Ralph Straus fonds

Ralph Straus fonds. – 1812-1951. – 2.85 mm of textual records and graphic material.

Series 1:
Press Cuttings. – 1906-1949. – 47 cm of textual records and graphic material. – Title taken from content of series. – Boxes 1-2. – Series contains press cuttings, correspondence, photographs, artwork.

Box 1
Vol.1 Press cuttings, 1906-09 (bound 1910). Contains reviews of The Man Apart, John Baskerville: A Memoir, The Dust Which Is God, The Little God’s Drum, The Scandalous Mr. Waldo; drawing of Straus, 1909.
Vol.2 Press cuttings, Robert Dodsley (bound 1911). Contains reviews of Robert Dodsley: Life and Times; contains correspondence with P. Parker [14 March 1930]; pen and ink drawing of Straus; misc. photographs.
Vol.3 Press cuttings, 1912 (bound 1913). Contains reviews of The Prison without A Wall, Carriages and Coaches; Their History and Their Evolution.
Vol.4 Press cuttings, 1910-1914 (bound 1915). Contains reviews of the Dr. Samuel Johnson Society, The Orley Tradition; misc. photographs.
Vol.5 Press cuttings, 1918-1921 (bound 1922). Contains reviews of Mrs. Holmes Commandant, Dr. Samuel Johnson Society, Pengard Awake; contains correspondence with Toni Williamson, Aunt Constance, Mr. Claypole, Alise Perrin, “The Sphere”, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Mr. Wylocke, Mr. Stockley, et al.
Vol.6 Press cuttings, 1922-1923 (bound 1924). Contains reviews of Volcano, the Dr. Samuel Johnson Society, The Unseemly Adventure, Old Broughtonians Cricket Club, tennis; contains correspondence with E. Hepworth Dixon, Chapman & Hall, Methuen & Co., Helen M. Benjamin, Alice Perrin, Alex Devine, Constance Holme, Freda Staward, Drummond Nibbett, A. Wood, Howard Willard Cook of Moffat, Yard & Co., Clifford Bax, et al.
Vol.7 Press cuttings, 1924 (bound 1924). Contains reviews of Unseemly Adventure, The Transactions of Oliver Prince, the Dr. Samuel Johnson Society, tennis; correspondence with Chapman & Hall, Eric S. Pinker of James B. Pinker & Son, Maybel Egerton, Alice Perrin, A.P. Herbert, Henry Holt & Company, Alex Devine, et al; misc. photographs.
Vol.8 Press cuttings, 1924-1925 (bound 1925). Contains reviews of Unseemly Adventure, The Transactions of Oliver Prince, Married Alive, tennis; correspondence with Henry Holt & Co., Chapman & Hall, C.H. LeBosques, Stys Clements, Eric S. Pinker of James B. Pinker & Son, et al.
Vol.9 Press cuttings, 1925-1926 (bound 1926). Contains reviews of Married Alive, The Unseemly Adventure, Eventyret [Danish-Norwegian edition of The Unseemly Adventure], Volcano, Our Wiser Sons, The Unseemly Adventure [the play], Married Alive [the movie by FOX], Tennis; correspondence with Chapman & Hall, James B. Pinker & Son, A.D. Peters, Gertrude M. Baillie Reynolds, et al.
Vol.10 Press cuttings, Theatrical (bound 1926). Contains Reviews of The Unseemly Adventure [the play]; signed photograph of Faith Celli; misc. play-bills.
Vol.11 Press cuttings, 1926-1927 (bound 1928). Contains reviews of The Dr. Samuel Johnson Society, Tennis, The Unseemly Adventurer [the play], Our Wiser Sons, Eighteenth Century Diversions [edited by Straus], The Unspeakable Curll; correspondence with Chapman & Hall, James B. Pinker & Son, Cassell & Co., Henry Holt & Co., Curtis Brown Ltd., et al.
Vol.12 Press cuttings, Dickens: I (bound 1928). Contains reviews of Dickens: A Portrait In Pencil , The Unspeakable Curll, tennis; correspondence with Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, The Dickens Fellowship, James B. Pinker & Son, Chapman & Hall.
Vol.13 Press cuttings, Dickens: II (bound 1928). Contains reviews of Dickens: A Portrait In Pencil; correspondence with The Dickens Fellowship, Victor Gollancz Ltd., Chapman & Hall, James B. Pinker & Son, Harper & Brothers, Allied Newspapers, et al.
Vol.14 Press cuttings, Dickens: III (bound 1928). Contains reviews of Charles Dickens: A Biography From New Sources, Dickens: A Portrait In Pencil; correspondence with G.D. Roberts, Stephen Graham, The Stationer’s Company & Printing Industry Technical Board, The Times, Marie M. Whyte, Charles Sawyer, et al.
Vol.15 Press cuttings, Dickens: IV (bound 1928). Contains reviews of Charles Dickens: A Biography From New Sources, Dickens: A Portrait In Pencil; correspondence with James B. Pinker & Son, George Gregory.
Vol.16 Press cuttings, Dickens: V (bound 1929). Contains reviews of Charles Dickens: A Biography From New Sources, Cricket; correspondence with James B. Pinker & Son, Victor Gollancz Ltd., T. Cottwell, Geoffrey H. Walls, M.E. Sadler, The National Library For The Blind; team portrait of the “London Invalids”.
Vol.17 Press cuttings, Dickens: VI (bound 1930). Contains reviews of Dickens: A Portrait in Pencil, Charles Dickens: A Biography from New Sources, The Unspeakable Curll; correspondence with James B. Pinker & Son, The Bystander, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Dickensian, Frank C. Reilly, S.R. Day, British Broadcasting Corporation, Stanley Kershaw, et al; pencil drawing of Straus by Reginald Hargreaves.

