urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00207 John Lane Company: An Inventory of Its Records at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center [Part 1] Text converted by SPI Content Sciences Inc., July 2003. Finding aid written in English. John Lane Company Records 1856-1933, bulk 1894-1930 76 boxes, 1 galley file, 2 oversize flat files (32 linear feet) TXRC00-A11 Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin John Lane Company The records of the John Lane Company, 1856-1933, are comprised mainly of incoming correspondence. Also present are manuscripts and proof copies, financial records, notes, documents, and autobiographical materials of John Lane. In addition, there are readers' reports prepared for manuscripts submitted to the firm between 1894 and 1930. The reports are a valuable source of information on the firm's publishing guidelines and on the kinds of manuscripts submitted during that period. Acquisition:

Purchases, 1986-1998 (R10976, R12321, R14286)

 Access:

Open for research

 Processed by:

Bob Taylor, 2000

 URL:

www.lib.utexas.edu/hrc/fa/johnlane.html

 Organizational History

The future publisher of The Yellow Book and other works that typify Nineties literary decadence was born into a Devon farming family on March 14, 1854. In his mid teens John Lane migrated to London and soon found employment as a clerk in the Railway Clearing House. An ambitious and energetic autodidact, Lane had by the mid 1880s gained the knowledge, interest, and capital to consider entering the London book trade. A chance association with Elkin Mathews quickly led the pair into a partnership, culminating in the creation in 1887 of the Bodley Head, a firm initially involved in the antiquarian book trade.

Within a few years the Bodley Head had begun publishing limited editions to appeal to a sophisticated market, attracting such authors and illustrators as Oscar Wilde, Richard Le Gallienne, Aubrey Beardsley, and Charles Ricketts. Elkin Mathews was increasingly unhappy with the direction the firm was taking, and in 1894 the partnership was terminated. Lane retained the firm's imprint and to it prefixed his own name: John Lane the Bodley Head. In 1896 he opened a New York branch.

In the same year as Mathews' departure Lane launched the audacious Yellow Book, with Henry Harland as editor. The flamboyant periodical quickly became the talk of literary London, but the uproar produced by Oscar Wilde's legal difficulties and public reaction against the artistically esoteric hastened the end of The Yellow Book in 1897. Lane's 1898 marriage to a wealthy American author, Anna Eichberg King, perhaps abetted his own increasingly conservative commercial and artistic instincts, and after the Yellow Book debacle he pursued a more conventional course.

In the early years of the twentieth century John Lane broadened the scope of his publishing activities, issuing a considerable range of nonfiction and, most notably, prose fiction. An array of fashionable authors including Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Ford Madox Ford, C. S. Forester, Kenneth Grahame, Stephen Leacock, W. J. Locke, Alice Meynell, J. B. Priestley, Saki, and H. G. Wells were closely associated with the Bodley Head imprint into the 1920s.

Lane's personal interest in visual art found an outlet in The Speakers of the House of Commons from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1911). The principal text was by Arthur I. Dasent, but the notes on the portraits of the speakers were by Lane himself.

Following World War One the Bodley Head became a limited liability company as Hubert Carr-Gomme and Ronald Boswell joined the firm, along with Allen Lane, a young cousin of John. At the time of John Lane's death on February 2, 1925, the firm was in decline, culminating in its bankruptcy in 1936. At that point a consortium of publishers acquired the firm's name and assets, while Allen Lane, having recently founded Penguin Books, went on to a successful career in that venture.

 Bibliography:

Lambert, J. W. The Bodley Head, 1887-1987. London: The Bodley Head, 1987.

May, J. Lewis. John Lane and the Nineties. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1936.

Nelson, James G. The Early Nineties: a View from the Bodley Head. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.

