This collection consists of the papers of English novelist and essayist Herbert George Wells. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, drawings, manuscripts and proofs, speeches, and other materials.

Papers of Herbert G. Wells, English novelist and essayist. Includes correspondence about business and legal affairs; letters to the press; diaries, journals, drawings, publication records, manuscripts and proofs of published works; speeches; unpublished material; photographs. About forty full-length books, as well as many shorter pieces, are represented by typescripts or manuscripts, often in many drafts, which show the evolution of each work. Among these is an unpublished novel, Kipps and Waddy, an early version of Wells' copies of his printed works. These include first editions, revisions, translations. The letters contain general family correspondence, communications, from publishers, material regarding the Fabian Society, and letters from politicians and public figures, most notably George Bernard Shaw and Joseph Conrad. Among the remaining items is the diary of Wells' mother, begun before his birth, Wells' letters and stories written as a youngster, collections of clippings from newspapers and magazines, account books of his contracts and earning, and other business records.

An Online Catalog

330 volumes of first and subsequent editions and translations of works by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), together with some critical and biographical works about him. The collection reflects Wells’s extraordinary contributions to fiction, journalism, futurology, the history of science, education, and to the social, sexual, religious and political questions of his times.

by Peter Haining (Editor)

The 144-page volume contains illustrations, facsimiles, map, and portraits.

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Haining, P. (1978). The H.G. Wells scrapbook: Articles, essays, anecdotes, illustrations, photographs and memorabilia about the prophetic genius of the twentieth century. New York: Clarkson N. Potter.

Published in four volumes

Contains 2,800 letters. Letters currently available in other scholarly editions (such as those to George Bernard Shaw and Arnold Bennett) have been excluded, except where their inclusion seemed essential. Wells's private correspondence extends from letters to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour to persons such as 'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and his time in prison. There is rich correspondence too with his many female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power, Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lillah MacCarthy and Dorothy Richardson. Some of his most powerful letters on the controversies of free love, socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included.

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​Wells, H. G. (1998). The correspondence of H.G. Wells: 1880-1903. London: Pickering & Chatto.

Edited by David C. Smith

ISBN 978-1851961702

The first volume of letters written by H.G. Wells.

Published by Pickering & Chatto of London

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Wells, H. G. (1998). The correspondence of H.G. Wells: 1880-1903. London: Pickering & Chatto.

Edited by David C. Smith

The second volume of letters written by H.G. Wells.

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Wells, H. G., & Smith, D. C. (1998). The correspondence of H.G. Wells: 2. London: Pickering & Chatto.

Edited by David C. Smith

The third volume of letters written by H.G. Wells.

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Wells, H. G., & Smith, D. C. (1998). The correspondence of H.G. Wells: 1935-1946. London: Pickering & Chatto.

Edited by David C. Smith

The fourth volume of letters written by H.G. Wells.

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Wells, H. G., & Smith, D. C. (1998). The correspondence of H.G. Wells: 1935-1946. London: Pickering & Chatto.

by Henry James; H G Wells; Leon Edel & Gordon Norton Ray (editors)

Reviewed by Kenneth Rexroth (1958) at http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/james-wells.htm

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James, H., Wells, H. G., Edel, L., & Ray, G. N. (1979). Henry James and H.G. Wells: A record of their friendship, their debate on the art of fiction and their quarrel. Westport (Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Edited by Dan H Laurence

Contains letters of correspondence between H.G. Wells and playwright George Bernard Shaw.

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Shaw, B., & Smith, J. P. (1995). Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells. (Selected correspondence of Bernard Shaw.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Edited by Harris Wilson

Eighty-six letters from Bennett to Wells and eighty-seven from Wells to Bennett - the correspondence extending from September 30, 1897 to February 17, 1931.

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Bennett, A., Wells, H. G., & Wilson, H. (1960). Arnold Bennett and H.G. Wells: A record of a personal and a literary friendship. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

H.G. Wells, Jospeh Conrad letters exchanged between two great writers

​220 copies of these letters from H.G. Wells to Joseph Conrad

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Wells, H. G. (1926). H.G. Wells to Joseph Conrad. London: The first edition club.