Aberdare Library
01685 880050
Jack Jones (novel) ; Elwyn Jones (TV script).
Athlone Public Library
Co. Westmeath, Ireland
00 353 902 92166
John Broderick (plays – short stories – novels – notes).
Bath Central Library
01225 787400
Battersea Reference
Library
020 8871 7467
(individual letters from a wide range of authors including the following) Daphne du Maurier; L. P. Hartley; Hugh Walpole;
Humbert Wolfe; J. B. Priestley; Beverley Nichols; E. H.
Young; Laurence Housman; Horace Annesley Vachell; George
Saintsbury; Desmond MacCarthy; Virginia Woolf; Walter de la
Mare; Lord Dunsany; John Meade Falkner; Michael Sadleir;
Sarah Grand; James O. Hannay ["George A. Birmingham"]; A.
E. Housman; Laurence Binyon; Arnold Bennett; Robert Ross;
Jerome K. Jerome; Ronald Firbank; Sidney Lee; Sarah Grand;
Henry James; Bernard Shaw; Arthur James Balfour; Lewis
Melville; Richard Le Gallienne; Edward Dowden; Richard
Garnett; John Ruskin; John Masefield; Rudyard Kipling; also a handwritten poem by Thomas Hardy.
Edward Thomas (letters); Thomas Hardy (poem);
Helen Thomas (letters); Algernon Charles Swinburne
(poem); Theodore Watts-Dunton (poem).
Belfast Central Library Sam Thompson Collection (plays and letters - including letters
028 9050 9150 from Stewart Parker ; Tyrone Guthrie ; Philip Hobsbaum ; Sam
Hanna Bell); Forrest Reid (novels – essays - criticism); St John
Ervine Collection; Lynn Doyle Collection (including letters from the following authors) Coulson Kernahan; John Boyd;
Joseph Tomelty; Oliver St John Gogarty; Sean O'Faolain; Sean
O'Casey; Austin Clarke; George Bruce; Norah Hoult; George
Blake; Neil Munro; Richard Rowley; Alfred Perceval Graves;
F.R. Higgins; St John Ervine; Amanda M'Kittrick Ros (letters - short stories – poems – novels - essays) ; J. S. Crone Archive
(including letters from W.B.Yeats; St John Ervine; Shane
Leslie; Benedict Kiely; “George A. Birmingham) ; E. N. da C.
Andrade Collection.
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Birmingham City Archives, Large collection of autograph letters, authors including:
Birmingham Central Alfred Ainger; Kingsley Amis, William Archer; Reginald
Library
0121 303 4217
Arkell; John Arlott; Arthur James Balfour; Jane Barlow; J. M.
Barrie; Stan Barstow; Hilaire Belloc; Arthur Christopher
Benson; Walter Besant; Rudolf Besier; John Betjeman; R. D.
Blackmore; Algernon Blackwood; Gordon Bottomley; Marjorie
Bowen; M. E. Braddon; Robert Bridges; “James Bridie”;
Stopford A. Brooke; John Buchan; Charles Causley; Sydney
Carlyle Cockerell; Mary Coleridge; John Churton Collins;
Sidney Colvin; “Marie Corelli”; “Clemence Dane”; John
Davidson; Aubrey De Vere; Austin Dobson; Edward Dowden;
Arthur Conan Doyle; Havelock Ellis; St John G. Ervine;
Sebastian Evans; Millicent Garrett Fawcett; “Michael Field”;
John Galsworthy; Richard Garnett; W. S. Gilbert; Sarah Grand;
Harley Granville-Barker; Helen Granville-Barker; H. Rider
Haggard; Augustus J. C. Hare; A. E. Housman; Richard
Hughes; W. R. Inge; L. P. Jacks; Jerome K. Jerome; Henry
Arthur Jones; Sir John Scott Keltie; Rudyard Kipling; Isa Craig
Knox; Andrew Lang; James Laver; Sir Sidney Lee; Beatrix
Lehmann; Henry Livings; W. Macqueen-Pope; S. P. B. Mais;
Miles Malleson; John Masefield; W. Somerset Maugham;
Beatrice Mayor; George Meredith; Alice Meynell; A. A. Milne;
George Moore; John Morley; Sir Lewis Morris; David Christie
Murray; Henry Newbolt; Beverley Nichols; Ivor Novello; Sean
O’Casey; Hesketh Pearson; Adelaide Eden Phillpotts; Eden
Phillpotts; Ezra Pound: J. B. Priestley; Sir Arthur Quiller-
Couch; Terence Rattigan; Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie;
William Michael Rossetti; A. L. Rowse; John Ruskin;
Christopher St John; Siegfried Sassoon; Sir Owen Seaman;
Ronald Searle; Bernard Shaw; Frank Sidgwick; Edith Sitwell;
E. OE. Somerville; Robert Speaight; Flora Annie Steel; Sir
Leslie Stephen; Alfred Sutro; Geoffrey Trease; Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree; Sir George Otto Trevelyan; Lord Vansittart;
John Wain; Hugh Walpole; Keith Waterhouse; Stanley J.
