Manuscripts

W. Graham Robertson Papers

Description

The collection consists of correspondence both to and from W. Graham Robertson, including letters from literary and theatrical persons and fan mail regarding his published reminiscences, Time was (1931). There are approximately 800 letters from Robertson to Kerrison Preston and also 15 notebooks and sketchbooks of Robertson's.

Correspondents include: James Agate, Henry Ainley, William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham, Helen Rossetti Angeli, Elizabeth Arnim, Marie Bancroft, Squire Bancroft, J.M. Barrie, H.N. Bate, Julies Bastien-Lepage, Clifford Bax, Sir Max Beerbohm, Sarah Bernhardt, R.D. Blackmore, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Bourchier, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (Baron Brabourne), James Bridie, Gordon Bottomley, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, William Frederick Cody ("Buffalo Bill"), Noel Coward, Edith Craig, Edward Gordon Craig, Walter Crane, E.M. Delafield, Alan Dent, Charles Dickens, Jr., Alix Egerton, Nellie Farren, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Loie Fuller, Sir Edward German, Philip Gibbs, Sir John Gielgud, W.S. Gilbert, Ronald Gorell Barnes (3rd Baron Gorell), Harley Granville-Barker, Weedon Grossmith, Paul Hellew, Robert Smythe Hichens, Violet Hunt, Sir Henry Irving, Rufus Daniel Isaacs (Marquess of Reading), Henry James, Geoffrey Keynes, W.M. Letts, Georgette Leblanc, Vivien Leigh, Belloc Lowndes, Desmond MacCarthy, Denis George Mackail, Norman McKinnel, Maurice Maeterlinck, Arthur Melville, Mortimer Menpes, Alice Christina Thompson Meyell, Robert Montesquiou-Fézensac, Albert Joseph Moore, Jane Burden Moore, May Morris, and Montrose Jonas Moses. Additional correspondents include: A. Edward Newton, Julia Neilson, Frederic Norton, Laurence Olivier, Will Owen, Bernard Partridge, Walter Pater, Hesketh Pearson, William Lyon Phelps, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Sir Nigel Playfair, Sir Edward John Poynter, Sir Hugh Edward Poynter, Terence Rattigan, Sir Michael Redgrave, Ada Rehan, Athelstan Riley, Sir William Rothenstein, Sir John Rothenstein, Arthur William Row, Archibald Geoge Blomefield Russell, Frederick Sandys, John Singer Sargent, Emily Sargent, Athene Seyler, Robert Harborough Sherard, Robert E. Sherwood, Louis Shipman, M.H. Spielmann, Alfred Sutro, Arthur Symons, Una Taylor, William Terriss, Dame Ellen Terry, Fred Terry, Kate Terry, Ruthven Todd, Herbert Trench, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, H.M. Walbrook, Theodore Watts-Dunton, James McNeill Whistler, Maude Valerie White, Oscar Wilde, George Charles Williamson, Alexander Woolcott, and William Butler Yeats.

Type

Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)

Date

1875-1948

Call number

mssWR 1-707

Creator

Robertson, W. Graham (1866-1948)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of Kerrison Preston, 1971.

Gift of Jean Preston, 1977.

Rights

The letters in the collection of any person still living are not to be photocopied or published during their lifetime.

Associated people

Preston, Kerrison, (1877-1947.)

Agate, James, (1879-1945.)

Ainley, Henry, (1824-1889.)

Allingham, William, (1848-1926.)

Allingham, Helen Paterson, (1879-1969.)

Angeli, Helen Rossetti, (1839-1921.)

Bancroft, Marie, (1841-1926.)

Bancroft, Squire, (1860-1937.)

Barrie, J. M. (1871-1941.)

Bate, H. N. (1848-1884.)

Bastien-Lepage, Jules, (1886-1962.)

Bax, Clifford, (1872-1956.)

Beerbohm, Max, (1844-1923.)

Bernhardt, Sarah, (1825-1900.)

Blackmore, R. D. (1869-1951.)

Blackwood, Algernon, (1863-1927.)

Bourchier, Arthur, (1874-1948.)

Bottomley, Gordon, (1829-1893.)

Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, (1888-1951.)

Bridie, James, (1846-1917.)

