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Elizabeth Robins Papers, 1851-1942

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Robins, Elizabeth
Title
Elizabeth Robins Papers
Dates
1851-1942 (inclusive)
Quantity
1 containers., (.25 linear feet of shelf space.)
Collection Number
Cage 8
Summary
Letters received from John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, William Archer, Charles Trevelyan, Isabelle Smith, George M. Trevelyan, and others. Notes and notebook of Norwegian-English translating vocabulary.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Robins, Elizabeth. (married name: Mrs. George Richmond Parks; pseud. C.E. Raimond) ca. 1865-1952. American actress and author. Played principally in Ibsen.

Wrote: Below the salt (1896) The open question (1898) The magnetic north (1904) A dark lantern (1905) Come and find me (1908) The mills of the Gods (1908) and others. Also suffragist works. [New Century Cyclopedia of Names]

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Content Description

Correspondence with John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, William Archer, Charles P. Trevelyan, Isabelle Smith, George Macaulay Trevelyan, and others. Principally regarding Portrait of a lady, after 1940.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 8, Guide to the Elizabeth Robins Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

  • Reveille, devoted to the disabled sailor and soldier, no. 1. London. John Galsworthy, editor., August, 1918

    Container: Folder 1

    1 item.

  • Undated Papers

    • Description: Sybil and B., letter, Sunday, Tithe Farm, Stoke Poges, Bucks, no addressee.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 2
      Location: Undated Papers
    • Description: Note: 'Gertrude Bell,' vol. 11, p. 512, 615.
      1 l. ms.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 2
      Location: Undated Papers
    • Description: Maugham, W.S., letter, New York, to Miss Robins.
      2 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 2
      Location: Undated Papers
    • Description: [Olhim?], Dorothy, letter, Brighton, to Dr. Wilberforce.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 2
      Location: Undated Papers
    • Description: Gordon, Laura, letter, [Hempstead?], to Octavia
      2 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: December 5, n.y.
      Container: Folder 2
      Location: Undated Papers
    • Description: Carter, Alice, letter, Nassau, to Miss Robins
      2 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: January 27, n.y.
      Container: Folder 2
      Location: Undated Papers
    • Description: Archer, William, letter, Monday, London, to Miss Robins
      2 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: [1893]
      Container: Folder 2
      Location: Undated Papers

  • Dated Papers

    • Description: Bowen, M., letter, Zanesville, [Ohio], to Sallie E. Robins, n.p.
      2 l. holograph signed, with envelope.
      Dates: April 2, [18]51
      Container: Folder 3
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: [Bull, Sara C.], letter, Cambridge, Mass., to Elizabeth Robins, Milwaukee, Wis.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: September 25, [1818]
      Container: Folder 3
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Dupont, Aime. Photograph of Francis Wilson, holograph inscription, to Elizabeth Robins.
      1 item.
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Folder 3
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: [Milner, Edith?], letter, York, to Elizabeth Robins
      2 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: September 9, 1905
      Container: Folder 3
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Trevelyan, Charles, letter, Westminster, to Lisa, [Bath]
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: March 24, 1921
      Container: Folder 3
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Note: part of a letter.
      1 l. typescript & ms.
      Dates: December, 1926
      Container: Folder 3
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Note and telegraph envelope.
      2 items.
      Dates: September 10, 1927
      Container: Folder 3
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Wood, Fred F., letter, Sussex, to Dr. Wilberforce
      1 l. folded, holograph signed.
      Dates: April 28, 1933
      Container: Folder 4
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Moore, Tom Sturge, letter, The Shiffolds, to Dear Ladies
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: March 12, 1940
      Container: Folder 4
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Note, on letterhead: Valour House, Fernand's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine; enclosing clipping: 'The Yates-Thompson Sale,' Times Literary Supplement,
      3 l.
      Dates: April 10, 1941.
      Container: Folder 4
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Smith, Isabelle, letter, Ching, to Octavia.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: July 15, [1941]?
      Container: Folder 4
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Chancellor, Elsie, letter, Henley-on-Thames, to Elizabeth Robins, Valour House, Southwest Harbor, Maine
      2 l.holograph signed, with envelope.
      Dates: July 22, [1941]
      Container: Folder 4
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Smith, Isabelle, letter, [London], to Miss Robins, n.p.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: July 27, 1941
      Container: Folder 5
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Letter, [date on envelope], London, to Miss Robins, New York. [Signature illegible]
      2 l. holograph signed, with envelope.
      Dates: May 5, 1941
      Container: Folder 5
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Smith, Isabelle, letter, London, to Octavia.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: August 12, 1941
      Container: Folder 5
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Trevelyan, G(eorge] M[acaulay], letter, Trinity College, Cambridge, to Miss Robins, n.p.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: August 15, 1941
      Container: Folder 5
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Jones, Thomas, letter, Harlech, to Miss Robins, Somesville, Maine.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: August 20, 1941
      Container: Folder 5
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Letter, Surrey, to "My Dear", initialed, in envelope addressed to Elizabeth Robins, Mount Desert, Maine, post-marked September 11,1941.
      2 l. holograph
      Dates: April 27, 1941
      Container: Folder 5
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Draper, Martha, letter, New York, to Miss Robins, n.p., signed, with pencilled draft of reply.
      1 l. typescript
      Dates: October 8, 1941
      Container: Folder 5
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Envelope, torn, postmarked.
      1 item.
      Dates: April 2, 1942.
      Container: Folder 5
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Translating vocabulary for Ibsen plays, Norwegian-English.
      1 volume
      Dates: August, 1892
      Container: Folder 6
      Location: Dated Papers
    • Description: Loose notes and papers re: translation
      34 l.
      Dates: 1895-1896
      Container: Folder 6
      Location: Dated Papers

  • Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:

    • Description: L.A. Maidstone, letter, Herstmonceux Place, Hailsham, to Miss Robins.
      2 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: June 30, n.y.
      Container: Folder 7
      Location: Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:
    • Description: L.A. Maidstone, letter, Herstmonceux Place, Hailsham, to Miss Robins. In: Aeschylus, The house of Atreus. Trans. by E.D.A. Morshead. London, Simpkin & Marshall; Winchester, Warren & Son, n.d.
      4 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: July 5, n.y.
      Container: Folder 7
      Location: Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:
    • Description: [Lucy Lane Clifford], letter, [London], to Lisa, signed: L. In: Mrs. W.K. [Lucy Lane] Clifford, Sir George's objection. London, Thomas Nelson, 1901.
      1 l. holograph.
      Dates: November 11, n.y.
      Container: Folder 7
      Location: Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:
    • Description: Mary A. Ward, letter, [London], to Miss Robins. In: Mary A. Ward, Eleanor: a play in four acts. London, Smith Elder, 1901.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: October 10, 1902
      Container: Folder 7
      Location: Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:
    • Description: [Florence Bell], letter, Redcar, to [Elizabeth Robins?] In: William Shakespeare, The Tempest. London, J.M. Dent, 1903. [Inscribed: To Elizabeth Robins from F.B.]
      2 l. typescript.
      Dates: September 28, 1904
      Container: Folder 7
      Location: Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:
    • Description: Bond, telegram, Hempstead C[ourt], to Miss Robins, Kensington. In: Elizabeth Robins [C.E. Raimond], A dark Lantern. London and New York, Macmillan, 1905.
      1 l. with envelope.
      Dates: June 5, 1905
      Container: Folder 7
      Location: Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:
    • Description: Robert W. Chambers, letter, [New York], to Miss Robbins. In: Elizabeth Robins [C.E. Raimond], Come and find me. London, William Heinemann. 1908.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: March 18, 1908
      Container: Folder 7
      Location: Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:
    • Description: Maggie Ponsonby, letter, [London], to Miss Robins, In: Magdalen Ponsonby, Idle women - a study in futility. London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1914.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: [1914?]
      Container: Folder 7
      Location: Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:
    • Description: Emily M. Ritchie, letter, Sussex, to Miss Robins. In: Emily Marion Ritchie, Edith Sichel: Letters, verses, and other writings. Printed for private circulation, 1918.
      1 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: August 22, [1918?]
      Container: Folder 7
      Location: Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:
    • Description: [Frank von Kitlitz?], letter, Wehrkirch Land, Germany, to Octavia. In: Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English opium eater. London, George Routledge, 1886.
      2 l. holograph signed.
      Dates: November 20, 1937
      Container: Folder 7
      Location: Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:

  • Article found in Reveille:,

    Container: Folder

    • Description: Mortimer, Raymond, "Published at Last: An Adventure of 1900." A critique of Elizabeth Robins book Raymond and I.
      1 item.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder 8
      Location: Article found in Reveille:,

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Personal Names

  • Archer, William, 1856-1924
  • Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
  • Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965
  • Robins, Elizabeth, 1862-1952--Archives (creator)
  • Smith, Isabelle
  • Trevelyan, Charles Philips, Sir, 1870-1958
  • Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

Occupations

  • Actors--England--Correspondence
  • Authors--England--Correspondence
  • Translators--England--Correspondence

Finding aid prepared by MASC staff
2012

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