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Robert Lee Wolff:

A Preliminary Inventory of his Collection of 19th Century Fiction in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center



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Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Creator: Wolff, Robert Lee (1915-1980)
Title: Collection of 19th Century Fiction
Dates: Circa 1800s-1984
Extent: 59 document boxes, 5 card boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder (29.40 linear feet)
Abstract: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, review clippings, and other pre- and post-publication materials associated with particular Victorian-era authors and works, as well as some of Wolff's own manuscripts and academic papers.
Language: English

Administrative Information

Acquisition:

Gifts, 1990 (G8697), 1996 (G10506), 1999 (G11493)

Processed by:

Katy Hill, Stephen Mielke, 2008

Restrictions

Access:

Open for research

Scope and Contents

Robert Lee Wolff, a professor of history at Harvard University, assembled a library of more than 18,000 volumes of Victorian fiction published in Britain between 1820 and 1910. The library consists of "triple deckers" (novels in three volumes), issues in monthly parts, yellowback and other reprint editions, and magazine appearances. Acquired by the Ransom Center in 1984, these published materials are listed in the University of Texas online library catalog and are available for viewing in the Harry Ransom Center reading room.

Along with Wolff's library of published materials, the Ransom Center acquired Wolff's collection of correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, review clippings, and other pre- and post-publication materials associated with particular Victorian-era authors and works. This collection, which also contains some of Wolff's own manuscripts and academic papers, is also available for viewing at the Ransom Center and is described in this preliminary inventory.

The Wolff Collection is arranged in five series: I. Materials Described in Wolff Bibliography, II. Materials Not Described in Wolff Bibliography, III. Book Withdrawals, IV. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and V. Wolff Works and Research. The bulk of the material is located in Series I. and consists of original Victorian-era materials described in the five volume Nineteenth-Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Catalogue Based on the Collection Formed by Robert Lee Wolff (1981-1986). Series II. also contains Victorian-era materials, but these are not listed in the Wolff bibliography.

Series I. and II. materials are in alphabetical order by author. Materials from individual authors may be located in both Series I. and II., as well as in other series in the collection. The Series I. container list includes the unique number associated with each item's entry in the Wolff bibliography. The collection includes materials from major Victorian writers, such as Wilkie Collins, H. Rider Haggard, and George MacDonald, but also contains material from minor writers. Women authors are well represented, with materials from authors Anna Eliza Bray, Marie Corelli, and Marie Louise de la Ramée, who wrote under the pseudonym Ouida. Original drawings and prints from illustrators such as Hablot Knight Browne (known as Phiz), Harry French, John Leech, and Frederick H. Townsend are also present in the collection.

Series III. Book Withdrawals is the smallest series in the collection and, as its title indicates, contains materials such as letters or inserts removed from the Wolff Library books. It is in alphabetical order by author and arranged in two parts: items listed in the Wolff bibliography and items not listed.

Series IV. Mary Elizabeth Braddon contains materials similar in type to those in Series I. and II., but focuses solely on Braddon and contains original Braddon diaries, journals, photographs, drawings, and correspondence. Included in the correspondence are letters from Wilson Barrett, J. M. Barrie, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry Irving, Henry James, and Arthur W. Pinero. This series reflects Wolff's particular interest in Braddon and includes copies and transcripts of original Braddon material as well as Wolff's research, correspondence, and drafts related to his work on the author, predominantly documenting his 1979 book Sensational Victorian: The Life and Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

Wolff's other academic pursuits and writings are documented with drafts, research, and correspondence located in Series V. The bulk of this series consists of correspondence, invoices and catalogs from rare book dealers. Also present are correspondence, research files, and other materials related to several of Wolff's published works. Of special significance are Wolff's bibliographic note cards which provided the descriptive text used in Nineteenth-Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Catalogue Based on the Collection Formed by Robert Lee Wolff (1981-1986). The cards contain the typed text replicated in the published bibliography, but also contain extensive handwritten annotations by Wolff, which do not appear in the published work. Also of note in the series is a fan letter from Maurice Sendak describing Sendak's appreciation of Wolff's The Golden Key: A Study of the Fiction of George MacDonald and MacDonald's influence on Sendak's own work.

