Bram Stoker correspondence and manuscripts
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Bram Stoker correspondence and manuscripts
Classmark: BC MS 19c Stoker
Creator(s): Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)()
Date(s): 1866-1997
Language: English
Size and medium: 3411 letters in 24 boxes and 3 envelopes, and 3 vols of literary manuscripts; manuscript.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7381
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Comprises: (1) Correspondence dated between 1866 and 1911; (2) Autograph literary manuscripts by Bram Stoker: (i) Lecture 'Personal impressions of America', delivered at the London Institute (and elsewhere), Dec. 28. 1885, with various notes and memoranda; (ii) Short story entitled 'The secret of the growing gold', published in 'Black & White', Jan. 23, 1892, together with printed copy; (iii) 'Miss Betty'. The MS bears the title 'Seven golden buttons', and the ending is different from the work as published in 1899.
The volumes of literary manuscripts are bound with boards and brown leather spines, on which gilt lettering is embossed, as follows: (i) BRAM STOKER'S MS - PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA; (ii) BRAM STOKER'S MS - SECRET OF THE GROWING GOLD; (iii) BRAM STOKER'S MS - SEVEN GOLDEN BUTTONS. Within each volume small paper pages in Stoker's autograph have been pasted on to larger pages.
Biography or history
Bram (Abraham) Stoker (1847-1912), the novelist and manager of the Lyceum Theatre, London. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography.
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