Le Gallienne, Richard: letter (1896)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 AL220
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: Le Gallienne, Richard: letter (1896)
Date(s)	: 1896
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 2 leaves
Name of creator(s)	: Gallienne | Richard Thomas | Le | 1866-1947 | poet and essayist x Le Gallienne | Richard Thomas x Gallienne | Richard Thomas

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Richard Thomas Gallienne (later Le Gallienne) was born in West Derby, Lancashire in 1866. He was educated at Liverpool College. Interested in literature from an early age, he began collecting books as a young man. His first book of poetry was published in 1887. In 1888, after failing the exams necessary to qualify as an accountant, he moved to London and earned a living as a book reviewer and continued to write poetry and prose. Le Gallienne emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s and from 1930 onwards lived in France and Monte Carlo with his third wife, where he continued to work as a journalist.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from Richard Thomas Le Gallienne of The Hut Hotel, Wisley, [Surrey] to an unknown lady [?Florence Farr], 28 May 1896. Regretting that he missed meeting her whilst bicycling between Guildford and Wisley: '... and in my knapsack I had brought you the lovliest [sic] edition of Sir John Suckling [poetry] that ever was'. Autograph, with signature.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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Conditions governing access:

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Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Gift from Miss Harriet Cohen CBE.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
July 2008