 Index Terms: People Abercrombie, Lascelles, 1881-1938 Allinson, A.R. (Alfred Richard) Arkwright, William, 1857-1925 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 Bagot, Richard Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924 Barnard, Francis Pierrepont, 1854-1931 Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898 Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931 Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925 Black, Alice Elizabeth Knox, 1850- Bleackley, Horace, 1868-1931 Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974 Brangwyn, Frank, Sir, 1867-1956 Brinton, Selwyn, 1859-1940 Broadley, Alexander Myrick, 1847-1916 Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923 Buchan, Joh, 1875-1940 Butterworth, Frank Nestle Byles, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1873 Caine, William, 1873-1925 Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946 Carlyle, Alexander, 1843- Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 1855-1927 Chapman, Frederick, 1918 Chesterton, G.K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Churchill, Randolph Spencer, Lady, 1854-1921 Clarke, Roland Cobb, Thomas, 1854-1932 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 1846-1920 Collins, Laurence Churton Coxon, Muriel Hine Coxon, Stanley William Crackanthorpe, Hubert, 1870-1896 Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 Crichton,-Browne, James, Sir, 1840-1938 Cunninghame, Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine), 1852-1936 Curzon, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis of, 1859-1925 Dasent, Aruther Irwin, 1859-1939 Davidson, John, 1857-1909 Dene, Arundel Dewar, Douglas, 1875- Dibdin, E. Rimbault (Edward Rimbault), 1853-1941 Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord, 1870-1945 Drillien, Bérengère Dyson, C.C. E.V.B. (Eleanor Boyle Vere), 1825-1916 Ellis, S.M. (Steward Marsh) Epstein, Jacop, Sir, 1880-1959 Fea, Allan, 1860 Ffoulkes, Constance Jocelyn Fish, A.H. Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939 Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937 Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932 Greenwood, G.G. (Granville George), Sir, 1850-1928 Grey, Pamela, 1871-1928 Hake, Thomas St. E. (Thomas St. Edward) Hardy, O.H. Harland, Henry, 1861-1905 Hartshorne, Albert, 1839 Herbert, Agnes Herbert, Alice Hill, Constance, 1844?-1929 Hill, Ellen G. Holbach, Maude M. Holmes, Edmond, 1850-1936 Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959 Howard, Keble, 1875-1928 Howse, Lucie D. Hutton, Edward, 1875 Jameson, Frederick Jenkins, Herbert George, 1876-1923 Kennerley, Mitchell, 1878-1950 Kernahan, Coulson, 1858-1943 Kettlewell, John Keun, Odette, 1890 Lane, John, 1854-1925 Langdale, Stella Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935 Lees, John Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947 Legge, Arthur E.J. (Arthur Edward John), 1863-1934 Lehmann, R.C. (Rudolf Chambers), 1856-1929 Levetus, A.S. Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 Lilly, William Samuel, 1840-1919 Locke, William John, 1867-1930 Low, Sidney, Sir, 1857-1932 Lowe, Charles, 1848-1931 Lyons, A. Neil (Albert Neil), 1880-1940 McFadden, Gertrude Violet Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947 Marriott, Charles, 1869 Marshall, Beatrice Maxwell, Donald, 1877 May, J. Lewis (James Lewis), 1873 Melville, Lewis, 1874-1932 Mew, Egan Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948 Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett, 1852-1923 Nepean, Evelyn Maud Reid Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924 New, E.H. (Edmund Hort), 1871-1931 Newmarch, Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson, 1857-1940 Niven, Frederick, 1878-1944 Oppenheim, M. (Michael), 1853-1927 Osborn, Edward Bolland, 1867- Parker, Louis Napoleon, 1852-1944 Paterson, Alfred Peel, Ethel Adelaide Georgiana Petre, F. Loraine (Francis Loraine), 1852-1925 Phillips, Stephen, 1868-1915 Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960 Pichot, Pierre Amedee Pinkerton, Thomas A. Pollock, Walter Herries, 1850-1926 Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 Prout, Samuel Gillespie Ramsden, Hermione Charlotte, 1867- Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron, 1837-1916 Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John), 1872-1942 Reynolds, Stephen Sydney, 1881-1919 Richards, E.F. (Elinor F.) Richards, Grant, 1872-1948 Roberts, Harry, 1871-1946 Roberts, Margaret Windeatt Robinson, Charles, 1870-1937 Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918 Russell, T. Baron Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 Saki, 1870-1916 Sarmento, George Scott, Temple, 1864-1939 Seaman, Owen, Sir, 1861-1936 Seccombe, Thomas, 1866-1923 Sharpe, Evelyn, 1869-1955 Shelley, Edward Shepherd, J.A. Sheringham, George, 1884-1937 Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps) 1865-1947 Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926 Skilbeck, William Wray, 1864-1919 Spare, Austin Osman, 1888-1955 Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1862- Sparroy, Wilfrid Spender, John A. (John Alfred), 1862-1942 Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere), 1863-1951 Statham, H. Heathcote (Henry Heathcote), 1839-1924 Stebbing, Edward Percy, 1870-1960 Steele, Marshall Steuart, A. Francis (Archibald Francis) Stevenson, George, 1875- Stewart, Charlotte, 1863- Stirling, A.M.W. (Anna Maria Wilhelmina) 1865-1965 Swettenham, Frank Athelstane, Sir, 1850-1946 Syrett, Netta Tabb, John B. (John Banister), 1845-1909 Thackery, Francis St. John, 1832-1919 Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916 Thompson, Theodora Trask, Katrina, 1853-1922 Trevor, Roy, 1869-1922 Turnor, Christopher Hatton, 1873- Turrell, Charles Upton, A. Mowbray Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred, 1853-1922 Watson, Robinson Watson, William, 1858-1935 Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914 Way, Thomas R. (Thomas Robert), 1861-1913 Wells, H.G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 Whale, Winifred Stephens Willcocks, M.P. (Mary Patricia), 1869- Willett, B.W. Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942 Wingfield-Straford, Esmé Cecil, 1882- Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa), 1856 Yeats, W.B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 Young, Florence Ethel Mills, 1875-1945 Organizations James B. Pinker & Son Subjects Lane, John, 1854-1925 John Lane Company Publishers and publishing, Great Britain, Biography Great Britain, Intellectual lifestyle, 19th century, Sources Great Britain, Intellectural lifestyle, 20th century, Sources Document Types Broadsides Cartoons (humorous images) Christmas cards Drawings Galley proofs Legal documents Negatives Photographs Postcards Scope and Contents