Weyman; Oscar Wilde; Emlyn Williams; Cecil Woodham-
Smith; Mrs Humphry Ward; W. B. Yeats; Charlotte M. Yonge.
A. H. Bullen Collection: papers and correspondence; Barry
Jackson (letters – personal papers – diaries); Charles Causley
(one poem); John Drinkwater (letters – legal documents – poems - plays); Leslie Halward (plays – novels – autobiography
– short stories, etc.); G. Wilson Knight (plays – essays – drafts and notes, etc.).
Bolton Central Library
01204 333173
In the Walt Whitman Fellowship Collection - George W.
Russell (letters); Edward Carpenter & John Johnston (letters);
Edward Carpenter (letters); Edward Dowden (letter); Ernest
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Rhys (letters); John Johnston ( scrapbooks & diaries); Standish
O'Grady (postcard).
Brian O’Malley Central Mike Haywood (literary papers).
Library, Rotherham
01709 823611
Bridlington Library
01262 672917
Winifred Holtby Collection (including biographical writings and notes by Vera Brittain).
Bromley Central Library H. G. Wells Collection (mostly published work, but including
020 8460 9955 some letters).
Bromsgrove Public
Library
01905 765025
Laurence Housman Letters (3 boxes of letters, poems and photographs, including letters from Bernard Shaw & Clemence
Housman & letters to Ethel Mannin).
Burnley Central Library Robert Neill (manuscript of one novel).
0282 437115
Camden Libraries.
Swiss Cottage Library
020 7974 6527
In A.L. Series (including the following authors, mostly letters)
John Betjeman; Stella Gibbons (+ essay); Alec Craig (letter);
H.G. Wells (+ essay) ; Bernard Shaw; John Drinkwater ; W. W.
Jacobs; John Galsworthy; Anthony Hope ; Walter de la Mare;
May Sinclair ; Henry Festing Jones ; Robert Lynd; Hall Caine;
Havelock Ellis; W. L. Courtney ; Frederick William Rolfe
(“Baron Corvo”); Archibald Marshall; Walter Besant; William
Ernest Henley; W. L. Courtney ; Pamela Frankau ; Henry W.
Nevinson.
Cardiff Central Library. “Huw Menai” (autobiographical notes); Idris Davies
Research Room (autobiographical notes); Glyn Jones (short story); Gwyn
029 2038 2116 Williams (poem); E. Eynon Evans (play); Arnold Bennett
(letter); Edward Thomas (letter); Emyr Humphreys (letters & novels); Cledwyn Hughes (novels); Hilda Vaughan (novel);
Richard Vaughan (novel); Llewelyn Wyn Griffith (prose);
Gwyn Thomas (novels); George Ewart Evans (novel); Henry
Treece (poems); Rhys Davies (short stories); Roland Mathias
(poems); William Glynne-Jones (novel); H. Idris Bell (poems);
Ken Etheridge (plays); Jack Jones (novels).
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Carnegie Library, George Douglas Brown (letters – essays); W. Macqueen-Pope
Ayr (letters)
01292 286385
Ethel M. Dell (novel); James Elroy Flecker (plays).
Cheltenham Public
Library
01242 532688
Colne Library
01282 865227
Cork City Library
00 353 21 427 7110
Peter Whalley (television scripts).
Frank O'Connor (short story).
Cornish Studies Library, H. D. Lowry (novels – letters – poems – short stories).
Redruth
01209 216760
Coventry Central Library Angela Brazil (photographs – scrapbooks – diaries – letters –
024 7683 2314 poems – bibliographies).
Croydon Central Library D. H. Lawrence (letters which are photocopies of the originals
020 8760 5400 held by the University of Texas at Austin).
Cumnock & Doon Valley Adam Brown Todd collection.
District Library HQ
01563 555457
Derby Local Studies
Library
01332 255393
Walter Brierley (autobiography – letters – novels – photographs – essays – plays – correspondence with Walter
Allen; John Hampson ; Geoffrey West).
Dorset County Library Thomas Hardy Collection (letters – illustrations + microfilm of
01305 224448 plays – novels & prose).
NB the major Thomas Hardy collection is in Dorset County Museum.
Dublin City Public
Libraries. Dublin City
Archive
00 353 1 6775877
Letters and papers of the following authors: Michéal Mac
Liammóir; Lennox Robinson; Lady Augusta Gregory;
“Rutherford Mayne”; Edward Dowden; Donagh MacDonagh;
Denis Johnston; Paul Vincent Carroll; George Shiels; St John
G. Ervine; Sean O’Casey; John Boyd. Also photographs of
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Brendan Behan, Kate O’Brien, Michéal Mac Liammóir and others.
