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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The letters composing this sub-series of the Stewart Marsh Ellis papers document Ellis' relations with his friends, publishers, and readers, and provide a panorama of his extensive social circle. Many of the letters reflect Ellis' efforts in research through interviews or correspondence, for both his published books on William Harrison Ainsworth and George Meredith, as well as his interest in hauntings and apparitions. Letters tipped into the News Cuttings scrapbook or removed from it are...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The letters composing this sub-series of the Stewart Marsh Ellis papers document Ellis' relations with his friends, publishers, and readers, and provide a panorama of his extensive social circle. Many of the letters reflect Ellis' efforts in research through interviews or correspondence, for both his published books on William Harrison Ainsworth and George Meredith, as well as his interest in hauntings and apparitions. Letters tipped into the News Cuttings scrapbook or removed from it are...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The letters composing this sub-series of the Stewart Marsh Ellis papers document Ellis' relations with his friends, publishers, and readers, and provide a panorama of his extensive social circle. Many of the letters reflect Ellis' efforts in research through interviews or correspondence, for both his published books on William Harrison Ainsworth and George Meredith, as well as his interest in hauntings and apparitions. Letters tipped into the News Cuttings scrapbook or removed from it are...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV, the Stewart Marsh Ellis papers, forms the last series of the Montague Summers papers, consisting of the letters, scrapbooks, and ephemera of the literary biographer S.M. Ellis which came into Summers' possession after the death of Ellis in 1933. There is ample evidence of the shared interests of Ellis and Summers, particularly in Victorian Romantic literature, ghost stories, and in the supernatural, generally, and letters from each as well. The letters in the S.M. Ellis papers...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II of the Montague Summers papers consist of Summers' literary manuscripts, notes, records and related documents. The bulk of the series is comprised of complete autograph and typed manuscripts of shorter works, published and unpublished, but includes a significant amount of fragmentary, sometimes unidentified, rough draft material, mostly from Summers' longer works. This series, the largest in the collection, includes many manuscripts of works not described in the two primary...