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Yates Manuscripts

[Listed alphabetically by location]

Beinecke Library (Yale University)

167. ALS, 1877-93. [One letter, to G.A. Sala, 18 Sept 1877, refers to R.W. Buchanan’s personal attack on Yates in the Contemporary Review, to which Yates responded in the World (see item 132 above).]

British Library

168. 74 ALS from Yates to T.H.S. Escott. Escott MSS, Add. MSS 58774-58801. [Not sighted.]

169. Diary, 1885. Add. MS 59871. [Not sighted.]

170. ALS to Dr Diamond, dated 8 Dec 1874. Add. MS 42577, f.347.

171. Correspondence with W. Archer, 1884-94. Add. MS 45297, ff.215-51. [Not sighted.]

Folger Shakespeare Library

172. ALS to T.F.D. Croker, 9 Jan 1866. [Not sighted.]

Huntington Library

173. Two ALS to Charles Kent, dated 17 and 23 Oct 1867. [Not sighted. Mentioned in Franklin P. Rolfe, ‘The Dickens Letters in the Huntington Library’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 1:357.]

National Library of Scotland

174. A specimen of Yates’s handwriting dated 3 Nov 1875, a list of guests at a dinner given by Yates and his wife on 12 July 186_[?], and five ALS to various people 1875-94. MS 966, ff.364-72. [The guests at the dinner party, mainly people connected with the theatre, included Bram Stoker, Henry Irving’s manager.]

175. Correspondence (11 items) between Yates and John and William Blackwood, 1874-92. Blackwood Papers, MSS 4326, 4367, 4527, 4545, 4565, 4583, 4595 and Acc. 5643, D8, p. 489 and D19, pp. 309-10, 317. [The correspondence includes two fragments of letters from A.C. Yates to (?) William Blackwood, n.d. Yates had a son Arthur Du Pasquier, but no children with the initials ‘A.C.’.]

New York Public Library

176. Eleven ALS to W.L. Courtney, James Payn, Henry Vizetelly, ‘Annie’, Herman Merivale, and Macmillan and Co., 1875-89. Berg Collection. [The letter to Merivale, 25 May 1889, has been printed in Gordon N. Ray, ed.5 The Letters and Private Papers of W.M. Thackeray, 4:133-4. I conjecture that the ‘Annie’ to whom Yates wrote on 12 June 1875 was the novelist Annie Thomas (Mrs Pender Cudlip).]

177. Nine ALS to Mr and Mrs Roger Eykyn, Squire Bancroft, William Conant Church, etc., 1867-ca.1890. Anthony, Fales, and Church Papers. [A letter to Howard Greeley in the Greeley Papers, N.Y. Public Library is also attributed to Edmund Yates by the N.U. Cat. of MS Collections, but it was in fact written by Edward Yates.]

University of Birmingham Library

178. Three ALS, all written in 1885, one from Yates to T.H.S. Escott and two from Yates to Joseph Chamberlain. JC6/4 i/42 and JCo/4 r/1-2. [Two of the letters were written from Holloway Prison: see Introduction, above.]

Edmund Yates

Edmund Yates

by P. D. Edwards

VFRG No. 3

Introduction

Bibliography

Novels

Collections of Shorter Fiction and Sketches

Shorter Fiction – Uncollected

Verse

Plays

Journalism

Autobiography

Books Edited or Introduced by Yates

Yates Manuscripts

Reviews of Yates’s Novels, Plays, and Recollections and Experiences

Biographical and Critical Sources

Addenda and Corrigenda

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