Research Catalog
Robert Louis Stevenson collection of papers
- Title
- Robert Louis Stevenson collection of papers, [1873]-[1944] bulk (1881-1917).
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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Format | Access | Status | Call Number | Location |
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Mixed material | Permit needed | Available | Berg Coll MSS Stevenson | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937.
- Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931.
- Bowers, Fredson.
- Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927.
- Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.
- Guthrie, Charles John Guthrie, Lord, 1849-1920.
- Hamilton, Clayton Meeker, 1881-1946.
- Meredith, George, 1828-1909.
- Moore, George, 1852-1933.
- Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926.
- Steuart, John A. (John Alexander), 1861-1932.
- Stevenson, M. I. (Margaret Isabella), 1829-1897.
- A. P. Watt and Son.
- American Play Company. fmo
- Description
- 201 items.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Notebooks.
- Biography (note)
- Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.
- Provenance (note)
- This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. Also present are materials from Thomas Cabel, Arthur Lee, Sidney Moody, and from the files of the American Play Co.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Berg Coll MSS Stevenson
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- Title
- Robert Louis Stevenson collection of papers, [1873]-[1944] bulk (1881-1917).
- Summary
- This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, undated notebooks, financial and legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include a number of holograph poems and incomplete or unfinished holographs of stories and novels. Also present are manuscripts and emended typescripts by Fredson Bowers, Clayton Meeker Hamilton, John Steuart, and Vladimir Nabokov. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1874 to 1894 from the author to J. M. Barrie, Edmund Gosse, Clement King Shorter, Stevenson's mother Margaret Balfour Stevenson, and others. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from [1873] to 1944, between various correspondents including W. K. Bixby, Sidney Colvin, Edmund Gosse, Charles John Guthrie, Clayton Meeker Hamilton, George Moore, Christopher D. Morley, and others. There are letters to Stevenson from George Meredith and from A. P. Watt & Son., dating from 1878 to 1894.
- Biography
- Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet.
- Indexes
- Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.
- Local Note
- Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937.Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931.Bowers, Fredson.Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927.Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.Guthrie, Charles John Guthrie, Lord, 1849-1920.Hamilton, Clayton Meeker, 1881-1946.Meredith, George, 1828-1909.Moore, George, 1852-1933.Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957.Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926.Steuart, John A. (John Alexander), 1861-1932.Stevenson, M. I. (Margaret Isabella), 1829-1897.Cabel, Thomas. Former ownerHowe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former ownerLee, Arthur Hamilton Lee, viscount, 1868-1947. Former ownerMoody, Sidney. Former ownerYoung, Owen D., 1874- Former ownerA. P. Watt and Son.American Play Company. Former owner
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll MSS Stevenson