folder 05

Rothenstein, Sir William. ALS, 1 page, Hampstead, to Jerrard Grant Allen. Cordial thanks for tickets, Nov. 15, 1909

Box 1

Folder 02

Scatchard, Alice Cliff. ALS, 4 pages, Leeds, to "My Dear Friends." Long, intense response to the book, March 1, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Selfridge, S.W. Russell. European editor of the Forum (N.Y.). ALS, 4 pages, Munich. Asking for an article on the stir created by the book, Oct. 12, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Selfridge, S.W. Russell. ALS, 4 pages, Munich. Foreign editor, for the Forum (N.Y.), soliciting an article, Oct. 18, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Sladen, Douglas. Novelist, biographer. ALS, 4 pages, Kensington. On his column for the Queen reviewing the book, Mar. 2, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Small, J.T. ALS, 7 pages, Provincetown, Mass. Has read book in the public library and now is contesting a plan to remove it from the shelves, July 19, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Smeaton, W.H.O. ALS, 3 pages, Edinburgh. Letterhead of The Liberal. Thinks it a great novel, March 31, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Steinitz, Franciska. APC, Rosenberg Oberschlesien. Requesting the rights to translate the book into German, July 24, 1895

Box 1

Folder 05

Stephen, Sir Leslie. ALS, 3 pages, London, toGrant Allen. Accepting and article for the Cornhill, and writes at length of a holiday in Cornwall, Nov. 3, 1881

Box 1

Folder 05

Stephen, Sir Leslie. ALS, 4 pages, St. Ives, Cornwall. Appreciative letter about a submitted article, Sept. 10, 1882 [?]

Box 1

Folder 02

Stone, Nelly. ALS, 4 pages, Banbury. An acquaintance, praising the book, undated

Box 1

Folder 02

Stritt, Marie. ALS, 4 pages. A feminist requesting permission to translate the book into German, Oct. 3, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Tobin, Agnes. ALS, 7 pages, Addison Road Station, to "Dear Grant." Has read Sarah Grand's copy of the book. Very close friend praising the seriousness of the book, Oct. 3, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Trotman, John. Proprietor of a perambulator and rustic furniture works. ALS, 2 pages, London. Querying response, Feb. 16, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Voysey, Charles. Architect. ALS, 4 pages, Hampstead. Quite negative, finds not a trace of morality in the book, Feb. 21, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Voysey, Charles. ALS, 4 pages, Hampstead. Thanking Grant Allen for the book, February 14, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Waugh, Arthur. Publisher. ALS, 1 page, London. Warm thanks for the book, Feb. 13, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Welsh, Berton? ALS, 2 pages. Thanks for a gift copy of the book. James Welsh? undated

Box 1

Folder 02

Willard [?], Frances. ALS, 4 pages, Reigate. Friendly letter disputing the book, Apr. 7, 1895

Box 1

Folder 02

Woods, Margaret L. Author. ALS, 4 pages. Does not agree with Allen's views on marriage, Feb. 25, 1895

Box 1

Folder 05

Wyllarde, Dolf. Woman writer. ALS, 2 pages, London. Invitation to a meeting at the Women's Journalists tea, Nov. 17, 1909

Genealogy Series

Genealogy, undated.

Box 1

Folder 25

Family tree of the Coffin Family of Massachusetts

Photographs Series

Photographs, 1899?, undated.

Box 1

Folder 23

Two Photographic Portrait Proofs by Fredr. Hollyer

Box 1

Folder 24

Shaw, George Bernard. Two Negatives of the Croft, 1899 [?]

Magazine Articles Manuscripts Series

Magazine Articles Manuscripts, 1882-1892.

Box 1

Folder 20

List of Magazine Articles

Box 2

"The Amateur Americans"

Box 2

"An Afternoon Episode"

Box 2

"The Backslider," 1883

Box 2

"The Backslider," 1885

Box 2

"Big Bills," 1892

Box 2

"Big Birds," 1890

Box 2

Folder

"Bird's Nest Soup," 1887

Box 2

"The Birth of Mountains," 1885

Box 2

"British and Foreign," 1886

Box 2

"The Bronze Axe," 1889

Box 2

"Calabogie" 1887

Box 2

"The Cause of Character," 1887

Box 2

"The Colour of Flowers," 1882

Box 2

"Concerning Thomas," 1890

Box 2

"The Curate of Churnside," 1884

Box 2

"De Banana," 1885

Box 2

"Deep-Sea Fish," 1890

Box 2

"Dr. Greatex's Engagement," 1884

Box 2

"Earthquake Weather," 1884

Box 2

"The Emancipated Woman"

