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Watson, Sir John William, (1858-1935), Knight Poet

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Surname: Watson
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: John William
Gender: Male
Date: 1858-1935
Biography: ODNB link for Watson, Sir John William (1858-1935) Knight Poet
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P147988 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P29910 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and literary MSS
See information in published source
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
2
corresp and papers incl literary MSS
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Walpole
NRA 18990 Walpole
3
papers
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
4
1897-1919: corresp with William Archer
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 54297
5
1892-94: letters (13) to AC Benson
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Dep Benson 3/54
NRA 16904

See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
6
1896-1930s: letters (10) to EH Blakeney
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Add 7509/653-662
NRA 40859
7
1916-34: corresp with Sir Sydney Cockerell
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 52758
8
1891-97: letters to G.L. Craik
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 61895
9
corresp with Edward Dowden
Trinity College Dublin
MSS 3000-3154
NRA 20227 Dowden
10
1915-20: corresp with Lord Fisher
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
FISR
NRA 16615 Fisher
11
1904-21: letters to AG Gardiner
London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections
Gardiner
NRA 25119
12
1880-1917: corresp with Sir Edmund Gosse
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
Library Publications no 3
NRA 9840 Gosse
13
1904-22: letters to Sir Herbert Grierson
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS 9332
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
14
1897-1919: corresp (c1000 letters) with John Lane
University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
NRA 23022
15
1894-1919: corresp with John Lane
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Walpole c 22-24
16
1891-97: letters to Macmillans
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 61895
17
c1892-93: letters (10) to Charles Elkin Mathews
University of Reading: Special Collections
MS392/1/1
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
18
1928-36: letters to WB Nichols
University of Liverpool: Special Collections and Archives
See Guide to MS Collections
19
1909-65: corresp of him and his executors with the Society of Authors
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 56841
20
letters (20) to Frederic Whyte
Newcastle University: Special Collections
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
21
1879-1919: letters (11); literary MSS
Huntington Library
See Guide to Literary MSS 1979
22
1887-1929: (copies) corresp and papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
RP 1740 iv
23
1910-1928: letters to John Drinkwater
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
GEN MSS 234