William Edward Oswell collection of about 50 letters written during a fourteen year period to Mr. William Morris Colles, his agent

Object Details

Notes: Supplied title.; The letters range from 1 to 4 pages and are all handwritten and signed.; M121 is accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list, of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History. DSI; William Morris Colles was an author's agent and the founder and managing director of Authors' Syndicate in London, England. The firm Heinemann's was founded by William Heinemann in London in 1890.
Summary: The letters deal mainly with matters relating to the publication of Oswell's book by Heinemann, details of his father's life, and requesting meetings on various subjects. Many of the letters deal with problems in illustrations by Joseph Wolf. The book was one of the first illustrated by Wolf and the letters give some insight into some of the artist's problems in drawing African animals for which he later became famous.

Author: Oswell, William Edward; Colles, William Morris 1855-1926; Oswell, William Cotton 1818-1893; Oswell, William Edward William Cotton Oswell, hunter and explorer; Wolf, Joseph 1820-1899; Heinemann (Firm); Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI
Subject: Oswell, William Cotton 1818-1893