A Guide to the Frank Harris Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7453-g
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Frank Harris Collection, Accession 7453-g, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1985 Nov
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Bernard Shaw
- Frank Harris
- Josef Holbrooke
- Oscar Wilde
- Percival Hinton
Item Listing
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Frank Harris to Percival Hinton1924 Mar 15ALS, 2 p.
[Agrees with Times reviewer's assessment on the best stories in his latest book; discusses his four volumes of Contemporary Portraits . ]
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Frank Harris to Percival Hinton1924 May 8ALS, 2 p.
[Intrigued by his suggestions of future subjects of another volume of Contemporary Portraits ; warns him that one must have intimate knowledge of a person to do a good portrait; says Bernard Shaw has invited him to London to meet the young literary figures; dislikes England 's legal system because of the Oscar Wilde trial and prefers the French judicial system.]
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Frank Harris to Percival Hinton1924 Jun 1ALS, 2 p.
[Thanks him for his letter and excellent article; only English musician he knows is Josef Holbrooke ; sends a copy of My Life and Loves . ]
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Frank Harris to Percival Hinton1924 Jun 18ALS, 2 p.
[Informs him that he will send a copy of My Life and Loves by express rail package; says the authorities confiscated the one he had sent by mail as obscene material; speaks about the harassment of booksellers; informs him that he has nearly finished second volume; is much more interesting than the first because it "contains the intimate sex-history of a dozen of my most famous contemporaries"; Bernard Shaw has described Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde as the best biography extant.]
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Frank Harris to Percival Hinton1925 Mar 30ALS, 1 p.
[Asks if he has received his fourth volume of Contemporary Portraits ; describes Unpath'd Waters as his best volume of short stories; describes the second volume of My Life and Loves as the "frankest book ever written"; will be published in May.]
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Frank Harris to Percival Hinton1925 Jul 10ALS, 1 p.
[Claims that Joyce's Ulysses is more significant than My Life and Loves as a symbol of revolt despite its later publication; claims membership in "the Second Renaissance...the New Paganism...or in the new Naturalism which couples Darwin with Jesus"; discusses his third volume in progress; describes poor financial status.]