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	D-HAR	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	Add MS 60396
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	MS Eng poet d 18
14	letters	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See DI Masson, The Brotherton Collection, 1978
15	misc corresp and drawings	Princeton University Library	C0171	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	MS Eng misc c 790
18	1892-1909: letters to William Archer	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 45292
19	1923-26: letters to Rutland Boughton	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 52364
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	MS.8121
22	1906-26: corresp with John Galsworthy	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	JG	NRA 13026 Galsworthy
23	1886-1927: letters (80) to Sir Edmund Gosse	Leeds University Library, Special Collections	Library Publications no 3	NRA 9840 Gosse
24	1897-1926: letters incl some from his wife to Elizabeth, Lady Lewis	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Dep c 833	NRA 40097
25	1868-1928: corresp with Macmillans	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 58498
26	1907-08: letters to Oxford University Press	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett e 1
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	Add MS 56721
30	1923-40: corresp with Marie Stopes	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 58498
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	GEN MSS 234
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	D/DCM	See Annual Return 2010
35	20th cent: ms plays (transferred from Dorset County Museum)	Dorset History Centre	D/DCM	See Annual Return 2012
36	1925: letter to Dudley mayor's office	Dudley Archives and Local History Service	D26