A. P. Watt & Son letters, 1883-1917
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1310
- Bib ID:
- 4079831 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- A.P. Watt (Firm)
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 1 linear feet (2 boxes)
- Language(s):
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English
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- 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.
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This collection has no restrictions.
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Description
Summary
Mostly testimonial letters from satisfied clients of A.P. Watt, praising his services. Many of the letters were published in promotional brochures. Two of these books, COLLECTION OF LETTERS ADDRESSED TO A.P. WATT BY VARIOUS WRITERS (London, 1893) & LETTERS ADDRESSED TO A.P. WATT (London, 1894), are included in the collection. There were other editions published in 1889, 1898, 1899, 1924, 1929, etc.
Arrangement
Cataloged. Box 1: A - L; Box 2: M - Z, and printed materials.
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 has no restrictions.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); A. P. Watt & Son letters; 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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Letters to A.P.Watt: Source of acquisition--2293B (Rare Book). Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--04/04/94. Accession number--M-94-04-04.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Letters to A.P.Watt Cataloged HR 05/20/94.
Revision Description
2009-07-07 File created.
2011-11-11 EAD created by PTL
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Biographical / Historical
Founded in 1875 by Alexander Pollock Watt (1834-1914), A. P. Watt is the longest-established literary agency in the world. It is also one of the most dynamic and successful. The literary estates this agency represents include those of some of the foremost British and Irish writers of the 20th Century. Its current authors include leading novelists, biographers, historians, and specialist writers pre-eminent in their field. The agency also represents some outstanding children's authors and illustrators, and, in its film and television department, a select number of screenwriters and directors. A. P. Watt's clients include a Nobel Prize winner, four Booker Prize winners, three Orange Prize winners, several Whitbread Prize winners, and the first Children's Laureate. Its writers have achieved some outstanding No 1 bestsellers, several long-running television series, and three of Hollywood's top box office successes.
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| Poems |
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| Prefaces |
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| Alden, W. L (William Livingston), 1837-1908 |
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| Alexander, William, 1824-1911 |
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| Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 |
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| Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 |
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| Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930 |
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| Barlow, Jane, 1856-1917 |
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| Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 |
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| Bentley, George, 1828-1895 |
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| Besant, Walter, 1836-1901 |
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| Black, William, 1841-1898 |
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| Blackmore, R. D (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900 |
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| Bloundelle-Burton, John, 1850-1917 |
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| Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826-1915 |
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| Boothby, Guy, 1867-1905 |
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| Braddon, M. E (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915 |
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| Brenda |
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| Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1857-1915 |
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| Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951 |
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| Burnet, John, 1863-1928 |
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| Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902 |
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| Caffyn, Kathleen Mannington, -1926 |
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| Caldecott, W. Shaw (William Shaw), 1839- |
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| Cambridge, Ada, 1844-1926 |
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| Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918 |
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| Carr, J. Comyns (Joseph Comyns), 1849-1916 |
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| Castle, Egerton, 1858-1920 |
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| Chambers, Robert W (Robert William), 1865-1933 |
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| Chesterton, G. K (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 |
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| Clifford, Lucy Lane, 1846-1929 |
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| Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 |
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| Colmore, G. (Gertrude), 1855-1926 |
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| Conybeare, W. J. (William James), 1871-1955 |
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| Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924 |
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| Crawfurd, Oswald, 1834-1909 |
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| Crockett, S. R (Samuel Rutherford), 1859-1914 |
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| Croker, B. M (Bithia Mary), -1920 |
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| Davidson, John, 1857-1909 |
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| Dougall, L (Lily), 1858-1923 |
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| Douglas, George C. M. (George Cunninghame Monteath), 1826-1904 |
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| Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913 |
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| Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 |
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| Duncan, Sara Jeannette, 1861-1922 |
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| Earle, John, 1824-1903 |
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| Farrar, F. W (Frederic William), 1831-1903 |
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| Fitzpatrick, Percy, 1862-1931 |
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| Fowler, Edith Henrietta, 1865-1944 |
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| Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft, 1860-1929 |
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| Gallon, Tom, 1866-1914 |
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| Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945 |
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| Gough, Edward John, 1849- |
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| Haddock, John V |
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| Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925 |
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| Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 |
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| Harraden, Beatrice, 1864-1936 |
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| Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 |
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| Hatton, Joseph, 1841-1907 |
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| Herman, Henry, 1832-1894 |
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| Hewlett, Maurice, 1861-1923 |
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| Hill, Headon, 1857-1927 |
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| Hobbes, John Oliver, 1867-1906 |
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| Hodgson, W. Earl (William Earl), -1910 |
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| Hoey, Frances Cashel, 1830-1908 |
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| Hope, Anthony, 1863-1933 |
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| Hornung, E. W (Ernest William), 1866-1921 |
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| Hunter, William Wilson, 1840-1900 |
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| Jerome, Jerome K (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927 |
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| Joubert, Carl |
