Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Papers, 1862-1938 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Papers, 1862-1938

ID: 01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0085

Primary Creator: Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) (1835-1915)

Extent: 46.0 Items

Date Acquired: 00/00/1957

Languages: English

This collection includes letters, cards, clippings, photographs, and obituary notices of author Mary Elizabeth Braddon and her son, William Babington Maxwell. All correspondence is from M.E. Braddon except where indicated.

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

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Acquisition Source: No. 1 purchased from Rogers, 1957 12 February. No. 2 purchased from Newham, 1957 February 9.

Acquisition Method: Purchased from John Schroder.

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Other Note: Former shelfmarks: xq B M46532M1 and Post-1650 MS 85.

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Item 1: Letter to Miss Frith, 1877 November 3

Item 2: Letter to Mrs. Tweedie, undated

Sir Mawson is mentioned.

Item 3: Letter to Mr. Sala, undated

Item 4: Transcription of a Wordsworth poem by Braddon, undated

Item 5: Letter to Lady Wilde, 1886 October 1

Item 6: Letter to an unknown recipient, 1892 July 17

Concerning Frederick Selous, Mr. [Edmund?] Yates, and the death of Mr. Selous.

Item 7: Letter to a publisher, xxxx February 19

Item 8: Letter to Miss Bright, 1879 April 17

Item 9: Letter to a publisher, xxxx November 4

Concerning copyediting.

Item 10: Letter to an unknown recipient, undated

Dated "Sunday night."

Item 11: Letter to Mr. Thomas, 1891 January 10

Item 12: Letter to Mr. Thomas, 1892 January 14

Item 13: Letter to Mr. Simis, 1897 November 4

Item 14: Letter to Mr. Thomas, 1886 August 21

In envelope postmarked "Bideford."

Item 15: Letter to an unknown recipient, 1892 March 2

Item 16: Letter to an unknown recipient, 1879 October 11

Item 17: Letter to Lady Wilde, xxxx January 19

In Cannes.

Item 18: Letter to Mr. Harrison, xxxx December 17

Item 19: Autograph of Braddon, undated

Item 20: Autograph addressed to Mr. J. Matheson, 1886 February 3

Includes envelope.

Item 21: Letter to an unknown recipient, 1862 December 13

Folder 2

Item 22: Letter to Mrs. Holtz, 1898 March 24

Item 23: Typed copy of letter to Mrs. Holtz, undated

Mounted in an envelope.

Item 24: Presentation photo addressed to Lady Campbell Clarke, 1906 January 24

Folder 3

Item 25: Letter to Mr. Thomas from W.B. Maxwell, 1900 December 31

Item 26: Letter to Mr. Thomas from W.B. Maxwell, 1902 May 10

Item 27: Cartoon signed by W.B.M., undated

Item 28: Card addressed to "Juliette", 1887 December

Dated in pencil on verso.

Item 29: Invitation to a fete at the Royal Dramatic College signed by Braddon, undated

Item 30: Letter to Mrs. Adames, xxxx May 27

Item 31: Fragment of letter to Mrs. Martin, undated

Item 32: Postcard to Mrs. Holtz, 1881 December 31

Item 33: Collection of 8 newspaper clippings (mostly obituaries) relating to W.B. Maxwell, circa 1938

Folder 4

Item 34: M.E. Braddon obituary, circa 1915

Contains photographs and cartoons.

Item 35: Two manuscript copies of M.E. Braddon's gravestone inscription, 1936 February 15, undated

One dated and signed "R.H."

Item 36: Manuscript list of Braddon's works, undated

Item 37: Two printed leaves concerning "The Masks Album", undated

Item 38: Postcard with a photo of Braddon, undated

Item 39: Hand-drawn map of an unknown location, undated

Item 40: Broadway Annual clipping, 1867?

10 pages.

Item 41: Windsor Magazine clipping, undated

4 pages.

Item 42: Two typescript copies of Braddon's obituary from the Morning Post, undated

Item 43: Melia's Magazine clipping, undated

4 pages.

Item 44: Collection of 7 newspaper clippings relating to M.E. Braddon, undated

Folder 5

Item 45: Copy of the London Times, 1915 February 5

Item 46: Times Literary Supplement newspaper clipping, 1937 October 9

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