The Jack Mooney Collection of Rhonda
Broughton
ARCHIVED ONLINE EXHIBIT
Archived October 13, 2013
an exhibit originally developed for the
Thomas Cooper Library
Original Text by, Clyde H. Dornsbusch- October 2000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Archived Online Exhibit ................................................................................................................................. 1
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2
Manscript Works ........................................................................................................................................... 3
Notes & Letters ............................................................................................................................................. 4
Research Materials ..................................................................................................................................... 21
Research Materials .................................................................................................................................. 21
Printed Books .............................................................................................................................................. 24
INTRODUCTION
"Between us of the mid-Victorian era and our eye-opening successors, there
is a ‘great gulf fixed.’” So wrote Rhoda Broughton, once considered a
daring young novelist, as she observed the flapper generation from the
vantage point of her eightieth birthday in 1920.
Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920) became an instant best-selling author with
her controversial first two novels about young women and their coming-ofage dilemmas, Not Wisely But Too Well and Cometh Up Like a Flower, both
published in 1867. Her strong heroines and witty, unstuffy dialogue drew
critical condemnation but also attracted a new generation of readers. However, by the
second decade of the twentieth century, Broughton felt left behind by the suffragettes and
flappers to whom she did not seem innovative at all, but rather old-fashioned. The library’s
collection documents the huge changes in women’s attitudes and experiences during
Broughton’s fifty-year writing career.
Mr. Jack Mooney, of Hilton Head, built the collection and made it available
to the library through a gift-purchase agreement. He first became
interested in Broughton while doing graduate work in English at Washington
University in the late 1940s. He continued acquiring
Broughtonmaterials during his career as a civilian writer
and editor for the U.S. Air Force, based in Montgomery,
Alabama. When he began his research, many of those
who had known Broughton were still alive, and included in his donation are
his extensive notes and correspondence with them. The Jack Mooney
Collection also includes first or early editions of Rhoda Broughton’s more
than forty published books.
Part 1 of the archive contains several manuscript works of Rhoda Broughton.
Part 2 of the archive contains 115 manuscript notes and letters to Broughton’s colleagues
and friends filed, if available, with copies of Mooney’s transcripts of her often hard-to-read
letters.
Part 3 of the archive contains Mooney’s research materials, including many of Mooney’s
transcripts of Broughton’s letters with no matching autograph letters in the collection; note
cards; steno notebooks, microfilms, and other miscellaneous information.
For further references, see RHODA BROUGHTON in Dictionary of Literary
Biography (DLB,18). See also Part 3 of The Jack Mooney Collection of Rhoda Broughton.
Clyde H. Dornbusch
October, 200
MANSCRIPT WORKS
Part 1 of the archive contains several manuscript works of Rhoda Broughton.
(I, II, III, etc. = box no.; 1, 2, 3, etc. = folder no.)
BOX/FOLDER
NOVEL
DESCRIPTION/COMMENT
Second
I-1
1st draft, 1st ms. book
Thoughts (1878-1880),
2 vols., 97 pp.
Second
I-2
1st draft, 2nd ms. book
Thoughts (1880), 2
vols., 125 pp.
1
STORY
I-3
“The Man with the
Fair copy ms.
Nose” c.1873)
2
ARTICLE
I-4
“Girls Past and Present” Ms. of RB’s article, printed in Ladies
Home Journal, Sept. 1920
(c.1920)
(RB died in May 1920, 6 mos.
before her 80th birthday.)
NOTES & LETTERS
Part 2-- Rhoda Broughton’s Manuscript Letters by Recipient (115 items) (If available,
Mooney’s transcripts and notations are placed behind the plastic folders holding
Broughton’s letters.) I, II, III, etc. = box no. 1, 2, 3, etc. = folder no.
click here for printable PDF format
Box-- Date
Folder
Recipient
Content/Comments RB’s Address
II-1
1890 Sept
11
RB to herself
Grocery list, menu,
guest list?
II-1
n.d.
?
Scrap with Rhoda
Broughton’s
signature
II-2
---- M ay 23
Beeching,
Henry
RB says his friend
Mr. Rathbone had
called on her and
she liked him very
much and wishing
Mr. Beeching could
come up from
Mickail. 2 ms. pp.
