Richard Ellis Roberts (1879-1953) was a journalist.

Papers of Richard Ellis Roberts comprising:

• letters to Ellis and Harriet Roberts, 1927-39, n.d., including 11 letters from Florence Beerbohm to Harriet Roberts and 1 letter to Ellis Roberts, 1931-6, n.d.; 11 letters from Mary Butts to Ellis Roberts and 1 letter to Harriet Roberts, 1933-6; 10 letters from H.R.L. Sheppard, 1936-7; and 28 letters from Helen Waddell, 1927-39, n.d.
• letters to Ellis and Harriet Roberts, 1898-1939, n.d., including a letter from Ellis Roberts to Katharine Tynan, 1923; engravings by Robert Gibbings, 1926 and a letter from Ellis Roberts to Kingsley Martin, 1932.
• 45 poems by Richard Ellis Roberts, 1917-28, n.d., with two photographs, n.d.

Presented to the Library in 1976.

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Poetry | 20th century

Beerbohm | Florence Kahn | fl 1910-1936 | actress, wife of Sir Henry Maximillian Beerbohm

Butts | Mary | 1890-1937 | author

Gibbings | Robert John | 1889-1958 | author and illustrator

Hinkson | Katharine | 1861-1931 | nee Tynan, poet and novelist

Martin | Basil Kingsley | 1897-1969 | journalist

Roberts | Richard Ellis | 1879-1953 | journalist

Sheppard | Hugh Richard Lawrie | 1880-1937 | Dean of Canterbury

Waddell | Helen | 1889-1965 | historian and author