Hugh Walpole:
An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
| Creator: | Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941 | |
| Title: | Hugh Walpole Collection | |
| Dates: | 1828-1952 (bulk 1899-1941) | |
| Extent: | 53 document boxes (22.26 linear feet), 1 oversize folder (osf), 1 galley folder (gf) | |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, numerous diaries and journals, along with manuscripts of articles, broadcasts, novels, plays, and stories make up the bulk of the collection of British writer Hugh Walpole. In addition to a large number of outgoing letters to his parents George Henry Somerset Walpole and Mildred Barham Walpole, his sister Dorothy Walpole, his secretary A. Douglas Chanter, and his life partner Harold Cheevers, the collection also holds significant amounts of incoming correspondence from James Evershed Agate, John Davys Beresford, George Blake, Jessie George Conrad, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Edmond Kapp, John Boynton Priestley, Hon. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Alphonse James Albert Symons, and Virginia Stephen Woolf. | |
| Call Number: | Manuscript Collection MS-04395 | |
| Language: | English, small amounts of French and Russian |
| Access: | Open for research. Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to the Materials Use Policy before using archival materials. | |
| Use Policies: | Ransom Center collections may contain material with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in the collections without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the Ransom Center and The University of Texas at Austin assume no responsibility. |
Administrative Information
| Preferred Citation | Hugh Walpole Collection (Manuscript Collection MS-04395). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. | |
| Processed by: | Joan Sibley, Richard Workman, 2020 Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. |
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