Rare Books
The Evelyn Waugh collection of Sam Radin
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Evelyn Waugh Periodical Collection
Rare Books
This collection contains 101 issues of periodicals with content written by or about the British author Evelyn Waugh between 1923 and 2010, with the bulk of the items dating from 1930 to 1965. 76 of the items contain articles or stories by Waugh. The remaining 25 items contain reviews of his books and articles about him. More than fifty periodical titles are represented, ranging from small literary journals to large weekly news magazines in England and the United States. The collection inventory below contains entries listing the periodical title, volume and issue number, date, publisher and publisher location, article title, page numbers, author of the Waugh-related pieces, and, when applicable, the item's number in A Bibliography of Evelyn Waugh (Whitston Publishing Company, 1986) by Robert Murray Davis, et al.
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Waugh Estate, Evelyn
Manuscripts
The collection contains over three hundred folders of correspondence that are arranged alphabetically by correspondent in fifty-eight boxes. The collection ranges from 1878 to 1972, with the bulk of the correspondence being from the years 1900 to 1979. The correspondence includes letters, telegrams, postcards, photographs and one record disc (box 26). The correspondence is mainly related to the library collection itself or to the library as an institution. The letters include commentary on the collection, the acquisition and transfer of items, inquiries about the holdings of the library, letters of thanks and congratulations from visitors, financial transactions, and letters between members of the staff. Box 52 contains miscellaneous files labeled as crank files which are often unsolicited.
HIA 31.1