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.
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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.