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| Keats, Gwendoline |
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| Keith, Leslie (Grace L. Keith Johnston) |
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| Kingsley, Rose Georgina, 1845 or 1846-1925 |
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| Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 |
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| Lawless, Emily, 1845-1913 |
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| Le Queux, William, 1864-1927 |
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| Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 |
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| Leng, William C., 1825-1902 |
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| Levett-Yeats, Sidney Kilner |
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| Lindsay, Lady (Caroline Blanche Elizabeth) |
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| Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn), 1822-1898 |
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| Longman, C. J. (Charles James), 1852-1934 |
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| Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913 |
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| Lytton, Constance, Lady, 1869-1923 |
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| Lytton, Edith Villiers Bulwer Lytton, Countess of, 1841-1936 |
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| MacCunn, Hamish, 1868-1916 |
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| MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 |
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| Maclaren, Ian, 1850-1907 |
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| Macleod, Donald, 1831-1916 |
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| Madden, Dodgson Hamilton, 1840-1928 |
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| Maitland, Ella Fuller |
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| Malet, Lucas, 1852-1931 |
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| Mallock, W. H (William Hurrell), 1849-1923 |
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| Marchmont, Arthur W., 1852-1923 |
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| Marlowe, Thomas, 1868-1935 |
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| Marsh, Diana |
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| Metcalfe, Henry Wray |
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| Meyer, Charles |
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| Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931 |
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| Mitford, Bertram, 1855-1914 |
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| Moore, Frank Frankfort, 1855-1931 |
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| Morrison, Arthur, 1863-1945 |
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| Murray, David Christie, 1847-1907 |
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| Newbolt, Henry John, Sir, 1862-1938 |
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| Newnes, George, 1851-1910 |
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| Nicholson, J. Shield (Joseph Shield), 1850-1927 |
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| Norris, W. E (William Edward), 1847-1925 |
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| Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson, 1828-1897 |
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| Osbourne, Lloyd, 1868-1947 |
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| Paget, Augustus Berkeley, Sir, 1823-1896 |
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| Parker, Gilbert, 1862-1932 |
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| Payn, James, 1830-1898 |
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| Pearson, Arthur, 1866-1921 |
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| Phillipps-Wolley, Clive |
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| Pollock, Walter Herries, 1850-1926 |
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| Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919 |
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| Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 1863-1944 |
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| Ralph, Julian, 1853-1903 |
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| Raymond, Walter, 1852-1931 |
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| Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 |
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| Rowlands, Effie Adelaide, 1866-1936 |
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| Russell, William Clark, 1844-1911 |
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| Sabatier, Paul, 1854-1941 |
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| Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 |
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| Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895 |
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| Saunders, John, 1811-1895 |
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| Sayce, A. H (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 |
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| Scott, Clement, 1841-1904 |
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| Scott, Hugh Stowell, 1862-1903 |
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| Sergeant, Adeline, 1851-1904 |
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| Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs., 1854-1934 |
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| Sinclair, May |
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| Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947 |
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| Steuart, John A (John Alexander), 1861-1932 |
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| Stockton, Frank R., 1834-1902 |
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| Sutcliffe, Halliwell, 1870-1932 |
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| Swan, Annie S., 1859-1943 |
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| Thomson, H. C (Harry Craufuird) |
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| Thorne, Whyte, 1840-1928 |
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| Townend, Thomas S |
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| Tytler, Sarah, 1827-1914 |
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| Vachell, Horace Annesley, 1861-1955 |
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| Warden, Florence, 1857-1929 |
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| Watson, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Sophia), 1850-1918 |
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| Watt, A. P (Alexander Pollock), 1834-1914 |
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| Watt, Alexander Strahan, d.1948 |
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| Weyman, Stanley John, 1855-1928 |
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| White, Percy, 1852-1938 |
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| Whiteing, Richard, 1840-1928 |
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| Wilson, Andrew, 1852-1912 |
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| Wingate, F. R, Sir (Francis Reginald), 1861-1953 |
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| Winter, John Strange, 1856-1911 |
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| Wright, William, 1837-1899 |
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| Yeats, W. B (William Butler), 1865-1939 |
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| Yorke, Curtis |
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| Authors and publishers -- 20th century |
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| Authors, English |
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| College teachers |
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| Critics |
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| Dramatists, English |
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| English literature -- 20th century |
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| Essayists |
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| Historians |
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| Journalists |
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| Literary agents |
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| Novelists, English |
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| Poets, English |
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| Publishers and publishing -- 20th century |
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| Scholars |
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| Women authors, English |
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| Women editors |
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| Women journalists |
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| Women novelists, English |
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