Literary papers of Henry Card

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 206 MS 1328
  • Dates of Creation
      ca.1873-1921
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      French English
  • Physical Description
      6 boxes, manuscript, typescript, press-cuttings, and printed material. Most of the material is held in box files labelled A-H, O-U.

Scope and Content

Comprises autograph French manuscripts of Henry Card towards various of his poems, plays, and prose writings; also, many letters from or to him, dated between 1873 and 1921; together with various editorial notes concerning the manuscripts written in other, more recent, hands, partly in French and partly in English, and a copy of Andr Gill: Vingt portraits contemporains, Paris, s.d.

Administrative / Biographical History

Henry Card was born in Paris in 1851. He was a naturalistic writer and author of two novels: Une belle journe (1881) and Terrains vendre au bord de la mer (1906). He was one of the original members of the Acadmie Goncourt

Access Information

Access is unrestricted.

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Quaritch/Sotheby's on 26 May 1994.

Note

In French, but with some editorial notes in English.

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