27 Holywell,
Oxford
(Dean of
Norwich)
Worcester, Oxford
II-3
1911 Jan 22 Belloc,
(postmarked Hillaire
1911 Jan
23)
RB thanks him for
his "charming" book
and comments on
what interesting
people he has
known & written
about. She mentions
George Eliot, the
Howitts, a Miss
Homer & Mrs.
Proctor from his
book.
4 ms. pp.
18 Eaton
Mansion, Sloane
Square, London,
SW
II-4
1891 Dec
18
"For my last short
story you gave me
L50 with
permissions to
republish if I wished.
Do you feel inclined
to repeat these
1 Mansfield Place,
Richmond Hill,
SW
Bentley,
Richard
terms?"
2 ms. pp.
II-4
1888 Jan 16
Bentley,
Richard
RB declines "to let
my [her] portrait
appear in your
journal." 1 ms. p.
Holywell, Oxford
II-4
1892 May 4
Bentley,
Richard
"you are welcome to
fill in the blanks with
any names..." 1 ms.
p.
1 Mansfield Place,
Richman Hills,
SW
II-4
---- Dec 4
Bentley,
Richard
Regarding a short
story "Was She
Mad?" RB states
that she would like it
returned if she still
has the rights to it.
2 ms. pp.
1 Mansfield Place,
Richman, Surrey
II-5
---- Sept 3
Boyle
RB invites Mrs.
Boyle & Miss Parker
to tea.
1 ms. p.
Mansfield Place,
Richmond Hill,
Surrey
II-6
---- Sept 30
Brackenbury, RB asks Mr. & Mrs.
Priscilla
Brackenbury to
remember their
promise to spend a
day with her in
Oxford. & says she
would be delighted if
Lady Russell would
come also.
2 ms. pp.
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-7
1883 Apr 18
Daniel
RB has found Mr.
Daniel’s pretty
Bridge book. She
has not begun
to "grapple"? with
Gargantua (probably
refers to Promethius
the Firegiver).
2 ms. pp.
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-7
1903 May
15 or later
Daniel
Mr. Daniel became
provost in 1903. He
River View,
Headington Hill,
is the Daniel of the
Daniel Press.
3 ms. pp.
Oxford
II-7
1907 June 9
Daniel
RB expresses regret
at receiving the
invitation to Mrs.
Daniel’s daughter’s
wedding just as she
was leaving
Florence for Paris
3 ms. pp.
Written from a
hotel in Paris
II-7
---- Feb 4
Daniel
She thanks Daniel
for the bookplate &
invites him to tea to
see her new
acquisition.
2 ms. pp.
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-7
---- May 27
Daniel
Letter edged in
black thanking Mrs.
Daniel for her
expressed sorrow at
the death of Mr.
Broughton’s sister &
saying she must
now take up the
problems of life
without her sister.
2 ms. pp.
1 Mansfield Place,
Richmond Hill,
SW
II-7
---- May 26
Daniel
RB expresses regret
that she could not
accept Mrs. Daniel’s
invitation to a
garden party.
3 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-7
---- Dec 23
Daniel
RB is off to Wales.
She thanks Daniel
for "looking up about
Stratford" [?] and for
the bookplates he
sent.
2 ½ ms. pp.
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-7
n.d.
Daniel
(Provost of
Literary references
to Tate, Dryden,
1 Mansfield Place,
Richmond, Surrey
Worcester
College,
Oxford)
Scott, etc. "As to the
Laureateship, with a
few exceptions what
a patent of
mediocrity it has
been!"
3 ms. pp.
II-8
---- Feb 14
Fielder
RB says that she
would be hoping for
a visit with Mrs.
Fielder who was
living close by.
1 ½ ms. pp.
83, Cromwell
Road, SW
II-9
1902 Aug
12
Hiatt,
Charles
"I was not born in
Shropshire. Yours
faithfully."
Postcard
Oxford
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Moody’s list of
Loundes’ works
II-10
II-10
1911 Apr 23
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Short stories do
better than novels
3 ms. pp.
The White House,
1 Higher Terrace,
Torquay
II-10
1911 Sept
30
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB hopes to see
Lowndes in London
3 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1911 Oct 13
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB praises
Lowndes’ children 3
ms. pp.
99, Cadogen
Gardens, S.W.
