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Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928), novelist and poet

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Surname: Hardy
Forenames: Thomas
Gender: Male
Date: 1840-1928
Biography: ODNB link for Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928), novelist and poet
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P162129 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P13011 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Thomas Hardy
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
literary MSS
See information in published source
See Index of English literary MSS vol 4 1800-1900
2
corresp and literary papers
New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Division
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
3
Early 20th cent: corresp, notebooks, diaries, literary MSS, watercolours, photographs and signed preface
Dorset History Centre
See Annual Return 2021
4
literary papers
Eton College
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
5
c1867-1921: misc letters and papers
University of California Library, Berkeley
See NUC MS 71-1499
6
1873-1928: corresp, literary MSS and papers (218 items)
Colby College
See NUC MS 60-34
7
1880-1927: corresp and papers (c280 items)
University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
See NUC MS 71-1904
8
1908-24: corresp (146 items) rel to plays
University of California Library, Riverside
See NUC MS 75-395
9
1920-27: visitors book
British Library, Manuscript Collections
10
literary MSS
Harvard University: Houghton Library
See P Hamer, Guide to Archives and MSS in the US, 1961
11
literary MSS incl Jude the Obscure and misc corresp
Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum
See HMC visit, JRS 1992
12
manuscripts
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
13
1901: corrected MS of Poems of the Past and Present
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
14
letters
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
See DI Masson, The Brotherton Collection, 1978
15
misc corresp and drawings
Princeton University Library
See P Hamer, Guide to Archives and MSS in the US, 1961
16
misc corresp
Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
17
1886-96: letters to Laurence Alma-Tadema
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
18
1892-1909: letters to William Archer
British Library, Manuscript Collections
19
1923-26: letters to Rutland Boughton
British Library, Manuscript Collections
20
1895-1923: letters to Edward Clodd
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
21
1887-1924: letters to Sir George Douglas
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
22
1906-26: corresp with John Galsworthy
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
NRA 13026 Galsworthy
23
1886-1927: letters (80) to Sir Edmund Gosse
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
NRA 9840 Gosse
24
1897-1926: letters incl some from his wife to Elizabeth, Lady Lewis
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
NRA 40097
25
1868-1928: corresp with Macmillans
British Library, Manuscript Collections
26
1907-08: letters to Oxford University Press
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
27
1917-25: letters to Siegfried Sassoon
Eton College
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
28
1893-1916: letters to Clement Shorter
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
29
1909-41: corresp with Society of Authors
British Library, Manuscript Collections
30
1923-40: corresp with Marie Stopes
British Library, Manuscript Collections
31
1889-1910: letters (11) to Thackeray Turner
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
32
corresp rel to Hardy's 79th birthday tribute
Huntington Library
See Guide to literary MSS 1979
33
1909-1926: letters to John Drinkwater
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
34
1900-1920: ms novels 'Under The Greenwood Tree', 'The Woodlanders' 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' (transferred from Dorset County Museum - microform access only unless with written permission of the Director of Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society)
Dorset History Centre
See Annual Return 2010
35
20th cent: ms plays (transferred from Dorset County Museum)
Dorset History Centre
See Annual Return 2012
36
1925: letter to Dudley mayor's office
Dudley Archives and Local History Service