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William Charles Owen Papers

Period 1919-1929 (1931, 1938)
Total size 0.1 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Dinapore, India 1854, died in Worthing, Great Britain 1929; anarchist; brought up in England, emigrated to the USA 1882; joined the International Working Men's Association in California; contributed to Burnette G. Haskell's paper Truth; editor of Nationalist Los Angeles and San Francisco; contributed to Commonweal, organ of the Socialist League; one of the founders of the New York Socialist League in 1890; expelled from the League in 1892; contributed to Freedom from 1893; returned to California to work as a journalist; involved in the land question, especially related to the Mexican revolution 1910-1916; edited the English section of Regeneración Los Angeles; published his own paper Land and Liberty 1914-1915; returned to England in 1916; joined the Commonwealth League, wrote for its organ Commonweal.

Content

Papers from the last decade of his life. Letters received from anarchists in Europe including George R. Edwards 1925-1929, Emma Goldman 1922, 1926, Thomas H. Keell 1928-1929, J.W. Graham Peace 1928-1929 and from Americans, including George Edwards 1927-1928, Marcus Graham 1928-1929, Joseph Ishill 1924-1928, Joseph Labadie 1924-1928, W.H. Sikes 1925-1929 and H.J. Stuart 1926-1928; diaries 1925-1926; some other documents; file of Thomas Keell relating to William Owen's final illness and death 1928-1931, 1938, including letters received from Victor B. Neuburg and others, and press clippings.

LIST

Correspondence

1: Abbott, Leonard D. (New York). 1928. 1 letter.
NB. See also J.W.G. Peace to W.C.O., 1925.
Bagot, John, Ltd. (Middleton Guardian) + encl. letter to the Editor. 1927-1929. 2 letters.
Barnhill, John Basil (Canton, Pa.) + encl. N.d. 1 letter.
Brothers, Tom (Kelso, Washington). 1928-1929. 5 letters.
Brown, William Montgomery. 1923. 1 letter.
Casey, Mary (Brooklyn, N.Y.) 1928. 1 letter.
Cook, S. 1928. 2 letters.
Cooper, Edward G. 1926. 1 letter.
Dreis, Hazel (San Francisco). 1926 and n.d. 8 letters.
Drury, Irene. N.d. 2 letters.
Drury, William. 1929. 1 letter.
Dunn, Norah A. (New York; daughter W.C.O.'s). 1929. 4 letters.
Earle, Vera Denis. N.d. 2 letters.
Edwards, George (Youngstown, Ohio) to A.T Fuller, Gov. of Mass. + encl. G.E. to J.W.G. Peace. 1927-1928. 11 letters.
Edwards, George R. (London). 1925-1929. 10 letters.
Edwards, Joseph (London). 1929. 1 letter.
Everard, Elizabeth (Freedom Group). 1928. 1 letter.
Fernández, Monica (granddaughter W.C.O.'s) (New York). 1928-1929. 4 letters.
Frost, Prosper B. (Gavarnie, Htes. Pyrenées). 1929. 1 letter.
Fulton, Edward H. (Peoria, Ill). 1928. 1 letter.

2: Goldman, Emma. 1922, 1926. 7 letters.
Goodman, P. 1929. 1 letter.
Gorelik, Anatol (Buenos Aires). 1925. 1 letter.
Graham, Marcus (New York) + encl. 1928-1929. 4 letters.
Grant, John E. 1928. 1 letter.
Greig, Cuthbert (editor Commercial Review) + copy of reply W.C.O.'s. 1926-1927. 7 letters.
Grossmann, Rudolf ('Pierre Ramus'). 1925. 2 letters.
Hadwen, Clare. N.d. (= 1929). 1 letter.
Ishill, Joseph (Berkeley Heights, N.J.) 1924, 1927-1928. 4 letters.
Isaac (?), A. 1923. 1 letter.
Jones, Vernon. N.d. (= 1929). 1 letter.
Keell, Thomas H. + W.C.O. to T.H.K. (copy) and T.H.K. to Victor Neuburg (W.C.O.) 1928-1929. 17 letters.
Labadie, Jo (Detroit). 1924, 1926-1928. 6 letters.
NB. See H.J. Stuart to W.C.O. (1928) + encl. Labadie to H.J. Stuart.
Leahy, Charles. 1926. 1 letter.
Lewis, Fay. 1922. 1 letter.
Lindon, Louis Brawne. 1928. 1 letter.
Ludlow, Sadie see Road to Freedom.