Papers relating to Andrew Lang in the David Winter Archive.
Dundee City Archive and Record Centre
01382 434494
Ealing Central Library.
Austin Dobson (letters).
Local History Library
020 8567 3656
Edinburgh City Libraries. In Scottish Department: Alexander Anderson (poems –
Central Library letters); Robert Ford.
0131 242 8000
In Edinburgh Room (mostly letters, from the following authors): Sheila Kaye-Smith; John Galsworthy; Rafael Sabatini;
W. R. Inge; Hugh Walpole; Bruce Marshall (novel); John
Buchan; J. M. Barrie; Arnold Bennett; Arthur Christopher
Benson; Marquis of Crewe; Seton Gordon; Lord Cromer; A. E.
W. Mason; Maurice Hewlett; Rudyard Kipling; William
McGonagall; W. Pett Ridge; Owen Seaman; Bernard Shaw;
Harry de Windt; J. M. Barrie; G. K. Chesterton; H. Rider
Haggard; Hilaire Belloc; Thomas Hardy; Alfred Austin; Jerome
K. Jerome; Augustine Birrell; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Arthur
James Balfour; Hall Caine; Mrs Humphry Ward; Israel
Zangwill; Alfred Ainger; Henry James; William Sharp (“Fiona
Macleod”); Algernon Charles Swinburne; Sir George Otto
Trevelyan; John Ruskin; Andrew Lang; Moray McLaren (radio scripts).
Gloucestershire County Ivor Gurney Collection (letters – poems – photographs – notes -
Library. Gloucestershire music ); P. J. Kavanagh (bibliographies); George MacBeth
Collection
01452 425020
(letters); Edmund Blunden (essays & letters); E. L. Voynich
(letters); Walter de la Mare (letters); J. C. Squire (letters); A. E.
Housman (letters); F. W. Harvey (letters); Robert Bridges
(letters); Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (letters); Frank Sidgwick
(letters); Leonard Clark (notes); John Freeman (letter) ; W. H.
Davies (letter to).
Greenwich Local History E. Nesbit (letters – poems – stories for children).
Library
020 8858 4631
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Guidhall Library.
Dept of Manuscripts
020 7332 1868
Letters from the following authors: A. St John Adcock; J. M.
Barrie (+ plays & autobiographical writings); William Canton;
G. K. Chesterton; Mary Cholmondeley; Marie Corelli; W. L.
Courtney; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler;
Catherine Gavin; Thomas H. Gill; Winston Graham; “Anthony
Hope”; Eric Linklater; “Lucas Malet”; John Mavrogordato;
Elizabeth Robins, Rosemary Sutcliff.
(in the Hodder & Stoughton correspondence files): “Anthony
Berkeley”; Judith M. Berrisford; John Bowen; Marjorie
Bremner; Iris Bromige; Norah Burke; George Burnett; Hall
Caine; Paul Capon; John Newton Chance; Leslie Charteris;
John Creasey; R. F. Delderfield; Eleanor M. Fairbairn; Monica
Furlong; Elizabeth Goudge; Margaret Lynn; Denise Robins;
Mary Stewart; G. W. Target.
Hackney Public Libraries. Marie Corelli (novels – essays – prose - letters).
Stoke Newington District
Library
020 8356 5230
Halifax Central Library.
Phyllis Bentley (prose – novels – biography – stories for
Local History Section children – short stories – autobiography – criticism – geography
01422 392605 & travel writings).
Hounslow Council Library George Manville Fenn (novels).
Network. Chiswick Library.
Local Studies Collection
020 8994 1008
Hove Central Library
01273 290700
In Autograph Collection (letters): William Archer; Hilaire
Belloc; Hector Bolitho; Gilbert Frankau; Weedon Grossmith;
Thomas Hardy; Joseph Hatton ; A. E. Housman ; Augustus
Jessopp; Rudyard Kipling; E. V. Lucas; Alice Meynell; E.
Nesbit; Alfred Noyes; Ouida; Eden Phillpotts; Arthur W.
Pinero; John Ruskin; Bram Stoker; Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree;
Edward Thomas.
In Wolseley papers (letters): Alfred Austin; Rhoda Broughton;
Oscar Browning; Marie Corelli; Earl of Cromer; Austin
Dobson; Edward Dowden; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Edmund
Gosse; George Grossmith; H. Rider Haggard; Thomas Hardy;
Augustus J. C. Hare; Frank Harris; Henry James; Henry Arthur
Jones; Rudyard Kipling; Andrew Lang (+ poem); Violet Paget
["Vernon Lee"]; George Meredith; John Morley; Ernest Rhys;
Lady Anne Ritchie; Sir Rennell Rodd; Goldwin Smith; Sir
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Hull Central Library
01482 210077
Herbert Beerbohm Tree; Sir George Otto Trevelyan; Henrietta
Keddie [i.e. Sarah Tytler]; Mrs Humphry Ward.
