John Stuart Verschoyle Papers

Résumé du livre

This collection includes approximately 400 letters written to John Stuart Verschoyle between 1881-1915 by a diverse group of leaders in late Victorian literature, politics, journalism, social reform and society. The majority of letters are related to Verschoyle's work as an assistant editor of the Fortnightly Review and the social circle he built as a result of this work, but Verschoyle's connections to colonial African mining interests are also well-represented. Many letters also document his commitment to and involvement in social reform causes. Frequent correspondents include Frank Harris, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Oswald Crawfurd, Frances Power Cobbe, Edward Dowden, Edmund Gosse and Emile Joseph Dillon. Other important names represented here include Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, W.T. Stead, and A.C. Swinburne.