Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982

Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Beer family. Extensive files of correspondence and papers for family members from the 1850s through the 1980s detail the lives and activities of such family members as William Collins Beer, a lobbyist for J.P. Morgan and Company, International Harvester Company, and the government of Italy, and a close friend of Mark Hanna; Thomas...

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The Joseph Conrad Collection contains writings, correspondence, and other material by or relating to Joseph Conrad.

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Novel, holograph manuscript, signed, with corrections and additions.

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ALS with envelope.

Removed from his Tokefield Papers (London, 1949).

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TLS responding to Van Thal's questions about George Gissing and The Private Life of Henry Maitland by Morley Roberts.

Removed from his George Gissing: A Critical Study (London: Martin Secker, 1912).

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ALS regarding his Background With Chorus.

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Ten ALS, to A. B. Cooper, K. Kinninmoat, S. C. Roberts, Martin Freud, A. V. Miller, Mr. Hurt, Mr. Wollman, Frank Warren, and James T. Babb; two cards, holograph, signed, to F. C. Joiner, Messrs. William Jackson Books, Ltd., and to Herbert Ashley; postcard, holograph, signed, to Frank Warren; and clipping of a photograph of Swinnerton, signed.

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ALS enclosing a second ALS, both dated Sep 6, 1950; and TLS dated Feb 23, 1951.

Accompanied by a copy of a TL, carbon, from Fisk to Swinnerton.

The letters concern A. E. Coppard.

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ALS, dated Apr 4, 1951, and TLS, dated Jan 6, 1953, with envelopes.

Accompanied by four clippings of reviews of books by Swinnerton and by a TNS from John Meyer to Fisk, dated May 8, 1951.

Abstract: The William McFee Collection contains correspondence between McFee and literary colleagues, publishers, friends, and family; third-party correspondence concerning McFee, his family, and his friendship with James T. Babb; autograph manuscript or typescript drafts for most of McFee's novels, and for short stories, essays, books reviews, and poems; autograph manuscript diaries, 1911-1963; writings of others, including Margery Allingham and Beatrice Allender McFee; photographs of McFee and...

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Letters to the English novelist Stephen McKenna, principally from other authors, including Alfred Austin, Arnold Bennett, John Drinkwater, John Galsworthy, Compton Mackenzie, John Masefield, Arthur Wing Pinero, Frank Swinnerton, Hugh Walpole and Arthur Waugh. Many of the letters concern invitations to literary dinners and other social events.

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The papers document the literary and personal lives of Morgan and Theis, and contain correspondence, subject files, and professional papers related to the 20th century British literary world. There is correspondence regarding Evelyn Scott, and correspondence as well as poems by Nancy Cunard.

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TNS.

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ANS.

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Essay, manuscript, corrected, attributed to Swinnerton.

On title page: "Martin Secker Ltd."