Box 2
Vol.18 Press cuttings, 1930-1931 (loose gatherings). Contains reviews of Dr. Samuel Johnson Society, A Whip for the Woman; correspondence with The Stationers’ Company & Printing Industry Technical Board, Bookseller’s Provident Institution.
Vol.19 Press cuttings, 1931-1932 (loose gatherings). Contains reviews of A Whip for the Woman, Cricket, Dr. Samuel Johnson Society; correspondence with King Edward’s Hospital Fund For London, Bookseller’s Provident Institution.
Vol.20 Press cuttings, 1932-1935 (loose gatherings). Contains reviews of the Omar Khayyam Club, tennis, Dr. Samuel Johnson Society, Queen Anne, Dickens: A Portrait in Pencil; correspondence with Phillip Allan, King Edward’s Hospital Fund For London.
Vol.21 Press cuttings, 1935-1937 (loose gatherings). Contains reviews of Five Men Go to Prison, Tennis, Dickens: The Man & The Book, The Unseemly Adventure, A Pickwick Portrait Gallery [chapter on Nathaniel Winkle by Straus], Pengard Awake, Married Alive, Skimp’s Crowd; correspondence with Elkin Mathews Ltd., Chapman & Hall, Rev. E. Cornwell Jones, The Dickens Fellowship, Thomas Nelson & Son, British Cine-Alliance.
Vol.22 Press cuttings, 1937-1938 (loose gatherings). Contains reviews of Lloyds: A Historical Sketch, Lloyd’s: The Gentlemen at The Coffee House; correspondence with J.M. Dent & Sons, Ralph I. Straus, Frank J. McKay.
Vol.23 Press cuttings, 1938-1941 (loose gatherings). Contains reviews of Lloyd’s: A Historical Sketch, Lloyd’s: The Gentlemen at The Coffee House, Dr. Samuel Johnson Society, A Portrait of Dickens, The Unseemly Adventure, George Augustus Henry Sala, Sala: The Portrait of an Eminent Victorian; correspondence with Audrey Lucas, Penguin Books, National Book Fair, A. J. Symons, James B. Pinker & Son, S.N. Grant-Bailey, et al.
Vol.24 Press cuttings, 1942-1945 (loose gatherings). Contains reviews of Sala: The Portrait of an Eminent Victorian, The Press Club, George Augustus Henry Sala, Life and the Penny Dreadful [lecture series], Dickens Fellowship; correspondence with The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Michael Sadler, A. Blond, The Times, Sir William H. Champness, Hutchinson & Co., The Press Club, Charles B. Cochrane, E.L. Macassey, Constable and Company, Louis N. Parker, Cecil Arbus, Charles Bramley, Anne Berlyn, Sir Thomas Colyer-Ferguson, Lt. Col. William E. Moss, F.H. Melhuish Motor Body Builders, Charles H. Austin, Horace Newton, British Broadcasting Corporation, H. Copley Moyle, Laurence Dunne, Hugh W. Fennell, Sunday Times, et al; contains photograph of Press Club exhibition of Sala’s work.
Vol.25 Press cuttings, 1945-1948 (loose gatherings). Contains reviews of Life and the Penny Dreadful [lecture series], George Augustus Henry Sala, Dickens Fellowship, Fiction and Biography – The Modern Trend [lecture series], Literary Taste [lecture series], Charles Dickens [address], cricket; correspondence with the National Book League, The Society of Civil Service Authors, The Master Bookbinders Alliance of London, et al.
Vol.26 Press cuttings, 1948-1950 (loose gatherings). Contains reviews of cricket, Dickens Fellowship, Dr. Samuel Johnson Society, misc. literary talks; correspondence with Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras Public Libraries, W. & G. Foyle, Alfred Cooper, H.B. Crawford, John Holbrook, et al; ink portrait of Straus.

