William Morris Colles papers, 1888-1928

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#0246
Bib ID:
4078626 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Colles, William Morris, 1855-1926
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
2.5 linear feet (6 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Description

Scope and Content

Files dealing with publishers, the editing of manuscripts, serial rights, copyright, translation rights, financial accounts, and the like. Among the correspondents are A.P. Graves, Thomas Hardy, Frederick T. Jane, W.E. Norris, Alfred Ollivant, John Pendleton, William H. Rideing, Hall Caine, Prince Peter Kropotkin, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, Douglas Sladden, and Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward).

Index available

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. Box 1-5: Cataloged correspondence, A-Z; Box 6: Miscellaneous correspondence.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William Morris Colles papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Winifred A. Myers, Ltd., 1980.

Gift of David J. Holmes, 1997.

Acquisition

1976 M-76 Letters 587572; 587573; 587574 Purchase

1977 M-77 Letters 606910 Purchase

1980 M-80 Letters Myers, Winifred A., Ltd. Gift

07/01/1990 M-90-07-01 Letters 293 Purchase

08/17/1990 M-90-08-17 Letters 522-(Henne) Purchase

09/06/1990 M-90-09-06 Letters 293 Purchase

12/06/1990 M-90-12-06 Letters 293 Purchase

01/22/1991 M-91-01-22 Letters 293 Purchase

03/11/1991 M-91-03-11 J.S. Fletcher letters 293 Purchase

03/11/1991 M-91-03-11 A.E.W. Mason letters 492 (Halsband) Purchase

04/30/1991 M-91-04-30 F.B. Young letters 297 Purchase

11/30/1992 M-92-11-30 Letters 2293B (Spec. Coll. Bks.) Purchase

01/20/1994 M-94-01-20 13 letters from various authors 2293B-(Rare Books) Purchase

02/16/1994 M-94-02-16 Eden Philpotts letter 2293B(Rare Books)-David J. Holmes Purchase

12/01/1994 M-94-12-01 T. Hardy, H. Caine, & E.F. Benson letters 2293B Purchase

03/21/1995 M95-03-21 2 letters: E. Phillpotts & J./ Buchan 2293B Purchase

10/09/1996 M-96-10-09 1 letter from Hall Caine 2293B Purchase

10/11/1996 M-96-10-11 3 Lloyd Osbourne & 1 Alfred Sharpe letters 2293B Purchase

11/21/1996 M-96-11-21 Edna Lyall letter 2293B Purchase

07/23/1996 M-96-07-23 William Watson letter 2293B Purchase

09/15/1997 M-97-09-15 22 letters from various authors 2293B (David J. Holmes) Purchase

09/15/1997 M-97-09-15 Alec Waugh letter Holmes, David J. Gift

07/19/1995 M-95-7-19 11 letters by T. Hardy, J. Payn & W. Watson 2293B Purchase

01/13/2000 M-00-01-13 2 a.l.s. of E. Phillpotts & 1 a.p.c.s. of A. Symons Purchase

09/18/2013 2013.2014.M076 9 letters from various authors David J. Holmes Autographs Purchase

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Letters Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 05/04/1989.

Letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

Letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

Letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

Letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

Letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

Letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

Letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

J.S. Fletcher letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

A.E.W. Mason letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

F.B. Young letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

Letters Cataloged HR 12/22/1992.

13 letters from various authors Cataloged HR 03/28/1994.

Eden Philpotts letter Cataloged HR 03/28/1994.

T. Hardy, H. Caine& E.F. Benson letters Cataloged HR 12/16/1994.

2 letters: E. Phillpotts & J./ Buchan Cataloged HR 04/04/1995.

1 letter from Hall Caine Cataloged HR 10/21/1996.

3 Lloyd Osbourne & 1 Alfred Sharpe letters Cataloged HR 10/29/1996.

Edna Lyall letter Cataloged HR 12/03/1906.

William Watson letter Cataloged HR 12/09/1996.

22 letters from various authors Cataloged HR 09/16/1997.

Alec Waugh letter Cataloged HR 09/16/1997.

11 letters by T. Hardy, J. Payn & W. Watson Cataloged HR 10/01/1998.

2 a.l.s. of E. Phillpotts & 1 a.p.c.s. of A. Symons Cataloged HR 01/13/2000.

9 letters to William Morris Colles Processed Adrien Hilton 10/15/2013.