In Winifred Holtby Collection: manuscripts of Winifred
Holtby: novels – letters – diaries – short stories – notes – poems
– plays – lectures – essays; letters to Winifred Holtby from authors including: Leonard Barnes: H. E. Bates; Phyllis
Bentley: Vera Brittain (+ lecture); Lionel Britton; John Brophy:
Richard Church; E. M. Delafield; St John Ervine; Merle Eyles;
Eleanor Farjeon; Edward Garnett: Mary Gaunt; Phoebe
Fenwick Gaye; Louis Golding; Radclyffe Hall; Cicely
Hamilton; Pamela Hinkson; Margaret Irwin; Naomi Jacob;
Storm Jameson; Esther Meynell; Wilfrid Meynell; Naomi
Mitchison; Thomas Moult; Henry W. Nevinson; Ezra Pound;
Lorna Rea; Hilda Reid; Ernest Rhys; Elizabeth Robins; V.
Sackville-West; Bernard Shaw (interviews); R.C. Sherriff;
Pauline Smith; Annie S. Swan; Doreen Wallace; H. G. Wells;
Rebecca West; Virginia Woolf.
Huntly Branch Library George MacDonald collection
Aberdeenshire
01466 792179
Keighley Public Library Gordon Bottomley (letters).
01535 618212
Lancaster Central Library “E. C. R. Lorac” [Edith Caroline Rivett] (novels) ; Laurence
01524 580700 Housman (plays) ; Laurence Binyon (letters- poems) ; Gordon
Bottomley (poems) ; W. Riley (novels)
Leeds City Libraries.
Central Library. Local
Studies Library
0113 247 8274
E. R. Eddison (letters – novels - translations); Dorothy Una
Ratcliffe (novels - poems); Phyllis Bentley (novels); Storm
Jameson (novels); Naomi Jacob (novels); W. Riley (novels);
Sir William Watson (poems); Eric Knight (novels); Leo
Walmsley (novels).
Leicester City Libraries. Samuel J. Looker (notes).
Reference Library
0116 2995402
Lewisham Local Studies Alan Brownjohn (poems - novels) ; Leslie Paul (biography –
Centre prose - autobiography) ; Henry Williamson (letters).
020 8297 9677
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Lincoln Central Library Thomas Hardy (letters); F. Tennyson Jesse Collection (poems –
01522 510800 letters – short stories – novels – essays – plays – notes + letter from Harold Dearden).
Liverpool Central Library. In Picton Autograph Letter Collection (letters from the
Hornby Library following authors): Alfred Austin; Hilaire Belloc; Arnold
0151 233 5835 Bennett; Gerald Bullett; Hall Caine;Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ;
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy; T. S. Eliot; Havelock Ellis; Oliver
Elton; St John Ervine; John Galsworthy; Stephen Graham;
Kenneth Grahame; Charles Graves; James Hanley; A. P.
Herbert; Laurence Housman; Glyn Jones; Rudyard Kipling;
Stephen Leacock; Hugh MacDiarmid; Sir Compton Mackenzie;
John Masefield; Aylmer Maude; W. Somerset Maugham; A. A.
Milne; Nigel Morland; H. V. Morton; John Middleton Murry;
George Orwell; H. D. Rawnsley; William Michael Rossetti;
John Ruskin; Owen Seaman; William Sharp; Bernard Shaw;
Clement K. Shorter; L. A. G. Strong; A. S. J. Tessimond; R. C.
Trevelyan; Hugh Walpole; H. G. Wells.
In other miscellaneous collections (mostly letters) - Sir Edwin
Arnold; Arthur Calder-Marshall; Lord Crewe; J. W. Mackail;
John Masefield (poems – illustrations); John Ruskin.
In Synge Collection (letters) - M. Betham-Edwards; Oscar
Browning; Thomas Hardy; “Edna Lyall”; George MacDonald;
George Meredith; Sir Lewis Morris; Owen Seaman; Charlotte
M. Yonge.
In M. Moore Collection (letters) - Sir Edwin Arnold; Annie
Besant; Hall Caine; Henry James; Rudyard Kipling; John
Morley; Sir Lewis Morris; John Ruskin; W. B. Yeats.
Malvern Library
01902 552199
Manchester Central
Library
0161 234 1900
Photographs of persons associated with the Malvern Festival, including Barry Jackson and Bernard Shaw.