The records of the John Lane Company, 1856-1933, comprise correspondence, readers' reports, manuscripts and proof copies, financial records, notes, documents, and autobiographical materials. The material is in part in its original order, but in general the current organization is an imposed one.

Business Records, the first series, represents over four-fifths of the entire collection, and the largest portion of this is incoming correspondence. Major groups of correspondence are included from A. M. Broadley, Lady Randolph Churchill, Walter Crane, Stephen Leacock, Richard Le Gallienne, Stephen Phillips, and William Watson. Many other significant figures, including Gertrude Atherton, Arnold Bennett, and Ezra Pound, are represented by smaller groups of correspondence.

While it is evident certain figures associated with the firm (Agatha Christie, C. S. Forester, and Oscar Wilde in particular) are not present, and while there is evidence certain time periods are better represented than others, the correspondence is nevertheless a significant window into the firm's relations with its authors and fellow publishers. The arrangement of this correspondence is a locally-applied one, as it was evident that the material was no longer in its original order.

Scattered throughout the business correspondence is a significant amount of John Lane's personal correspondence. Included here are letters from social contacts of a relatively late date (the Prideaux-Brune family, for example), as well as family and friends from his younger days. Also present is correspondence related to his personal interests (antiques, collectibles, and art, among others, and the book he co-authored with Arthur Dasent). A small quantity of other business records, largely financial and miscellaneous, are found in the series.

Series II, Creative Work, comprises just over ten document boxes of readers' reports for the years 1894 to 1930, along with a small number of manuscripts and galleys. While the readers' reports are not present for all years (there are none for the years 1909 to 1914, nor for 1917-1920), they are in their original order for the years represented in the Center's holdings. A dozen or so manuscripts and marked proof copies are present in the series, including two by Lascelles Abercromie and several by William Watson.

The John Lane Personal Materials series is small and mixed in content, but does include some autobiographical notes, along with rough notes for projected works on British art in India and other art topics John Lane considered of interest. As noted above, Lane's personal correspondence present in the collection is filed in Series I.

