James Bryce, Viscount Bryce, Collection

The collection consists of three miscellaneous manuscripts by Bryce; the majority of the correspondence are letters written by Bryce to various addressees in the political, social, and literary worlds of England and America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The papers consist of the following series:

1. Manuscripts & Correspondence (Box 1) are arranged alphabetically by author and title (manuscripts) and by author and addressee (correspondence). This series includes three miscellaneous manuscripts by Bryce; the majority of the correspondence are letters written by Bryce to various addressees in the political, social and literary worlds of England and America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The letters deal with personal, political and business/publishing matters and the addressees include: Richard Everard Webster, (Viscount Alverstone), Sabine Baring-Gould, Anne Cobden-Sanderson, and William Gibbs McAdoo.

2. Correspondence & Ephemera (Box 2) is arranged alphabetically by author. This box continues the series of personal, political and business/publishing letters to, among others, George Foster Peabody, William H. Rideing, Harold Felix Baker Wheeler, and Lucien Wolf. This series also includes two Colonial-era documents signed by Thomas Pownall, Governor of Massachusetts (1757-1760), and one folder of ephemera containing a printed engraving and a printed photograph of Bryce.