II-10
1913 Mar
10
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
"Finished your
stories," They gave
pleasure. RB’s glad
Lowndes got to
meet Henry James
3 ms. pp.
99, Cadogen
Gardens, S.W.
II-10
1913 Sept 5
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB likes Lowndes’
novel, THE
LODGER
3 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1913 Sept 9
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Henry James is
waiting to read THE
River View,
Headington Hill,
LODGER, sorry
about all the illness
among the
Lowdnes.
4 ms. pp.
Oxford
II-10
1913 Oct 2
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
"thank you for…your
imposing looking
EMPRESS
FREDERIC"
3 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1913 Oct 9
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Re:
Loundes’ Empress
Frederic. RB
comments on
Bismarck & Albert
4 ms. pp.
River View
Headington, Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1914 Dec 5
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Re: Henry James,
Hugh Walpole
4 ms. pp.
River View
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1915 July
20
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Re: Lloyd George
et. al.
4 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1916 July
24
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB is glad Lowndes
is going to Scotland.
She laments British
losses in WW I.
4 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1916 Aug 3
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Lowndes’ ANNA
"brilliant debut in the
U.S.A."
2 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1916 Aug
18
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Chitchat/gossip
4 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1916 Sept
15
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Henry James is "by
choice…an
Englishman."
4 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1916 Sept
25
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB is glad that
"Westminster was
River View,
Headington Hill,
not one of the
Raided Districts"
4 ms. pp.
Oxford
II-10
1916 Nov 8
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB is glad Lowndes
& Mrs. Hansborough
can come for tea
3 ms. pp.
99, Cadogen
Gardens, S.W.
II-10
1917 May
21
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
War affairs
2 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1917 May
25
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
War restrictions
make travel difficult.
Gossip on
homefront
2 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1917 Whit
Tues.
May/June
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
More rumors of war
2 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1918 Mar
10
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Trading limericks
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1918 Apr 1
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
War, their current
works
4 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1918 Apr 3
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
War news,
"miraculous" that
Charles survived
attack
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1918 Apr 6
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Their
correspondence is
proof of friendship,
hopes Lowndes is
well again.
2 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1918 May 6
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB hopes Lowndes
"could get quite fit
again
2 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1918 May
11
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Various social
chatter. RB hopes
again Lowndes is
well
4 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1918 May
25
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB is dying to hear
Lowndes
"Asquithiana."
2 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1918 Sept 7
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB talks of
Lowndes’ "Scotch
visits.
2 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1918 Sept
12
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB is sorry
Lowndes’ nephew is
missing,. Gloom
over war losses
2 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1918 Oct 10
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
"Your ‘Thriller’
arrived." "After 4
dreadful years" of
war,"Hope & Joy."
4 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1918 Oct 28
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
"Bless you…for a
long letter, full of
‘Plums’!"
4 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1918 Nov 9
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB "can hardly
breathe between the
tremendous
happenings that
every hour now
brings!"
2 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1918 Nov
24
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB hopes Charles
not infected by
"filthy, verminous
Germans."
3 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1918 Nov
28
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB asks how
Lowndes uses her
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
surrounding in
writings.
8 ms. pp.
II-10
1918 Dec
17
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
"tame election here"
4 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1919 Jan 7
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB is glad Lowndes
escaped a fall with
only bruises.
4 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1919 Apr 3
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
"Mr. Lowndes’
gloomy tone about
the Peace
Conference—
ironical name."
6 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1919 May 4
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Lowndes’ Charles
off to fighting again.
" Hellish Bolsheviks"
4 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
1919 Aug
11
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB appreciates
current works of
Lowndes et al.
6 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1919 Oct 11
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB wants to hear
Charles has arrived
all right.
4 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
1920 Mar
11
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB asks Lowndes to
have tea with her &
Mrs. Tower
2 ms. pp.
9 St. L.T.
II-10
---- Jan 13
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
RB hopes illness is
not keeping
Lowndes "silent."
4 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
---- July 3
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
"your dear
affectionate note"
4 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
----Aug 18
Lowndes,
"Thank you for your
River View,
Marie Belloc
Type Itinerary"
4 ms. pp.
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
----Aug 29
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
"I grieve…that
Modern
Novels…slide off my
intellectualism?
Memory."