Box 2

"Evolution," 1888

Box 2

"Fish as Fathers," 1890

Box 2

"Fish Out of Water," 1885

Box 2

"Food and Feeding," 1884

Box 2

"Fossil Continent," 1887

Box 2

"Fossil Food," 1885

Box 2

"From Fish to Reptile," 1882

Box 1

Folder 14

"Galvanism as Mode of Energy"

Box 2

"Go to the Ant," 1885

Box 2

"The Gold Wulfric," 1886

Box 2

"The Great American Language," 1888

Box 2

"The Greenwood Tree," 1891

Box 2

"Grey Wethers," 1886

Box 2

"High Life," 1891

Box 2

"The History of James," 1886

Box 2

"The Hop-Picker: a Phantasm of the Living"

Box 3

"In the Dark Continent," 1888

Box 3

"The Isle of Portland," 1882

Box 3

"The Ivory Gate"

Box 3

"Jamaican Reminiscences,"

Box 3

"John Cann's Treasure," 1884

Box 3

"The King's Luck," 1891

Box 3

"The Lion's Tale," 1890

Box 3

Folder

"Major Kinfaun's Marriage," 1890

Box 3

Folder

"Mammoth Hunting in Siberia," 1888

Box 3

"The Milk in the Coco-nut," 1884

Box 3

"The Mistletoe Bough," 1891

Box 3

"Mountain Stumps," 1890

Box 3

"Mud," 1891

Box 3

"Narcissus and Daffodil"

Box 3

"The New Woman Movement"

Box 3

"Of Dates," 1888

Box 3

"Ogbury Barrows," 1885

Box 3

"The Philosophy of a Visiting Card," 1882

Box 3

"The Potato's Place in History," 1889

Box 3

"Pretty Poll," 1892

Box 3

"Pure Gold," 1887

Box 3

"The Recipe for Genius," 1885

Box 3

"The Reverend John Creedy," 1883

Box 3

"Right and Left," 1889

Box 3

"Scores and Tallies," 1886

Box 3

"A Scribbler's Apology," 1883

Box 3

"A Social Difficulty," 1887

Box 3

"Soles and Turebot," 1886

Box 3

"Some Sea-Serpents, Original and Selected," 1886

Box 3

"St. George and the Dragon," 1890

Box 3

"Strictly Incog.," 1887

Box 3

"Superfine English," 1885

Box 3

"The Theory of Tuttlebats," 1887

Box 3

"Three Little Fables"

Box 3

"Thunderbolts," 1884

Box 3

"The Toad-in-a Hole"

Box 3

"The Two Carnegies," 1885

Box 3

"Unparliamentary Boroughs," 1885

Box 3

"Venetian Sketches: Two Studies in Medieval

Box 3

"A Very Old Master"

Box 3

"Weeds," 1889

Box 3

"The Wings of the Wind," 1891

Magazine Articles Proofs Series

Magazine Articles Proofs, 1878-1901.

Box 4

"About Amber," 1895

Box 4

"The Adventures of an English Christian Name," 1879

Box 4

"The Amateur in Science," 1895

Box 4

"American Jottings," 1886

Box 4

"An American Wild Flower," 1883

Box 4

"Among the Blue Mountains," by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1879

Box 4

"Among the "Thousand Islands," 1887

Box 4

"An Ancestry of Birds," 1884

Box 4

"An Ancient Lake Bottom," 1884

Box 4

"Beautiful London," 1893

Box 4

"The Beginnings of Speech," 1894

Box 4

"Big Bills," 1892

Box 4

"Bird's Nest Soup," 1887

Box 4

"The Birth of Mountains," 1885

Box 4

"British Buttercups," 1884

Box 4

"By Olive and Pinewood," by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1883

Box 4

"Calabogie," 1887

Box 4

"Cap d'Antibes," 1890

Box 4

"Caribbean Twelve Per Cents," by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1882

Box 4

"Cauld Iron," 1892

Box 4

"Cecca's Lover," 1894

Box 4

"The Celt in English Art," 1891

Box 4

"The Chinese Play at the Haymarket," by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1880

Box 4

"Cimabue and Coal-Scuttles," 1880

Box 4

"The Cinderella of Civilization," 1894

Box 4

"Claude Tyack's Ordeal," 1887

Box 4

"Concerning Clover," 1885

Box 4

"Concerning Keepsakes," 1885

Box 4

"Concerning Thomas," 1890

Box 4

"The Dead Man Speaks," 1895

Box 4

"Decorative Decorations," 1880

Box 4

"Deep-Sea Fish," 1890

Box 4

"Democracy and Diamonds," 1891

Box 4

"The Dog's Universe," 1880

Box 4

"The Dormouse at Home," 1883

Box 4

"Down the Rapids," 1879

Box 4

"Dr. Wardraper's Lie," 1894

Box 4

"Earthquake Weather," 1884

Box 4

"The English Chronicle," 1880

Box 4

"An English Shire," 1882

Box 4

"Entirely Accidental," 1896

Box 4

"The Epic of April," 1893

Box 4

"The Epicure in Jamaica," by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1881

Box 4

"An Epicurean Tour," 1878

Box 4

"Evelyn Moore's Poet," 1895

Box 4

"Evolution and Geological Time," 1880

Box 4

"Fair Exchange," 1896

Box 4

"Fiction and Mrs. Grundy," 1892

Box 4

"The First Engineer," 1893

Box 4

"A Fragment from Keats," 1879

Box 4

"The Garden Snail," 1884

Box 4

"The Genesis of Genius," 1881

Box 4

"Geology and History," 1880

Box 4

"Glan Conway," 1889

Box 4

"Grateful Joe," 1894

Box 4

"The Great California Heiress," 1895

Box 4

"The Great Tropical Fallacy," by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1878

Box 4

"Grey Wethers," 1886

Box 4

"Grouse and Ptarmigan," 1889

Box 4

"The Growth of Sculpture," 1880

Box 4

"Half-an-Hour at Didcot Junction," by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1879

Box 4

"The Harvest Mouse: A Miniature Monkey," 1889

Box 4

"Hellas and Civilization," 1978

Box 4

"The History of Haconby," 1879

Box 4

"The History of James," 1886

Box 4

"Honeysuckle," 1883

Box 4

"Individualism and Socialism," 1889

Box 4

Folder

"Jerry Stokes," 1891

Box 4

"The King's Luck," 1891

Box 4

"The King's Palaces," 1894

Box 4

"The Lake George Tour," by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1883

Box 4

"Letters in Philista," 1891

Box 4

"The Lion's Tale," 1890

Box 4

"Llanfihangel Skerries," 1897

Box 4

"The Lobster at Home," 1896

Box 4

"Lyme Regis: A Splinter of Petrified History," 1880

Box 4

"Major Kinfaun's Marriage," 1894

Box 4

"The Mayfield Mystery," 1889

Box 4

"Memories of Fontainebleu," 1889

Box 4

"The Mistletoe Bough," 1891

Box 4

"The Modest Scorpion," 1893

Box 4

"Monaco and Monte Carlo," by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1881

Box 4

"My Circular Tour" by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1880

Box 4

"Mr. Cimabue Brown on the Defensive," 1881

Box 4

"Mr. Pierrepont's Repentance," 1886

Box 4

"My Lares and Penates," 1887

Box 4

"Nation Making: A Theory of National Character," 1878

Box 1

Folder 16

"Natural Inequality"

Box 4

"The New Hedonism," 1891

Box 4

"Night Life," 1893

Box 4

"Norman Blood or Otherwise," 1895

Box 4

"Note on a New Poet," 1891

Box 4

"Novels Without a Purpose," 1896

Box 4

"Old English Clans," 1881

Box 4

"The Origin of London," 1881

Box 4

"Our Debt to Insects," 1884

Box 1

Folder 17

"Our Literary Gallery. A Day's Shopping"

Box 4

"Our Noble Selves," 1887

Box 4

"The Philistine Turns," 1882

Box 4

"The Philosophy of Drawing-Rooms," 1880

Box 4

"Plain Words on the Woman Question," 1889

Box 4

"The Potato's Place in History," 1889

Box 4

"The Prisoner of Assiout," 1891

Box 4

"Queen Dido's Reign," 1894

Box 4

"Scores and Tallies," 1895

Box 4

"A Self Respecting Servant," 1894

Box 4

"The Senior Proctor's Wooing: A Tale of Two," 1881 Continents"

Box 4

"A Side Light on Gray's "Bard," 1879

Box 4

"Social Anarchy," 1895

Box 4

"Some English Place Names," 1881

Box 4

"Some Sea-Serpents, Original and Selected," 1886

Box 4

"St. George and the Dragon," 1890

Box 4

"St. Nicholas in England," 1895

Box 4

"Stevenson in Gath," 1901

Box 1

Folder 18

"Stevenson in Goth"

