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1812-1951 (Creation)
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2.85 m of textual records and graphic material
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Born in Manchester, Ralph Straus was educated at Harrow and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. His first novel, Heart's Mystery (1903), was privately published while he was still an undergraduate. He wrote thirteen further novels and a number of works of non-fiction, several pertaining to the history of printing. He reviewed fiction for the Sunday Times and the Bystander for a period of almost twenty years. In addition, he was a printer and book collector. He died on 5 June 1950.
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The fonds is arranged into eleven series: press cuttings; a literary log; miscellanies; books (tss., mss., proofs, related material); correspondence; other manuscripts (untitled and titled mss. and lectures); societies and clubs; George Augustus Henry Sala; book collecting and other personal matters (includes correspondence of Sir Robert Peel); photographs and illustrations; and oversize material. 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, ca. 1880, formerly in the possession of Sala; an oil portrait of John Baskerville by his niece, Miss Gillespey.
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Purchased from Bertram Rota Ltd. on 23 November 1971.
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