Original art work, including prints, drawings, watercolors, and sketches by Vernon Hill, as well as designs for bindings and title-pages for books published by Lane were withdrawn from the John Lane Company records and transferred the the Ransom Center's Art Collection. Additional material withdrawn from the Lane records and housed in the Center's Vertical File Collection includes unbound gatherings of illustrated books, photographs of art works, and newspaper clippings.

Other John Lane Company records are to be found at the University of Reading.

 Series Descriptions

Series I. Business Records, 1856-1933 (bulk 1894-1930), 63 boxes.

This series is arranged in two subseries: A. Correspondence, 1856-1933 (62 boxes), B. Other Records, 1895-1928 (1 box).

The large Subseries A includes letters from over three thousand correspondents dealing with matters typically raised by authors--queries about manuscripts submitted, about accepted manuscripts "in process" before publication, about royalties not received, about advertising campaigns. These queries were in part addressed to Lane himself, but in many cases were directed to members of the editorial staff. Other topics occur within the series: efforts of Lane and others to obtain a pension for Thomas Hake, readers inquiring whether or not The Love of an Unknown Soldier is a work of fiction, acknowledgements from ships' crews and prison camp inmates for books supplied by the firm during World War One.

Some idea of the range and character of the correspondence included in Subseries A may be suggested by noting the presence of significant groups of letters from F. P. Barnard, John Buchan, Lord Alfred Douglas, Kenneth Grahame, Vernon Lee, J. Lewis May, the Baron Redesdale, Clement K. Shorter, and M. P. Willcocks.

In the absence of a good biography of John Lane it is difficult to place many of the letters--particularly early ones--written to him, but it is likely many of these correspondents were relatives or friends from his early years in London.

Virtually nothing from the period of Lane's partnership with Elkin Mathews survives in the records, apart from a group of remarkable letters written Lane by Edward Shelley, a young man hired by Lane (it has been said) to spy on Mathews and later involved with Oscar Wilde.

Internal communications of the firm are not systematically represented--those included in the records date primarily from 1898 to about 1903 and from 1915 to 1920. Even so, there are enough from Lane to his lieutenants (Frederic Chapman, Roland Clarke, B. W. Willett, and Herbert Jenkins) to give some idea of how the firm functioned. There are also a substantial number of letters to Lane from Jenkins written during Lane's trips to New York between 1900 and 1903. Outgoing correspondence is limited to a single folder.

The small group of "other records" represented in subseries B is varied, but not without interest. A journal kept by Temple Scott during his brief tenure in Lane's New York office in 1900 is present, as are some fragmentary financial records. A file dealing with a lawsuit brought about by Lane's publication of Odette Keun's My Adventures in Bolshevik Russia completes the subseries.

Series II. Creative Work, 1894-1930, 12.5 boxes.

This series is arranged in two subseries: A. Readers' reports, 1894-1930 (10.5 boxes), B. Manuscripts, 1894-1917 (2 boxes).

Subseries A contains a substantial number of readers' reports prepared for manuscripts submitted to the firm between 1894 and 1930. These reports are arranged chronologically by year submitted and alphabetically by submitting author thereunder. In the main the reports were written by various members of the firm, but others requiring specialized knowledge were commissioned. Many of the reports were initialed or signed, and others can be identified by handwriting. The reports are a valuable source of information on the firm's publishing guidelines and also on the kinds of manuscripts being submitted to them in the period.

Subseries B includes the manuscript of Lascelles Abercrombie's Emblems of Love, as well as the galleys to Interludes and Poems, marked with his manuscript corrections. Also present are typescripts of H. B. L. Webb's The Silences of the Moon and Charles S. Wayne's A Prince to Order. A number of works by William Watson are represented in manuscript or typescript, together with incomplete galleys of his Collected Poems and Poems vol. 1-2.

Series III. John Lane Personal Materials, 1869-1925, 1 box.

