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Charles E. Mudie Collection

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Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816-1897 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Collection Overview

Title: Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816-1897Add to your cart.

ID: 01/01/MSS00042

Primary Creator: Mudie, Charles E. (1818-1890)

Extent: 0.43 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in two major series: correspondence and mixed materials. Correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order.

Languages: English, Italian

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Charles E. Mudie Papers dates from 1816 to 1897. Correspondence in the Mudie Papers comprises the most voluminous resource, with letters sent to and written by Mudie and family members. A wide array of mixed materials include photographs, broadsides, passports and a travel diary from 1859. Topics from the letters shed light on Mudie's Circulating Library subscription system and the book trade, and discussions of 19th century books. Conversations about British politics, the Italian unification, European travel, the opening of Mudie's Great Hall in 1860, literary matters, family genealogy and personal matters are also recorded in the letters and mixed materials.

Collection Historical Note

Charles Edward Mudie (1818-1890) was a publisher, author, and the founder of Mudie's Select Library. Located initially in London, Mudie introduced through his innovative library the concept of lending books by way of a circulating system operated by membership. With the help of his wife Mary and son Arthur Oliver, Mudie established during the Victorian era a network with publishers and writers to support and maintain the library. Collections of books in the library were curated or selected by Mudie in accordance with Victorian morals, limiting titles to subjects pertaining to science, biographies, fiction and "adventure" (travel). The lending of books operated by having multiple copies available for subscribers to borrow. The concept of Mudie's Select Library proved successful with the opening of three branches outside of London, in York, Manchester and Birmingham. Upon his dead in 1890, his son Arthur Oliver Mudie succeeded him as Chairman of the Library.

Administrative Information

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Access Restrictions: Open to researchers.

Use Restrictions:

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Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would damage materials or involve violation of copyright law.


Box and Folder Listing


Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence],
[Series 2: Mixed Materials],
[All]

Series 1: CorrespondenceAdd to your cart.
Sub-series 1: Charles E. Mudie CorrespondenceAdd to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Ainsworth, W. Harrison, 1800, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Bentley, George, 1884, 1885Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Blanc, Louis, 1861, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Brooke, Rajah, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Brooks, Shirley, 1859Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Browning, Robert, 1866Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Carlyle, Thomas, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: Collins, Frances, 1877Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Collins, Wilkie, 1860Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Conder, G.W., 1872Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Cowden-Clarke, Mary, 1884Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Gordon Cumming, Constance, 1882-1885Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Cruikshank, George, 1870Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Darwin, Charles, 1865Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Dennis, George, 1884Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Dickens, Charles, 1860Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Edwards, Amelia B., 1864-1877Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Fletcher, J.C., 1883Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Forster, John, 1860, 1872Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Gladstone, William Ewart (W.E.), 1882Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Guizot, Guillaume, 1865Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Hall, Samuel Carter (S.C.), 1883, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 23: Sir Rowland Hill, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 24: Howitt, William, 1866Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Hughes, Thomas, 1859-1861Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Inchbold, John William (J.W.), 1883Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Ireland, Alexander, 1883Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Mrs. Jameson, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 29: Kingsley, Charles, 1857, 1867Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Kingsley, Henry, 1860, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 31: MacMillan, Alexander, 1860Add to your cart.
Folder 32: Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope (Lord Mahon), 1873Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Manning, Anne, 1859-1869Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Masson, David, 1858-1883Add to your cart.
Folder 35: Mulock, Dinah, 1859-1884Add to your cart.
Folder 36: Nightingale, Florence, 1863, 1867Add to your cart.
Folder 37: Oliphant Wilson, Margaret (M.O.W.), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 38: Palgrave, Francis Turner, 1869Add to your cart.
Folder 39: Payn, James, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 40: Rae, Edward, 1877, 1882, 1883Add to your cart.
Folder 41: Reade, Charles, 1859, 1866-1867, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 42: Reid, Mayne, 1857, 1875, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 43: Ruskin, John, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 44: Sala, George Augustus, 1860, 1862Add to your cart.
Folder 45: Stowe, Harriet Beecher (H.B.), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 46: Tennent, James Emerson, 1860Add to your cart.
Folder 47: Tennyson, Alfred, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 48: Sellwood, Emily, (Mrs. Alfred Tennyson), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 49: Twining, Louisa, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 50: Woolner, Thomas, 1860Add to your cart.
Folder 51: Wordsworth, Christopher, 1865Add to your cart.
Folder 52: Mudie, Carl, (letter sent by Charles Mudie), 1871Add to your cart.
Sub-series 2: Mary Kingsford Mudie CorrespondenceAdd to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 53: Bentley, George, 1885, 1886Add to your cart.
Folder 54: Edwards, Amelia B., undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 55: Hall, Samuel Carter, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 56: Hughes, Thomas, 1857Add to your cart.
Folder 57: Kavanagh, Julia, 1875Add to your cart.
Folder 58: Moore, Henry, 1872, 1885Add to your cart.
Folder 59: Mudie, Mary Kingsford to the Mudie children, 1871, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 60: Mulock, Dinah, 1860-1884, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 61: Reid, Mayne, 1857Add to your cart.
Folder 62: Trollope, Frances Eleanor, 1887, undatedAdd to your cart.
Sub-series 3: Third Party CorrespondenceAdd to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 63: Caine, Hall, 1897Add to your cart.
Folder 64: Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman, 1858Add to your cart.
Folder 65: Cargill, Jessie (Mrs. Cargill), 1896Add to your cart.
Folder 66: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Mrs. Gaskell), 1862Add to your cart.
Folder 67: Gaskell, Margaret Emily (Meta), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 68: Greenaway, Kate, 1891Add to your cart.
Folder 69: Hunt, W. Holman, 1860Add to your cart.
Folder 70: Lever, Charles, 1848, 1864Add to your cart.
Folder 71: Mazzini, Joseph, 1862, 1865Add to your cart.
Folder 72: Mudie, Mary Polly, 1869Add to your cart.
Folder 73: Pawling, Gilbert, 1816Add to your cart.
Folder 74: Queen Victoria, 1866Add to your cart.
Folder 75: Ristori, Adelaide and Portia Gigliuca, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 76: Shields, Frederic, undatedAdd to your cart.
Series 2: Mixed MaterialsAdd to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 77: British passport granted to Charles E. Mudie, his wife, children, governess, and maid, July 6, 1860Add to your cart.
Folder 78: Italian route sheet issued by the city of Bologna, and an Italian visa or abroad passport, June 19, 1848 and July 3, 1849Add to your cart.
Folder 79: Great Hall opening guest list, December 17, 1860Add to your cart.
Folder 80: Travel diary titled, The travels of two children through France and Italy in 1859 aged 11 and 9 1/2Add to your cart.
Folder 81: Newspaper clipping of an ad titled, Sisters' Charity: ₤25,000 as Grants for the Poor, and clipped illustration published by D. Ardley, from the town of Torquay, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 82: Check for the amount of three guineas paid to Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 83: Textual and pictorial materials related to Giuseppe (Joseph) Mazzini, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 84: Mudie Circulating Library pamphlet, undatedAdd to your cart.

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