Box 36

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...