6 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-10
----Oct 16
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
"These are roses
sent you by my
American friend"
2 ms. pp.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-10
----Dec 9
Lowndes,
Marie Belloc
Lowndes’ "optimism" River View,
in spite of adversity
Headington Hill,
4 ms. pp.
Oxford
II-11
----July 4
Lytton
RB hopes to reach
Knebworth tomorrow
at Lady Lytton’s
invitation.
1 ms. p.
II-12
---- Sept 2
Montefiore
RB thanks M. for
"Your most
interesting cutting
from the TIMES…."
4 ms. pp.
Ufford Place,
Woodbridge
Myers, F.W.
RB expresses her
deep regret at
returning home to
find that Mr. Myers
had been to call on
her. This letter is in
the original
envelope
postmarked July 7.
3 ms. pp.
Weald Hall,
Brentwood
II-13
II-14
---- Apr 18
Nevill,
Dorothy
RB accepts the
invitation to lunch on
May 6
1 ms. p.
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-14
---- Dec 23
Nevill, Lady
Dorothy
RB agrees to Lady
Dorothy’s request
27 Holywell,
Oxford
for a photo of her &
she hopes to see
Lady Dorothy in
London in February.
She also mentions
meeting Lord Lytton
at a luncheon &
enjoying a talk with
him.
3 ms. pp.
II-15
1879 Sept
24
Newcome,
Ellinor
Friendly chat with
her sister.
4 ms. pp.
Whittington Hall,
Kirkby
II-16
----Mar14
Peabody,
Marian
Lawrence
Letter in an
autograph album
begun by Henry
Adams & presented
to the Houghton
Library
-----Hotel
II-17
1911 June
or July
Pinker,
James
RB tells Mr. Pinker
that she has finally
decided upon
"Between Two
Stools" as the name
for her new story &
describes a
synopsis she would
write. Tuchnitz "has
always behaved
very well to me!"
3 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-17
1911 Aug
15
Pinker,
James
RB expresses
surprise at the need
to send her proofs to
Messrs. Tauchnitz
2 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-17
1912 Apr 28
Pinker,
James
RB is leaving
London and will be
in River View,
Headington Hill, for
the summer.
2 ms. pp.
Cadogan
Gardens, London
II-17
1912 June
Pinker,
RB heard from a Mr.
River View,
27
James
Watt that a wellknown publisher
was interested in
her stories and that
Macmillan holds all
rights to her books
except "Between
Two Stools." "I
regret that the
U.S.A. declines to
have anything to do
with me."
4 ms. pp.
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-17
1912 June
29
Pinker,
James
RB explains that
Messrs. Macmillan
have published
"cheap" editions of
some of her books.
2 ms.pp.
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-17
1914 Feb 3
Pinker,
James
RB is sending
another "Concerning
a Vow" since all
others have been
disliked by Mr.
Stanley Paul.
3 ms. pp.
4, Culford
Mansion, Culford
Gardens
II-17
1914 Feb
12
Pinker,
James
RB says that she
had finished her
story & was sending
it for typing.
3 ms. pp.
Guilford Gardens,
London
II-17
1914 Feb
16
Pinker,
James
RB is sending her
manuscript to Mr.
S.P. and that it is
her only copy.
2 ms. pp.
Guilford Gardens,
London
II-17
1914 July 2
Pinker,
James
RB thanks him for a
cheque for
41pounds, 4
shillings, & 6 pence.
1 ms. p.
River View,
Headington, Hill,
Oxford
II-17
1914 July
13
Pinker,
James
RBB expresses
"astonishment &
River View,
Headington Hill,
utmost
consternation" on
hearing from a
friend in Switzerland
that "Concerning a
Vow" had been
published on the
Continent before
being published in
England.
2 ms. pp.
Oxford
II-17
1914 July
31
Pinker,
James
Regarding her book
"Concerning a Vow"-"how much better it
would have been if
Mr. Stanley Paul
had produced it in
the spring."
1 ms. p.
II-17
1914 Aug 1
Pinker,
James
RB Acknowledges
receipt of a check
for L360
1 ms. p.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-17
1917 Jan 3
Pinker,
James
RB is uneasy about
her book being
published by Mr.
Stanley Paul.
1 ms. p.