In miscellaneous numbered/named collections (mostly letters)
James Agate (+ autobiography - novels); Philip James Bailey;
Arthur James Balfour; Wilson Barrett; Harold Begbie; Arnold
Bennett; Walter Besant; R. D. Blackmore; M. E. Braddon;
Robert Bridges; Harold Brighouse; Stopford A. Brooke; Robert
Buchanan; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Hall Caine; Joseph
Conrad; Earl of Cromer; R. B. Cunninghame Graham; Aubrey de Vere; Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (+ note); Austin Dobson;
St John Ervine; Millicent Garrett Fawcett (+ notes - prose);
John Galsworthy; Louis Golding (+ essays); Eva Gore-Booth;
Walter Greenwood; H. Rider Haggard; Thomas Hardy (+ short story); Beatrice Harraden; Ian Hay (novel); Herbert P. Horne;
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Mitchell Library,
Glasgow
0141 287 2999
W. H. Hudson; Henry Arthur Jones; David Lambert (novels);
Andrew Lang; Henry Livings (+ plays); Justin McCarthy; J. W.
Mackail; Marquis of Crewe; Sir Theodore Martin; Gerald
Massey; George Meredith; Allan Monkhouse (novels); C. E.
Montague (novels – short stories); John Morley; Anthony
Nayman; Robert Neill (+ novels); Elizabeth Robins; William
Michael Rossetti; John Ruskin; Bernard Shaw; Clement K.
Shorter; J. H. Shorthouse; George R. Sims; Flora Annie Steel;
Sir Leslie Stephen; Algernon Charles Swinburne; T. Thompson
(description & travel - novels); Sir George Otto Trevelyan;
Theodore Watts-Dunton; H. G. Wells.
In General Collection (letters): Hilaire Belloc; Phyllis Bentley;
St John Ervine; T. Thompson.
In Griffith Collection (letters): Walter Besant; Harley
Granville-Barker; Thomas Hardy; A. P. Herbert; Robert
Hichens; Barry Jackson; Compton Mackenzie; Sir Lewis
Morris; John Ruskin; George W. E. Russell; Bernard Shaw;
Charlotte M. Yonge.
In Grindon Collection (letters): Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree;
Edward Dowden; Sidney Lee.
James Lansdale Hodson Collection (diaries – novels – short stories – plays – filmscripts – libretti – poems – biography – description & travel – letters - essays).
In Redfern Collection (letters): Walter Besant; H. G. Wells.
J. Cuming Walters Collection (mainly literary criticism).
F. Anstey (letter); Ruby M. Ayres (letters); Sabine Baring-
Gould (letter); James Barke (letters); J. M. Barrie (novels);
Harold Begbie (letter); J. J. Bell (letter – short stories - novels);
Hilaire Belloc (letters); Arnold Bennett (letter); Arthur
Christopher Benson (letters); E. F. Benson (letters); Walter
Besant (letter); Laurence Binyon (letters) ; Augustine Birrell
(letters); George Blake (letters); Enid Blyton (letters); Alan
Bold (letters); Mary Borden (letter); M.E. Braddon (letters);
James Bridie (letters – poems - illustrations); Stopford A.
Brooke (poems); George Mackay Brown (poems); John Buchan
(letters); Tom Buchan (novel – letters – poems - plays); Robert
Buchanan (letters); Francis Burnand (letters); Hall Caine
(letters); William Canton (poems); Edward Carpenter (letters);
Catherine Carswell (large collection of letters); Sydney Carlyle
Cockerell (letters); Stephen Coleridge (letters); Sidney Colvin
(letters); Stewart Conn (letters - poems); Joseph Conrad
(letters); Marie Corelli (letters); A. J. Cronin (letters); R. B.
Cunninghame Graham (letters); Catherine Lucy Czerkawska
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(letters); John Davidson (letter); Walter de la Mare (letters);
Aubrey de Vere (letters); Harry de Windt (letters); Warwick
Deeping (letters); Ethel M. Dell (letters); Evelyn Douglas
(letters – poems); John Drinkwater (letters); St John Ervine
(letters); George Eyre-Todd (poems); B.L. Farjeon (letters);
Robert Ford (letters - poems); Gilbert Frankau (letters); G.S.
Fraser (poems – letters); William Freeland (poems); Robin
Fulton (poems); John Galsworthy (letters); Robert Garioch
(letters – lecture notes - poems); William Gerhardie (letters);
Philip Gibbs (letters); Duncan Glen (poems); Louis Golding
(letter); Edmund Gosse (letters); W. S. Graham (poems – notes); Alasdair Gray (novels – plays - poems); Neil Gunn
(letters); Tyrone Guthrie (letters); H. Rider Haggard (letters);
Alex Hamilton (novels – notes - letters); Clifford Hanley
(letters); Ian Hay (letters); W.E. Henley (letters); Robert
Hichens (letters); Joseph Hocking (letters); Philip Hobsbaum
(letter); Violet Hunt (letters); A. S. M. Hutchinson (letters);
Isobel Wylie Hutchison (large collection of poems); W. R. Inge
(letters); Storm Jameson (letter); Jerome K. Jerome (letters);
Augustus Jessopp (letter); Henry Arthur Jones (letters); Sheila
Kaye-Smith (letters); Robert Keable (letters); Robert Kemp
(letters); Hugh Kingsmill (letters); Rudyard Kipling (letters);
Isa Craig Knox (poems - letters); Andrew Lang (letters);
Vernon Lee (prose); Tom Leonard (plays – letters ); Eric
Linklater (letters); Maurice Lindsay (poems – letters – radio scripts - notebooks); Liz Lochhead (plays – poems - letters);
William J. Locke (letters); H. D. Lowry (prose); E. V. Lucas
(letters); Edna Lyall (letter); Rose Macaulay (letters); Norman
MacCaig (poems); Hugh MacDiarmid (letters - poems); George
MacDonald (letter - novels); Tom McGrath (letters); Stephen
McKenna (letters); Compton Mackenzie (letters); Ian Maclaren
(letter); John Masefield (letter); A. E. W. Mason (letters);
Gerald Massey (letter); Robins Millar (letters); Naomi
Mitchison (letters – short stories – essays - poems); Graham
Moffat (plays); William Montgomerie (letter); Edwin Morgan
(essays – poems – translations – letters – illustrations – interviews – photographs – plays – short stories - diaries); John
Morley (letter); N. Brysson Morrison (biography); Stephen
Mulrine (letter); F. Marian McNeill (letters); Leonard Merrick
(letters); Sir Lewis Morris (letter); Neil Munro (letters – essays
– criticism); Gilbert Murray (letters); John Middleton Murry
(letter); David Neilson (letters – illustrations – poems - translations); E. Phillips Oppenheim (letters); Baroness Orczy
(letters); John Oxenham (letters); Max Pemberton (letters); Ezra
Pound (letters); J. B. Priestley (letter); John Purser (letters);
Ernest Raymond (letter); W. Pett Ridge (letters); W. Graham
Robertson (letters); Michael Rossetti (letter); Anthony Rowley
(letter); John Ruskin (letters - notes); Owen Rutter (letters); V.
Sackville-West (letters); Michael Sadleir (letters); R. Crombie
Saunders (letters – short stories); Robert Service (letters –
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poems - photographs); Bernard Shaw (letter); R. C. Sherriff
(letter); Sydney Goodsir Smith (plays - letters); William Soutar
(poems); H. de Vere Stacpoole (letters); Sir Leslie Stephen
(letters); Ena Lamont Stewart (plays); Lytton Strachey (letters);
Alice V. Stuart (poems); Algernon Charles Swinburne (letters);
Angela Thirkell (letter); E. Temple Thurston (letters); H. M.
Tomlinson (letter); Gael Turnbull (journals – poems – personal notes); Douglas Young (letters); Edgar Wallace (letters); Alec
Waugh (letters); Evelyn Waugh (letter); H. G. Wells (letters);
Rebecca West (letters); Hamish B. Whyte (notes – letters - poems); George Woden (novels – large collection of essays – large collection of short stories – notebooks - plays); Charlotte
M. Yonge (letters); Douglas Young (poems); Sir Francis
Younghusband (letters); Israel Zangwill (letters).
In Robert Davidson Main Bequest: John Drinkwater (letter).
Neath Public Library Jack
01639 644604
Newcastle City Library
0191 261 0691
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (letters); Joseph Skipsey (letters – poems); Oscar Wilde (letters).
Northern Drama Library (plays): Paul Bailey; John Boyd; Sid
Chaplin; Stewart Conn; James Kirkup; Tom Pickard; Alan
Plater; C. P. Taylor; Peter Terson.
Newport Central Library Alexander Cordell (novels); Jack Jones (radio scripts – novels
01633 265539 - plays); M. P. Shiel (letters); Arthur Machen (speeches – essays
– letters – photographs + collection of letters assembled by
John Gawsworth); W. H. Davies (poems); Bernard Shaw
(notes).
North Eastern Education George Shiels Collection.
And Library Board.
Library HQ Ballymena
028 2566 4100
Northampton Central
Library. Northampton
Studies Collection
01604 462040
H. E. Bates (letters – short stories).
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Orkney Library
01856 873166
J. Storer Clouston (literary papers and correspondence); George
Mackay Brown (literary papers and correspondence); Burns
Singer (poems); Edwin and Willa Muir (letters and personal papers). Letters from: “Hugh MacDiarmid”; Ian Hamilton
Finlay; F. Marian McNeill; Kathleen Raine; Eric Linklater.
Paisley Central Library Evelyn Hood (novels); Donald Malcolm (prose – novels).
0141 887 3672
Plymouth Central Library Eden Phillpotts (novels).
01752 305923
Pontefract Library
01597 826860
J. S. Fletcher (letters – essays – novels – personal papers).
Florence Henniker (letter); Richard le Gallienne (essay on J. S.
