urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00720 George Gissing: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Jamie Hawkins-Kirkham, Harry Ransom Center, 2011 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 22 August 2011 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Gissing, George, 1857-1903 George Gissing Collection 1880-1901, undated 2 boxes (.84 linear feet) Includes manuscripts and letters written by the English novelist George Gissing. Included is a signed handwritten manuscript for his first novel, Workers in the Dawn (1880), as well as a few letters written to his sister, Helen Gissing. English, French, Italian Manuscript Collection MS-1625 Access:

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Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.

 Container List Works: 1.2 Books to buy (or read), handwritten manuscript in notebook, 4 pages, undated. 1.1 Business, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. 1.1 Domestic, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. 1.1 Grammatical & verbal, handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, undated. 1.1 The morality of epitaphs, signed handwritten manuscript, 8 pages, undated. Note in unknown hand at end. From the Hanley Collection. 1.3 The muse of the halls, signed handwritten manuscript, 7 pages, undated. 1.1 Notes: French phrases, handwritten manuscript, 11 pages, undated. 1.1 Notes: French pronunciation, handwritten manuscript, 5 pages, undated. 1.1 Notes: Italian, handwritten manuscript, 5 pages, undated. 1.1 Politeness, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Letter extracts on same page with five signatures. 1.1 Post office, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Gissing's manuscript Local customs at bottom of page. 1.1 Public life, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. 1.1 Study, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. 1.1 Time & weather, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. 1.1 Travel & locality, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Workers in the dawn, signed handwritten manuscript, 728 pages in 3 volumes, undated (published 1880): 1.4 Vol. I, pages 1-280. 1.5 Vol. II, pages 281-505. 2.1 Vol. III, pages 506-728. Letters: 2.2 ALS to Bergson, Philip, 19 August 1893. 2.2 ALS to Colles, 13 November 1893. 2.2 ALS to the editor, Cornhill Magazine, 25 February 1900. 2.2 2 ALS, ALI to Gissing, Helen Nelly, 1893-1901. 2.2 ALS to Gissing, Helen Nelly, 4 June 1899. Removed from PR 4716 P7 18-- HRC MOR. 2.2 APCI to Sturmer?, Herbert H., 8 March 1898. 2.2 ALS to Tugwood, Alfred, 16 March 1895. Removed from AC-L G448den 1892. Miscellaneous: 2.3 Gissing, George. Passport, signed handwritten and printed document, 14 September 1897.