Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953) Letters

Biographical Note:

Catholic author, Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953) was a dominant literary figure in the first half of twentieth-century England. As a member of Parliament, Belloc was an outspoken proponent of radical social and economic reforms. As a Catholic polemic, he challenged the interpretation of history that had influenced how England viewed the role of the Catholic Church in its development as a nation and a people. As a historian, biographer and poet, he produced over 150 books and enumerable articles including The Path to Rome (1902), The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) and Europe and the Faith (1920).  Belloc was well known for his literary collaboration with G. K. Chesterton with whom he produced several satirical novels.

Provenance:

Twenty-two of the letters were given to the Department of Special Collections in 1986 as a gift from Carl Schmitt.  Five letters were purchased in 1994 from Loome Theological Booksellers to be added to the collection.

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Inventory:

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to "Dear Sir", August 18, 1899.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmitt, April 8, 1913.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmitt, July 8, 1913.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Mr. Cox, February 15, 1914.

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to Mr. Cox, September 14, 1917.

ALS, Hilaire  Belloc to ????, December 13, 1920.

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmitt, February 22, 1922.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmitt, July 21, 1922.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, February 27, 1923.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmitt, March 27, 1923 

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, August 23, 1923.

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to Mr. Cox, December 28, 1923.

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, January 7, 1924.

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, August 17, 1925.

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmitt, January 6, 1926.

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, August 14, 1926.

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, December 18,1926.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, March 8 1927.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, April 30, 1927.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, October 1, 1929.

ALS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, December 30, 1929.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, May 16, 1930.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmitt, April 10, 1931.

TL, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt, February 19, 1932.

TLS, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmidt,  April 7, 1933.

TL, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmitt, January 8, 1935.

TL, Hilaire Belloc to Carl Schmitt, July 8, 1936.

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