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Document: Certificate of literary recognition from The Russian Literary Society. Hardback binder with certificate attached by a tasseled cord. Includes signatures of 72 members of the society. Dated 1914/01/06. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656189012205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656189012205899[/url]
Painted board with Far Eastern design - shellac finish. 20.6 cm x 30.1cm. Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit " 005-001 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188812205899[/url]
Mounted clippings from [u]T.P.'s Weekly[/u], 3 pen and ink sketches of Wells and 4 cartoons (including Wells, Lord Landsdowne; Lieut. Col. Moore - Brabazen, M. P.; J. L. Garvin, Capt. Wedgwood Benn, D.S.D., M.P.; Lord Burnham; "Jacksecly;" Lord Londonderry - all newspaper clippings On verso an original pencil drawing captioned "W. ...
H. G. Wells Contribution to the Saturday Review, 1961. Published by The Bibliographical Society. Autograph by Gordon Ray addressed to Susan Shuttuck. Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 015-008 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656008112205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656008112205899[/url]
Transparencies of the radiographs of fingers of H. G. Wells. 7 memos of condition. Alluvial 1 Deposits 007-004-001 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656008712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656008712205899[/url]
From. H. G. Wells Collection Honorary Doctorate in Literature awarded to H. G. Wells on March 25, 1936 by the University of London. Contained in red case with 'University of London" printed on it. Honorary Doctorate in Science awarded to H. G. Wells on June 23, 1943 by the University of London. ...
Leather briefcase, 2 sided zipper inscribed with initials H.G.W. Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 2 Deposit" 009-006-001. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188712205899[/url]
From H. G. Wells Collection 1) Publication Lists, 1891-1897 2) Publication Lists, 1894 3) Publication Lists, 1893 - 1895 4) Publication Lists, 1894 - 1896 5) Publication Lists, 1887 - 1938 6) Reimbursement for typing services 7) Publication Lists, 1893 - 1894 8) Publication Lists, 1894 - 1895 9) Print of a Picshua from The War in the ...
Original pen and ink over pencil portrait of Wells (in bowtie) by Maurice Bloch, signed in blue (with large paraph) by Wells below drawing [ca. 1940]: also signed ("E. M. Bloch") by artist. 6" x 4" image on 10" x 7.25" heavy stock. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187412205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187412205899[/url]
A recognition award in French. Name card of President and director, Petar M Petrovitch is attached. Bound in red cover, with Bulgarian script. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188212205899[/url]
Monochrome photograph of H. G. Wells seated at desk. Inscribed across a portion of the image 'For Betty Ross H. G. Wells, September 29, [19]31' 220 x 162mm. mounted on card. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187512205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187512205899[/url]
Glass Plates of H. G. Wells and publications by Wells by Beresford. Also contains letters to Wells. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656008812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656008812205899[/url]
This collection consists of 51 pocket books kept by H.G. Wells between 1903 and 1946. The 51 pocket books include 44 engagement books covering 1903-1946 and 7 undated address books.
Photo print of H. G. Wells Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187912205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187912205899[/url]
From H. G. Wells Collection. 1) Print of pencil sketch done of H. G. Wells 2) Print of photo taken of H. G. Wells by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181512205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181512205899[/url]
Wooden Box containing 37 glass slides of H. G. Wells, his family, and others. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656189112205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656189112205899[/url]
Autograph Statement Signed, written in ink on vellum, prepared for the Modern Historic Records Association. [circa 1911] Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181912205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181912205899[/url]
Certificate given to H. G. Wells that admits him into the Freedom of the City of London
The Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) collection was assembled by Hugh C. Atkinson, former UIUC University Librarian. It includes 223 first editions, along with later editions and variant issues, of Dreiser's publications. Included in the collection is one of only twelve original copies of [i]Tragic America[/i] (1936). The collection was donated by ...
The Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) collection was assembled by Hugh C. Atkinson, former UIUC University Librarian. It includes 223 first editions, along with later editions and variant issues, of Dreiser's publications. Included in the collection is one of only twelve original copies of [i]Tragic America[/i] (1936). The collection was donated by ...
Letters, account books, and receipts concerning Hacienda De Xochimanga.
The Churchill collection was assembled by London bookseller Harold Mortlake, and consists of editions of virtually everything which Churchill wrote from 1898 till his death in 1965. It was purchased in 1970 and contains many presentation copies, autograph and typed letters, and recordings, as well as biographical works on Churchill, ...
The Churchill collection was assembled by London bookseller Harold Mortlake, and consists of editions of virtually everything which Churchill wrote from 1898 till his death in 1965. It was purchased in 1970 and contains many presentation copies, autograph and typed letters, and recordings, as well as biographical works on Churchill, ...
Richard Harwell is a prolific author and editor of literature on the Civil War and the Reconstruction periods. His collection of 1200 Confederate imprints and 900 Civil War publications contains documents of the Confederate Congress, as well as other publications of the period.
Papers of Sir Robert Heath consists of letters, documents, commonplace book, and a diary relating to London legal life, Parliament, the royal prerogative, prosecution of recusants, Star-Chamber prosecutions, Puritanism, English Civil War, personal and family matters and English agriculture. Correspondents include Arthur Parfey, Richard Lour, Mary Morley, Lucy Heath, John ...