Series 2:
A Literary Log. – August 1911-January 1931. – 47 cm of textual records and graphic material. – Title taken from content of series. – Boxes 2-3.

Vol.1 A literary log, Aug. 9, 1911-Feb. 21, 1912 (bound 1912). Contains cuttings from the journal The Bystander; cuttings of related material; cuttings of photographs; misc. book covers; one copy of The Romance of the Cigarette [by Ralph Straus, and illustrated by Norman Morrow], a narrative of the “Bystander” De Luxe Cigarette, manufactured by A.J. Raffles, Ltd.
Vol.2 A literary log, Feb. 28, 1912-Oct. 16, 1912 (bound 1912).
Vol.3 A literary log, Oct. 23, 1912-June 11, 1913 (bound 1913). Contains unidentified photograph.
Vol.4 A literary log, June 25, 1913-Apr. 15, 1914 (bound 1914).
Vol.5 A literary log, Apr. 22, 1914-Apr. 14, 1915 (bound 1915).
Vol.6 A literary log, Apr. 28, 1915-Apr. 5, 1916 (bound 1916).

Box 3
Vol.7 A literary log, Apr. 12, 1916-Apr. 25, 1917 (bound 1917).
Vol.8 A literary log, May 2, 1917-May 29, 1918 (bound 1918).
Vol.9 A literary log, June 5, 1918-Aug. 6, 1919 (bound 1919).
Vol.10 A literary log, Aug. 13, 1919-Apr. 7, 1920 (bound 1920).
Vol.11 A literary log, Apr. 14, 1920-Dec. 29, 1920 (bound 1921).
Vol.12 A literary log, Jan. 12, 1921-June 21, 1922 (bound 1921) [1922].
Vol.13 A literary log, June 28, 1922-Sept. 26, 1923 (bound 1924).
Vol.14 A literary log, Sept. [Oct.] 3, 1923-Oct. 8, 1924 (bound 1924).
Vol.15 A literary log, Oct. 29, 1924-Feb. 24, 1926 (bound 1926).
Vol.16 A literary log, Mar. 3, 1926-Mar. 23, 1927 (bound 1927).
Vol.17 A literary log, Apr. 27, 1927-Nov. 21, 1928 (bound 1929).
Vol.18 A literary log, Nov. 28, 1928-May 8, 1929 (bound 1929).
Vol.19 A literary log, May 15, 1929-Oct. 23, 1929 (bound 1929).
Vol.20 A literary log, Oct. 30, 1930-Apr. 23, 1930 (bound 1930).
Vol.21 A literary guide, Apr. 30, 1930-Oct. 22, 1930 (bound 1930).
Vol.22 A literary guide, Oct. 29, 1930-Jan. 21 , 1931 (loose gatherings).

Series 3:
Miscellanies. – 1904-1950. – 1 m of textual records and graphic material. – Title based on content of series. – Boxes 4-7. – Contains cuttings of Straus’s work in various sources including letters to the editor, articles, short stories, book reviews; cuttings of book jackets along with Straus’s book reviews; misc. correspondence; numerous photographs; numerous original architectural sketches, done in ink, by Straus; caricatures of Straus.

