Manuscripts

Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell

Description: A collection of letters from Saxon Sydney-Turner to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell. The letters discuss mutual friends, including Thoby Stephen, plays, symphonies, their co-authored book Euphrosyne, and other personal matters. The collection also includes one drawing and several poems by Sydney-Turner.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1905-1953
Call number: mssHM 57632-57679
Creator: Sydney-Turner, Saxon (1880-1962)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's (lot 373), December 1980.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Bell, Clive, (1881-1964.)
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Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell

Manuscripts

A collection of letters from Saxon Sydney-Turner to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell. The letters discuss mutual friends, including Thoby Stephen, plays, symphonies, their co-authored book Euphrosyne, and other personal matters. The collection also includes one drawing and several poems by Sydney-Turner.

mssHM 57632-57679

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Clive Bell letters to Saxon Sydney-Turner

Manuscripts

A collection of letters, poems and ephemera related to Clive Bell. The letters are from Bell to his friend Saxon Sydney-Turner; they discuss family, travel plans, plays, music, their jointly authored book "Euphrosyne" and other personal subjects. The letters include references to his sister-in-law, Virginia Woolf, and fellow Bloomsbury friends Thoby Stephen and Lytton Strachey. The collection also includes two poems by Clive Bell, "With a box of caramels Boissier" and "Spring;" and one folder of printed material.

mssHM 57610-57631

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Clive Bell letters to Saxon Sydney-Turner

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mssHM 57610-57631

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Thoby Stephen letters to Clive Bell

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A collection of fifty-six letters from Thoby Stephen to friend and fellow Bloomsbury member Clive Bell; the letters discuss friends, art, literature, meeting plans, travel, and other personal matters. There are descriptions of the places and people he visited on his tour of Greece, including Montenegro and the Parthenon; there are also drawings by Stephen scattered throughout the letters.

mssHM 57554-57609

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Thoby Stephen letters to Clive Bell

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HM 57554-57609

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Leonard Woolf letters to Clive and Julian Bell

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Eighteen letters by Woolf to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell and nephew Julian Bell discuss British politics prior to WWII and give details of Woolf's involvement in the League of Nations and the Labor Party. There are references to Virginia Woolf throughout the letters, as he discusses family, travel plans, and other personal matters

mssHM 57680-57697

Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell

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