Collection of architectural drawings and set designs by Edward Held, who worked on the design of Disneyland Theme Park and on the sets of numerous films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Recording, CD, and transcription of an interview of Helga Sandburg by WILL-TV's Alison Davis Wood for WILL-TV's "Song and the Slogan" Producer: Tim Hartin. 1) 30M Metal Tape of interview. 2) CD-ROM of interview 3) Typed Transcription of interview.
Throughout her life, Sarah Gofseyeff Heller advocated for the Zionist movement, American Jewish women, the establishment of a Jewish immigrant community in the United States, and the State of Israel. The Gofseyeff family were Polish Jews from a shtetl that was destroyed during the Holocaust. The Sarah G. Heller Materials ...
Papers of Archibald Henderson, including one autographed letter signed. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572423]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572423[/url]
Papers of George Hendrick, emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also contains documents and correspondence collected by George Hendrick of various individuals such as Carl Sandburg and Samel Arthur Jones.
Papers of Georges Abbe Henocque, including one autographed note signed (1957 February 19), one postal letter signed (1958 October 15) and one autographed note signed (1957 November 6). All to Nicolas Obolensky.
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85764675]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85764675[/url] Full Title: Here begynneth a boke in Englysshe tonge called Brute of Ingelond, or, The cronycles of Ingelond, compylynge and tretynge of [th]e seyd londe, howe it was fyrste a wylderness [and] forlete [and] no[th]inge [th]ere ynne but wylde bestes [and] fowles, and ...
Uniform Title: Chronicles of England. Ms. codex. Incomplete. Paginated on rectos only. Provenance: Purchased from Brown (catalog 19, item 13), Apr. 18, 1940. Former shelfmark: Ms. 309 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Former shelfmark: Uncat. 72 2 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
Papers of Robert Herrick. A letter from Robert Herrick to Burton Rascoe of the Chicago Tribune accompanying an article for Herrick's regular Sunday feature at the upper right-hand page of the opposite-editorial, or "highbrow" page, inaugurated by Rascoe and edited by him in the autumn of 1914. The holograph manuscript of ...
Full Title: Historia del arresto, expatriacion, viage a Italia y extincion de la provincia Mexicana de la Sagrada Compania de Jesus [manuscript] : con individual raron ... el dia 25 de Junio de 1767 ... / Italia da? el P. Antonio Soper de Priego, Americano An account of the suppression of ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77214928]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77214928[/url] Full Title: Historia de don Seruando, obispo de Orense, traducida el lengua gallega, y adicionada por don Pedro Seguino, obispo tambien de Orense que viuia era 1191. ano de Xro 1153 / Trasladada de su original en letra gotica por don Ioseph Pellicer ...
This item (2 pages) contains English-language translations from a critical essay on French author Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786) and from Watelet's [i]L'Art de peindre[/i] (1760) by William Hogarth (1697-1764). The original texts appear in the Amsterdam edition of [i]L'Art de peindre [/i]in 1761. The origin of the manuscripts was identified by ...
The collection consists of publications by classical economists as Adam Smith, Malthus, Thornton, J. B. Sayl, Lord Lauderdale, James and John Stuart Mill, Robert Torrens and David Ricardo, almost completely included in first editions.
This collection contains 155 manuscripts from the Jacob H. Hollander collection. The manuscripts are predominantly letters discussing 18th- and 19th-century theories of political economics in Europe. Other topics of correspondence include the publication of economic monographs, discussions about social engagements, and letters of introduction. Several of the later letters in ...
Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, including one autographed letter signed to Frederick Locker.
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869485794]www.worldcat.org/oclc/869485794[/url]
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70145840]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70145840[/url] Leaves numbered 19-23, 25-27, and 29-33. Provenance: Purchased in Paris, July 1928, by Prof. W. A. Oldfather. Former shelfmark: x q. 264.6 P28h (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). De Ricci. Oldfather, W. A., and Inez Goldia Lough. "The Urbana ms. of the ...
Ms. codex. Date and location supplied by cataloger; title from fol. 1v. Former shelfmark on fol. 1r: 209/C. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 160.
Papers of Vicomte Alphonse Huchet, including one autographed letter signed to Monsieur le President, Senataurs and two transcripts.
Henry C. Hutchins of Yale University was a scholar and bibliographer of Defoe. His collection contains works by Defoe and his contemporary polemicists, among other eighteenth century works, especially travel literature and translations from the French.
[i]Hymn for Mother's Day[/i] is a 3-page manuscript score by "F. B. S.," written for piano or organ and accompanied by lyrics. Attribution to Frederic B. Stiven is based on a later note on the manuscript indicating that a "Mrs. Stiven" presented the score to the library in 1957.
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70360631]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70360631[/url] Provenance: Signature of John C. Jackson -- In the Harmsworth collection -- Purchased from C. A. Stonehill, 1947. Former shelfmark: x 245 H9975 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Faye & Bond. Provisional record based on De Ricci