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Pieraccini collection on Aldous and Maria Huxley
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Pieraccini collection on Aldous and Maria Huxley
Creator:
Pieraccini, Rolando
Creator:
Huxley, Aldous
Creator:
Huxley, Laura Archera
source:
Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2515
Physical Description:
1.3 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1860-1998
Abstract: The collection contains correspondence and manuscripts by Aldous Huxley and his first wife Maria (née Nys) Huxley, photographs,
and ephemera assembled over many years by the collector and scholar Rolando Pieraccini, author of Aldous Huxley e l'Italia
(1998). Materials date from 1860-1998.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English, French, and Italian.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Bernard Quaritch LTD, 2016.
Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Surrey, England into a family of ruling class intellectuals who pursued
science, education, and literature; a disease of the eyes permanently weakened his vision at age 16, disrupting his plan to
enter the medical profession; BA, Balliol College, Oxford, 1916; employed by the British government during World War I; schoolmaster
at Eton College, 1917-19; staff member of Athenaeum and Westminster gazette, 1919-24. Aldous married his first wife Maria
(née Nys) in 1919. In 1937, the couple moved from England to the U.S. and settled in Hollywood, where Huxley wrote many screenplays
and novels. He published his first novel, Chrome yellow, in 1921; went on to write Point counter point (1928), Brave new world
(1932), Eyeless in Gaza (1936), and Island (1962), among others. Aldous was a prolific writer of essays, poetry, criticism,
and screenplays. Maria died in 1955, and Aldous married Laura Archera in 1956, to whom he was married until his death on November
22, 1963.
Source:
Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Dealer description, 2016.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9996873735006533
[Identification of item], Pieraccini collection on Aldous and Maria Huxley (Collection 2515). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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The collection contains correspondence and manuscripts by Aldous Huxley (AH) and his first wife Maria (née Nys) Huxley (MH),
photographs, and ephemera assembled over many years by the collector and scholar Rolando Pieraccini, author of Aldous Huxley
e l'Italia (1998). Materials date from 1860-1998.
Item-level description and scope and content notes were created from the dealer description provided by Bernard Quaritch Ltd.,
2016.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Manuscripts for publication
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Archives
Bernard Quaritch (Firm)