River View,
Headington Hill
II-17
1917 Aug 2
Pinker,
James
RB found it hard to
believe that if Mr.
Stanley Paul had
lost so heavily on
her books, he would
want to repeat the
experience. She
was asked to write
her autobiography.
2 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill
II-17
1919 Apr 13
Pinker,
James
RBB answered the
editor ofThe Daily
Express saying that
she could not
comply with his
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
request, & asked if
Mr. Pinker had
heard about
Tauchnitz’s wouldbe successor, and
the L20 which she
was to be paid.
2 ms. pp.
II-17
1919 Apr 26
Pinker,
James
RB is returning to
River View,
Headington Hill.
1 ms. p.
Delverne,
Farnham, Surrey
II-18
1888 Apr 12
Rawnesley
RB invites Miss
Rawnesley and her
sister to tea.
1 ms. p.
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-18
1888 Apr 20
Rawnesley
Ethel Arnold
[Matthew Arnold’s
niece] had been
visiting and Ms.
Broughton had
given her Mrs.
Rawnesley’s note.
2 ms. pp
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-18
---- Feb 25
Rawnesley
Concern for Ms.
Rawnesley’s
brother’s illness &
sympathy for Miss
Rawnesley. RB
expresses
appreciation for Ms.
Rawnsley’s
comments about Dr.
Cupid, and asks
about a Miss
H____whom Ms.
Broughton felt was
"an awful fool."
8 ms. pp.
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-18
---- July 25
Rawnesley
RB thanks Miss
Rawnesday for
copying a little poem
and sending it to
her.
3 ms. pp.
II-19
1878 Oct 16
Sartoris
[unnamed in
letter]
RB expresses great
concern & sympathy
for Mrs. Sartoris’s
disfigurement &
illness. She has
read "Xmas Eve &
Easter Day."
6s. pp.
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-19
1878
Sartoris,
Adelaide
About their longterm friendship &
other comments
6 ms. pp.
Holywell, Oxford
II-19
1879 May
27
Sartoris
RB describes her
garden & her
friendship with Mrs.
Pattison & how
happy she was to
have visited Mrs.
Sartoris recently.
6 ms. pp.
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-20
---- Oct 14
Schuster
RB thanks Mr.
Schuster for her
invitation to dinner
at 8 and says that
she will keep her fly
[?] for return.
2 ms. pp.
Mansfield Place,
Richmond Hill,
Surrey
II-21
1903 Dec
13
Scott, John
H.
RB asks Scott to
send an address
which she had
mislaid.
Postcard
Oxford
II-22
1901 July 8
Sichel, Edith
RB thanks Miss
Sichel for sending
her Women and
Men of the French
Renaissance with a
"too, too kind
inscription."
2 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-22
1911 July 7
Sichel, Edith
RB thanks Miss
Sichel for lending
her Michel de
Montaigne to Ms.
Broughton & inviting
her to visit.
4 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-23
---- Sept 5
Sinclair
RB remembers a
bout with jaundice
40 years earlier.
3 ms. pp.
Richmond, Surrey
II-24
1874 July
18
Steele
RB comments on
some stories she
read with great
interest "tho the
Americanisms run
mad." She mentions
meeting Browning
again and loving
him, and also going
to call on Trollope.
6 ms. pp.
Winstanton Hall,
Nantwich,
Cheshire
II-25
---- Jan 11
Sturgis
Rb compliments Mr.
Sturgis on his
interesting little book
which she liked and
congratulates him
on proving "a writer
may sparkle and yet
be clean" [Julian
Sturgis, novelist, to
whom RB dedicated
her novelFoes in
Law.
4 ms.. pp.
II-26
1870 Dec 1
Trubner
RB thanks Mrs.
Trubner for lending
her books to read in
her solitude & hopes
to see Mrs. Trubner
when she again
visits in London.
3 ms. pp.
Upper Eyarth,
Ruthin, NW
II-27
----27
Unidentified
recipient
Uncipherable?
? Oxford
II-28
---- Mar 24
Unidentified,
Catherine
RB has deep
concern about the
"storm raging in
France"; conditions
in England during
the war. 3 ms. pp.
River View,
Headington Hill,
Oxford
II-28
---- May 13
Unidentified,
Catherine
War effort in
England; success of
English submarines;
new book "Miss
Pim’s Camouflage."