Box 4
Vol.1 miscellanies, 1904-1910 (bound 1910).
Vol.2 miscellanies, 1910-1920 (bound 1920).
Vol.3 miscellanies, 1920-1922 (bound 1920 [1922]).
Vol.4 miscellanies, Oliver Prince (bound 1924). Contains cuttings of “The Transactions of Oliver Prince” published in The New Magazine.
Vol.5 miscellanies, 1922-1923 (bound 1924).
Vol.6 miscellanies, 1923-1924 (bound 1924).
Vol.7 miscellanies, 1924-1925 (bound 1925).
Vol.8 miscellanies, Oviana (bound 1925). Contains 5000 A.D. A Review and an Excursion, set and imprinted by Ralph Straus, No. 20 out 103 printed.
Vol.9 miscellanies, 1925-1926 (bound 1926).
Vol.10 miscellanies, 1926-1927 (bound 1928).
Vol.11 miscellanies, 1927-1928 (bound 1928).
Vol.12 miscellanies, 1928-1929 (bound 1929).

Box 5
Vol.13 miscellanies, 1929-1930 (bound 1930).
Vol.14 miscellanies, 1930-1931 (loose gatherings).
Vol.15 miscellanies, 1931-1932 (loose gatherings).
Vol.16 miscellanies, Feb.7, 1932 - Sept.25, 1932 (loose gatherings).
Vol.17 miscellanies, 1932-1933 (loose gatherings).
Vol.18 miscellanies, May 21, 1933 - Dec.24, 1933 (loose gatherings).
Vol.19 miscellanies, 1933-1934 (loose gatherings).
Vol.20 miscellanies, 1934-1935 (loose gatherings).
Vol.21 miscellanies, Feb.26, 1935 - Dec.22, 1935 (loose gatherings).
Vol.22 miscellanies, Jan.1, 1936 - Sept.20, 1936 (loose gatherings).

Box 6
Vol.23 miscellanies, Sept.26, 1936 - Dec.14, 1937 (loose gatherings).
Vol.24 miscellanies, June 11, 1937 - Apr.10, 1938 (loose gatherings).
Vol.25 miscellanies, Apr.17, 1938 - Jan.1, 1939 (loose gatherings).
Vol.26 miscellanies, Jan.1, 1939 - Sept.9, 1939 (loose gatherings).
Vol.27 miscellanies, Oct. 1939 - July 1940 (loose gatherings).
Vol.28 miscellanies, Aug.4, 1940 - Dec.14, 1941 (loose gatherings).
Vol.29 miscellanies, Dec.21, 1941 - Jul.18, 1943 (loose gatherings).
Vol.30 miscellanies, Jul.25, 1943 - Apr.29, 1945 (loose gatherings).
Vol.31 miscellanies, May 6, 1945 - July 13, 1947 (loose gatherings).

Box 7
Vols. 32-34 [33] miscellanies, July 1947 - 1950 [Sept. 1949] (loose gatherings).
Vol.34 miscellanies, July 1949 - Mar.26, 1950 (loose gatherings).

Series 4:
Books (tss., mss., proofs, related material). – 1910-1938. – 3 cm of textual records and graphic material. – Material related to four books: Dickens: A Portrait in Pencil; A Whip for the Woman; Robert Dodlsey: Poet, Publisher & Playwright; Sala: The Portrait of an Eminent Victorian. – Title based on content of the series. – Boxes 7-9.

Vol.1 Dickens, pp. 1-254 (loose gatherings). Contains a mock-up for Dickens: A Portrait in Pencil; cuttings from The Dickensian; cuttings about Straus.
Vol.2 Dickens, pp. 255-502 (loose gatherings). Contains a mock-up for Dickens: A Portrait in Pencil.

Box 8
Vol.1 A Whip for the Woman: Proofs Extra-Illustrated (loose gatherings); Contains proof sheets for A Whip for the Woman, cover, t.p., pp. 3-128; cuttings from various sources; numerous photographs and letters from R. Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, R.H. Mottram, J.B. Priestley, Frank Swinnerton, P.G. Wodehouse, Upton Sinclair, Frederick Niven, etc. 1931.
Vol.2 A Whip for the Woman: Proofs Extra-Illustrated (loose gatherings); Contains proof sheets for A Whip for the Woman, pp. 129-243; cuttings from various sources; numerous photographs (Angela Thirkell, John Brophy, Edmund Blunden, etc.) and letters from Michael Sadleir, Hugh Walpole, “Rita”, R.C. Sherriff, Constance Holme, etc. 1931.
Vol.3 Dickens, pp. 503-740 (loose gatherings). Contains a mock-up for Dickens: A Portrait in Pencil; a cutting, “Dickens and His Wife”, from The Times; cover for The Life of Charles Dickens, by Thomas Wright.
Vol.4 Dickens, pp. 741-926 (loose gatherings). Contains a mock-up for Dickens: A Portrait in Pencil; cuttings from The Dickensian.

Box 9
Vol.1 Sala (loose gatherings). Contains a mock-up for Sala: The Portrait of an Eminent Victorian, t.p., pp. [1]-144; cutting of “The Hotel Chaos” by Sala, from All the Year Round; misc. loose illustrations.
Vol.2 Sala (loose gatherings). Contains a mock-up for Sala: The Portrait of an Eminent Victorian, pp. 145-309; misc. cuttings of work by Sala.
Vol.1 Dodsley (loose gatherings). Contains a mock-up for Robert Dodsley: Poet, Publisher & Playwright, t.p., pp. 1-128.
Vol.2 Dodsley (loose gatherings). Contains a mock-up for Robert Dodsley: Poet, Publisher & Playwright, pp. 129-272.
Vol.3 Dodsley (loose gatherings). Contains a mock-up for Robert Dodsley: Poet, Publisher & Playwright, pp.273-407.

Series 5:
Correspondence. – 1939-1951. – 1 cm of records. – Title based on content of the series. – Box 10 files 1-9.

Box 10
F.1 Unknown. 1939.
F.2 The English Digest. 3 letters. 1940.
F.3 Gaute, J.H.H. 1950.
F.4 Hospital Library Department. 2 letters. 1949.
F.5 Meynell, Laurence. 1950.
F.6 National Book League. 1949.
F.7 Sir Ronald Storrs. 1951.
F.8 Dr. Samuel Johnson Society. 4 letters. 1949.
F.9 Victor Gollancz, Ltd. 1940.