Related Material

In addition to the book and manuscript Wolff holdings, other Ransom Center collections contain Wolff material. The Robert Lee Wolff Art Collection consists of twenty-three drawings by Francis Donkin Bedford used to illustrate Billy Barnicoat by Greville MacDonald, published by George Allen and Unwin in 1922. The Robert Lee Wolff Literary File in the Photography Collection contains three images: 1) P1, "R. L. W. on the moors in Scotland," circa 1975; 2) 988:0070:0001, "R. L. W. in a book room at 10 Follen St.," circa 1977; and 3) 997:0079:0037, Albumen print of a man in an early automobile, removed from Wolff collection book The Magic Ink and Other Tales by William Black. The Ransom Center Vertical File contains forty-two folders of printed materials withdrawn from books in the Wolff Book Collection.

Container List

Series I. Materials Described in Wolff Bibliography

Container
1.1 Ainsworth, William Harrison (39a)
 
1.2 Ainsworth, William Harrison (57a)
 
1.3 Ainsworth, William Harrison (61a)
 
1.4 Ainsworth, William Harrison (66b)
 
1.5 Ainsworth, William Harrison (74a)
 
1.6 Ainsworth, William Harrison (80)
 
1.7 Ainsworth, William Harrison (81)
 
1.8 Allen, Grant (129)
 
1.9 Banim, John and Michael (233a)
 
1.10-12 Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus (239)
 
2.1-2 Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus (240)
 
2.3-4.3 Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus (244)
 
4.4 Baring-Gould, Sabine (262b)
 
4.5 Baring-Gould, Sabine (281a)
 
5.1 Beale, Anne (368)
 
5.2 Besant, Walter and Rice, James (412c)
 
5.3 Besant, Walter and Rice, James (413a)
 
5.4 Besant, Walter and Rice, James (426a-d)
 
5.5 Besant, Walter (435a)
 
5.6 Besant, Walter (436b)
 
5.7 Besant, Walter (440a-c)
 
5.8 Besant, Walter (463b)
 
5.9 Besant, Walter (464b-d)
 
5.10 Black, Clementina (488a, 489)
 
6.1 Black, Clementina (489)
 
6.2-7.1 Black, William (493)
 
7.2-4 Black, William (509)
 
7.5 Black, William (520)
 
7.6 Black, William (521, 521a-c)
 
7.7 Boulger, Mrs. George Simmonds (605a)
 
7.8 Bray, Anna Eliza (779a)
 
7.9 Bray, Anna Eliza (780a)
 
7.10 Bray, Anna Eliza (781a)
 
7.11 Bray, Anna Eliza (798a-b)
 
7.12 Brough, Robert B. (844b)
 
7.13 Bullen, Frank T. (916a)
 
7.14 Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton (932a)
 
7.15 Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton (934a)
 
7.16 Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton (940d)
 
