PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00817::Frank Harris Collection)//EN" "ViU00817.sgm" A Guide to the Frank Harris CollectionHarris, Frank. 7453-eProcessed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Elizabeth SlombaFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 17, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00817::Frank Harris Collection)//EN" "ViU00817.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Frank Harris Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 7453-e

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #7453-e Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
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Frank Harris Collection 1911, n.d. 7453-e 4 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

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Frank Harris Collection, Accession 7453-e, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

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Purchase, 1968 Jan 26

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Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Item Listing Letters Frank Harristo [ Werner Laurie] 1911 May 18 TLS, 2 p.

[Asserts that several articles on famous men printed in The Academyshould be rewritten before being republished; mentions Carlyle, Renan, Emerson, Rhodes, and Randolph Churchillas possible subjects; can sell only English rights; comments on The Man Shakespeare, The Women of Shakespeare, and The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde; hopes to find satisfactory publisher; elicits opinion of pieces on Carlyle and Renan and possible financial terms for the book.]

 Frank Harristo Werner Laurie 1911 May 27 TLS, 3 p.

[Discusses sales and prices of The Women of Shakespeare, The Man Shakespeare, and The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde; discusses anticipated publication of Recollections of Famous Menand Unpath'd Waters; will cover the "coronation" for The New York Worldand perhaps write a book on it.]

 Frank Harristo Werner Laurie n.y. Aug 10 TLS, 1 p.

[Refuses terms offered for English and colonial rights to The Women of Shakespeare. ]

 Frank Harristo Werner Laurie n.y. Aug 15 TLS, 2 p.

[Discusses terms for Women of Shakespeare; expects Arnold Bennettwill write approvingly about it; compares the book to The Man Shakespeare; hopes for simultaneous publication of English and American editions; is going to Stratford on Avonto get pictures of Shakespeare and Mary Fitton. ]