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Machine readable finding aid created 2006. Description is in English Berg Coll MSS CraigieGuide to the Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie collection of papers, 1877-1933 bulk (1890-1911) The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. The New York Public LibraryNew York, New York The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. New York Public Library. Room 320. Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018-2788 (212) 930-0802 brgref@nypl.org http://nypl.org/research/chss/spe/brg/berg.html Processed by: Staff Date Completed: 2006 Encoded By: Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider Processed and encoded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

Descriptive Summary Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie collection of papers, 1877-1933 bulk (1890-1911) Hobbes, John Oliver, 1867-1906. Berg Coll MSS Craigie1,607 items. The New York Public Library. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

New York, New York

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, notebooks for 1891 and 1892, and legal documents. Subjects Personal Names Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928. Higgs, Henry, 1864-1940. Laurie, Thomas Werner. Marbury, Elisabeth, 1856-1933. Richards, John Morgan, 1841-1918. Richards, Laura Hortense. Seaman, Owen, Sir, 1861-1936. Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926. Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914. Whibley, Charles, 1859-1930. Organizations T. Fisher Unwin (Firm) American Play Company, former owner. Subjects Hobbes, John Oliver, 1867-1906. Document Types Correspondence. Notebooks. Administration Information Source

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Custodial History

Previous owners include the American Play Company and T. Fisher Unwin.

Access

Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Biography

Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie was an Anglo-American novelist, dramatist and lecturer. She wrote under the pseudonym John Oliver Hobbes.

Scope and Content Note

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, notebooks for 1891 and 1892, and legal documents. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of plays, novels, and portions thereof, as well as a financial receipt for money paid to Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie's father, John Morgan Richards, by the actor's agent Elisabeth Marbury. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1877 to 1906, to her son John Craigie, Edmund William Gosse, Henry Higgs, Thomas Werner Laurie, her parents Laura Hortense and John Morgan Richards, Theodore Watts-Dunton, the literary agency T. Fisher Unwin, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1897 to 1933, between various correspondents, including Sir Edmund Gosse, John Morgan Richards, Sir Owen Seaman, Clement King Shorter, Charles Whibley, T. Fisher Unwin, and others.

Series Descriptions/Container List Manuscripts and Typescripts Manuscripts Cased [Ambassador, The] Holograph, incomplete, of the play. Wanting Act I and part of Act II, scene 1 n.d. ms. 63 p.

With an additional fragment, 6 p.; Also fragment of unidentified play, 3 p. and prose fragment, 1 p.; at back of notebook fragment of another scene from another unidentified play, 2 p.

Cased Cloisters, The: a comedy in three acts. Holograph fragment. Cast of characters includes those of A study in temptations n.d. ms. 4 p.

With her: The sinner's comedy. Holograph

Cased Dream and the business, The. Holograph n.d. ms. 256 p.

With 6 p. of unidentified manuscript material Differs from novel as published, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1906

Manuscript box "I saw a shade." Holograph quotation from fly-leaf n.d. ms. 1 p.

With unidentified letter, acquired with Mrs. Craigie's letters

Cased Light o' love, The. Holograph of play. Cast of characters includes those of A study in temptations. Notebook contains the beginning of two stories, 2 p. each, one dated June 2, 1892 n.d. ms. 30 p.

Signed "John Oliver Hobbes"

Cased [Study in temptations, A] Holograph, incomplete. Wanting p. 66-70 and 155 to end n.d. ms. 147 p.

With 4 p. fragment, paginated 40-43, of another draft

Cased Vineyard, The. Holograph, incomplete. Chapters 8-12, 16-17, 19-20, and 23 incomplete. Chapter 23 ends on p. 301 of the N.Y., Appleton, 1904 edition n.d. ms. 170 p.

Also 20 unidentified, scattered pages

Notebooks Cased [Notebook] Holograph. 39 p. of text in two sections. Section 1: untitled ms., heavily revised. 34 p. Section 2: first 5 p. of Part III, Chapter I of her novel, The school for saints, published in 1897. Bound in vellum n.d. notebooks 1 v.

Signed "John Oliver Hobbes"

Cased School for Saints, The. Holograph. Incomplete. Chapters 1-2 as published, chapters 3-8 unidentified and 9 p. numbered 69-77, out of series in this manuscript n.d. notebooks 92 p. Cased Sinner's comedy, The. Early holograph fragmentary draft. Contains also two beginnings of dramatized version, 27 p. stylistic exercises, aphorisms and a fragment of an unidentified play 1891 Dec. 21 - 1891 Dec. 29 notebooks 27 p.

Signed "John Oliver Hobbes"

Cased Sinner's comedy, The. Holograph, incomplete. Includes p. 1-36, 57-59, 65-72 and 95-154 of the N. Y. Cassell [1892] edition. Chapters XI and XII pubilshed as X and XI. Contains her: The cloisters: a comedy in three acts. Holograph fragment, undated. 4 p. n.d. notebooks 42 p.

Signed "John Oliver Hobbes"

Cased Study in temptations, A] Holograph fragment, paginated 41-79, beginning with published Chapter IV 1892 Sept. 24 notebooks 41 p.

Signed "John Oliver Hobbes"; Notebook also contains 2 p. fragment of beginning of unidentified story and analysis of Ibsen's Ghosts, 9 p.

Cased [Study in temptations, A] Holograph of additional drafts and dramatization, fragments of untitled play and prose n.d. notebooks 111 p., 52 p. Typescripts Manuscript box [Story] Typescript (carbon) n.d. typescripts 7 p.

