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Collection Overview
Title: Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816-1897
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.
Subjects: Libraries
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.
Subject/Index Terms
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
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- Series 1: Correspondence
- Sub-series 1: Charles E. Mudie Correspondence
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Ainsworth, W. Harrison, 1800, undated
- Folder 2: Bentley, George, 1884, 1885
- Folder 3: Blanc, Louis, 1861, undated
- Folder 4: Brooke, Rajah, undated
- Folder 5: Brooks, Shirley, 1859
- Folder 6: Browning, Robert, 1866
- Folder 7: Carlyle, Thomas, undated
- Folder 8: Collins, Frances, 1877
- Folder 9: Collins, Wilkie, 1860
- Folder 10: Conder, G.W., 1872
- Folder 11: Cowden-Clarke, Mary, 1884
- Folder 12: Gordon Cumming, Constance, 1882-1885
- Folder 13: Cruikshank, George, 1870
- Folder 14: Darwin, Charles, 1865
- Folder 15: Dennis, George, 1884
- Folder 16: Dickens, Charles, 1860
- Folder 17: Edwards, Amelia B., 1864-1877
- Folder 18: Fletcher, J.C., 1883
- Folder 19: Forster, John, 1860, 1872
- Folder 20: Gladstone, William Ewart (W.E.), 1882
- Folder 21: Guizot, Guillaume, 1865
- Folder 22: Hall, Samuel Carter (S.C.), 1883, undated
- Folder 23: Sir Rowland Hill, undated
- Folder 24: Howitt, William, 1866
- Folder 25: Hughes, Thomas, 1859-1861
- Folder 26: Inchbold, John William (J.W.), 1883
- Folder 27: Ireland, Alexander, 1883
- Folder 28: Mrs. Jameson, undated
- Folder 29: Kingsley, Charles, 1857, 1867
- Folder 30: Kingsley, Henry, 1860, undated
- Folder 31: MacMillan, Alexander, 1860
- Folder 32: Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope (Lord Mahon), 1873
- Folder 33: Manning, Anne, 1859-1869
- Folder 34: Masson, David, 1858-1883
- Folder 35: Mulock, Dinah, 1859-1884
- Folder 36: Nightingale, Florence, 1863, 1867
- Folder 37: Oliphant Wilson, Margaret (M.O.W.), undated
- Folder 38: Palgrave, Francis Turner, 1869
- Folder 39: Payn, James, undated
- Folder 40: Rae, Edward, 1877, 1882, 1883
- Folder 41: Reade, Charles, 1859, 1866-1867, undated
- Folder 42: Reid, Mayne, 1857, 1875, undated
- Folder 43: Ruskin, John, undated
- Folder 44: Sala, George Augustus, 1860, 1862
- Folder 45: Stowe, Harriet Beecher (H.B.), undated
- Folder 46: Tennent, James Emerson, 1860
- Folder 47: Tennyson, Alfred, undated
- Folder 48: Sellwood, Emily, (Mrs. Alfred Tennyson), undated
- Folder 49: Twining, Louisa, undated
- Folder 50: Woolner, Thomas, 1860
- Folder 51: Wordsworth, Christopher, 1865
- Folder 52: Mudie, Carl, (letter sent by Charles Mudie), 1871
- Sub-series 2: Mary Kingsford Mudie Correspondence
- Box 1
- Folder 53: Bentley, George, 1885, 1886
- Folder 54: Edwards, Amelia B., undated
- Folder 55: Hall, Samuel Carter, undated
- Folder 56: Hughes, Thomas, 1857
- Folder 57: Kavanagh, Julia, 1875
- Folder 58: Moore, Henry, 1872, 1885
- Folder 59: Mudie, Mary Kingsford to the Mudie children, 1871, undated
- Folder 60: Mulock, Dinah, 1860-1884, undated
- Folder 61: Reid, Mayne, 1857
- Folder 62: Trollope, Frances Eleanor, 1887, undated
- Sub-series 3: Third Party Correspondence
- Box 1
- Folder 63: Caine, Hall, 1897
- Folder 64: Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman, 1858
- Folder 65: Cargill, Jessie (Mrs. Cargill), 1896
- Folder 66: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Mrs. Gaskell), 1862
- Folder 67: Gaskell, Margaret Emily (Meta), undated
- Folder 68: Greenaway, Kate, 1891
- Folder 69: Hunt, W. Holman, 1860
- Folder 70: Lever, Charles, 1848, 1864
- Folder 71: Mazzini, Joseph, 1862, 1865
- Folder 72: Mudie, Mary Polly, 1869
- Folder 73: Pawling, Gilbert, 1816
- Folder 74: Queen Victoria, 1866
- Folder 75: Ristori, Adelaide and Portia Gigliuca, undated
- Folder 76: Shields, Frederic, undated
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