3 ms. pp.
Holbein House,
Bamberg Rd.,
Oxford
II-29
---- Oct 12
Unidentified,
Doly
RB suggests
luncheon plans on
Oct 17.
3 ms. pp.
1 Mansfield Place,
Richmond, Surrey
Unidentified,
Edgar
RB asks for an
appointment with
him for Lord Wolsley
& herself
2 ms. pp.
5 Grosvenor
Gardens, SW
27 Holywell,
Oxford
II-30
II-31
1884 July
22
Unidentified,
Madam
RB is sending the
autographs
requested.
1 ms. p.
II-32
---- May 4
Unidentified,
Mary
RB believes
23 Lowndes
"digested" letters are Street, SW
out of fashion, but
that she needed to
deliver her thanks
for a delightful visit,
and asking if the
"little wonder" had
made a good
caricature of her.
4 ms. pp.
II-33
---- Dec 6
White, Mrs.
RB sent 3
autographs for a
bazaar. "I think
those are few
Mayfair, St. Aseph
among the minor
evils that beat a
bazaar." 3 ms. pp.
II-34
1891
Woods
Mrs. Woods’s
travels & Ms.
Broughton’s lunch
with Bentley, her
publisher, who
asked about Mrs.
Woods. Final page
or pages of letter
are missing.
4 ms. pp.
Mansfield Place,
Richmond Hill,
SW
II-35
1896 Oct 21
Zoe ,
Angelique
RB declines the
invitation to Saba
Maud’s wedding.
2 ms. pp.
Richmond, Surrey
RESEARCH MATERIALS
RESEARCH MATERIALS
Part 3 of the archive contains Mooney’s research materials, including many of
Mooney’s transcripts of Broughton’s letters with no matching autograph letters in the
collection; note cards; steno notebooks, microfilms, and other miscellaneous information.
(I, II, III, etc. = box no.; 1, 2, 3, etc. = folder no.)
click here for printable PDF format
BOX/FOL
DER
TITLE
III-1
Mooney & Cooper Library—correspondence re: collection
III-2a
Mooney’s inquiries re RB letters, mss., etc.
III-2b
Mooney’s inquiries re RB letters, mss., etc.
III-3
Mooney & book dealers
III-4a
Mooney’s selected bibliography of RB’s books
III-4b
Mooney’s bibliography of RB stories published in Temple
Bar Magazine
III-5
Mooney’s RB studies in the Bodleian Library
III-6
RB biography—general
III-7
RB’s residences in the town of Oxford
III-8
RB’s death & funeral
IV--9-14
Mooney’s tr RB letters to Richard Bentley (1868-1897) [In Part 2--RB’s Ms. Letters
by Recipient--there are 4 RB ms. letters (1868-1897) to Richard Bentley, her
publisher, usually addressed as “Dear Sir”: titles, length, publication dates, fees paid
to author, etc.]
IV9
no year given
IV-10
1868-1875
IV-11
1876-1880
IV-12
1881-1885
IV-13
1886-1890
BOX/FOL
DER
TITLE
IV-14
1891-1897
V-15
Friends of RB
V-16
Mooney’s tr RB letters to Florence Henniker (U/TX, 1901-1920) (21 letters)
V-17
Mooney’s tr RB letters to Marie Belloc Lowndes (1911-1920) (67 letters) [In Part II—
RB’s Ms. Letters by Recipient--there are 47 ms. letters (1911-1920) to her good
friend and novelist, Marie Belloc Lowndes.]