Series 6:
Other manuscripts (untitled and titled mss. and lectures). – 1944-1948. – 11 cm of textual records and graphic material. – Title based on content of the series. – Box 10 files 10-53.
F.10 Untitled. 1 p., holograph.
F.11 Untitled. Chapter One, The Fat Policeman Makes An Arrest. 7 p., ts.
F.12 Untitled. Book One, The Family Portrait (A Friday In April); Book Two, The Experiment in Chelsea. 18 p., holograph.
F.13 Untitled. Misc. review articles [?]. 8 p., ts.
F.14 Untitled. 2 p., ts.
F.15 Untitled. 6 p., ts.
F.16 Untitled. 3 p., ts.
F.17 The Blind Spot: Book One; Mr. Kelsey’s Assistance. Draft, 20 p. ts., with revisions.
F.18 The Book of Botanicals. 3 letters. 1945.
F.19 The Books of Botanicals. 31 original illustrations by W.A.L., Fred Robinson, and et al.
F.20 The Book of Botanicals. Incomplete, 80 p.
F.21 The Book of Botanicals. Superseded pages, plus notes, 7 p.
F.22 Carriages and Coaches. 14 letters. 1946-1947.
F.23 Carriages and Coaches. Misc. mss., and drafts.
F.24 Carriages and Coaches. Misc. cuttings and illustrations.
F.25 History of Scotland Yard. Misc. correspondence with staff of the Metropolitan Police. 7 letters. 1947-1949.
F.26 History of Scotland Yard. Misc. cuttings. See also box 11 for Sir Robert Peel material.
F.27 History of Scotland Yard. Misc. mss. material.
F.28 Nathaniel Winkle. Mss., 10 p. ts.
F.29 New Psychological Moments. Part One – The Case of The Missing Books. Incomplete ms. 15 p. ts.
F.30 Panorama. Part One – This Year of Grace: Lt. Col. Arthur Fettiplace, D.S.O. Incomplete ms 2 p. ts.
F.31 Prologue In A Board-Room. ms. 12 p. ts.
F.32 Sally Clayton. Part One – Mr. Lynchgate Composes His Column. Incomplete ms. 3 p. ts.
F.33 Sally Clayton. Part One – Mr. Lynchgate Composes His Column; Part Two - The Performance in a Cave. Incomplete [?] ms. 28 p. holograph.
F.34 Sonnet. The Guillotine. 1 p. holograph.
F.35 Suicide By Order. Uses pen name Robert Erstone Forbes. 10 p. holograph.
F.36 This Wretched Book Society. ms. 3 p. ts.
F.37 Untitled. Draft. 4 p. ts. with revisions.
F.38 [Book Collecting] 2 p. ts.
F.39 Book World As I See It. 7 p. ts. with revisions.
F.40 Cheaps & Penguins. 1 p. ts. with revisions.
F.41 Fiction and Biography. 5 p. ts. with revisions.
F.42 Fiction & Biography: 1946. 5 p. ts. with revisions.
F.43 Guests. O.K. 1947. 5 p. ts. with revisions.
F.44 Letter To E.J.H. Monsley-Lonergan. 10 p. ts., plus short bibliography of Straus’s work, and intro.
F.45 Life and The Penny Dreadful: 1945. 9 p. ts. with revisions.
F.46 Life and The Penny Dreadful: 1947. 5 p. ts.
F.47 The Literature of Fashion Exhibit. Straus’s introduction to ms. by Phyllis Calvert. 3 p. ts.
F.48 Literary Taste. 3 p. ts.
F.49 Literary Taste: 1947. 2 p. ts. with revisions.
F.50 The New Trend in The Novel: 1947. 3 p. ts. with revisions.
F.51 Oxford: 1944. 2 p. ts. with revisions.
F.52 Paternosters Novelist and Biographer. 4 p. ts. with revisions.
F.53 Round The Clock On Pepys’s Time. 19 p. ts. with revisions.

Series 7:
Societies and clubs. – 1939-1949. – 2.5 cm of textual records. – Title based on the contents of the series. – Boxes 11 files 1-5.

Box 11
F.1 Noise Abatement League. Less Noise - More Health. Brochure.
F.2 A Note on Noise Defence And Housing. Printer’s proofs. 20 p.
F.3 Correspondence and N.A.L. Minutes. 25 letters. 1947-1949.
F.4 Omar Khayyam Club. Correspondence. 20 letters.
F.5 Omar Khayyam Club. Committee Minutes; Guest Lists; Club Menus 1939-1949.

Series 8:
George Augustus Henry Sala. – 1872-[1943?]. – 2.5 cm of textual records and graphic material. – Title based on the content of the series. – Box 11 files 6-8.
F.6 Unknown correspondence. 1938.
F.7 Andrews, Cecily (“Rebecca West”). 6 letters re Sala, 1942-[1943?].
F.8 Sala, George Augustus. Original correspondence.
From Richard Belt, 30 Oct. 1884.
From H.J. Byron, 2 letters, 26 Sept. 1877-30 Sept. 1880.
To Madame Caralampi, n.d.
From Watts Phillips, 1872.
From F.W. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) with photograph, 1892.
From Hon. Lewis Wingfield, 4 letters, n.d., 1879.

Series 9:
Book collecting and other personal matters. – 1812-[1950]. – 1 cm of textual records. – Title based on the content of the series. – Includes correspondence of Sir Robert Peel, presumably obtained by Straus for a projected book on the history of Scotland Yard. – Box 11 files 9-24.
F.9 Bookseller’s Invoices.
F.10 Luncheon Menus.
F.11 The Collector: A Magazine for Autograph and Historical Collectors. Numbers 524, 525.
F.12 Dobell’s Antiquarian Bookstore: A Catalogue of Autograph Letters & Manuscripts. Number 64. 1941.
F.13 Francis Edward’s Ltd., Booksellers. Cuttings from sales catalogue.
F.14 Maggs Bros. Sales Catalogue. Cuttings.
F.15 The Battle of Wapping, by Wagga Waggy (1871).
F.16 Harry Furniss Illustrations. Cuttings from unknown work.
F.17 Sir Robert Peel. Receipt, April 10, 1812; letter addressed “My dear Freemantle”, July 17, [18--]; letter to Mr. Jenkins, June 26, 1816; letter to Mr. Mayor, July 30, [1846]; ms., Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth. Letter to Lord Holland, October 1, 1819; letter to Lord Cawdor, May 20, 1816.
F.18 Madame Rachel court case. Daily Telegraph cuttings, 1876-1879.
F.19 Illustrated Times. Misc. cuttings, 1855.
F.20 London Sketch Book. 20 Plates, Jan.-Aug. 1874.
F.21 The Penny Illustrated Paper. Aug. 5, 1865, p. 147-148.
F.22 Literary questionnaire.
F.23 Daily Chronicle [?]. Misc. cuttings, 1922 - .
F.24 Ralph Straus obituary. Partial cutting.