7.17 Bury, Lady Charlotte Susan Maria (1016a)
 
7.18 Carey, Mrs. Joanna (1083a)
 
8.1 Carter, Frederick (1138)
 
8.2 Cholmondeley, Mary (1212b)
 
8.3 Cholmondeley, Mary (1213b-c)
 
8.4 Cholmondeley, Mary (1215a-b)
 
8.5 Cholmondeley, Mary (1216a/1219a)
 
8.6 Cholmondeley, Mary (1219)
 
8.7 Cholmondeley, Mary (1220a-b)
 
8.8 Clifford, Lucy, Mrs. W[illiam] K[ingdom] (1259a)
 
8.9 Clifford, Lucy, Mrs. W[illiam] K[ingdom] (1262, 1262a)
 
8.10 Cobban, J. Maclaren (1273, 1273a-c)
 
60 Cobbold, Richard (1284b)
 
8.11 Cobbold, Richard (1284c)
 
60 Cobbold, Richard (1290)
 
8.12 Collins, Charles Allston (1322a-b)
 
8.13 Collins, Mortimer and Frances (1340a)
 
8.14 Collins, Wilkie (1343c-d)
 
8.15 Collins, Wilkie (1344b)
 
8.16 Collins, Wilkie (1345b)
 
8.17 Collins, Wilkie (1349a)
 
8.18 Collins, Wilkie (1354b)
 
8.19 Collins, Wilkie (1356a)
 
8.20 Collins, Wilkie (1357b)
 
8.21 Collins, Wilkie (1358d-f)
 
8.22 Collins, Wilkie (1359d)
 
8.23 Collins, Wilkie (1363f)
 
8.24 Collins, Wilkie (1368c-d)
 
8.25 Collins, Wilkie (1369c)
 
8.26 Collins, Wilkie (1370e-f)
 
8.27 Collins, Wilkie (1371a)
 
8.28 Collins, Wilkie (1386)
 
8.29 Collins, Wilkie (1387)
 
8.30 Collins, Wilkie (1389)
 
8.31 Collins, Wilkie (1390)
 
8.32 Collins, Wilkie (1391)
 
8.33 Collins, Wilkie (1392)
 
8.34 Collins, Wilkie (1393)
 
8.35 Connor, Marie (1409a-d)
 
8.36 Connor, Marie (1414a-e)
 
8.37 Connor, Marie (1418a-q)
 
8.38 Conway, Hugh (1423b)
 
9.1 Corelli, Marie (1442)
 
9.2 Corelli, Marie (1443)
 
9.3 Corelli, Marie (1444)
 
9.4 Corelli, Marie (1445)
 
9.5 Corelli, Marie (1446)
 
9.6 Corelli, Marie (1447)
 
9.7 Corelli, Marie (1448)
 
9.8 Corelli, Marie (1449)
 
9.9 Corelli, Marie (1450)
 
9.10 Corelli, Marie (1451)
 
9.11 Corelli, Marie (1452)
 
9.12 Corelli, Marie (1453)
 
9.13 Corelli, Marie (1454)
 
9.14 Corelli, Marie (1455)
 
9.15 Corelli, Marie (1456)
 
9.16 Corelli, Marie (1457)
 
9.17 Corelli, Marie (1458)
 
9.18 Corelli, Marie (1459)
 
9.19 Corelli, Marie (1461a)
 
9.20 Craigie, Pearl Maria Theresa (1526a)
 
9.21 Crawford, F. Marion (1561b)
 
9.22 Crawford, F. Marion (1594, 1594a-g)
 
9.23 Croker, Bithia Mary (1616a-i)
 
9.24 Croker, Bithia Mary (1622b-c)
 
9.25 Croker, Bithia Mary (1623a-r)
 
9.26 Croker, Bithia Mary (1627a-e)
 
9.27 Cruikshank, George (1663, 1663b)
 
9.28 Dasent, George Webbe (1725a)
 
9.29 Diver, Maud (1853a-b)
 
9.30 Du Maurier, George (1950a)
 
9.31 Du Maurier, George (1952d)
 
9.32 Du Maurier, George (1952g)
 
10.1-11.1 Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham (2021)
 
11.2 Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham (2022a)
 
11.3 Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham (2043)
 
11.4 Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham (2043a)
 
11.5 Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold (2130a)
 
11.6 Fenn, George Manville (2187)
 
11.7 Fitzgerald, Percy (2254a)
 
11.8 Fitzgerald, Percy (2254b)
 
11.9 Gore, Mrs. C[atherine Grace] F[rances] (2609d-e)
 
11.10 Gore, Mrs. C[atherine Grace] F[rances] (2623a)
 
11.11 Gore, Mrs. C[atherine Grace] F[rances] (2624b-c)
 
11.12 Gore, Mrs. C[atherine Grace] F[rances] (2632a)
 
11.13 Gore, Mrs. C[atherine Grace] F[rances] (2638)
 
11.14 Gore, Mrs. C[atherine Grace] F[rances] (2654)
 
11.15 Haggard, H[enry] Rider (2837)
 
11.16 Haggard, H[enry] Rider (2847a)
 
11.17 Haggard, H[enry] Rider (2848a)
 
11.18 Haggard, H[enry] Rider (2848b)
 
11.19 Haggard, H[enry] Rider (2863e)
 
11.20 Haggard, H[enry] Rider (2863f)
 
11.21 Haggard, H[enry] Rider (2886)
 
11.22 Haggard, H[enry] Rider (2901)
 
11.23 James, G[eorge] P[ayne] R[ainsford] (3535a)
 
11.24 Jefferies, Richard (3618a)
 
11.25 Jenkins, John Edward (3632d)
 
12.1-2 Jerrold, Douglas William (3667)
 
12.3 Jerrold, Douglas William [contains original illustrations by John Leech] (3667c)
 
12.4 Lawless, Emily (3958a)
 
12.5 Lawrence, George A[lfred] (3968a)
 
12.6 Lee, Holme (3995)
 
12.7 Le Fanu, J[oseph] Sheridan (4027a)
 
12.8 Le Fanu, J[oseph] Sheridan (4028a)
 
12.9 Lemon, Mark (4055)
 
12.10 Lever, Charles (4075a-j)
 
12.11 Linton, Mrs. E[liza] Lynn (4128a-c)
 
12.12 Linton, Mrs. E[liza] Lynn (4140b)
 
12.13 Linton, Mrs. E[liza] Lynn (4153)
 
12.14 MacDonald, Frederika (4293b)
 
12.15 MacDonald, Greville (4322a)
 
12.16 Maclise, Daniel (4351)
 
12.17-13.1 Mahon, Lady (4389)
 