V-18
Mooney’s tr letters to Millais family (34 items)
V-19
Mooney’s tr RB letters to misc. recipients
V-20
Mooney’s tr Henry James letters to RB (17 items)
V-21
Mooney’s tr Anthony Trollope & Anne Thackeray Ritchie letters to RB (8 items)
V-22
Mooney’s tr Prefaces to RB’s novels by H. Van Thal & Mrs. Marie Belloc Lowndes
V-23
General biographical and critical assessments of RB
V-24
RB—Reviews & Criticism (1867-1869)
V-25
RB—Reviews & Criticism (1870-1879)
V-26
RB—Reviews & Criticism (1880-1889)
V-27
RB—Reviews & Criticism (1890-1899)
V-28
RB—Reviews & Criticism (1900-1920)
V-29
RB—Parodies & Burlesques
VI-30
Microfilms from Harvard & Yale University Libraries
VI-31
Microfilm from The University of Texas Library
VI-32
Microfilm from Pierpont Morgan Library, RB letters to Sir John E. Millais, Boston;
Miss Mary Millais; Lady Millais; Mr. Stuart Wortley
VI-33
Microfilm from The University of Illinois Library (Urbana), Bentley Collection
VI-34
Microfilm from the Huntington Library
VI-35
2 standard size steno notebooks of Mooney” tr RB letters to Richard Bentley
VI-36
3 narrow size steno notebooks of Mooney’s tr RB letters to Richard Bentley
VI-37
1 packet of Mooney’s 3x5 file cards of misc. notes & bibliography
BOX/FOL
DER
TITLE
VI-38
1 packet of Mooney’s 3x5 file cards of notes, quotes, etc. re RB
VI-39
1 packet of Mooney’s 3x5 file cards of “people relevant to a study of RB”
VI-40
1 packet of Mooney’s 3x5 call slips, Library of Congress,, Aug. 1952
PRINTED BOOKS
Printed Books
Broughton, Rhoda. Alas!: a Novel. A new ed. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891.
Rare PR4174.B56 A73 1891
Broughton, Rhoda. A Beginner. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1894.
Rare PR4174.B56 B45 1894
Broughton, Rhoda. A Beginner. London: Macmillan and Company; New York: Macmillan,
1899.
Rare PR4174.B56 B45 1899
Broughton, Rhoda. “Belinda.” Temple Bar. 67-70 (Jan. 1883-Apr. 1884).
Rare AP4 .T4
Broughton, Rhoda. Belinda: a Novel. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1884.
Rare PR4174.B56 B46 1884
Brougton, Rhoda. Belinda: a Novel. London: Macmillan and Co.; New York: Macmillan
Company, 1899.
Rare PR4174.B56 B46 1899
Broughton, Rhoda. Between Two Stools. 3rd ed. London: Stanley Paul and Company,
1912.
Rare PR4174.B56 B48 1912
Broughton, Rhoda. Cometh Up as a Flower, an Autobiography. London: Macmillan and
Company; New York: Macmillan, 1899.
Rare PR4174.B56 C6 1899
Broughton, Rhoda. Concerning a Vow. London: Stanley, Paul and Company, 1914.
Rare PR4174.B56 C65
Broughton, Rhoda. Concerning a Vow. 4th ed. London: Stanley, Paul and Company,
1914.
Rare PR4174.B56 C65 1914
Broughton, Rhoda. Dear Faustina. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1897.
Rare PR4174.B56 D4 1897
Broughton, Rhoda. The Devil and the Deep Sea. London: Macmillan and Company, 1910.
Rare PR4174.B56 D49 1910
Broughton, Rhoda. Doctor Cupid: a Novel. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886.
Rare PR 4174.B56 D6 1886
Broughton, Rhoda. Doctor Cupid: a Novel. A new ed. London: Richard Bentley and Son,
1887.
Rare PR 4174.B56 D6 1887
Broughton, Rhoda. Foes in Law. New York; London: Macmillan and Company, 1900.
Rare PR4174.B56 F63 1900
Broughton, Rhoda. A Fool for Her Folly. London: Odhams Press, 1920. Rare
PR4174.B56 F65
Broughton, Rhoda. The Game and the Candle. New York: D. Appleton and Company,
1899.
Rare PR4174.B56 G3 1899
Broughton, Rhoda. "Good-bye, Sweetheart!": a Tale. London: Richard Bentley and Son,
1872.
Rare PR4174.B56 G6 1872
Broughton, Rhoda. "Good-bye, Sweetheart!": a Tale. London: Richard Bentley and Son,
1878.
Rare PR4174.B56 G6 1878
Broughton, Rhoda. Joan, a Tale. London: Macmillan and Company; New York: Macmillan
Company, 1899.
Rare PR4174.B56 J62 1899
Broughton, Rhoda. Lavinia. London: Macmillan and Company; New York: Macmillan,
1902.
Rare PR4174.B56 L3 1902
Broughton, Rhoda. Mamma. London: Macmillan and Company, 1908.
