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Cage 8
Robins, Elizabeth
Papers, 1851-1942

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Robins, Elizabeth. (married name: Mrs. George Richmond Parks; pseud. C.E. Raimond) ca. 1865-1952.

American actress and author. Played principally in Ibsen. Wrote: Below the salt (1896) The open question (1898) The magnetic north (1904) A dark lantern (1905) Come and find me (1908) The mills of the Gods (1908) and others. Also suffragist works. [New Century Cyclopedia of Names]

Correspondents: John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, William Archer, Charles P. Trevelyan, Isabelle Smith, George Macaulay Trevelyan, and others. Principally regarding "Portrait of a lady," after 1940.

CONTAINER LIST

#1. Reveille, devoted to the disabled sailor and soldier, no. 1, August, 1918. London. John Galsworthy, editor.
Enclosed: John Galsworthy, letter, August 19, 1918, Devon, to Elizabeth Robins, asking her to write a contribution. 1 l. holograph signed. Photograph of Elizabeth Robins. n.d.

#2. Undated Papers
Sybil and B., letter, Sunday, Tithe Farm, Stoke Poges, Bucks, no addressee. 1 l. holograph signed.
Note: 'Gertrude Bell,' vol. 11, p. 512, 615. 1 l. ms.
Maugham, W.S., letter, New York, to Miss Robins. 2 l. holograph signed.
[Olhim?], Dorothy, letter, Brighton, to Dr. Wilberforce. 1 l. holograph signed.
Gordon, Laura, letter, December 5, [Hempstead?], to Octavia. 2 l. holograph signed.
Carter, Alice, letter, January 27, Nassau, to Miss Robins. 2 l. hol. signed.
Archer, William, letter, Monday, London, to Miss Robins, 2 l. hol. signed. [1893]

#3: Dated Papers
Bowen, M., letter, April 2, [18]51, Zanesville, [Ohio], to Sallie E. Robins, n.p. 2 l. hol. signed, with envelope.
[Bull, Sara C.], letter, September 25, [18187, Cambridge, Mass., to Elizabeth Robins, Milwaukee, Wis., 1 l. hol. signed.
Dupont, Aime. Photograph of Francis Wilson, holograph inscription, 1900, to Elizabeth Robins.
[Milner, Edith?], letter, September 9, 1905, York, to Elizabeth Robins, 2 l. holograph signed.
Trevelyan, Charles, letter, March 24, 1921, Westminster, to Lisa, [Bath], 1 l. hol. signed.
Note: [part of a letter dated December, 19261 1 l. typescript & ms.
Note and telegraph envelope [dated September 10, 1927] 2 items.

#4.
Wood, Fred F., letter, April 28, 1933, Sussex, to Dr. Wilberforce. 1 l. folded, holograph signed.
Moore, Tom Sturge, letter, March 12, 1940, The Shiffolds, to Dear Ladies, 1 l. holograph signed.
Note, on letterhead: Valour House, Fernand's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine; enclosing clipping: 'The Yates-Thompson Sale,' Times Literary Supplement, April 10, 1941. [3 l.]
Smith, Isabelle, letter, July 15, (1941?], Ching, to Octavia. 1 l. hol. signed.
Chancellor, Elsie, letter, July 22, [1941], Henley-on-Thames, to Elizabeth Robins, Valour House, Southwest Harbor, Maine. 2 l. hol. signed, with envelope.

#5.
Smith, Isabelle, letter, July 27, 1941, [London], to Miss Robins, n.p. 1 l. holograph signed.
Letter, May 5, 1941 [date on envelope], London, to Miss Robins, New York. 2 l. holograph signed, with envelope. [Signature illegible]
Smith, Isabelle, letter, August 12, 1941, London, to Octavia. 1 l. holograph signed.
Trevelyan, G(eorge] M[acaulay], letter, August 15, 1941, Trinity College, Cambridge, to Miss Robins, n.p. 1 l. holograph signed.
Jones, Thomas, letter, August 20, 1941, Harlech, to Miss Robins, Somesville, Maine, 1 l. holograph signed.
Letter, April 27, Surrey, to "My Dear" 2 l. holograph, initialed, in envelope addressed to Elizabeth Robins, Mount Desert, Maine, post-marked September 11, 1941.
Draper, Martha, letter, October 8, 1941, New York, to Miss Robins, n.p. 1 l. typescript, signed, with pencilled draft of reply.
Envelope, torn, postmarked April 2, 1942.

#6.
Translating vocabulary for Ibsen plays, Norwegian-English, August, 1892. 1 v.
Loose notes and papers re: translation, 1895-1896. 34 l.

#7. Letters found in Elizabeth Robins' books:
L.A. Maidstone, letter, June 30, [n.d.], Herstmonceux Place, Hailsham, to Miss Robins. 2 l. holograph signed.
L.A. Maidstone, letter, July 5, [n.d.], Herstmonceux Place, Hailsham, to Miss Robins. 4 l. holograph signed. In: Aeschylus, The house of Atreus. Trans. by E.D.A. Morshead. London, Simpkin & Marshall; Winchester, Warren & Son, n.d.
[Lucy Lane Clifford], letter, November 11, [n.d.], [London], to Lisa. 1 l. holograph, signed: L. In: Mrs. W.K. [Lucy Lane] Clifford, Sir George's objection. London, Thomas Nelson, 1901.
Mary A. Ward, letter, October 10, 1902, [London], to Miss Robins. 1 l. holograph signed. In: Mary A. Ward, Eleanor: a play in four acts. London, Smith Elder, 1901.
[Florence Bell], letter, September 28, 1904, Redcar, to [Elizabeth Robins?] 2 l. typescript. In: William Shakespeare, The tempest. London, J.M. Dent, 1903. [Inscribed: To Elizabeth Robins from F.B.]
_____ Bond, telegram, June 5, 1905, Hempstead C[ourt], to Miss Robins, Kensington. 1 l. with envelope. In: Elizabeth Robins [C.E. Raimond], A dark Lantern. London and New York, Macmillan, 1905.
Robert W. Chambers, letter, March 18, 1908, [New York], to Miss Robbins. 1 l. holograph signed. In: Elizabeth Robins [C.E. Raimond], Come and find me. London, William Heinemann, 1908.
Maggie Ponsonby, letter, [1914?], [London], to Miss Robins, 1 l. holograph signed. In: Magdalen Ponsonby, Idle women - a study in futility. London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1914.
Emily M. Ritchie, letter, August 22, [1918?], Sussex, to Miss Robins. 1 l. holograph signed. In: Emily Marion Ritchie, Edith Sichel: Letters, verses, and other writings. Printed for private circulation, 1918.
[Frank von Kitlitz?], letter, November 20, 1937, Wehrkirch Land, Germany, to Octavia. 2 l. holograph signed. In: Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English opium eater. London, George Routledge, 1886.

#8. Article found in Reveille:
Mortimer, Raymond, "Published at Last: An Adventure of 1900", n.d. A critique of Elizabeth Robins book Raymond and I.