Beschreibung:

The papers of Sir Israel Gollancz, comprising letters to him, together with some to distinguished colleagues such as W.W. Skeat and F.J. Furnivall, by distinguished correspondents (many represented by groups or series of letters) including Sir James Frazer George Bernard Shaw ("...By the way, why does the B.A. select for the Warton Lecture the man [Newbolt] who has just proclaimed that any English writer whose reputation has reached Europe is a neurotic degenerate? I don't mind; but what will the others say?..."), J.A.H. Murray of the Oxford English Dictionary (group, including a remarkable letter of 25 January 1901: "I thank you warmly for your kind letter, and esp. for what you say about the Dictionary. It reminds me that there are a choice few who value it, and appreciate the work which it represents. Sometimes I forget that there are any who do so, and then I am apt to lose faith in it myself, and wonder whether I am only a poor fool to devote to it all my time and strength. Especially at the beginning of the new year & new century, when I remember me how much there is still to do, and think of the labour and travail of past years, esp. of the past four, I have asked myself again and again whether it is not all a mistake, and I have only partially found an answer. I cannot say that I begin the second half of the work with either the buoyancy or the faith with which I entered upon it first. The strain of the work is great and not always easy to sustain, & I wonder whether I can stand it long enough...", and a fine letter by him on the Gawain poet and West Midlands dialect), Gordon Craig (asking him to edit an English publication of his Cranach Hamlet, 26 January 1929: "I am today in Weimar seeing a German version of 'Hamlet' through one of the finest presses in Europe - 'The Cranach Press' over which Count Kessler watches..."), Sir John Rhys, Sir Frederic Kenyon, Stopford A. Brooke, Alois Brandl (series), G.O. Trevelyan (group), Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, William Archer Sir William Watson (about the Shakespeare Memorial Committee, 1905), Israel Zangwill, Sir Ian Hamilton (requesting Beefeaters at the Ralegh Tercentenary of 1918), Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, A.J. (Lord) Balfour (series, on BA business and the Jerusalem books gift), W.W. Skeat, Sir Walter Besant, Sir Henry Newbolt, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Hallam Tennyson (group, on behalf of his father, one sending Tennyson's 'Pearl' poem), Sir Edmund Gosse, Henry Arthur Jones (group), Austen Chamberlain ("...As your task of providing for the selection of British books to be presented to the Imperial University of Tokyo is now drawing towards its close, I wish to express my gratitude for the care, scholarship, and devotion you have so freely given to the carrying out of this work..."), Frank Ashton-Gwatkin of the Foreign Office ("...a telegram was sent by he Foreign Office to H.M. Ambassador at Tokyo...'Shakespeare Association of Great Britain rejoices to learn of foundation of Shakespeare Association of Japan and sends fraternal greetings and heartiest congratulations and good wishes. Signed: Gollancz, Chairman...'"), Sanki Ichikawa (President of the Shakespeare Association of Japan), Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, William Aldis Wright (group), W.P. Ker (series: "I shall accept your division, & take as my share 1 the Modern English Authors 2 Modern English to Middle English 3 Chaucer"), Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (series, on Edward III's cryptosignum and other matters), Robert Bridges (series, some inserted in a copy of his Poems Written in the Year MCMXIII), Henry Morley M.E. Sadler, Sir Squire Bancroft, Harley Granville-Barker, Roger Fry (illuminated spoof), J.P. Gilson, Will Rothenstein, James Bryce, Norman M'Clean, J.W. Mackail, R.W. Chambers, Rennell Rodd, Sir Sidney Colvin, Alfred Perceval Graves, Lord Northcliffe, A.C. Bradley, Sir Sidney Lee, Bertram Dobell, F.S. Ellis, Siegfried Wagner Lord Haldane, Alfred W. Pollard, Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, A.W. Ward Alice and Wi