Fletcher).
Powys County Library HQ H. L. V. Fletcher (novels – prose – plays).
01597 826860
Preston Harris Library "E. C. R. Lorac" [Edith Caroline Rivett] (novels); Laurence
01772 532676 Housman (plays); Laurence Binyon (letters - poems); Gordon
Bottomley (poems); W. Riley (novels).
Reading Central Library. John Wain (notes and drafts for novels, poems and criticism);
Local Studies Library
0118 901 5950
Alan Wykes (biography – description & travel – journalism – plays – short stories).
NB the larger John Wain collection formerly in Reading Public Library has now been bought by
Edinburgh University Library .
Richmond Central
Reference Library
020 8940 5529
In Montague Summers file (letters): J. Redwood Anderson (+ biography); Arthur Calder-Marshall; Nevill Coghill; Nancy
Cunard; Walter de la Mare; M. Willson Disher; David Garnett;
Rayner Heppenstall; Compton Mackenzie; Francis Meynell;
Raymond Mortimer; Stephen Spender; Frank Swinnerton;
Evelyn Waugh; Dennis Wheatley.
Douglas Sladen volumes of letters: F. Anstey; Arthur James
Balfour; Florence L. Barclay; J. M. Barrie; Mackenzie Bell;
Hilaire Belloc; S. L. Bensusan; Walter Besant; R. D.
Blackmore; Algernon Blackwood; M. E. Braddon; Robert
Bridges; John Buchan; G. B. Burgin; Francis Burnand; Frances
Hodgson Burnett; Hall Caine; Neville Cardus; Egerton Castle;
Mrs W. K. Clifford; Sidney Colvin; Joseph Conrad; Marie
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Corelli; W. L. Courtney; Oswald Crawfurd; Marquis of Crewe;
S. R. Crockett; Aleister Crowley; Clemence Dane; Austin
Dobson; Sarah Doudney; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; George
Egerton; Jeffrey Farnol; John Foster Fraser; John Galsworthy;
Richard Garnett; Philip Gibbs; W. S. Gilbert; George Gissing;
Elinor Glyn ; Edmund Gosse ; Kenneth Grahame ; Sarah
Grand; Francis Gribble; George Grossmith; Weedon Grossmith;
H. Rider Haggard; Radclyffe Hall; Thomas Hardy; Beatrice
Harraden; Joseph Hatton; Ian Hay; William Heinemann;
Florence Henniker; G. A. Henty; Maurice Hewlett; “John
Oliver Hobbes”; Anthony Hope; Violet Hunt; L. P. Jacks; W.
W. Jacobs; Henry James; Edgar Jepson; Jerome K. Jerome;
Henry Arthur Jones; Rudyard Kipling; Andrew Lang; Richard
Le Gallienne; William Le Queux; Sidney Lee; William J.
Locke; Mrs Belloc Lowndes; E. V. Lucas; Henry W. Lucy;
Justin McCarthy; Compton Mackenzie; Lucas Malet; A. E. W.
Mason; Helen Mathers; Elinor Mordaunt; John Morley; Sir
Lewis Morris; Arthur Morrison; W. Robertson Nicoll; E.
Phillips Oppenheim; Irene Osgood; Gilbert Parker; Max
Pemberton; Eden Phillpotts; Arthur W. Pinero; Sir Arthur
Quiller-Couch; Lord Rennell of Rodd; W. Pett Ridge; Morley
Roberts; Rafael Sabatini; Owen Seaman; Bernard Shaw ;
Clement K. Shorter; Flora Annie Steel; Bram Stoker; Annie S.
Swan; Frank Swinnerton; H. D. Traill; Sir Herbert Beerbohm
Tree; Katharine Tynan; Hugh Walpole; Mrs Humphry Ward;
Alec Waugh; H. G. Wells; Stanley J. Weyman; Frederic Whyte;
C. N. Williamson; Margaret L. Woods; Israel Zangwill.
R. D. Blackmore (novels – notes – letters); George MacDonald
(letter); Virginia Woolf (letter).
Rochdale Local Studies
Library
01706 864900
Trevor Hoyle (novels – plays).
Salford City Libraries.
Library HQ
0161 778 0141
Harold Brighouse Collection ; James Lansdale Hodson (novels).
Salisbury Public Library John Creasey (novels).
01722 324145
Sheffield City Libraries. Edward Carpenter (large collection: letters – prose writings
Archives Division translations – poems – biographical & autobiographical writings
0114 203 9395 – sermons – lectures – short stories – notes etc.)
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Francis Berry (poems); R. Murray Gilchrist (collection); Eden
Phillpotts (novels).