Buffalo Bill, (1833-1898.)

Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, (1865-1940.)

Campbell, Patrick, (1899-1973.)

Coward, Noel, (1869-1947.)

Craig, Edith, (1872-1966.)

Craig, Edward Gordon, (1845-1915.)

Crane, Walter, (1890-1943.)

Delafield, E. M., (1837-1896.)

Dent, Alan. (1848-1904.)

Dickens, Charles, (1853-1937.)

Egerton, Alix, (1862-1928.)

Farren, Nellie, (1862-1936.)

Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, (1877-1962.)

Fuller, Loie, (1904-2000.)

German, Edward, (1836-1911.)

Gibbs, Philip, (1884-1963.)

Gielgud, John, (1877-1946.)

Gilbert, W. S. (1852-1919.)

Gorell, Ronald Gorell Barnes, (1859-1927.)

Granville-Barker, Harley, (1864-1950.)

Grossmith, Weedon, (1862-1942.)

Helleu, Paul, (1838-1905.)

Hichens, Robert, (1843-1916.)

Hunt, Violet, (1887-1982.)

Irving, Henry, (1869-1941.)

James, Henry, (1913-1967.)

Keynes, Geoffrey, (1882-1972.)

Leblanc, Georgette, (1868-1947.)

Leigh, Vivien, (1877-1952.)

Letts, W. M. (1892-1971.)

Lowndes, Marie Belloc, (1870-1932.)

MacCarthy, Desmond, (1862-1949.)

Mackail, Denis, (1855-1904.)

McKinnel, Norman, (1855-1938.)

Maeterlinck, Maurice, (1847-1922.)

Melville, Arthur, (1855-1921.)

Menpes, Mortimer, (1841-1893.)

Meynell, Alice, (1862-1938.)

Montesquiou-Fézensac, Robert, (1878-1934.)

Moore, Albert Joseph, (1864-1940.)

Moore, Jane Burden. (1868-1957.)

Morris, May, (1869-1946.)

Moses, Montrose Jonas, (1907-1989.)

Newton, A. Edward (1869-1957.)

Neilson, Julia, (1861-1945.)

Norton, Frederic, (1839-1894.)

Olivier, Laurence, (1887-1964.)

Owen, Will, (1865-1943.)

Partridge, Bernard, (1855-1934.)

Pater, Walter, (1874-1934.)

Pearson, Hesketh, (1836-1919.)

Phelps, William Lyon, (1882-1968.)

Pinero, Arthur Wing, (1857-1916.)

Playfair, Nigel, (1858-1945.)

Poynter, Edward John, (1872-1945.)

Poynter, Hugh E. (1901-1992.)

Rattigan, Terence. (1878-1961.)

Redgrave, Michael. (1879-1955.)

Rehan, Ada, (1829-1904.)

Riley, Athelstan, (1856-1925.)

Rothenstein, William, (1857-)

Rothenstein, John, (1861-1943.)

Row, Arthur William, (1896-1955.)

Russell, Archibald George Blomefield, (1869-1933.)

Sandys, Frederick, (1858-1948.)

Sargent, John Singer, (1863-1933.)

Sargent, Emily, (1865-1945.)

Seyler, Athene. (-1897.)

Sherard, Robert Harborough, (1847-1928.)

Sherwood, Robert E. (1863-1933.)

Shipman, Louis Evan, (1844-1924.)

Spielmann, M. H. (1914-1978.)

Sutro, Alfred, (1865-1923.)

Symons, Arthur, (1852-1917.)

Taylor, Una. (1866-1941.)

Terriss, William, (1865-1941.)

Terry, Ellen, (1832-1914.)

Terry, Fred, (1834-1903.)

Terry, Kate, (1855-1937.)

Todd, Ruthven, (1854-1900.)

Trench, Herbert, (1858-1942.)

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, (1887-1943.)

Von Arnim, Elizabeth, (1865-1939.)

Walbrook, H. M.

Watts-Dunton, Theodore,

Whistler, James McNeill,

White, Maude Valérie,

Wilde, Oscar,

Williamson, George C.,

Woollcott, Alexander,

Yeats, W. B.

