Marie Corelli: The Life and Death of a Best-seller

urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00751 George Bullock: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Richard Mikel Harry Ransom Center, 2013 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 29 July 2013 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Bullock, George George Bullock Collection 1932-1953 1 box (.21 linear feet) Includes correspondence to the English author George Bullock, who wrote Marie Corelli: The Life and Death of a Best-seller (1940). Correspondents include Rhys Davies, Norman Douglas, W. S. Maugham, Edith Sitwell, and others. Some correspondence mentions or is also directed to Raymond Marriott, the theater critic. English Manuscript Collection MS-0589 Access:

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Container List Miscellaneous: 1.1 Benson, Edward Frederick, 1867-1940. ALS to Bullock, George, 8 March 1939. 1.2 Davies, Rhys, 1903- . 59 letters and postcards to Bullock, George, 1939-1953. 1.2 Davies, Rhys, 1903- . ALS to Marriott, Raymond and Bullock, George, 12 November 1941. 1.1 Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952. 7 ALS to Bullock, George, 1944-1945. 1.1 Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. ALS to Bullock, George, 9 May 1932. 1.1 Graves, Robert, 1895- . ALS to Bullock, George, undated. Enclosure: printed Seizin Press leaflet signed by Graves, March 1934. 1.3 Maugham, William Somerset, 1874- . 13 letters and cards to Bullock, George, 1938-1948. 1.4 Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887- . 24 ALS to Bullock, George, 1939-1945. 1.5 Van Druten, John William, 1901- . "I cannot see how a 'character' speech from the part of an elderly vain actress....," handwritten note, 26 August 1932. 1.5 Wickham, Anna, 1884-1947. ALS to Bullock, George, 5 October 1942.