Wells, Herbert George, (1866-1946), novelist

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Alternative name(s):	H G Wells (Also known as)
Surname:	Wells
Forenames:	Herbert George
Gender:	Male
Date:	1866-1946
Biography:	ODNB link for Wells, Herbert George (1866-1946) Novelist
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P132567 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P30117 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Herbert George Wells

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1880-1946: corresp, literary MSS and papers (c65000 items)	University of Illinois Library, Urbana		See NUC MS 62-537
2	corresp and papers of and rel to	Bromley Historic Collections		See Guide to London local history resources: Bromley borough
3	literary papers	McMaster University Library		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories , suppl 1976
4	literary papers	Boston University Library: Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
5	papers	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library		See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
6	1920-23: corresp and literary papers	Milwaukee Public Library		See NUC MS 92-1593
7	notes and sketches	Sheffield City Archives	MD 3545(15)	NRA 15567
8	1925-46: letters to Lady Aberconway	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 52551-3
9	1925-46: corresp with BBC staff	BBC Written Archives Centre		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
10	1924-46: corresp with Lord Beaverbrook	Parliamentary Archives	BBK C/321	NRA 19284 Aitken
11	1905-37: corresp with GK Chesterton and others	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 73199 ff.17-44
12	1926-43: corresp with Sibyl Colefax	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng a 2011; c 3159-89, 3272; d 2388-2404, 2419; e 2751-58	NRA 36587
13	1902-08: letters to Fabian Society	London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections	Fabian Soc	NRA 16800
14	1897-1912: letters (24) to Edmund Gosse	Leeds University Library, Special Collections	Library Publications no 3	NRA 9840 Gosse
15	corresp with HA Gwynne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Gwynne MSS	See Chris Cook, Sources in British political history 1900-1951 vol 5 1978
16	1930-45: corresp with JL Hodson	Manchester Archives and Local Studies		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
17	1925-43: corresp (81 items) with Sir Julian Huxley	Rice University: Woodson Research Center	Julian S Huxley papers	NRA 27261
18	1906-07: letters to Holbrook Jackson	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 62992
19	1898-1915: letters from Henry James	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Don d 122	See Accessions to Repositories 1959
20	1917-34: letters to SS Koteliansky	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 48973-4
21	corresp (c40 items) with John Lane	University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library		NRA 23022
22	1895-1944: corresp with Macmillans	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 54943-5
23	letters to Francis Marvin	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng lett c 257-68, d 248-65, e 104-10; misc b 95, f 398	NRA 12562 Marvin
24	1914-41: corresp with Gilbert Murray	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Gilbert Murray	NRA 16865
25	1910-19: corresp with Lord Northcliffe	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 62161
26	1924-36: corresp with Dora Russell	International Institute of Social History	Dora Winifred Russell Papers
27	1912-14: corresp with Charles Sarolea (38 items)	Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections	Coll/15
28	1916-42: corresp with Siegfried Sassoon	McMaster University Library		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories , suppl 1976
29	1901-41: corresp with George Bernard and Charlotte Shaw	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 50552
30	1897-1920: corresp with Douglas Sladen	Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Library and Archive	SLA/6-7, 27, 31, 75	NRA 14252 Sladen
31	1899-1922: letters (19) to Herbert Greenhough Smith	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See NUC MS 81-668
32	1909-45: corresp with Society of Authors	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 56843-4, 63342-45
33	1915-45: corresp with Marie Stopes	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 58496
34	1901-23: letters (32) to Graham Wallas	London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections	Wallas	NRA 7537 Wallas
35	1907-43: letters to Sidney and Beatrice Webb	London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections	Passfield	NRA 7533 Webb
36	c1930: corresp with Geoffrey West	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 60571
37	1920-34: corresp (22 items) with Leonard Woolf	Sussex University Library Special Collections	SxMs 18/Letters II	NRA 19479 Woolf
38	1914-20: corresp (13 items) with Frederic Whyte	Newcastle University: Special Collections		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
39	1903-14: corresp and wife's corresp rel to his publications	University of Virginia Library		See NUC MS 72-1821
40	1912-27: (copy) letters (37pp)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 1948 (i)
41	letter to his niece Jean and photographs	The Sandgate Society
42	1897-1949: corresp with Dr Henry Hick, physician	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89225	See Annual Return 2016

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