This final series comprises such a mixture of bits and pieces relating to the life of John Lane the man that it can be regarded as little more than a collection of biographical clues. A 30-page typescript autobiography carries Lane's life up to the point of his departure for London. Another group of notes appears to be the beginnings of an intended history of British and European art in India. A group of theater programs issued between 1869 and 1896 suggest Lane's interest in the lively arts and are in several cases annotated in his hand with the names of his fellow theater-goers.

 John Lane Company Records--Folder List I. Business Records A. Correspondence, 1856-1933 Incoming 1 1 A-Alba 1 2 Alastair, 1911-1929 1 3 Ald-Alv 1 4 Allinson, A. R., 1908-1924 2 1 Ame-Arc 2 2 Ard-Ash 2 3 Ask-Ays 2 4 Atherton, Gertrude, 1898-1913 2 5 B-Barc 2 6 Bagot, Richard, 1899-1902 3 1 Bari-Barr 3 2 Baring-Gould, S., 1906-1923 Barnard, F. P. 3 3 1884-1904 3 4 1905-1920 3 5 Bash-Bayl 4 1 Bea-Bell, E. 4 2 Beardsley, Aubrey, 1891-1926 4 3 Beerbohm, Max, 1896-1932 4 4 Bell, J.-Benn 4 5 Bent-Birc 4 6 Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1894-1925 5 1 Birk-Blis Blake, Alice E. 5 2 1908-1910 5 3 1910-1911 Bleackley, Horace 5 4 1899-1926 5 5 1927-1931 & postcards 5 6 Bloc-Bouln 6 1 Boult-Brin 6 2 Brangwyn, Frank, 1914-1932 6 3 Bris-Broo Broadley, Alexander Myrick 6 4 1907-1909 June 6 5 1909 July-Dec. 6 6 1910 Jan.-July 6 7 1910 Aug.-Dec. 7 1 1911-1914 7 2 Postcards 7 3 Telegrams 7 4 Brot-Buck 7 5 Browning, Oscar, 1894-1923 Buchan, John 7 6 1895-1897 June 7 7 1897 July-1933 7 8 Budd-Burl 8 1 Burn-Butl 8 2 Butt-Byng 8 3 Cad-Camm 8 4 Calvert, Albert F., 1908-1921 8 5 Camp-Cent 8 6 Carlyle, Alexander, 1903-1927 9 1 Cham-Char 9 2 Chel-Chor 9 3 Chur-Clem 9 4 Churchill, Randolph, Lady, 1899-1911 9 5 Clif-Cob 10 1 Coc-Collins, D. 10 2 Collins, J.-Cont 10 3 Conw-Cor 10 4 Cot-Cree 10 5 Coxon, Muriel, 1909-1924 11 1 Coxon, Stanley, 1914-1933 Crane, Walter 11 2 1894-1908 11 3 1909-1926 11 4 Crew-Cund 11 5 Crichton-Browne, James, 1895-1925 11 6 Cunn-Cutl 11 7 Curzon, George, 1911-1921 12 1 D-Darc 12 2 Dark-Davies Dasent, Arthur 12 3 1883-1910 12 4 1911-1924 12 5 Davidson, John, 1892-1922 12 6 Davig-Dawson, A. 13 1 Dawson, C.-Debu 13 2 Dec-Den 13 3 Der-Did 13 4 Dewar, Douglas, 1905-1920 13 5 Dibdin, E. Rimbault, 1899-1917 13 6 Die-Dow 14 1 Douglas, Alfred, Lord, 1893-1930 14 2 Doy-Dya 14 3 Drillien, Bérengère, 1910-1932 14 4 Dyson, C. C., 1908-1910 14 5 E-Ellis, H. 14 6 E. V. B. [i.e., Vere, Eleanor B.], 1899-1907 14 7 Ellis, S. M., 1910-1916 14 8 Ellis, V.