Agnes Repplier Collection 1891-1925

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Agnes Repplier Collection, Accession 8351, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

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English
Preferred citation:

Agnes Repplier Collection, Accession 8351, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

[ALS 1901 Jan 30, attached to front, Agnes Repplierto [Horace Howard] Furness; states that the essay has been sold to Harper's [Weekly]and is their property although it has not yet been published.]

[Responds to request for short articles; writes that she is interested in writing on the trials of publisher John Murray, based on her reading of his memoir A Publisher and His Friends. ]

[Accompanies proofs of " Essays in Idleness. "]

[Writes that she is willing to see him if he should call.]

[Thanks her for agreeing to come; invites her for lunch with Alice Warrenand Cornelia Frothingham; writes that this would give her the opportunity to convert to suffragette cause.]

[Expresses sorrow on hearing of her illness, but urges her to join them for a "restful meal."]

[Declines to participate in public meeting opposing "Women Suffrage"; writes that she is opposed to lawlessness but not to suffrage, which she thinks will not do much harm or good.]

[Declines invitation to be guest of Boston Author's Clubdue to another commitment in Buffalo. ]

[Thanks him for [Harry Ernest] Brittain's " To Verdun from the Somme"; admires his introduction as well as the narrative itself; describes letter from Hicks critical of Beck and her negative reaction to it.]

[Congratulates him on election to membership in the Societe des Gens de Lettres, of which she had read in the [New York] Times. ]

[Explains provenance of geographical data in a piece on Dr. White, left uncorrected by White family; suggests emendation.]

[Responds to invitation to contribute to Life's"Dull Number"; hopes that her examples will be understood; mentions [William Jennings] Bryan, Ford, a society for American birth control, and a handbook for communicating with the dead.]

[Regrets that other commitments prevent her contributing new piece for Rees' Modern American Prose Selections; believes that if previously published work were desired, permission could be obtained.]

[Accompanies piece from March number of The North American Review; writes that, with her collaboration, they could have "made a classic."]

[Thanks him for sending The Passing of the New Freedom; expresses admiration for the work; writes she is surprised by election results and expected women to vote heavily for the League [of Nations]. ]

[Appreciates her praise of his book; admires her work as an essayist; shares her surprise at recent election results.]

[Thanks him for " Knights of the Rainbow" and praises his hopefulness.]

[Thanks her for writing from Paris; regrets she cannot visit because of her work; hopes to see her and Margaret [Ferrand Thorp ?]following her speaking engagement in Summit, New Jersey. ]

[Discusses editorial in the [Philadelphia] Inquireron Agnes Repplier's Pittsburghspeech; asks for a copy of the address; asks if she has received a copy of his book [ The Constitution of the United States].]

[Discusses clipping from the [Philadelphia] Inquirerand his Gray's Inn lectures on the Constitution; mentions rise of the Labour Party in Englandand the honor he recently received from the English Bar.]

[Praises his Gray's Inn lectures, especially "The Great Convention" and "The Revolt Against Authority"; writes that she is concerned about the English Labour Party; mentions Sir Andrew MacPhail's comments on Americans' loyalty to their Constitution.]

[Expresses gratitude for her praise; states he received similar letter from [Francesco Saverio] Nitti, the Italian statesman; writes that, if third edition of his work is printed, he intends to add 2 lectures on the United States Supreme Court. ]

[Thanks him for letter and "the gallant Pennsylvaniasong"; states her willingness to see him if he should call.]

[Writes that she has "emerged" from hospital and both she and her work are less than sprightly; states he may print the pieces she submits or throw them away.]

Acquisition information:
Deposit [ 1963 Dec 17 ] 1966 Aug 30
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

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30 items