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| 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 |
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Grant Allen Literary Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1887-1937, Accession 1989-0059R, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 -- Archives
Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 -- Correspondence
Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. The Woman Who Did
Novelists, English
Poets, English
Articles
Letters (correspondence)
Novels
Poems
Photographs
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, 1936.
Box 1
Folder 22
Newsclippings at Mrs. Allen's death, 1936
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
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Alexander, Margaret. ALS, 4 pages, Aberdeen. A fan letter, June 22, 1895
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Allen, Grant. ALS, 2 pages, 23 Dec. 1893
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Folder 06
Allen, Grant. ALS, (3 pages) [dictated], Bordighera, Italy, Dec. 3, 1892
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Folder 06
Allen, Grant. TLS, 1 page, Antibes, Dec. 14, 1892
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Folder 07
Allen, Grant. ALS, (with envelope), to Florence Farr, Nov. 5, 1895
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Folder 08
Allen, Grant. ALS, 8 pages, to Dearest Mother, Spanish Town, Jamaica, July 15, [1875?]
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Allen, Maud Violet. ANS, 1 page. Instructions to be followed at her death. Sister of Grant Allen, Oct. 3, 1932
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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.
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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
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Folder 01
Bird, Laura J. ALS, 1 page, London. Personal note of praise. Mrs. George Bird? March 3, 1895
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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]
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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
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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
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Folder 04
Fenn, Frederick. Lawyer to Grant Allen, Jr. ANS, London. Wants to be paid, June 4, 1909
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Folder 01
Franks, Winnie. ALS, 4 pages, Upper Norwood. Congratulatory response, Feb. 24, 1895
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Folder 01
Gibbons, Charles Preston. ALS, 2 pages, Gravesend. Extravagantly praising the book, Feb. 25, 1895
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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]
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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
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Folder 01
Hertz, Fanny. ALS, 5 pages, Notting Hill. Close written response praising the book after receiving a presentation copy, Feb. 14, 1895
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Folder 01
Hertz, Fanny. ALS, 4 pages, Notting Hill. More praise and affection, Feb. 14, 1895
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Folder 01
Hertz, Fanny. ALS, 4 pages, Notting Hill. More praise and affection, undated
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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
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Folder 01
Kerr, Isabel. ALS, _____ pages, Killylugh, County Down, undated
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Folder 01
Kinney, J. Kendrick. ALS, 32 pages, Bath. Closely-written pages on the book and marriage, July 28, 1895
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Folder 01
Lagrange, G. ALS, 6 pages, Semmering, Austria. Requests the rights to translate the book into German, undated
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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
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Folder 01
Livens, Herbert M. Minister. ALS, 3 pages, Bolton, Lancs. Praises the book, Sept. 17, 1895
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Folder 01
Lovell, Emma. ALS, 3 pages. Returning proofs of the book, Dec. 7, [1894?]
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Folder 01
MacCartie, Justin C. ALS, 4 pages, Bloomsbury. Enthusiastic letter, Feb. 17, 1895
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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
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MacCartie, Justin C. ALS, 4 pages, Bloomsbury. Praises the book, Aug 9, 1895
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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
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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.]
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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 [?]
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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
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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, undated.
Box 1
Folder 25
Family tree of the Coffin Family of Massachusetts
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, 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
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"The Gold Wulfric," 1886
Box 2
"The Great American Language," 1888
Box 2
"The Greenwood Tree," 1891
Box 2
"Grey Wethers," 1886
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"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,"
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"John Cann's Treasure," 1884
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"The King's Luck," 1891
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"The Lion's Tale," 1890
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Folder
"Major Kinfaun's Marriage," 1890
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"Mammoth Hunting in Siberia," 1888
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"The Milk in the Coco-nut," 1884
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"The Mistletoe Bough," 1891
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"Mountain Stumps," 1890
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"Mud," 1891
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"Narcissus and Daffodil"
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"The New Woman Movement"
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"Of Dates," 1888
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"Ogbury Barrows," 1885
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"The Philosophy of a Visiting Card," 1882
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"The Potato's Place in History," 1889
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"Pretty Poll," 1892
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"Pure Gold," 1887
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"The Recipe for Genius," 1885
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"The Reverend John Creedy," 1883
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"Right and Left," 1889
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"Scores and Tallies," 1886
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"A Scribbler's Apology," 1883
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"A Social Difficulty," 1887
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"Soles and Turebot," 1886
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"Some Sea-Serpents, Original and Selected," 1886
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"St. George and the Dragon," 1890
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"Strictly Incog.," 1887
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"Superfine English," 1885
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"The Theory of Tuttlebats," 1887
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"Three Little Fables"
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"Thunderbolts," 1884
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"The Toad-in-a Hole"
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"The Two Carnegies," 1885
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"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, 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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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, 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, undated.
Box 1
Folder 19
Untitled Play (proofs)
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"
Miscellaneous Manuscripts, undated.
Box 1
Folder 15
Miscellaneous Fragments of Manuscripts