Grant Richards, 1898 - 1904
Scope and Contents
Approximately 125 pieces of notes and letters from 22 correspondents sent to and from publisher and writer Grant Richards. Of particular note are materials from Hiram Maxim, inventor of the first automatic machine gun, regarding his book Monte Carlo: Facts and Fallacies, letters from Agnes Grace Weld, niece of Alfred Lord Tennyson and photographic model for Lewis Carroll, and materials from WWI-era poet and journalist Jessie Pope related to her book The Little Soldier, which was published in Richards’s “Dumpy Books for Children” series. A curatorial file compiled by Scheetz himself is also included.
Dates
- 1898 - 1904
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Franklin Thomas Grant Richards (21 October 1872 – 24 February 1948) was a British publisher and writer. He began his own eponymous publishing house aged just 24, and published works by a number of significant players including George Bernard Shaw, A. E. Housman, and G.K. Chesterton, alongside a series of children’s books known as the “Dumpy Books for Children.” In 1901 he launched The World's Classics series of reprints of literary classics, a series still published today as Oxford University Press’ Oxford World Classics.
Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
From the Collection: Danish
From the Collection: Swedish
From the Collection: Spanish
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From the Collection: Norwegian
From the Collection: Persian
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Russian
From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu