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Marie Belloc Lowndes Marie Belloc Lowndes: An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 1868-1947 Title: Marie Belloc Lowndes Collection Dates: 1880-1991, undated Extent: 35 document boxes (14.70 linear feet), 1 oversize folder (osf), 1 galley folder (gf) Abstract: The Marie Belloc Lowndes collection comprises manuscripts of (mostly shorter) works, extensive correspondence, and diaries and journals of the British novelist. Prominent among her correspondents are Edmund Blunden, Arnold Bennett, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, Gertrude Hills, Henry James, Charles Morgan, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Victoria Sackville-West, Dame Edith Sitwell, and Alexander Woollcott. Also included are correspondence and other papers of her husband, Frederic Sawrey Archibald Lowndes, and her daughters, Elizabeth Lowndes Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, and Susan Lowndes Marques. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-02565 Language: English and French Access: Open for research. Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to the Materials Use Policy before using archival materials. Use Policies: Ransom Center collections may contain material with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in the collections without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the Ransom Center and The University of Texas at Austin assume no responsibility. , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Lowndes, Marie Belloc, Manuscript Collection MS-02565 1868-1947 Administrative Information Preferred Marie Belloc Lowndes Collection (Manuscript Collection Citation MS-02565). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Processed by: Joan Sibley and Richard Workman, 2019 Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. Repository: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 2 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Lowndes, Marie Belloc, Manuscript Collection MS-02565 1868-1947 3 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Lowndes, Marie Belloc, Manuscript Collection MS-02565 1868-1947 Works: Unidentified, A-B Container 1.1 Afterwards (short story), in printed book with handwritten revisions, 308 pages Container bound, 1925 1.2 Container The answer (short story), Tms and Tccms, 44 pages each, undated 1.3 Answers to questions, Tms with handwritten revisions, 12 pages; 2 Tccms, 3 pages Container and 14 pages; undated 1.4 Are you awake, Annie? (short story), Tms with handwritten revisions, 22 pages; Container Tccms, 24 pages; Tccms, 18 pages; undated 1.5 Autobiographical material, T and Tccms / miscellaneous pages with handwritten Container revisions, 118 pages, undated 1.6 Between the nisi and… (short story), Tms, 32 pages; Tccms, 31 pages; printed Container paste-in, 19 pages; April 1926 1.7 C Container 2.1 Can this be true? (short story), Tccms with handwritten emendations, 27 pages; Container printed, 10 pages; May 1924 2.2 Cash (short story), Tms with heavy handwritten revisions, 34 pages; Tccms, 28 Container pages; undated 2.3 The choice (short story), Tms with handwritten emendations, 28 pages, Tccms, 32 Container pages; undated 2.4 The consoler (short story), printed paste-in with heavy handwritten revisions, 19 Container pages; 2 printed paste-ins, 15 pages each; undated 2.5 D Container 2.6 The decree made absolute: A play in one act, 2 Tccms with few handwritten notes, Container 18 pages each, undated 2.7 Container Diaries and journals, handwritten, typed, and Tccms with handwritten revisions, 487 2.8-9, pages, undated. Some editing by Lowndes’s daughters. 3.1-4 E-F Container 3.5 The fur coat (short story), Tms, 25 pages; Tccms, 28 pages, printed paste-in with Container 4 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Lowndes, Marie Belloc, Manuscript Collection MS-02565 1868-1947 The fur coat (short story), Tms, 25 pages; Tccms, 28 pages, printed paste-in with Container handwritten revisions, 17 pages; 1924 3.6 G-I Container 3.7 He loved her so (short story), Tms with handwritten revisions, 21 pages; Tccms, 20 Container pages; Tccms, 16 pages; undated 3.8 Her sporting chance (short story), 2 Tccms, 29 pages each, undated. Originally titled Container Long odds. 4.1 The homecoming (short story), Tms, 28 pages; Tms and printed paste-in with heavy Container handwritten revisions, 17 pages; undated 4.2 The house in the wood (short story), Tms with handwritten revisions, 25 pages; Container Tccms, 16 pages; undated 4.3 Container I’ll see you later… (short story), 2 Tccms, 22 pages and 16 pages, undated 4.4 The ivory gate (short story series), Tccms, 17 pages; printed paste-in, 19 pages; Container undated. Two different stories in series under his general title. 4.5 J-L Container 4.6 Julie de Laspinasse, notes and drafts for proposed book, Tms with handwritten Container revisions, approximately 100 pages, undated 4.7 The key (short story), Tms with handwritten revisions, 27 pages; 2 Tccms, one with Container handwritten revisions, 27 pages each; 2 Tccms, 24 pages each; 2 printed paste-ins, 4.8 12 pages each; undated Kind Miss Glint (short story), Tms / incomplete with handwritten revisions, 26 Container pages; 2 Tccms, 24 pages each; undated 4.9 Little mother (short story), 2 Tms, 35 and 28 pages; Tccms, 35 pages; printed Container paste-in, 14 pages; 1924 4.10 Container Love and hatred (novel), 2 sets galley proofs, 13 sheets each, undated osf 1 M-O Container 5.1 The man next door (short story), Tccms with handwritten revisions, 28 pages; Container Tccms, 23 pages; 2 printed paste-ins, 15 pages each; undated 5.2 The mandrake (novel), printed paste-in, 90 pages, undated. Clippings from Container serialization. 5.3 5 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Lowndes, Marie Belloc, Manuscript Collection MS-02565 1868-1947 Memoirs, T and Tccms / miscellaneous pages with handwritten revisions, 135 pages, Container undated 5.4 Mine (short story), Tccms with handwritten revisions, 27 pages; printed paste-in, 14 Container pages; undated 5.5 Not every woman’s fortune (short story), signed Tms with handwritten revisions, 17 Container pages; Tms, 12 pages; 2 Tccms, 18 pages each; printed paste-in, 6 pages; undated 5.6 Nurse Dent’s last case (short story), Tccms, 28 pages; 21 printed paste-ins, 12 pages Container each; undated 5.7 Only an actress (short story), Tccms, 31 pages; 2 printed paste-ins, 5 pages each; Container printed paste-in, 13 pages; undated 6.1 P Container 6.2 The parcel (short story), Tms, 30 pages; 2 Tccms, one with handwritten revisions, 30 Container pages each; undated 6.3 A perfect wife (short story), Tccms / incomplete, 26 pages; printed paste-in with Container handwritten revisions, 14 pages; April 1924 6.4 Popeau intervenes (short story), Tms with handwritten revisions, 32 pages; Tccms Container with handwritten revisions, 31 pages; undated. Original title, The dark lady. 6.5 Q-R Container 6.6 Container Queen Victoria: Some intimate memories, Tms, 175 pages, undated 6.7 The reason why (novel), Tms / incomplete, 82 pages; printed paste-ins / incomplete Container with heavy handwritten revisions, 37 pages; undated 6.8 The red pencil (short story), Tccms, 28 pages; 2 Tccms / incomplete, 30 and 26 Container pages; May 1926 6.9 S Container 7.1 Container Splendide mendax (short story), Tms, 26 pages; Tccms, 26 pages; undated 7.2 T-V Container 7.3 An unrecorded instance (short story), printed text cut from a magazine and pasted Container on larger sheets, with extensive handwritten revisions, 19 sheets, undated 7.4 An unsolved murder mystery? (short story), Tms with handwritten revisions, 22 Container 6 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Lowndes, Marie Belloc, Manuscript Collection MS-02565 1868-1947 An unsolved murder mystery? (short story), Tms with handwritten revisions, 22 Container pages; Tms, 25 pages; printed paste-ins, 5 pages; undated. Also titled His fellow 7.5 countrymen and What happened to Jones? W-Z Container 7.6 Container The warning (short story), Tms, 29 pages; 2 Tccms, 29 and 28 pages; February 1926 7.7 What might have happened (short story), Tms with handwritten emendations, 28 Container pages; Tccms with handwritten emendations, 28 pages; printed, 7 pages; 27 7.8 November 1931 A wife afraid (short story), Tms / incomplete with handwritten revisions, 22 pages; 2 Container Tccms, 23 and 17 pages; Tccms / incomplete, 15 pages; undated 7.9 The witch (short story), Tms with handwritten emendations, 32 pages; Tms, 36 Container pages; 3 Tccms, 36 pages each; 2 printed paste-ins, 13 pages each, April 1925 8.1 With all John’s love, Tms / unfinished with handwritten revisions, 34 pages; Tccms / Container unfinished, 32 pages; undated 8.2 7 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Lowndes, Marie Belloc, Manuscript Collection MS-02565 1868-1947 Letters: Unidentified, A-I Container 8.3 Burghclere, Winifred
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