-Eve 15 1 F-Ffou 15 2 Fea, Allan, 1896-1934 15 3 Ffoulkes, Constance J., 1909-1914 15 4 Fie-Fish 15 5 Fisher-Flor 16 1 Flow-For 16 2 Fost-Free 16 3 Fren-Fyv 16 4 G-Gaus 16 5 Garnett, Edward, 1909-1927, and Richard, 1883-1905 17 1 Gaut-Gille 17 2 Gilli-Gols 17 3 Gomm-Gori 17 4 Gos-Grant 17 5 Grahame, Kenneth, 1895-1923 18 1 Granv-Grev Greenwood, G. G. 18 2 1907-1914 18 3 1915-1921 18 4 Grey-Gued 18 5 Gues-Gwy 19 1 H-Hare 19 2 Hake, Thomas, 1914-1917 19 3 Hardy, O. H., 1916-1932 19 4 Harg-Harrison, C. 19 5 Harland, Henry, 1894-1922 19 6 Harrison, F.-Hass 20 1 Hast-Hed 20 2 Hein-Hep 20 3 Herbert, Agnes, 1908-1912 20 4 Herb-Hew 20 5 Hey-Hodd 21 Hill, Constance 21 1 1901-1908 21 2 1909-1924 21 3 Hill, Ellen G., 1898-1925 21 4 Hodg-Hony 21 5 Holbach, Maude M., 1907-1930 Holmes, Edmond 21 6 1897-1900 21 7 1901-1933 22 1 Hook-Howard, K. 22 2 Housman, Laurence, 1895-1933 22 3 Howard, L.-Hunt 22 4 Hurd-Hyl 22 5 Iago-Irel 23 1 Irv-Ivr 23 2 J-James, F. 23 3 James, H.-John 23 4 James B. Pinker & Son, 1898-1931 23 5 Johns-Jul 23 6 K-Kenned 24 1 Kenner-Kerr 24 2 Kers-King, J. 24 3 King, K.-Kirk 24 4 Kit-Kyl 24 5 L-Lambo 25 1 Lambt-Layard 25 2 Langdale, Stella, 1915-1926 Leacock, Stephen 25 3 1910-1913 25 4 1914-1920 25 5 1921-1924 25 6 1914 reception (acceptances & regrets) 25 7 1914 reception (invitations and unidentified responses) 26 1 Leal-Lefr Lee, Vernon 26 2 1903-1909 26 3 1910-1923 26 4 1925-1930 26 5 Lega-Lesl 27 Le Gallienne, Richard 27 1 1888-1889; 1891-1893 27 2 1894-1895 27 3 1896-1907, n.d. 27 4 Correspondence of others 27 5 Legge, Arthur E. J., 1896-1919 27 6 Lest-Levy 27 7 Levetus, A. S., 1902-1910 28 1 Lew-Lil 28 2 Lin-Lit 28 3 Liv-Lord Locke, William John 28 4 1896-1912 28 5 1913-1920 29 1 1921-1925 29 2 Loun-Lyt 29 3 Love of an Unknown Soldier (letters about) 29 4 Low, Sidney, 1892-1923 29 5 Lowe, Charles, 1907-1923 29 6 Lyons, A. Neil, 1906-1920 30 1 M-Macke 30 2 McFadden, Gertrude V., 1914-1924 30 3 Macki-Mall 30 4 Mand-Marn 30 5 Marriott, Charles, 1900-1926 30 6 Marro-Martin 31 1 Maru-Maud, C. 31 2 Maud, R.