Collection Level Description: Two Manuscripts by Edgar Wallace
Reference: MSS. Eng. misc. d. 1155-6
Title: Two Manuscripts by Edgar Wallace
Dates of Creation: 1898-1901, n.d.
Extent: 2 shelfmarks
Name of Creator: Edgar Wallace
Language of Material: English
Administrative/Biographical History
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a novelist, playwright and journalist.
Scope and Content
Two manuscripts by Edgar Wallace comprising:
- a manuscript notebook containing twenty-two 'Tommy Poems', 1898-9, fourteen of which were published in Writ in Barracks (1900), with related material, 1900-1
- an undated manuscript notebook containing chapter one and two of 'How Dyne Came', the first thriller story written by the
author,
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given to the Library in 1980.
Access Conditions
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).
Further Information
Finding Aids
A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.
Access Points
English fiction
Poetry, English
Wallace | Richard
Horatio Edgar | 1875-1932 | novelist, playwright and journalist
Enquiries
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09 June 2011