Series 10:
Photographs and illustrations. – 1908-[194-]. – 10 cm of graphic material. – Title based on content of series. – Box 12.

Box 12
F.1 Sir Ronald Storrs.
F.2 Misc. photographs of Straus and his family. 11 in total.
F.3 Original ink drawing of Omar Khayyam members by Will Owen. Framed in glass; “Why” by R.H. Mottram attached to verso.
F.4 Original intaglio by Rupert Gould. Cover art-work for Straus’s Pengard Awake.
F.5 Original intaglio by Austin O. Spare. 1908. Ralph Straus Ex-Libris book-plate.
F.6 Photograph of indoor tennis match. Wood framed with glass.
F.7 Group portrait on indoor tennis court. Wood framed with glass.
F.8 Original intaglio caricature of Straus as a magician, by Hassel Y [?]. Wood framed.
F.9 Original ink and pastel [?] of Straus in his print shop, by Hassel Y [?]. Entitled “Bro Scribbler Making A Good Impression”. Wood framed with glass.

Series 11:
Oversize material. – 1869-1910. – 10 cm of textual records and graphic material. – Title based on content of series. – Box 13.

Box 13
F.1 Misc. illustrations for Sala biography.
F.2 Misc. extra Sala illustrations.
F.3 History of Scotland Yard. Misc. illustrations gathered for this uncompleted work.
F.4 Vanity Fair. Illustrations. Jan.30, 1869 (No.13)-Dec.31, 1870 (No.113). Missing No. 74-78, 86.
F.5 Straus’s Hand Printed Press. Some Autograph Letters From the Correspondence of the Right Honourable James Oswald of Dunnikier, M.P. 1743-1767. London (1909). Printer’s proof only of title page.
F.6 Death The Superman [a poem]. By H.B.S. n.d. Petronius: A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon with the Earliest English Translation (1694) Now First Reprinted with an Introduction Together with One Hundred Illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Contains misc. gatherings [incomplete] of this publication, printed in 1910 by Ralph Straus; 1911 prospectus for this publication; misc. plates [incomplete]. Note: Research Collection’s copy PA 6558.E5/L56/1905 contains original art-work by Norman Lindsay in addition to the 100 plates.
F.7 Original ink drawing by Norman Lindsay. “An Extemporary Declamation” [at p.10 in the book].
F.8 Original ink drawing by Norman Lindsay. “The Mock Wedding” [at p.42 in the book].
F.9 Original ink drawing by Norman Lindsay. “Encolpius” [at p.62 in the book].
F.10 Prospectus material. 1911. Includes one extra colour plate “Petronius Arbiter” by J. Matania. This plate not included in Petronius book. Removed from Straus’s “binder’s copy” of Petronius [Spec. Coll. PA 6558.E5/L56 1905].
F.11 Prospectus material. 1911.
F.12 Petronius (1910), gatherings. Incomplete.
F.13 [A-D] Petronius plates. Incomplete; includes photocopied list of illustrations with omissions noted.
F.14 Petronius (1911), gatherings. Incomplete.
F.15 [A,B,D] Petronius plates. Misc. duplicates.

Note to researchers: Also acquired with the Straus fonds are the following: a collection of his published books and books from his library (for a description of these, see the master file on Straus), which have been catalogued in Research Collections; a pottery monkey, c. 1880, formerly in the possession of Sala; oil portrait of John Baskerville by his niece, Miss Gillespey.

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