A. P. Watt and Son Records, 1861-1971 bulk (1880-1949).

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Creator

A. P. Watt and Son.

Location

Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Extent

• ca. 2,468 items.

Scope/Contents Notes

This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts, manuscripts, correspondence, and legal and financial documents. The typescripts and manuscript consist of memoranda and miscellaneous items relating to Marie Corelli, Rudyard Kipling, William Somerset Maugham, and Herbert George Wells.

The correspondence consists of letters from the firm, dating from 1879 to 1971, to Wystan Hugh Auden, Marie Corelli, Charles Garvice, Harold Paget, Michael Roberts, Bertha Vyver, H. G. Wells, the publishing firm Doubleday &Co., the literary agency of Field, Roscoe & Co., and others, as well as an undated letter relating to the firm from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Meyrick Jones, and letters drafted for A. P. Watt and Son by Sir Henry Rider Haggard,dated 1887, as well as letters relating to the Watt family. There are letters to A. P. Watt and Son from MaudeAdams, J. W. Arrowsmith (Bristol, England), T. Foster Barham, Benn (Ernest) Ltd., Sir Walter Besant, John Buchan,Cassell & Co., Ernest V. Chandler, Marie Corelli, Doubleday, Page & Co., A. C. Doyle, Lady Jean (Leckie) Doyle, Louis Fabulet, Field, Roscoe & Co., William Hooker Gillette, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, William Heinemann Ltd.,Edward Jenkins, Caroline (Balestier) Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, James Stanley Little, Low (Sampson) Marston & Co.,H. L. Lucoque, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Maffey & Brennall, W.S. Maugham, A. A. Milne, David Christie Murray, Paget Literary Agency, Paramount Pictures, William Dundas Scott-Moncrieff, Lucienne Southgate, Tillotson & Son, Amy Catherine (Robbins) Wells, H. G. Wells, Marjorie (Craig) Wells, W. B. Yeats, and others, dating from 1878 to 1971.

Biographical/Historical Note

A. P. Watt and Son is a British literary agency. It was founded in 1875 by Alexander Pollock Watt.

Controlled Access Terms

• Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924.
• Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
• Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.
• Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.
• A. P. Watt and Son.
• Correspondence.

Additional Creator Names

• Adams, Maude, 1872-1953.
• Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
• Barham, T. Foster.
• Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901.
• Buchan, John, 1875-1940.
• Chandler, Ernest V.
• Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924.
• Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930.
• Doyle, Jean Leckie, Lady.
• Fabulet, Louis, 1862-1933.
• Garvice, Charles, d. 1920.
• Gillette, William, 1853-1937.
• Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925.
• Jenkins, Edward, 1838-1910.
• Jones, Meyrick.
• Kipling, Caroline (Balestier).
• Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
• Little, James Stanley.
• Lucoque, H. L.
• Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
• Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.
• Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956.
• Murray, David Christie, 1847-1907.
• Paget, Harold, b. 1876.
• Roberts, Michael, 1902-1948.
• Scott-Moncrieff, William Dundas.
• Southgate, Lucienne.
• Vyver, Bertha.
• Wells, Catherine, 1872-1927.
• Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.
• Wells, Marjorie Craig.
• Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
• Benn, Ernest, limited, London.
• Cassell & Company.
• Doubleday, Page & Company.
• Field, Roscoe & Company.
• Heinemann (Firm)
• J. W. Arrowsmith.
• Maffey & Brennall.
• Paget Literary Agency.
• Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
• Sampson Low, Marston & Company.
• Tillotson & Son.