Manuscripts

Notebooks and sketchbooks (WR 1-6)

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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production 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.
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