3: Mace, A.B. 1924 and n.d. 2 letters.
Mainwaring, Sam. 1926. 1 letter.
Mainwaring, William. 1926. 1 letter.
Moxon, C. (San Franciso). 1928. 1 letter.
Neuburg, Kathleen + P.S. Victor N. 1929. 1 letter.
Neuburg, Victor. 1929. 1 letter.
Newman, Lettice. 1928-1929. 4 letters.
Nielsen, Julia A. (Palo Alto, Ca.) + encl. 1925-1928. 4 letters.
Osgood, Catherine F. (South Hadley, Mass.) 1929. 1 letter.
Peace, J.W. Graham (+ att. ms.notes by W.C.O. + encl. A.J. Rogers to J.W.G.P. + encl. Leonard D. Abbott to J.W.G.P. + encl. M. Shorter to J.W.G.P.) 1928-1929. 26 letters.
Platt, Chester C. 1928. 1 letter.
Richmond, Eric. 1927, 1929. 2 letters.
Road to Freedom (New York/S. Ludlow). 1929. 1 letter.

4: Schumm, Paul B. (New York). 1928. 1 letter.
Shorter, Millicent. 1929. 1 letter.
Sikes, W.H. (Leonardville, Kansas) + encl. The Merchants Journal (1927) and an obituary of Mrs. W.H. Sikes. 1925-1929. 18 letters.
Slaiis (?), Hilda. 1929. 1 letter.
Souchy, Augustin. 1926. 1 letter.
Sprading, Charles T. 1926. 1 letter.
Steffens, Lincoln. 1919-1921. 4 letters.
Stuart, H.J. (Montrose, Alabama) + encl. The Mutualist Associates to H.J.S. (H. Cohen, H. Ronner, Cl.L. Swartz) + encl. Jo Labadie to H.J.S. + Edw. H. Fulton to H.J.S. 1926-1928. 10 letters.
N.B. Back of sheet 2: 'Reflections an Anarchy' by G.R.S.T. (= S.C. Potter); back of sheet 2: Reformer, No. 40.350; back of sheet 3: Dr. Viola M. Kimmel to H.J.S. (1927).
Warriner, M. 1922, 1928-1929. 4 letters.
Waterhouse, Bernard. 1926. 1 letter.
Whitney, Charlotte Anita (Oakland, Cal.) 1927. 1 letter.
Willner, Erna. 1926. 4 letters.
Williams, Brendan. 1929. 1 letter.
Willis, E.B. 1926-1927. 3 letters.
Wilshire, Gaylord + 3 cuttings (2 obituaries of G.W.). 1926. 1 letter.
Winner, Helen (Vanguard Press, N.Y.). 1927. 1 letter.
Zhook, Doris (Freedom Group). 1928. 3 letters.
Perales, Pedro (Hobby, Texas) to Blas Lara (copy; with nota de Redacción: Blas Lara). 1925. 1 letter.

Other Materials

5: Deposit Account Book Lloyds Bank Ltd. 1924-1927. 1 item.

6: Diary for 1925 (incl. 2 cuttings). 1925. 1 item.

7: Diary for 1926 (incl. 2 cuttings). 1926. 1 item.

8: Cancelled will. 1927. 1 item.

9: Postcard with quotation. N.d. 1 item.
British Library Reader's Ticket. 1925. 1 item.
Receipt/Visitor's Ticket Worthing Public Library. 1926-1927. 1 item.

Correspondence with T.H. Keell

10: Bagot, Frederick (Middleton Guardian). 1929. 2 letters.
Drury, William. 1929. 1 letter.
Dunn, Norah A. (daughter of W.C.O.). 1929. 1 letter.
Earle, Vera Denis. 1929. 3 letters.
Fernandez, Monica (granddaughter). 1929. 1 letter.
Goldman, Emma. 1929. 1 letter.
Malmad (?), B.M. 1929. 1 letter.
Neuburg, Kathleen + encl. copy of W.C.O.'s will. 1929. 1 letter.
Neuburg, Victor B. 1928-1929. 10 letters.
Peace, J.W. Graham. 1929. 5 letters.
Richmond, Eric. 1929. 7 letters.
Smith, W.A. 1929. 1 letter.
Ward, Bessie (= Elizabeth Everard). 1929. 1 letter.
Cutting Middleton Guardian, July 13, 1929, anon., 'Death of "Senex"'.
T.H. Keell, 'Death of Wm. C. Owen ('Senex')', in Middleton Guardian, July, 1929 (galley sheets).
Cutting Misl' i Volja, Nov. 29, 1931 (T.H. Keell, 'Wm. C. Owen').
Vera Denis Earle to Lilian Wolfe + encl. (re. papers + books of W.C.O.). 1938. 1 letter.