Frank Harris Collection 1926-1930

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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:

Frank Harris Collection, Accession 7453-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Creator:
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Frank Harris Collection, Accession 7453-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

[Sends second volume of My Life and Loves, which he regards as his best work; will send the first volume when money is received.]

[Asking agent in America to send volume one of [ My Life and Loves]; says customs would not allow shipping from Francebecause of nude pictures; regards volumes two and three of [ My Life and Loves] as his best work; is ill with bronchitis.]

[Agrees with comments on My Life and Loves; comments on religion, war, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, and human stupidity; begs forgiveness for 'scrawl,' the result of near blindness.]

[Requests Edna Millay's "Renasence"; wishes to disprove claim that it is "the best modern poem"; also requests the best work of Edwin A. Robinson, with whom he is not familiar.]

[Does not rate Millay and Robinson as highly as Taylor does; looks forward to receiving the books in order to favorably revise his opinion of them.]

[Would welcome the book showing trend of American poetry but doubts that he and Taylor would agree; disparages [Thomas] Hardy's work, especially the silliness of Tess of the d'Ubervilles; complains that Hardy was wealthy and highly honored while he is hard working but poor; comments on sonnet by Lizette Woodworth Reese. ]

[Looks forward to book he is sending; does not think Theodore Dreisercapable of writing about Russia, recommends book by A[lexander] Berkmanand [Emma] Goldman. ]

[Wishes to renew relationship after two years of illness; gives prices for four volumes of My Life and Loves; mentions his secretary left, taking the typescript copy of the fourth volume with her; hopes to publish Pantopiain the fall.]

[Will send Pantopiawhen printed; requests [E.W.] Howe's comments and his book; has written a volume of "Essays" and the sixth volume of [Contemporary] Portraits; asks if he could find a publisher willing to pay advance on royalties.]

[Comments on The Lies and Libels of Frank Harris; disputes claim that he is "half-Jew, half-Irish"; inquires about Stanley Westaland Frank Dobiewho have criticized his "cowboy book"; expects Pantopiato be published in New Yorkin the fall; says My Life and Lovesis providing a good income; complains that censors prevent him from sending it to him.]

[Pleased that he liked Confessional; asks that he defend him from attacks by Frank Dobieand Stanley Vestal; feels that his own mistakes about dates and places are a result of the passage of sixty years; comments on progress of Pantopiawhich is being undermined by the censors; had hoped it would equal Montes [the Matador]and The Miracle of Stigmata. ]

[Pleased that he agrees with idea of adding Lord Alfred Douglas' confession to Oscar Wilde: [His Life and Times]; denies Wilde translated Petronius Arbiter; comments on Life of Shaw. ]

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 1964 Apr 29
Processing information:

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

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12 items