Revision Description

2013-10-16 xml document instance created by Adrien Hilton

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

English literary agent. Colles was the founder and managing director of The Authors' Syndicate, Ltd.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Accounts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Advertisements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Agreements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bills (financial) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Clippings (Information Artifacts) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Contracts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lists (document genres) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Memorandums CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Receipts (financial records) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reports CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ambient, Mark, 1860-1937 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Anstey, F., 1856-1934 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Arnold, Thomas Walker, Sir, 1864-1930 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors' Syndicate, Ltd CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
À Beckett, Arthur William, 1844-1909 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Beauchamp, William Lygon, Earl, 1872-1938 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Benson, E. F (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bensusan, S. L (Samuel Levy), 1872-1958 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Besant, Walter, 1836-1901 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Blatchford, Robert, 1851-1943 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Buchan, John, 1875-1940 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Burlingame, Edward L (Edward Livermore), 1848-1922 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Buxton, Sydney, 1853-1934 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Caine, Hall, Sir, 1853-1931 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cope di Valromita, James Biddle, Baron, 1852-1929 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Corbett, Julian Stafford, 1854-1922 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Courtney, W. L (William Leonard), 1850-1928 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cox, Harold CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion), 1854-1909 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Crawfurd, Oswald, 1834-1909 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cripps, C. A., Baron Parmoor (Charles Alfred), 1852-1941 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cross, Wilbur L (Wilbur Lucius), 1862-1948 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Daryl, Sidney, 1844-1914 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dibdin, Lewis T., Sir (Lewis Tonna), 1852-1938 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dixon, Ella Hepworth CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ellis, Edith Mary Oldham Lees, 1861-1916 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fenn, George Manville, 1831-1909 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fletcher, J. S (Joseph Smith), 1863-1935 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Freshfield, Douglas William, 1845-1934 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gibbs, Philip, 1877-1962 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gilchrist, Murray, 1868-1917 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gilder, Joseph Benson, 1858-1936 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Graham, P. Anderson (Peter Anderson), -1925 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Graham, Winifred (Matilda Winifred Muriel) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Graves, Alfred Perceval, 1846-1931 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hall, Mary, 1857-1912 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hewlett, Maurice, 1861-1923 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir, 1843-1929 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Horniman, Annie Elizabeth Fredericka, 1860-1937 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hyne, C. J. Cutcliffe, 1866-1944 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Jacks, L. P (Lawrence Pearsall), 1860-1955 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Jane, Fred T (Frederick Thomas), 1865-1916 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Jerome, Jerome K (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Keltie, John Scott, Sir, 1840-1927 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kni͡azʹ, 1842-1921 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn), 1822-1898 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 1868-1947 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lyall, Edna, 1857-1903 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lynch, H. F. B (Harry Finnis Blosse), 1862-1913 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Macnaughtan, S (Sarah), 1864-1916 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mason, A. E. W (Alfred Edward Woodley), 1865-1948 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Maude, F. N (Frederic Natusch), 1854-1933 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Miles, Eustace, 1868-1948 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mill, Hugh Robert, 1861-1950 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mitford, Bertram, 1855-1914 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Morris, Harrison S (Harrison Smith), 1856-1948 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Murray, T. Douglas CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Norris, W. E (William Edward), 1847-1925 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
O'Neill, Norman CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ollivant, Alfred, 1874-1927 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Osbourne, Lloyd, 1868-1947 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Osgood, James R (James Ripley), 1836-1892 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Oxenham, John, 1852-1941 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Pain, Barry, 1864-1928 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Parker, Joseph, 1830-1902 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Paterson, Arthur, 1862-1928 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Payn, James, 1830-1898 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Pendleton, John CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Pollock, Walter Herries, 1850-1926 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Praed, Rosa Caroline Murray Prior, 1851-1935 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Rideing, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1918 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sedgwick, Ellery, 1872-1960 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Senior, William, 1838-1920 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sharpe, Alfred, 1853-1935 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sherard, Robert Harborough, 1861-1943 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Smith, James Walter, 1830-1917 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Snaith, J. C (John Collis), 1876-1936 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere), 1863-1951 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Steel, Flora Annie Webster, 1847-1929 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stoddart, J. M (Joseph Marshall), 1845-1921 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stone, Christopher, 1882-1965 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tweedie, Ethel Brilliana Harley, 1862-1940 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Vail, R. W. G (Robert William Glenroie), 1890-1966 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Vivian, Herbert, 1865-1940 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wain, Louis, 1860-1939 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold, 1851-1920 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Watson, E. H. Lacon (Edmund Henry Lacon), 1865-1948 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Watson, William, 1858-1935 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Whitney, Caspar, 1862-1929 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wolf, Lucien, 1857-1930 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Young, Francis Brett, 1884-1954 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Authors and publishers -- England CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors, English -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors, English -- 20th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Books -- Translations CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Copyright -- England CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
English literature -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
English literature -- 20th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Literary agents CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Literature publishing -- England CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Novelists, English -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Novelists, English -- 20th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Publishers and publishing -- England CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Translations CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women authors, English -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women authors, English -- 20th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women novelists, English -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women novelists, English -- 20th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID