Found 6 collections related to Stevenson%2C Robert Louis%2C 1850-1894

George Sidney Hellman (1878-1958), American author and editor, was a rare book, manuscript and art dealer and collector in New York City. He amassed collections of his own and helped secure major acquisitions for the Pierpont Morgan Library. He founded and edited the literary magazine, East & West, 1900-1901; and from 1919 to 1920 served as director of the American Expeditionary Forces University's School of Fine Arts for servicemen in France. His publications include Washington Irving, Esquire (1925), The True Stevenson (1925), Benjamin N. Cardozo, American Judge (1940), and hundreds of book reviews and magazine articles. Collection consists of Hellman's correspondence, writings, research notes, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter. General correspondence, 1888-1958, contains his letters to and from fellow students and professors at Columbia University; letters concerning his activities as editor of East & West and as art and manuscript dealer and collector; as well as correspondence with fellow scholars and publishers regarding his research and writing on Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Benjamin N. Cardozo, and the Seligman family. Also, essays, reviews, plays, novels, speeches, and biographical and autobiographical works (both published and unpublished), scrapbooks of clippings, writings by others (mostly typescripts), photographs, contracts, and memorabilia. less

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer. · To Jane, Lady Shelley, daughter-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : 2 items : -- 1 autograph memorandum unsigned : [1 Sep 1885] : (S'ANA 0196) : 1 ¹/₄ pages (double sheet) : [from Exeter] : begins, "How did you enjoy your drive? And where did you stop?" Within an envelope marked in Lady Shelley's hand: "Exeter / Sep.r 1st 1885 / Rob.t Louis Stevenson / When he was not / allowed to speak." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [between Oct 1887 and Apr 1888] : (S'ANA 0195) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Saranac Lake, Adirondacks, New York, U. S. A. : with thick mourning border; begins, "This is to let you hear some of our news: here we are in the extreme north of the state of New York ...". less

This collection of Virginia Woolf books, correspondence, photographs, and other material was assembled by collector William Beekman over the course of several decades. Many of the books within this collection were originally owned, or gifted, by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf. less