Archive of the Society of Authors

Item date: 1884 onwards
Grant Value: 500
Item cost pre-decimal: Not recorded
Item date acquired: 1969
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

200 Letter Books from 1884 - 1930 containing copies of thousands of outgoing letters most of them by Herbert Thring, Secretary of the Society. Miscellaneous subject files dealing mostly with legal disputes and 1200 incoming letters from members of the Society. These include GB Shaw (280 letters), John Masefield (over 1,000 letters), John Buchan, Arnold Bennett, Marie Corelli, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, EM Forster, John Galsworthy, Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, DH Lawrence, George Moore, WM Rossetti, Lytton Strachey, HG Wells and Hugh Walpole. Add MSS 56575 - 57264