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Series XII: Printed Materials

Scope and Contents note

Series XII contains a wide variety of materials, including theater programs, posters, proofs (galleys and page), magazines, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, and maps.

Subseries A: Proofs of Elizabeth Robins' Literary Productions

Scope and Contents note

Subseries A consists of annotated page proofs and galleys of many of Robins' works. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title.

Ancilla's Share, marked proof (Chapters 1-14)

Box: 251, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ancilla's Share, marked proof (Chapters 15-30)

Box: 251, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bolt Seventeen (1919), n.d.

Box: 252, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bolt Seventeen (Fortnightly, January 1920), 1920, inclusive

Box: 252, Folder: 3A (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Come and Find Me, page proofs (1907), 1907, inclusive

Box: 252, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content

Came and Find Me, galleys (1907)--see Oversize Material, Box 268, Folder 6.

Elizabeth Robins on Sir Herbert Austin (1933), 1933, inclusive

Box: 252, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ibsen and the Actress, page proofs (1928), 1928, inclusive

Box: 252, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Main Peace Asset

Box: 252, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 268, Folder 10.

Mills of the Gods, page proofs, 1939, inclusive

Box: 252, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pleasure Mining, page proofs, 1927, inclusive

Box: 252, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Theatre and Friendship, page proofs (1932), 1932, inclusive

Box: 252, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content

Theatre and Friendship, galleys--see Oversize Material, Box 268, Folder 7.

Theatre and Friendship, page proofs

Box: 253, Folder: 11-12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Time is Whispering, page proofs, (pages 1-176)

Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Time is Whispering, page proofs, (pages 177-320)

Box: 253, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content

Time is Whispering, galleys--see also Oversize Material, Box 268, Folder 8.

Where are You Going To?, page proofs (1912)

Box: 253, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Why?, page proofs (1910), 1912, inclusive

Box: 253, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Woman Comes of Age

Box: 253, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 268, Folder 10.

The Woman Juror (to the editor of The Morning Post)

Box: 253, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 268, Folder 10.

Woman's Secret, page proofs

Box: 253, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries B: Publications by Elizabeth Robins

Scope and Contents note

Subseries B consists primarily of short stories and articles. These publications are arranged alphabetically by title.

Below the Salt (The New Review, No. 86, July 1896, pp. 1 -17), 1896, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Confessions of a Cruel Mistress (Chapman's Magazine of Fiction, No. 4, Vol. 1, August 1895, pp. 361-379), 1895, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dr. Flora Murray, Reminiscences Of Her War Work (The Observer, August 5, 1923), 1923, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gustus Frederick (The New Review, No. 70, March 1895, pp 270 - 281), 1895, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ibsen and the Actress (London: Hogarth Press, 1928), 1928, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letter to the editor of "The Times." Reprinted as broadside by Ministry of Health, Women's Consultative Council, March 20.

Box: 254, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lost and Found, A Story (Harpers Magazine, September 1915, pp 500 - 511), 1915, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Lucky Sixpence (The New Review, January 1894, pp 105 -126), 1894, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

My Little Sister (McClure's Magazine, December 1912, pp 121- 145), 1912, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Some Personal Opinions On the National Theatre. Miss Elizabeth Robins (Drama, December 1929, p. 41), 1929, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stretcher-Bearing for Women (The Daily Mall, August 18, 1915), 1915, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

What Can I Do? : The Lady Chichester Hospital for Women and Children

Box: 254, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Woman's Place in the New Order. Purpose of Militancy (to the editor of the Times, printed May 4, 1921), 1921, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Woman's War; a Defense of Militant Suffrage (McClure's Magazine, March 1913, pp 41 - 52), 1913, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Women Doctors. Lord Knutsford's Charge (Sunday Times, March 12, 1922), 1922, inclusive

Box: 254, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries C: Theatre

Scope and Contents note

Subseries C includes playbills and announcements of performances, material on the New Century Theatre and publications, i.e. plays, reviews and articles. Theatrical posters have been moved to Mapcase 2.A. Playbills and announcements of Elizabeth Robins' performances are arranged alphabetically by the name of the play. There are also playbills and announcements from other performances, many with annotations that show Elizabeth Robins attended them. They are arranged alphabetically by name of play, or by name of theater if no single play is prominently mentioned. Dates of the performances are indicated infrequently. The publications consist of published plays, arranged alphabetically by title, and articles.