-Med 31 3 Maxwell, Donald, 1903-1924 May, J. Lewis 31 4 1907-1914 31 5 1915-1924 32 1 Mee-Met 32 2 Melville, Lewis, 1907-1930 32 3 Mew-Mille 32 4 Meynell, Alice, 1895-1912 32 5 Meynell, Wilfrid, 1898-1929 32 6 Miller-Mond 33 1 Money-Moor 33 2 Money-Coutts, Francis B., 1895-1920 33 3 Moret-Moss 33 4 Mot-My 34 1 N-Nev 34 2 Nepean, Evelyn, 1913-1928 34 3 New-Nie 34 4 New, E. H., 1895-1922 34 5 Newmarch, Rosa, 1903-1919 35 1 Niv-Normanb 35 2 Normant-Nutt 35 3 Ob-Orr 35 4 Oppenheim, M., 1897-1903 35 5 Osb-Oxf 35 6 Osborn, Edward B., 1915-1923 36 1 P-Parker 36 2 Parkes-Paul 36 3 Paterson, Alfred, 1897-1923 36 4 Pay-Penn 36 5 Peo-Peterson 37 1 Peth-Pich 37 2 Petre, F. Loraine, 1906-1921 Phillips, Stephen 37 3 1897-1909 & family correspondence 37 4 1910-1915, n.d. 37 5 Phillpotts, Eden, 1896-1919 38 1 Pick-Pitc 38 2 Pitm-Polla 38 3 Polli-Pound 38 4 Powe-Prid Prideaux-Brune family 38 5 Beatrice to Gertrude 39 1 Katharine C. & miscellaneous 39 2 Prim-Pyne Prout, Samuel G. 39 3 Correspondence, 1907-1910 39 4 Third-party correspondence, 1907-1912 39 5 Q-Quiz 39 6 R-Reed 39 7 Ramsden, Hermione, 1894-1910 39 8 Redesdale, Algernon, Baron, 1908-1915 40 1 Reek-Rhea 40 2 Rees, Arthur J., 1916-1921 40 3 Rhoa-Rick 40 4 Ridd-Robertson 40 5 Roberts, Harry, 1899-1920 Roberts, Margaret W. 40 6 1902-1913 41 1 1914-1926 41 2 Robertson, W. Graham, 1902-1932 41 3 Robi-Rose 41 4 Roseb-Rous 41 5 Rowe-Ryle 42 1 Russell, T. Baron, 1897-1910 42 2 S-Sams 42 3 Samu-Sca 42 4 Sarmento, George, 1910-1923 42 5 Sch-Self 42 6 Seaman, Owen, 1895-1926 43 1 Serg-Shee 43 2 Shef-Sheph 43 3 Shepl-Sibl 43 4 Sheringham, George, 1913-1930 43 5 Shorter, Clement K., 1895-1926 44 1 Sich-Siren 44 2 Sit-Smed 44 3 Smit-Smy 44 4 Snel-Spin 44 5 Spare, Austin O., 1908-1922 45 1 Sparrow, Walter S., 1903-1920 45 2 Sparroy, Wilfrid, 1902-1925 45 3 Spri-Stat 45 4 Stacpoole, H. De Vere, 1894-1930 45 5 Staw-Stew Stebbing, E. P. 45 6 1910-1922 46 1 1923-1931 Steuart, A. F. 46 2 1906-1910 46 3 1911-1925 46 4 Stevenson, George [i.e., Grace], 1904-1931 46 5 Stewart, Charlotte, 1909-1911 46 6 Stil-Ston Stirling, A. M. W. 46 7 1906-1910 47 1 1911-1925 47 2 Stor-Strange 47 3 Straus-Strong 47 4 Stuart-Sve 47 5 Swann-Syr Swettenham, Frank 47 6 1897-1905 48 1 1906-1920 48 2 T-Taylor 48 3 Teck-Thomp 48 4 Thackeray, Francis S., 1898-1905 48 5 Thompson, Silvanus P., 1889-1917 48 6 Thompson, Theodora, 1904-1923 49 1 Thoms-Tomson 49 2 Town-Trev 49 3 Trask, Katrina, 1902-1917 49 4 Trip-Turq 49 5 Turr-Tyr 50 1 Uhl-Uss 50 2 Vade-Vaug 50 3 Vaus-Viesy 50 4 Vill-Vyv 50 5 Vizetelly, Ernest A., 1902-1911 51 1 W-Wallis, H. 51 2 Wallis, J.-Ward, W. 51 3 Warde-Watn 51 4 Watson, G.