13.2 Manning, Anne (4470)
 
13.3 Marriott, Charles (4484a)
 
13.4 Morrison, Arthur (4949a)
 
13.5 Norris, W[illiam] E[dward] (5139a-b)
 
13.6 Norris, W[illiam] E[dward] (5142a)
 
13.7 Norris, W[illiam] E[dward] (5143a)
 
13.8 Norris, W[illiam] E[dward] (5154a)
 
13.9 Norris, W[illiam] E[dward] (5164a-b)
 
13.10 Norris, W[illiam] E[dward] (5172b)
 
13.11 Norris, W[illiam] E[dward] (5186b-d)
 
13.12 Norris, W[illiam] E[dward] (5187a-c)
 
13.13 Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret (5241a)
 
13.14 Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret (5252a)
 
13.15 Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret (5261)
 
13.16 Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée] (5317b)
 
13.17 Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée] (5321a)
 
13.18 Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée] (5323)
 
13.19 Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée] (5332a)
 
13.20 Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée] (5343a)
 
13.21 Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée] (5358)
 
14.1 Payn, James (5431)
 
14.2-14.5 Payn, James (5439)
 
15.1-2 Payn, James (5446)
 
15.3 Reade, Amos (5704c)
 
15.4 Reid, Captain Mayne (5744a)
 
15.5 Reid, Captain Mayne (5756b)
 
15.6 Reid, Captain Mayne (5757c)
 
15.7-8 Robinson, F[rederick] W[illiam] (5932)
 
16.1 Roulet, Pauline Marie (5976)
 
16.2 Russell, Lord John (6000)
 
16.3 Russell, W[illiam] Clark (6013a)
 
16.4 Russell, W[illiam] Clark (6014a-c)
 
16.5 Russell, W[illiam] Clark (6016a)
 
16.6 Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (6300a)
 