Came with T. Fisher Unwin correspondence

Manuscript box (Craigie) Marbury, Elisabeth. Account rendered to Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie's father, John Morgan Richards. Typescript 1907 Apr. 29 typescripts 1 p. Correspondence Outgoing Correspondence Manuscript box Courtney, [William L.]. ALS to 1905 May 25 corr. out 1 letter

Manuscript box Craigie, John. 303 ALS to her son 1897 Sept. 17 - [1906 Aug. 6?] corr. out 303 letters in 59 folders Manuscript box Dominick, Mr. [--?]. ALS to [n.d.] corr. out 1 p. Cased Gosse, Edmund William. 1 ANS and 5 ALS to 1899 [Feb.?] - 1899 Mar. 12 corr. out 6 letters

With her: A repentance. London, 1899. Proof

Cased Gosse, Ellen Epps. Letter, written by her secretary to 1899 Mar. 2 corr. out 2 p.

With her: A repentance. London, 1899. Proof

Manuscript box Heinemann, William. ALS to 1904 Mar. 16 corr. out 2 p. Manuscript box Higgs, Henry. 30 ALS to 1901 June 21 - 1906 Mar. 11 corr. out 30 letters in 6 folders Manuscript box Laurie, [Thomas Werner]. 14 ALS, 1 TL to 1897 Apr. 8 - 1904 June 11 corr. out 15 letters

Came with T. Fisher Unwin correspondence

Manuscript box Richards, Laura Hortense and John Morgan. 249 ALS, 2 postcards to her parents 1877 May 25 - 1906 Aug. 12 corr. out 251 letters in 30 folders

Contains 2 letters from C. E. Godwin, Oct. 26, 1876 and Feb. 15, 1877 relating to the 10 year old Pearl

Manuscript box T. Fisher Unwin. 922 ALS, TLS, telegrams, etc. to 1891 - 1906 corr. out 922 letters in 53 folders

Contains reader's reports by G. K. Chesterton, W. H. Dircks, E. M. English, W. H. Chesson, and Edward Garnett

Manuscript box Watts-Dunton, Theodore. 3 ALS to 1898 Feb. 17 - 1899 Feb. 10 corr. out 3 letters Manuscript box [--?], Flora. ALS to her friend [n.d.] corr. out 1 letter Manuscript box [--?], Flossie. ALS to 1904 July 12 corr. out 1 p. Manuscript box [--?], Tip. 5 ALS to her friend. One dated Nov 22 [n.y.], one undated 1890 Apr. 6 - 1905 July 4 corr. out 5 letters Related Correspondence Manuscript box Arlen, Michael. TLS, ALS to John Craigie 1933 June 14; [n.y.] Nov. 1 related corr. 2 letters Manuscript box Bryce, James Byrce, Viscount. ALS to T. Fisher Unwin. Relates to P. M. T. R. Craigie 1906 Aug. 26 related corr. 1 letter Manuscript box (Craigie) Craigie, Reginald. ALS to his son, John Craigie. Expresses sympathy on death of his wife, Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie 1906 Aug. 16 related corr. 1 p. Manuscript box (Craigie) Godwin, E[--?]. ALS to Mrs. John Morgan Richards. Relates to correspondent's daughter, Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie [n.y.] Dec. 23 related corr. 3 p. Manuscript box Gosse, Sir Edmund William. ALS to John Morgan Richards. Relates to Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie 1910 Oct. 20 related corr. 1 p. Manuscript box Harrison, Frederic. ALS to T. Fisher Unwin. Relates to Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie 1906 Aug. 23 related corr. 1 p. Manuscript box Hawkins, Anthony Hope. ALS to John Morgan Richards. Relates to Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie 1906 Oct. 3 related corr. 1 p. Manuscript box (Craigie) Labouchere, Henry du Pre. TL (carbon) to T. Fisher Unwin. Relates to P. M. R. Craigie [1906] Aug. 25 related corr. 1 p. Manuscript box (Craigie) Lee, Sir Sidney. ALS to John Morgan Richards. Correspondent is Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie's father 1906 Oct. 7 related corr. 2 p. Manuscript box Moore, George. TLS to John Morgan Richards. Relates to Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie 1915 Dec. 2 related corr. 1 p. Manuscript box (Craigie) Richards, Laura Hortense. ALS to T. Fisher Unwin. Letter from P. M. T. R. Craigie's mother 1897 Nov. 27 related corr. 1 letter Manuscript box (Craigie) Seaman, Sir Owen. 3 ALS to John Morgan Richards. Relates to Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie, daughter of correspondent 1908 Dec. 9 - 1911 Apr. 20 related corr. 3 letters Manuscript box Shorter, Clement King. 4 ALS to John Morgan Richards. One dated 1911 Jan. 25 related corr. 4 letters Manuscript box Terry, Ellen. ALS and letter to John Morgan Richards 1907 Aug. 13; 1908 Dec. 14 related corr. 3 p. Manuscript box (Craigie) Unwin, Thomas Fisher. TLS to John Morgan Richards. Relates to Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie 1906 Aug. 28 related corr. 1 p. Manuscript box (Craigie) Van Duzer, Frederick C. TLS to John Morgan Richards. Relates to Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie 1906 Oct. 31 related corr. 1 letter Manuscript box Whibley, Charles. 23 ALS to T. Fisher Unwin. Letter of 1906 relates to P. M. T. R. Craigie 1897 - 1906 related corr. 23 letters in 5 folders Manuscript box Wyndham, George. ALS to T. Fisher Unwin. Relates to Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie 1906 Aug. 25 related corr. 1 p. Manuscript box (Craigie) Craigie, Reginald. ALS to his son John Craigie. Expresses sympathy on death of his wife, Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie 1906 Aug. 16 related corr. 1 p. Legal Documents Manuscript box (Craigie) Agreements, correspondence, forms, statements, from various theatrical agencies concerning Pearl Mary Theresa Richards Craigie n.d. legal docs. 3 folders

From the files of the American play company