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MS Am 2635
Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-.
Flora Virginia Milner Livingston research papers,
1927-1931
and undated.
3 boxes (3 linear ft.)
Collection materials are in English.
Research papers
and drafts of publications by Harvard librarian, Flora Virginia Milner Livingston.
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
Part of the MS Storage project, 2008-2009.
No accession number. Possibly part of the bequest of Flora Virginia
Milner Livingston, 1949?
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Preferred Citation for Publication:
Flora Virginia Milner
Livingston Research Papers (MS Am 2635). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Flora Virginia Milner Livingston was the wife of Luther Samuel
Livingston (1864-1914), the first librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial
Collection in the Harvard College Library. He was also a bookseller and bibliographer,
worked for Dodd, Mead & Company, and was a partner in Dodd and Livingston. Flora
Livingston became assistant librarian of the Widener Collection after her husband's
death in 1914; then librarian in 1926. Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, and John Gay
were some of her many scholarly interests.
Arranged alphabetically by author, then by title.
Primarily drafts of compositions and correspondence concerning proposed
publications by Flora Virginia Milner Livingston. Also includes clippings and notes.
Topics concern Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and John Gay. Correspondents
include Henry James III, Le Roy Phillips, and others.
Also with two printed volumes of bibliographies of Henry James by Le Roy Phillips,
annotated by Flora V. Livingston:
A bibliography of the writings of Henry James. Coward : McCann (1930) and Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1906). One
volume includes a tipped-in 1904 autograph manuscript letter from Henry James to Le
Roy Phillips.
For additional holdings at Harvard University by or about Flora Virginia
Milner Livingston and Luther Samuel Livingston (both books and manuscripts), see
HOLLIS and OASIS.
(1)
Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-.
Alphabetical
list of the writings of Henry James : typescript with autograph manuscript
revisions, undated.
1 folder.
(2)
Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-. Correspondence
with various others, 1927-1930.
1 folder.
Includes correspondence with: Harold W. Bell,
H.B. Collamore,
Henry James III,
John Pell,
Le Roy Phillips, and the Harvard College Library.
(3)
Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-.
Henry James
bibliography: A chronological list of the works of Henry James : typescript with
autograph manuscript revisions, undated.
4 folders.
(4)
Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-.
Magazines
and newspapers which contain Kipling material in Harvard College Library :
typescript, undated.
1 folder.
(5)
Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-. Notes and clippings
concerning Henry James, undated.
4
folders.
(6)
Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-.
Rudyard
Kipling collection. Check list : typescript with autograph manuscript revisions,
printed material, undated.
6 folders.
Two copies; one marked duplicate.
(7)
Livingston, Flora Virginia Milner, 1862-.
The story of
The Beggar's Opera and other works by John Gay from the collection and notes made
by Ernest Gay in the Harvard College Library : typescript with autograph
manuscript revisions, photographs,
1940s.
26 folders.
Typescript for a book
(mostly a bibliography), about John Gay (1685-1732). This book was rejected by the Harvard University Press. Also includes
information on Harvard Librarian and donor, Ernest Lewis Gay (1874-1916).
See also MS Am 2150 for another typescript:
Beggar's opera and all other works by John Gay. Compiled from the E.L. Gay
collection in the Harvard College Library.
(8)
Phillips, Le Roy, 1870-.
A bibliography of the writings
of Henry James : printed volume with manuscript annotations (in the hand of Flora V. Livingston),
1906.
1 volume in 1 folder.
Imprint: Boston and New York:
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906.
Inscribed: "Mrs. L.S. Livingston," on
front fly sheet; and "checked with 1930 edition" on verso of front cover.
(9)
Phillips, Le Roy, 1870-.
A bibliography of the writings
of Henry James : printed volume, 1930.
1 volume in 1 folder.
Imprint: New York: Coward
:McCann, 1930.
Inscribed: Flora V. Livingston, on front fly sheet.
With
an autograph manuscript letter tipped in with titlepage, from Henry James to Le Roy Phillips;
Chococura, New Hampshire,
1904 September 8. Also includes a clipping.