-Watson, R. Watson, William 52 1 Correspondence from others 52 2 Uncertain dates 52 3 1892-1894 52 4 1895 52 5-6 1896 52 7-8 1897 53 1-2 1898 53 3 1899 53 4 1900-1902 (letters) 53 5 1900-1902 (telegrams) 53 6 1903 54 1-2 1904 54 3-4 1905 54 5 1906 55 1 1907 55 2-3 1908 55 4-6 1909 (letters) 56 1 1909 (telegrams) 56 2 1910 56 3 1911-1913 56 4 1914 56 5 1915 56 6-7 1916 56 8 1917-1920 56 9 1921-1926 56 10 Family probate materials 56 11 Family photos and miscellaneous 57 1 Watson-Potts, M.-Waug Watts-Dunton, Theodore 57 2 1894-1905 57 3 1906-1931 57 4 Way-Weig 57 5 Wein-Westr 57 6 Weth-Whar Whale, Winifred S. 58 1 1908-1909 58 2 1910-1930 58 3 Wheat-Whib 58 4 Whitc-Whitr 58 5 Whitt-Wills Willcocks, M. P. 59 1 1908-1911 59 2 1914-1920, n.d. 59 3 Williamson, George C., 1913-1920 59 4 Wils-Wise 59 5 Wingfield-Stratford, Esmé C., 1907-1920 59 6 With-Woodh 59 7 Woods-Wright 60 1 Wye-Yorke 60 2 Young-Zichy 60 3 Young, Florence E. M., 1907-1919 60 4 Unidentified correspondents 60 5 Outgoing, 1898-1924 Internal 60 6 Lane to F. Chapman, 1898-1899 60 7 Lane to R. Clarke, 1898-1901 Lane to H. Jenkins 60 8 1901-1907, nd 61 1 1911 Lane to B. Willett 61 2 1915? 61 3 1915 May-Dec. 61 4 1916, n.d. 61 5 1917, n.d. 61 6 1917 Jan.-Sept. 61 7 1918 Aug.-Dec. 61 8 1919 Jan.-June 61 9 1919 Nov.-1920 Mar. 62 1 1921-1922 62 2 Lane to firm or uncertain, ca. 1898-1902 62 3 Lane to firm or uncertain, ca. 1898-1902 62 4 F. Chapman to Lane & Willett, 1901-1917 H. Jenkins to Lane 62 5 1900 62 6 1901 Jan.-1902 Feb. 62 7 1902 Mar.-1903 Mar. 62 8 Other internal correspondence B. Other Records, 1895-1928 62 9 Temple Scott's journal, 1900 May-July 62 10 Odette Keun lawsuit, 1922-1928 63 1-2 Accounts ledgers, 1895-1908 63 3 Accounts journal, 1911-1918 63 4 Cancelled checks, 1921 63 5 Miscellaneous records of the firm 63 6 Minor printed matter II. Creative Work, 1894-1930 A. Readers' Reports, 1894-1930 1894-1899 64 1 A-C 64 2 D-G 64 3 H-K 64 4 L-O 64 5 P-S 64 6 T-W 1901-1903 65 1 A-D 65 2 E-He 65 3 Hi-K 65 4 L-O 65 5 P-Sl 65 6 Sm-V 66 1 W-Z 1903-1904 66 2 A-C 66 3 D-G 66 4 H-L 66 5 M-R 66 6 S-Z 1907-1908 67 1 A-C 67 2 D-G 67 3 H-L 67 4 M-R 67 5 T-Z 1915-1916 68 1 A-F 68 2 G-L 68 3 M-R 68 4 S-Z 1921-1922 68 5 A-C 68 6 D-H 69 1 I-O 69 2 P-Z 69 1923 69 3 A-F 69 4 G-L 69 5 M-R 69 6 S-Z 1924-1925 70 1 A-E 70 2 F-J 70 3 K-M 70 4 N-Z 1926 70 5 A-D 70 6 F-L 71 1 M-R 71 2 S-Z 1927 71 3 A-F 71 4 G-L 71 5 M-R 71 6 S-Y 1928-1929 72 1 A-C 72 2 D-H 72 3 I-O 72 4 P-S 72 5 T-Z 1929-1930 72 6 A-C 73 1 D-J 73 2 K-O 73 3 P-S 73 4 T-Y B. Manuscripts, 1894-1917 Abercrombie, Lascelles. 73 5 Emblems of Love 73 * Interludes and Poems (galleys, 1908)

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