Find out more

View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

View in the Online Archive of California(Opens in new tab)

You might also be interested in

Image not available
Correspondence: Pleydell-Bouverie, Douglas - Sargent, Emily
Manuscripts
Correspondents include: Pleydell-Bouverie, Douglas Pleydell-Bouverie, Dorothy Pollock, Sir Adrian Poynter, Sir Edward John Poynter, Sir Hugh Preston, Ivor Kerrison Pryde, James Rattigan, Terence Redgrave, Sir Michael Rehan, Ada Riley, Athelstan Robertson, Marion Robson, Hon. Harold Robson, Iris Rothenstein, Sir William Rothenstein, Sir John Kewstub Maurice Row, Arthur William Russell, Archibald George Blomefield Russell, Annette (Beauchamp) Countess Russell Sandys, Frederick
mssWR 1-707
Image not available
Correspondence: Terry, Ellen (1917 May-?) - Yeats, William Butler
Manuscripts
Correspondents include: Terry, Dame Ellen Terry, Fred Thompson, Dorothy Todd, Ruthven Trench, Herbert Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Viola Tweed, John Walbrook, Henry Mackinnon Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, Clara Jane (Reich) Whistler, James Abbot McNeill White, Maude Valerie Wilde, Oscar Williamson, George Charles Woollcott, Alexander Yeats, William Butler
mssWR 1-707
Image not available
Correspondence: Sargent, John Singer - Terry, Ellen (through 1899)
Manuscripts
Correspondents include: Sargent, John Singer Sargent, Emily Saur, Emil Seyler, Athene Shannon, James Jebusa Sherard, Robert Harborough Sherwood, Robert Emmet Shipman, Louis Evan Simon, Ruth Snowden, James K. Spielmann, Marion Harry Stahl, Rose Sutro, Alfred Symons, Arthur Taylor, Una Terriss, William Terry, Edward
mssWR 1-707
Image not available
Robertson, W. Graham. Letters to Kerrison Preston (WR 707)
Manuscripts
Approximately 840 letters, mostly published in Letters from Graham Robertson.
mssWR 1-707
Image not available
Correspondence: Evans, J. Roland - Hutchinson, Ursula C
Manuscripts
Correspondents include: Evans, J. Roland Farren, Nellie Forbes-Robertson, Ian Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston Fuller, Loie German, Sir Edward Gibbs, Sir Philip Hamilton Gielgud, Sir John Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck Gorell, Ronald Gorell Barnes, 3rd baron Granville-Barker, Harley Granville Granville-Barker, Lillah (McCarthy) Grey, Sylvia Grossmith, Weedon Halsey, Jean M. Hamilton, Hamish Hamilton, Jean (Forbes-Robertson) Helleu, Paul C. F. Hichens, Robert Smythe Holland, Henry Thurstan, 1st viscount Knutsford Holland, Lionel Raleigh Hunt, Violet Hutchinson, Ursula C.
mssWR 1-707
Image not available
Correspondence: Montesquiou Fezensac, Comte Robert de (1886 September 29-1891) - Playfair, Sir Nigel
Manuscripts
Correspondents include: Montesquiou Fezensac, Comte Robert de Moore, Albert Joseph Morris, Jane (Burden) Morris, May Moses, Montrose Jonas Murray, A. Hallam Nasmyth, James Newton, Alfred Edward Neilson-Terry, Julia Norton, George Frederic Norton, Emily Olivier, Sir Laurence Olivier, Vivian (Leigh), Lady Owen, Will Palmer, Lady Margaret Parker, Eric Partridge, Sir Bernard Pater, Walter Horatio Pearson, Hesketh Phelps, William Lyon Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing Playfair, Sir Nigel
mssWR 1-707

W. Graham Robertson Papers

You might also be interested in

Correspondence: Pleydell-Bouverie, Douglas - Sargent, Emily

Correspondence: Terry, Ellen (1917 May-?) - Yeats, William Butler

Correspondence: Sargent, John Singer - Terry, Ellen (through 1899)

Robertson, W. Graham. Letters to Kerrison Preston (WR 707)

Correspondence: Evans, J. Roland - Hutchinson, Ursula C

Correspondence: Montesquiou Fezensac, Comte Robert de (1886 September 29-1891) - Playfair, Sir Nigel