Box 4

"The Story of Wulfgeat," 1882

Box 4

"Strictly Incog.," 1887

Box 4

"A Submerged Village," 1890

Box 4

"Superfine English," 1885

Box 4

"Surrey Farmhouses," 1888

Box 4

"Surrey Mill-Wheels," 1886

Box 4

"The Sweet Tooth," 1894

Box 4

"The Temple of Fate: A Fable," 1891

Box 4

"The Theory of Tittlebats," 1887

Box 4

"Thistles," 1886

Box 4

"Toft and Croft," 1894

Box 4

"The Tuscan Nationality," 1893

Box 4

"Two Family Histories," 1895

Box 4

"Under the Willows," 1896

Box 4

"Unparliamentary Boroughs," 1885

Box 4

"Unsuspected Englishmen," 1885

Box 4

"The Venerable Bede," 1880

Box 4

"The Vice of Thrift," 1897

Box 4

"Weeds," 1889

Box 4

"The Welsh in the West Country," 1882

Box 4

"Why Do We Eat Our Dinner?," 1879

Box 4

"Wintering at Hyeres," by J. Arbuthnot Wilson, 1880

Box 4

"Woman's Intuition," 1890

Box 4

"Woman's Place in Nature," 1889

Novels Series

Novels, 1894-1898.

Box 7

Babylon. By Cecil Power [pseud.]. 299 pages, legal size, autograph manuscript. Lacking chapters 15, 16, 17, pp. 98-120. Page proofs for Chapter 22, 24 pages. Very few corrections in ink included, 1885

Box 5

Evolution of the Idea of God. 358 pages, legal size, autograph manuscript and typescript intersersed. Lacks pages 1-2, 118, 197-317, 1897

Box 8

For Maimie's Sake. 270 pages, legal size, autograph manuscript. Lacks page 57. Revisions and corrections, 1886

Box 12

Linnet. Typescript. Letter size, 2 chapters, unpaginated. Corrections in ink, 1898

Box 11

Linnet: A Romance. 417 pages, legal size, autograph. Numerous revisions and corrections, 1898

Box 13

Michael's Crag. 112 pages, legal size, autograph manuscript, bound in worn cloth and red suede leather spine. Corrections and revisions, 1893

Box 13

Gould, F. Carruthers. Original silhouette illustrations drawn from Grant Allen's Michael's Crag. 63 illustrations approximately 4" x 6". Mounted in an album. Ink heightened by gouache, 1893

Box 6

Philistia. 288 pages, legal size. Lacks chapters xv-xvi-xvii, pages 126-141. Page proof attached of Chapter 12 (10 pages). A very few ink corrections, 1884

Box 10

The Scallywag. 363 pages, letter size, autograph manuscript. Revisions and corrections, 1890

Box 9

What's Bred in the Bone. 325 pages. 325 pages, legal size, autograph manuscript. Revisions and corrections, 1890

Plays Series

Plays, undated.

Box 1

Folder 19

Untitled Play (proofs)

Poems Series

Poems, 1872-1876, undated.

Box 1

Folder 26

"After Terence (An Evolutionary Version)"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Aldeburgh. Whitsuntide, 1894"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Among the Elves"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Among the Elves" (typescript)

Box 1

Folder 26

"A Ballade of August"

Box 1

Folder 26

"A Ballade of Religion and Marriage"

Box 1

Folder 26

"A Ballade of the Making of Ballades"

Box 1

Folder 26

"A Bas la Bourgeoisie, A Psalm of the Commune"

Box 1

Folder 26

"The Bold Buccaneer"

Box 1

Folder 26

"By the Brookside"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Christianity"

Box 1

Folder 26

"I. The Creed of the Party of Orders and II. The Creed of the Party of Anarchy"

Box 1

Folder 26

"La Dame aux Carmelias"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Epilogue to an Anthology"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Ergo Sum"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Feb. 10, 1874"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Felo de Le"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Gambetta" 1872

Box 1

Folder 26

"Hymn to Yahweh. From the Hebrew"

Box 1

Folder 26

"In Bushey Park"

Box 1

Folder 26

"A Life's Epilogue" (2 copies)

Box 1

Folder 26

"Maimie and I"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Misgivings"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Murder and Suicide" 1872

Box 1

Folder 26

"Pessimist"

Box 1

Folder 28

Poems to Nellie

Box 1

Folder 27

Poems, untitled

Box 1

Folder 26

"The Poet's Need"

Box 1

Folder 26

"A Poet's Wife" (2 copies)

Box 1

Folder 26

"Premiss and Conclusion"

Box 1

Folder 26

"The Return of Aphrodite"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Sunday Night at Mabille"

Box 1

Folder 26

"To F.L.R. On Leaving Jamaica" 1876

Box 1

Folder 26

"To H.L.W."

Box 1

Folder 26

"To Herbert Spencer"

Box 1

Folder 26

"To Nellie"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Tommy Tucker's Calendar," by C. Plumb Jamme

Box 1

Folder 26

"Une de ces Dames"

Box 1

Folder 26

"A Vindication"

Box 1

Folder 26

"Vindicice Darwiniance"

Micellaneous Manuscripts Series

Miscellaneous Manuscripts, undated.

Box 1

Folder 15

Miscellaneous Fragments of Manuscripts