16.7 Smart, Henry Hawley (6400a)
 
16.8 Smedley, Frank (6401a-c)
 
16.9 Stanuell, Charles A. (6532)
 
17.1 Stanuell, Charles A. (6533)
 
17.2 Stanuell, Charles A. (6534)
 
17.3 Steel, Flora Annie (6541 a,1-50)
 
17.4 Steel, Flora Annie (6541 51-79)
 
18.1 Steel, Flora Annie (6547a)
 
18.2 Taylor, Captain Meadows (6676b)
 
18.3 Trollope, Anthony (6792a)
 
18.4 Trollope, Anthony (6795c)
 
18.5 Truemark, Ernest (6870)
 
18.6 Ward, Catherine (7017a)
 
18.7 Ward, Mrs. Humphry (7019b)
 
19.1 Ward, Mrs. Humphry (7024)
 
19.2 Warren, Samuel (7069a)
 
19.3 Warren, Samuel (7072b)
 
19.4 Wood, Lady (7266a)
 
19.5 Wood, Lady (7274a)
 
19.6 Wood, Lady (7290b)
 
19.7 Wood, Lady (7292c)
 
19.8 Yonge, Charlotte Mary (7360b)
 
19.9 Anonymous (7607)
 
19.10 Z., A. (7684)
 
19.11 The Oriental Annual (7853c)


Series II. Materials Not Described in Wolff Bibliography

Container
19.12 Ainsworth, William Harrison
 
19.13 Allen, Grant
 
19.14 Anstey, F. [Tomas Anstey Guthrie]
 
19.15 Arnold, Edwin
 
19.16 Banim, John
 
19.17 Baring-Gould, Sabine
 
19.18 Banks, Mrs. G. Linneaus
 
19.19 Bellairs, Nona and Rose
 
19.20 Benson, Claude E.
 
19.21 Bentley, Richard
 
19.22 Berkeley, Grantley F.
 
19.23 Besant, Walter
 
19.24 Bettany, Jeanie Gwynne
 
19.25 Biffin, Sarah
 
19.26 Black, William
 
19.27 Bray, Anna Eliza
 
19.28 Brook, Lyndhurst, and Hauts
 
19.29 Brooks, Shirley
 
19.30 Brough, Robert B.
 
19.31 Broughton, Rhoda
 
19.32 Buchannan, Robert
 
19.33 Bullen, Frank T.
 
20.1 Bulwer and Bulwer-Lytton
 
20.2 Caine, Hall
 
20.3 Caldecott, Randolph
 
20.4 Carey, R[osa] N[ouchette]
 
20.5 Carleton, William
 
20.6 Chesney, General Sir G[eorge] T[omkyns]
 
20.7 Cholmondeley, Mary
 
20.8 Clifford, Lucy, Mrs. W[illiam] K[ingdom]
 
20.9 Coghill, Joscelyn
 
20.10 Collins, Mortimer
 
20.11 Collins, Wilkie
 
20.12 Connor, Marie and Robert Leighton
 
20.13 Corelli, Marie
 
20.14 Craik, Georgiana
 
20.15 Crawford, F. Marion
 
20.16-17 Croker, Bithia Mary
 
20.18 Crowe, Catherine
 
20.19 Cruikshank, George
 
20.20 Cruikshank, Isaac Robert
 
21.1 Cudlip, Annie Thomas
 
21.2 Dawe, William Carlton Lanyon
 
21.3 Dowling, Richard
 
21.4 Downey, Edmund
 
21.5 Drury, Anne H[arriet]
 
21.6 Du Maurier, George
 
21.7 Dyer, Louis
 
21.8 Edwards, Amelia B.
 
21.9 Faithfull, Emily
 
21.10 Falconer, Edmund
 
21.11 Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold
 
21.12 Fenn, George Manville
 
21.13 Fenton, Gertrude
 
21.14 Fitzgerald, Percy
 
21.15 Fraser, James Baillie
 
21.16 Fraser, Patrick
 
21.17 Freeland, William
 
21.18 Frere, B.
 
21.19 Galsworthy, John
 
21.20 Gissing, Algernon
 
21.21 Glascock, William N.
 
21.22 Gore, Mrs. C[atherine Grace] F[rances]
 
21.23* Hall, Samuel Carter and Anna Maria Felding Hall (* one item removed to oversize box 60)
 
21.24 Halton, Joseph
 
21.25 Hector, Annie French
 
21.26 Hook, Theodore Edward
 
21.27 Howitt, Mary
 
21.28 Hume, Fergus
 
21.29 James, G[eorge] P[ayne] R[ainsford]
 
21.30 James, Henry
 
21.31 Jerome, Jerome K[lapka]
 
21.32 Kavanagh, Julia
 
21.33 Keary, Anne
 
21.34 Kingsley, Charles
 
21.35 Kingsley, Henry
 
21.36 Kingston, William H[enry Giles]
 
21.37 Landon, Laetitia E[lizabeth]
 
21.38 Le Fanu, J[oseph] Sheridan
 
21.39 Lemon, Mark
 
21.40 Lever, Charles
 
21.41 Lewes, G. H.
 
22.1 Linton, Mrs. E[liza] Lynn
 
22.2 Lockhart, J[ohn] G[ibson]
 
22.3 Lover, Samuel
 
22.4 Lyall, Edna [Ada Ellen Bagly]
 
22.5 Maarrtens, Maarten
 
22.6* MacDonald, George and Greville (* three items removed to oversize box 60)
 
22.7 MacDonough, Felix
 
22.8 Maginn, William
 
22.9 Manning, Anne
 
22.10 Manning, H. E.
 
22.11 Marryat, Florence
 
22.12 Marryat, Frederick
 
22.13 Martineau, Harriet
 
22.14 Maxwell, W[illiam] B[abington]
 
22.15 Middlemass, Jean
 
22.16 Miller, Thomas
 
22.17 Molesworth, Mary Louisa
 
22.18 Morgan, Lady Sydney
 
22.19 Morier, James
 
22.20 Morrison, Arthur
 
22.21 Mulock, Dinah Maria
 
22.22 Murray, David Christie
 
22.23 Neddie, Henrietta [Sara Iztler]
 
22.24 Norris, W[illiam] E[dward]
 
22.25 Norton, Caroline
 
22.26 Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret
 
22.27* Ouida [Marie Louise de la Ramée] (* one item removed to oversize box 60)
 
