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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

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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.
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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

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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

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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.