Letters etc. from other authors, including: Annie Besant;
Algernon Blackwood; G. Lowes Dickinson; Havelock Ellis;
“Violet Fane”; E. M. Forster; George Grossmith; Robert
Graves; Laurence Housman; Violet Hunt; Coulson Kernahan;
Miles Malleson; John Masefield; Aylmer Maude; John Morley;
Henry W. Nevinson; Lord Sydney Olivier; Alfred Ollivant;
A.R. Orage; Stephen Reynolds; John Ruskin; Henry S. Salt;
Siegfried Sassoon; Olive Schreiner; William Sharp; Bernard
Shaw; Osbert Sitwell; Rabindranath Tagore; H. G. Wells.
Shepherd’s Bush Library Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (letters); Sir Charles Wentworth
020 8753 3842 Dilke (letters); John Ruskin (letters); Ernest Rhys (letters);
Bernard Shaw (letters).
Samuel Butler (letters); E. M. Almedingen (biography Shrewsbury Public
Library
01743 255380
Sligo County Library
00 353 71 47190
Lady Gregory (letters); Douglas Hyde (letters); W. B. Yeats
(letters); Jack B. Yeats (letters).
Southampton Archives Leslie Thomas (novels – letters – television and film scripts,
Services etc.)
023 8083 2251
Stirling Council Libraries. James Bryce (small collection of letters).
Admin. HQ
01786 432383
Stratford Reference Neil
Library, London
020 8430 6890
Street Public Library
0508 646 2829/2830
A. E. Housman (letters); Clemence Housman (letters);
Laurence Housman (letters – poems – illustrations – notes – plays – essays + letters from Arthur Quiller-Couch; Bernard
Shaw; Oscar Wilde; Max Beerbohm; G. K. Chesterton);
Laurence Binyon (poems); Thomas Hardy (poems); John
Masefield (poems).
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Swansea Central Library In Dylan Thomas Collection: Photographs of Dylan Thomas
Local Studies Department and of people and places associated with him.
0 1792 516750
Tower Hamlets Local
History Library and
Archives
020 8980 4366
Letters from the following authors: Annie Besant; Arthur
James Balfour; Hector Bolitho; Walter de la Mare; Richard
Garnett; H. Rider Haggard; Theodore Martin; John Morley;
Stanley Snaith (+ lectures); H. M. Tomlinson (+ travel writings). Also William Kean Seymour (poems); Arthur
Morrison (manuscript of a novel).
Walsall Central Library John Petty (letters – poems – short stories); W. H. Duignan
01922 653110 papers; The William Meikle collection; Aileen Quigley
(novels); Jerome K. Jerome (letters – notes – novels).
Watt Library, Greenock George Blake (novels) .
01475 715628
Westminster City
Libraries.
Marylebone Library
020 7641 1039
J.G. Wilson letters: Hilaire Belloc; John Betjeman; Edmund
Blunden; Clemence Dane; Walter de la Mare; Harley
Granville-Barker; James Guthrie; T. E. Lawrence; Eric
Linklater; Francis Meynell; Charles Morgan; Arthur Ransome;
V. Sackville-West; Siegfried Sassoon; Edith Sitwell; Dennis
Wheatley; Henry Williamson; P. G. Wodehouse.
Mrs Alexander (letter); Laurence Alma-Tadema (letter); Sabine
Baring-Gould (letter); Walter Besant (letter); Hall Caine
(letter); Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (letters); Edward Dowden (+ lectures); John Drinkwater (poem); T. S. Eliot (letter);
Edmund Gosse (letter); George Grossmith (letter); H. Rider
Haggard (letter); W. E. Henley (letter); William J. Locke
(letters); George MacDonald (letter); Sir Lewis Morris (letter);
William Michael Rossetti (letter); Clement K. Shorter (letters);
Osbert Sitwell (letter); Evelyn Waugh (note); Humbert Wolfe
(poem); Charlotte M. Yonge (letter).
Westminster City Kathleen Raine (correspondence); Clement K. Shorter (letters);
Libraries. Victoria Library William Archer (letters); Stephen Phillips (poem); W. S.
020 7641 4287 Gilbert (legal document); Bram Stoker (letters); Augustus
Jessopp (letters); Emily Lawless (letters); Maurice Hewlett
(letters); George Meredith (letter).
Weymouth Public Library Thomas Hardy Collection: mostly printed but 1 Hardy letter.
01305 762418
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Wimbledon Public Library Alfred Perceval Graves (poems); John Morley (letters); Lady
020 8946 7432 Anne Ritchie (letters).
Winchester Public Library Thomas Hardy (1 letter).
01962 862 748
Wirral Libraries.
Bebington Central Library
0151 643 7219
Hall Caine (letters); George Grossmith (letters).
Wolverhampton Libraries Hugh
& Information Services.
Central Library
01902 552025
York Central Library
01904 655631
Leslie Burgess (plays) ; Arthur J. Munby (poems).
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