22.28 Partridge, Bernard
 
23.1 Payn, James
 
23.2 Petherick, John and N. W.
 
23.3 Ponsonby, Emily
 
23.4 Porter, Anna Maria and Jane
 
23.5 Praed, Mrs. Campbell [Rosa Mackworth]
 
23.6 Reid, Captain Mayne
 
23.7 Riddell, Charlotte
 
23.8 Rita [Mrs. Humphreys]
 
23.9 Russell, W[illiam] Clark
 
23.10 St. John, James Augustus
 
23.11 Sadlier, Michael
 
23.12 Sala, G[eorge] A[ugustus Henry]
 
23.13 Saunders, John
 
23.14 Schreiner, Olive
 
23.15 Sewell, Elizabeth and Mary
 
23.16 Shoberl, Frederick
 
23.17 Shorthouse, Joseph Henry
 
23.18 Sinclair, Catherine
 
23.19 Sterry, J. Ashby
 
23.20 Stevenson, Mrs. R. L.
 
23.21 Tauchnitz
 
23.22 Tinsley
 
23.23 Tonna, Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth
 
23.24 Trollope, Frances
 
23.25 Ward, Mrs. Humphry
 
23.26 Warren, Samuel
 
23.27 Watts, Alaric A.
 
23.28 White, William Hale
 
23.29-24.2 Wood, Mrs. Henry
 
24.3 Yates, Edmund
 
60 The Yellow Book broadside
 
24.4-5 Yonge, Charlotte Mary
 
24.6 Zola, Emile
 
24.7-8 Unidentified correspondence and collage album


Series III. Book Withdrawals

Described in Wolff bibliography
Container
25.1 Ainsworth, William Harrison [contains original illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne] (60a) - Fullerton, Lady Georgia (2370)
 
25.2 Fullerton, Lady Georgia (2371) - Peard, Frances Mary (5502)
 
25.3 Pigott, Mrs. Harriott (5564) - Tinsley's Magazine (7918)
 
25.4 Not described in Wolff bibliography


Series IV. Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Subseries A. Braddon Diaries
Container
26.1 1890
 
26.2 1891
 
26.3 1892
 
26.4 1893
 
26.5 1894
 
27.1 1895
 
27.2 1896
 
27.3 1897
 
27.4 1898
 
27.5 1899
 
28.1 1900
 
28.2 1901
 
28.3 1902
 
28.4 1903
 
28.5 1904
 
29.1 1905
 
29.2 1906
 
29.3 1907
 
29.4 1908
 
29.5 1909
 
30.1 1910
 
30.2 1911
 
30.3 1912
 
30.4 1913
 
30.5 1914
Subseries B. Braddon Journals
Container
31.1 "M. S. S. volume IV," March 1889
 
31.2 "M. S. S. volume V," August 1874 - October 1884
 
31.3 Circa 18 May 1892
 
31.4 Circa 1892
 
32.1 Pre 1895
 
32.2 Pre 1909
 
32.3 Undated
Subseries C. Braddon Works
Listed in Wolff bibliography
Container
33.1 Aurora Floyd (625f)
 
60 Aurora Floyd (625i)
 
33.2-3 The Good Hermione (648)
 
33.4 Joshua Haggard's Daughter (658)
 
33.5 Lady Audley's Secret (660m)
 
60 Lady Audley's Secret (660p)
 
33.6-34.2* Mary (669; * two envelopes removed to oversize box 60)
 
34.3 Mohawks (672b)
 
34.4 Run to Earth (684)
 
34.5 The Vixen (698c)
 
34.6 The White House (700)
 
34.7 Oscar Bertrand (705)
 
34.8 A Life Interest (720)
 
34.9 The Missing Witness (723)
 
34.10 Address written by Braddon for James Hall Benefit Concert (727)
 
34.11 Before the Knowledge of Evil (728)
 
34.12 Emile Zola and the Naturalist School (730)
 
34.13 People Who Write to the Times (742)
Not listed in Wolff bibliography
Container
35.1 At Daggers Drawn
 
* Aurora Floyd (* removed to oversize file)
A Friendly Mount (* removed to oversize file)
 
35.2 Maria Jones, Her Book
 
35.3 Tom Pearson's Last Party
 
35.4 The Ubiquitous Man
 
35.5* Untitled fragments (* two items removed to oversize file)
 
60 Scrapbook
 
35.6 Braddon signatures, undated
 
35.7-9 Braddon drawings, undated
 
35.10 Original illustrations by "H. French," "S. H.," "Hal Ludlow," "F. H. Townsend," and "W. Parkinson" used in Braddon works, undated
Subseries D. Braddon Correspondence
Outgoing
Container
35.11 A-Z, 1863-1910, undated
 
