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Cage
8
Robins, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Robins
Papers
1851-1942
1 containers.
.25 linear feet of shelf space.
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.
Collection materials are in
English.
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]
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.
This collection is open for research use.
[Item Description]. Cage 8, Guide to the Elizabeth Robins Papers.
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Robins, Elizabeth, 1862-1952--Archives
Smith, Isabelle
Archer, William, 1856-1924
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset),
1874-1965
Trevelyan, Charles Philips, Sir, 1870-1958
Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Actors--England--Correspondence
Authors--England--Correspondence
Translators--England--Correspondence
Literature
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
1
Reveille, devoted to the disabled sailor and
soldier, no. 1. London. John Galsworthy, editor.
August,
1918
1 item.
1
Enclosed: John Galsworthy,
letter, Devon, to Elizabeth Robins, asking her to write a contribution.
August 19,
1918
1 l. holograph
signed.
1
Enclosed: Photograph of Elizabeth
Robins.
undated
1
item.
Undated Papers
2
Sybil and B., letter, Sunday,
Tithe Farm, Stoke Poges, Bucks, no addressee.
undated
1 l. holograph
signed.
2
Note: 'Gertrude Bell,' vol. 11,
p. 512, 615.
undated
1 l.
ms.
2
Maugham, W.S., letter, New York,
to Miss Robins.
undated
2 l. holograph
signed.
2
[Olhim?], Dorothy, letter,
Brighton, to Dr. Wilberforce.
undated
1 l. holograph
signed.
2
Gordon, Laura, letter,
[Hempstead?], to Octavia
December 5,
n.y.
2 l. holograph
signed.
2
Carter, Alice, letter, Nassau, to
Miss Robins
January 27,
n.y.
2 l. holograph
signed.
2
Archer, William, letter, Monday,
London, to Miss Robins
[1893]
2 l. holograph
signed.
Dated Papers
3
Bowen, M., letter, Zanesville,
[Ohio], to Sallie E. Robins, n.p.
April 2,
[18]51
2 l. holograph signed,
with envelope.
3
[Bull, Sara C.], letter,
Cambridge, Mass., to Elizabeth Robins, Milwaukee, Wis.
September 25,
[1818]
1 l. holograph
signed.
3
Dupont, Aime. Photograph of
Francis Wilson, holograph inscription, to Elizabeth Robins.
1900
1
item.
3
[Milner, Edith?], letter, York,
to Elizabeth Robins
September 9,
1905
2 l. holograph
signed.
3
Trevelyan, Charles, letter,
Westminster, to Lisa, [Bath]
March 24,
1921
1 l. holograph
signed.
3
Note: part of a
letter.
December,
1926
1 l. typescript &
ms.
3
Note and telegraph
envelope.
September 10,
1927
2
items.
4
Wood, Fred F., letter, Sussex, to
Dr. Wilberforce
April 28,
1933
1 l. folded, holograph
signed.
4
Moore, Tom Sturge, letter, The
Shiffolds, to Dear Ladies
March 12,
1940
1 l. holograph
signed.
4
Note, on letterhead: Valour
House, Fernand's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine; enclosing clipping: 'The
Yates-Thompson Sale,' Times Literary Supplement,
April 10,
1941.
3 l.
4
Smith, Isabelle, letter, Ching,
to Octavia.
July 15,
[1941]?
1 l. holograph
signed.
4
Chancellor, Elsie, letter,
Henley-on-Thames, to Elizabeth Robins, Valour House, Southwest Harbor,
Maine
July 22,
[1941]
2 l.holograph signed, with
envelope.
5
Smith, Isabelle, letter,
[London], to Miss Robins, n.p.
July 27,
1941
1 l. holograph
signed.
5
Letter, [date on envelope],
London, to Miss Robins, New York. [Signature illegible]
May 5,
1941
2 l. holograph signed,
with envelope.
5
Smith, Isabelle, letter, London,
to Octavia.
August 12,
1941
1 l. holograph
signed.
5
Trevelyan, G(eorge] M[acaulay],
letter, Trinity College, Cambridge, to Miss Robins, n.p.
August 15,
1941
1 l. holograph
signed.
5
Jones, Thomas, letter, Harlech,
to Miss Robins, Somesville, Maine.
August 20,
1941
1 l. holograph
signed.
5
Letter, Surrey, to "My Dear",
initialed, in envelope addressed to Elizabeth Robins, Mount Desert, Maine,
post-marked September 11,1941.
April 27,
1941
2 l.
holograph
5
Draper, Martha, letter, New York,
to Miss Robins, n.p., signed, with pencilled draft of reply.
October 8,
1941
1 l.
typescript
5
Envelope, torn,
postmarked.
April 2,
1942.
1
item.
6
Translating vocabulary for Ibsen
plays, Norwegian-English.
August,
1892
1
volume
6
Loose notes and papers re:
translation
1895-1896
34 l.
Letters found in Elizabeth Robins'
books:
7
L.A. Maidstone, letter,
Herstmonceux Place, Hailsham, to Miss Robins.
June 30,
n.y.
2 l. holograph
signed.
7
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.
July 5,
n.y.
4 l. holograph
signed.
7
[Lucy Lane Clifford], letter,
[London], to Lisa, signed: L. In: Mrs. W.K. [Lucy Lane] Clifford,
Sir George's objection. London, Thomas Nelson,
1901.
November 11,
n.y.
1 l.
holograph.
7
Mary A. Ward, letter, [London],
to Miss Robins. In: Mary A. Ward,
Eleanor: a play in four acts. London, Smith Elder,
1901.
October 10,
1902
1 l. holograph signed.
7
[Florence Bell], letter, Redcar,
to [Elizabeth Robins?] In: William Shakespeare,
The Tempest. London, J.M. Dent, 1903. [Inscribed:
To Elizabeth Robins from F.B.]
September 28,
1904
2 l.
typescript.
7
Bond, telegram, Hempstead
C[ourt], to Miss Robins, Kensington. In: Elizabeth Robins [C.E. Raimond],
A dark Lantern. London and New York, Macmillan,
1905.
June 5,
1905
1 l. with
envelope.
7
Robert W. Chambers, letter, [New
York], to Miss Robbins. In: Elizabeth Robins [C.E. Raimond],
Come and find me. London, William Heinemann.
1908.
March 18,
1908
1 l. holograph signed.
7
Maggie Ponsonby, letter,
[London], to Miss Robins, In: Magdalen Ponsonby,
Idle women - a study in futility. London, Arthur
L. Humphreys, 1914.
[1914?]
1 l. holograph signed.
7
Emily M. Ritchie, letter, Sussex,
to Miss Robins. In: Emily Marion Ritchie,
Edith Sichel: Letters, verses, and other writings.
Printed for private circulation, 1918.
August 22,
[1918?]
1 l. holograph
signed.
7
[Frank von Kitlitz?], letter,
Wehrkirch Land, Germany, to Octavia. In: Thomas de Quincy,
Confessions of an English opium eater. London,
George Routledge, 1886.
November 20,
1937
2 l. holograph
signed.
Article found in
Reveille:
8
Mortimer, Raymond, "Published at
Last: An Adventure of 1900." A critique of Elizabeth Robins book
Raymond and I.
undated
1
item.