Publications - plays: Broken Hearts to London Assurance

Box: 255, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications - plays: Mariana to Proof

Box: 255, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications - plays: The Ticket-Of-Leave Man to Who's To Win Him

Box: 255, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications - reviews and articles

Box: 255, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications - reviews and articles

Box: 255, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries D: Literary and Political Publications

Scope and Contents note

Subseries D contains an assortment of publications and a collection of book jackets. The pamphlets and articles written by a variety of authors include reviews of some of Elizabeth Robins' publications. In addition, Robins gathered a collection of articles on race relations in America, including several brochures on the Tuskegee Institute. There are several issues of Votes for Women, the Women's Social and Political Union newspaper; Equal Rights, the National Woman's Party's paper; and a run of the Woman's Journal from 1909-1910.

Publications re: American blacks

Box: 256, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications re: American blacks

Box: 256, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tuskegee Institute, Catalogues and Brochures 1895-1904, 1895 -1904, inclusive

Box: 256, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tuskegee Institute, Catalogues and Brochures 1906-1907, 1906 -1907, inclusive

Box: 256, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications by others

Box: 256, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 273, Folder 4 for The Woman's Journal.

Publications by others

Box: 256, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications by others

Box: 257, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications by others

Box: 257, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications by others (Women and the Women's Movement)

Box: 257, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Book Jackets

Box: 257, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries E: Political, Cultural and Social Events

Scope and Contents note

Subseries E consists of calling cards, broadsides and programs from Elizabeth Robins' speaking engagements, and additional programs and broadsides.

Broadsides and programs of Elizabeth Robins' appearances

Box: 258, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Calling cards

Box: 258, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Invitations

Box: 258, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Invitations

Box: 258, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Programs: Literary

Box: 258, Folder: 5A (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Programs: Women Institutes

Box: 258, Folder: 5B (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Programs: Panhurst Statue

Box: 258, Folder: 5C (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Programs: United States

Box: 258, Folder: 5D (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Programs: Miscellaneous

Box: 258, Folder: 5E (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Programs:Theatrical

Box: 258, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Broadsides

Box: 258, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (publications and clippings)

Box: 258, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries F: Backsettown

Scope and Contents note

Subseries F contains pamphlets and programs that describe Robins' Sussex home after it was converted into a rest place for women. Some are illustrated with pictures of the grounds.

Backsettown--programs and descriptions

Box: 258, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries G: Putnam Female Seminary

Scope and Contents note

Subseries G includes descriptions of this boarding school attended by Elizabeth Robins and programs from performances she participated in there.

Putnam Female Seminary

Box: 259, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries H: Alaska

Scope and Contents note

Subseries H includes ten maps and three folders of publications (several from the U.S. Geological Survey) on Alaska.

Publications

Box: 259, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications

Box: 259, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publications

Box: 259, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Maps--see Oversize Materials, Map Drawer 2.A

Subseries I: Pictures

Pictures

Box: 259, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content

See also Oversize Material, Box 273, Folder 6.

Subseries J: Maps

Scope and Contents note

Subseries J contains a variety of charts and maps documenting the settlement of the Robins family in Covington, KY and the Ohio River area.

See Mapcase - Series IV, Subseries D and Mapcase - Series XII: Subseries J

Subseries K: Newspaper Clippings

Scope and Contents note

Series K is made up of four boxes of unsorted newspaper clippings.

Unsorted clippings

Box: 260 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unsorted clippings

Box: 261 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unsorted clippings

Box: 262 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unsorted clippings

Box: 263 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries L: Books from Elizabeth Robins' Library

Creighton, Louise. Dorothy Grey (1907), 1907, inclusive

Box: 264A, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ibsen, Henrik. The Master Builder, 1892, inclusive

Box: 264, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer, 1892. ER's personal copy.

Ibsen, Henrik. The Master Builder, 1892, inclusive

Box: 264, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer, 1892. ER's personal copy.

Parish, W.D. Domesday Book in Relation to the Counts of Sussex (1886), 1886, inclusive

Box: 264A, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Proverbs (New York: American Bible Society, 1867), 1867, inclusive

Box: 264, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Russel, Sidney. Poems (1859), 1859, inclusive

Box: 264, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

A.k.a. Sarah Elizabeth Robins.

Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, 1886, inclusive

Box: 264, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

Arranged by A. Bourchier, W.L. Courtney, 1886.

Wallace, William. The Divine Surrender: A Mystery Play (London, 1895), 1895, inclusive

Box: 264, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General note

A presentation copy.

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