35.12 [Braddon], Alice, undated
 
35.13 Broughton, [Rhoda], undated
 
35.14 Frith, 1906 & undated
 
35.15 Jeaffreson, Mrs. [John Cordy], 1894-1909
 
36.1 Kent, Chase, 1865-1881 & undated
 
36.2 Monckton, Lady, undated
 
36.3 Sims [George], 1898, undated
 
36.4 Strand Magazine, 1915
 
36.5 Whitwig, Juliette, 1887-1914, undated
 
36.6 Unidentified recipient, 1893-1912, undated
Incoming
Container
36.7 A-Z, 1858-1914, undated
 
36.8 Arnold, Edwin, 1875
 
36.9 Bancroft, Mary Elizabeth, 1892
 
36.10 Bancroft, Squire, 1906
 
36.11 Barrett, Wilson, 1899
 
36.12 Barrie, J. M., 1907
 
36.13 Basdin [Braddon's aunt], 1866
 
36.14 Bateman, Stringer, 1912
 
36.15 Beerbohm Tree, Herbert, Harriette Jealous, M. D. Kavanagh, Leo Trevor, J. B. McCallum, 1890-1900, undated
 
36.16 Beerbohm Tree, Herbert, 1898
 
36.17 Besant, Walter, 1914
 
36.18 Bourchier-Wrey, 1908
 
36.19 Braddon family, 1890-1897 & undated
 
36.20 Brough, Lionel, 1902
 
36.21 Broughton, Rhoda, undated
 
36.22 Bulwer-Lytton, Edith and Lord L., 1885-1900
 
36.23 Burnand, F. C., 1902-1911, undated
 
36.24 Burnham, 1914
 
36.25 Burns, K. G., 1909
 
36.26 Cholmondeley, Mary, undated
 
36.27 Clifford, Lucy, Mrs. W[illiam] K[ingdom], undated
 
36.28 Cowlard, S. [Braddon's aunt], undated
 
36.29 Dawson, 1913
 
36.30 Delane, John Thadeus, undated
 
36.31 Devon, C. J., 1864
 
36.32 Dicksee, Francis Bertrand, 1902
 
36.33 Doneraile, 1909
 
36.34 Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1909
 
37.1 Frith, 1865-1908
 
37.2 Gilby, J., 1860-1861
 
37.3 Gladstone, William, 1891
 
37.4 Hardy, Thomas, 1903
 
37.5 Harrison, Frederic, 1900
 
37.6 Harrison, R. B., 1914
 
37.7 Hawkins, Anthony, 1905
 
37.8 Irving, Henry, 1891
 
37.9 James, Henry, 1911-1914
 
37.10 Kendal, Madge, undated
 
37.11 Li Ching-Fong, 1909-1910
 
37.12 Macleay, Alex C., 1884
 
37.13 Maxwell, John, 1861
 
37.14 Nevell, 1904-1909, undated
 
37.15 Oxenford, J[ohn], 1875
 
37.16 Pinero, Arthur W., 1895-1906
 
37.17 Reade, Charles, undated
 
37.18 Ritchie, Anne, undated
 
37.19 Robins, Elizabeth, 1912
 
37.20 Sala, George A[ugustus Henry], 1892, undated
 
37.21 Sawyer, W., 1860, undated
 
37.22 Seaman, Owen, 1912, undated
 
37.23 St. Helier, Mary, 1879
 
37.24 Treadwell, R., 1888
 
37.25 Tree, M., undated
 
37.26 Whitewig, Richard, 1908
 
37.27 Wyndham, Charles, undated
 
37.28 Yates, Edmund, 1881-1889
 
37.29 Young, Julian C., undated
 
37.30 Unidentified, 1891-1913, undated
Third Party
Container
37.31 To Braddon, Fanny
 
37.32 Leitch, W. L. to Mrs. Wyndham, 1878
 
37.33 Longman, William to Waldorf, 1873
 
37.34 Mackay, Charles to John Maxwell, 1881
 
37.35 Maxwell, Gerald to Lady Turner, 1912
 
37.36 Maxwell, W. B. to various, 1915-1937
Subseries E. Wolff Research and Works on Braddon
Transcriptions of Braddon diaries
Container
38.1 1880
 
38.2 1881
 
38.3 1882
 
38.4 1883
 
38.5 1884
 
38.6 1885
 
38.7 1886
 
38.8 1887
 
38.9 1887-1888
Transcription of Braddon notebooks
Container
38.10 Notebook 1
 
38.11 Notebook 2
 
38.12 Notebook 9 (Maxwell)
 
39.1-2 Transcriptions of Braddon early works, undated
 
39.3 Transcriptions of letters to Braddon, undated
 
39.4 Photocopy of Braddon's Before the Knowledge of Evil (728)
 
39.5-6 Photocopies of letters from Braddon to Bulwer-Lytton, undated
 
40.1-3 Photocopies of Braddon correspondence, undated
 
40.4 Typed summaries of Braddon works, undated
Wolff correspondence
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40.5 Sercombe-Smith, 1961-1965
 
40.6 General, 1955-1961
 
40.7 Maxwell holdings, typed list, undated
 
40.8 "The Novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon," by Benjamin Nyberg, photocopy thesis, 1965
 