Rare PR4174.B56 M3 1908
Broughton, Rhoda. Mrs. Bligh: a Novel. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1892.
Rare PR4174.B56 M77
Broughton, Rhoda. Nancy: a Novel. London: Macmillan and Company; New York:
Macmillan Company, 1900.
Rare PR4174.B56 N35 1900
Broughton, Rhoda. Nancy: a Novel. London: Macmillan and Company, 1909.
Rare PR4174.B56 N35 1909
Broughton, Rhoda. Not Wisely, but Too Well. Edited by Herbert Van Thal, with an
introduction by Francis King. London: Cassell, 1967.
Rare PR4174.B56 N6 1967
Broughton, Rhoda. Not Wisely, but Too Well: a Novel. London: Richard Bentley and Son,
1884.
Rare PR4174.B56 N6 1884.
Broughton, Rhoda. Red as a Rose Is She, a Novel. London: Macmillan and Company;
New York: Macmillan, 1899.
Rare PR4174.B56 R4 1899
Broughton, Rhoda. Scylla or Charybdis? London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1895.
Rare PR4174.B56 S39 1895
Broughton, Rhoda. Second Thoughts. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1880.
Rare PR4174.B56 S42 1880b
Broughton, Rhoda. Second Thoughts. London: Macmillan and Company; New York:
Macmillan, 1899.
Rare PR4174.B56 S42 1899
Broughton, Rhoda. A Thorn in the Flesh. London: Stanley Paul and Company, [1917].
Rare PR4174.B56 T56
Brougthon, Rhoda. Twilight Stories. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1879.
Rare PR4174.B56 T8 1879
Broughton, Rhoda. Twilight Stories. London: Home and Van Thal, 1947.
Rare PR4174.B56 T8 1947
Broughton, Rhoda. A Waif’s Progress. London: Macmillan and Company; New York:
Macmillan, 1905.
Rare PR4174.B56 W3 1905
Broughton, Rhoda, and Elizabeth Bisland. A Widower Indeed. 2nd ed. London: James R.
Osgood, McIlvaine & Company, 1892.
Rare PR4174.B56 W5 1892
Cruse, Amy. Victorians and Their Reading. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company;
Cambridge: Riverside Press, [1962].
Rare PR461 .C7 1962
Delafield, E. M. The Bazalgettes, a Tale. London, Hamish Hamilton, [1835].
Rare PR6007.E33 B3 1935
Elwin, Malcolm. Old Gods Falling. London: Collins, 1939.
Rare PR463 .E54 1939
Gamlen, Florence Mostyn. My memoirs: Florence Mostyn Gamlyn (1856-1952). [S.l.]:
Printed privately, [1952?].
Rare LF520 .G34 1952
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes. London: Chatto
& Windus, 1971.
Rare PR6023.O95 Z52
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. London: Macmillan and
Company, 1946.
Rare PR6023.O95 Z53
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. A Passing World. London: Macmillan, 1948.
Rare PR6023.O95 Z54
Lubbock, Percy. Mary Cholmondeley, a Sketch from Memory. London: Jonathan Cape,
[1928].
Rare PR6005.H56 Z7 1928
A Passing World. London: Macmillan, 1948.
Rare PR6023.O95 Z54
Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain). The Eighteen-Eighties: Essays by Fellows of the
Royal Society of Literature. Edited by Walter De La Mare. Cambridge, England: The
University Press, 1930.
Rare PR463 .R76 1930
Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain). The Eighteen-Seventies: Essays by Fellows of
the Royal Society of Literature. Edited by Harley Granville-Barker. New York: Macmillan
Company; Cambridge, England: The University Press, 1929.
Rare PR463 .R75 1929
Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain). The Eighteen-Sixties: Essays by Fellows of the
Royal Society of Literature. Edited by John Drinkwater. New York: Macmillan Company;
Cambridge, England: The University Press, 1932.
Rare PR463 .R74 1932
Walbank, F. Alan, ed. Queens of the Circulating Library: Selections from Victorian Lady
Novelists, 1850-1900. London: Evans Brothers, [1950].
Rare PR863 .Q6 1950
Woods, Margaret L. The Collected Poems of Margaret L. Woods. London: John Lane; New
York: John Lane, 1914.
Rare PR6045 .O65 1914