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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 17, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00813::Frank Harris Collection)//EN" "ViU00813.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Frank Harris Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 7453-a

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #7453-a Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Frank Harris Collection 1926-1930 7453-a 12 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

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

 Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1964 Apr 29

 Funding Note

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

 Item Listing Letters Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1926 Nov 8 TLS, 1 p.

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

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1926 Dec 29 TLS, 1 p.

[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.]

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1927 Aug 29 TLS, 1 p.

[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.]

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1927 Nov 22 TLS, 1 p.

[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.]

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1927 Dec 24 TLS, 1 p.

[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.]

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1928 Feb 28 TLS, 1 p.

[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. ]

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1928 Apr 2 TLS, 1 p.

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

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1929 Jun 6 TLS, 1 p.

[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.]

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1929 Jul 6 TLS, 1 p.

[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.]

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1930 Apr 16 TL, 1 p.

[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.]

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1930 May 22 TL, 1 p.

[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. ]

 Frank Harristo Brice O. Taylor 1930 Jul 12 TL, 1 p.

[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. ]