41.1 Photographs
 
41.3-5 Research material - general
 
41.6-42.2 Research material - used
 
42.3 Unidentified typed draft fragments, undated
 
42.4 Lecture, 1967
Sensational Victorian: The Life and Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1979)
Container
42.5-6 General correspondence and research material, 1976-1979, undated
 
43.1 Permissions and research correspondence, 1961-1975
 
43.2 Photographs used, undated
 
43.3 Reviews, 1979


Series V. Wolff Works and Research

Subseries A. Works
Container
43.4 The Balkans in Our Time (1956), correspondence, 1956-1975
 
43.5 Devoted Disciple, typed draft fragment, undated
Gains and Losses: Novels of Faith and Doubt in Victorian England (1977)
Container
43.6-7 Correspondence and research material, 1974-1980
 
43.8 Permissions, 1976-1977
 
43.9 Afterthoughts, typed notes and research material, undated
 
44.1 The Genesis of The Turn of the Screw, typed drafts and notes, 1940
The Golden Key: A Study of the Fiction of George MacDonald (1961)
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44.2 General correspondence and research material, 1959-1975
 
44.3 Fan mail, 1959-1973
 
44.4 Sendak correspondence, 1966-1970
 
44.5 Grolier Club speech, correspondence, typed draft, and research material, 1967-1969
 
44.6 Harvard Class of 1936: Talk 1974, correspondence and typed draft, 1961-1974
 
44.7 Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson, handwritten and typed notes and drafts, undated
 
44.8 "The Hundredth Anniversary of a Classic: Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now," Harvard Magazine, correspondence, typed drafts, and tearsheets, 1975
Ireland: From Act of Union, 1800, to the Death of Parnell, 1891
Container
45.1-3 Handwritten and typed notes, research material, and correspondence, 1977-1979
 
45.4-6 Offprints of introductions, undated
 
45.7 Publisher catalogs, undated
 
46.1-2 Manchester and the factory system, 1965
Nineteenth-Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Catalogue Based on the Collection Formed by Robert Lee Wolff (1981-1986)
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61-65 Bibliography note cards, undated
 
46.3-50.4 Incomplete photocopy of bibliography note cards, undated
 
50.5 Correspondence, 1978-1984
 
50.6-7 Photographs, undated
 
50.8 Reviews, 1982-1983
 
50.9 Strange Stories and Other Explorations in Victorian Fiction (1971), correspondence and reviews, 1971-1979
 
50.10 "Surrender to Trollope, Master Victorian Novelist," The Boston Globe, 1976
 
50.11 Review of J. A. Sutherland, Victorian Novelists and Publishers, 1976
 
51.1 Times Literary Supplement, "Present Uses for the Past" and "The Preacher in Fairyland," 1970-1975
Subseries B. Research Files
Container
51.2 Ademar of Chabannes, undated
 
51.3 Annals of the Parish, undated
 
51.4 "Are We the Coming Race" and "Re-introducing the Madam," 1971
 
51.5 Bond Slaves/ Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks, undated
 
51.6 Bulwer-Lytton, undated
 
51.7 Carleton Newsletter, 1972-1974
Collins, Wilkie
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51.8-11 Collins correspondence photoduplicates, undated
 
51.12-52.1 Photographs and drawings of Collins, undated
 
52.2 The Woman in White, illustrations, undated
 
52.3-5 Research material and notes, 1890-1950, undated
 
52.6 Comings By and North and South, undated
 
52.7 Crusades, undated
 
52.8 Future papers, undated
 
52.9-53.3 Naples manuscript translation, circa 1940
 
53.4 Shorthouse, J. M/Wagner, circa 1978
Subseries C. Correspondence Files
Container
53.5 Academic, 1956-1977
 
53.6 Bulwer-Lytton/Flower, 1978-1979
 
53.7 Disraeli project, 1976
 
53.8 Feldman, 1974-1975
 
54.1 Harvard, 1927-1980
 
54.2 Henty list/Forgy, 1938-1949
 
54.3 Hollis, Thomas, 1962-1966
 
54.4 Lilly Library, 1967-1979
 
54.5 Maison, 1980-1981
 
54.6 Smith, 1969
 
54.7 Speck/Martineau, 1971-1972
 
54.8 Victorian subjects, 1961-1979
 
54.9 Wolff, Mary, 1981-1983
 
55.1-59.9 Subseries D. Book Dealer Catalogs and Correspondence, 1937-1981
 
60 Oversize materials
 
61-65 Note cards