Guide to the Raymond Toole-Stott / W. Somerset Maugham Collection
Guide to the Raymond Toole-Stott / W. Somerset Maugham Collection, 1904-1974
Collection number: Mss 143
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
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- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- 23 August 2001
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
Scope and Content of Collection
- SC 199, Maugham, W. Somerset. 4 TLS and 1 ALS to Laurence Brander, author of Somerset Maugham: A Guide. Villa Mauresque, 1954-1958, n.d. Also 1 picture postcard, portrait Maugham.
- SC 200, Maugham, W. Somerset. 1 TLS to Louis Blevine. Villa Mauresque, 21 Feb. 1964.
- SC 276, Searle, Alan (Secretary to Somerset Maugham). 2 TLS to Laurence Brander re Maugham. Villa Mauresque, 1963, 1966.
- SC 604, Maugham, William Somerset. 1 TLS to Miss [?] Hale. Villa Mauresque, 1 Sept. 1937.
- SC760, Maugham, W. Somerset. 1 signed b/w photograph with accompanying letter by Alan Searle, Maugham's secretary, 1969.
- Boston University. Mugar Memorial Library, Department of Special Collections.
- British Library.
- Indiana University, Lilly Library.
- Library of Congress.
- New York Public Library. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
- Stanford University, Green Library, Department of Special Collections.
- Texas A & M, Cushing Library. W. Somerset Maugham Collection.
- University of Texas, Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
- University of Western Australia Library. William Riley Collection of W. Somerset Maugham.
- Yale University, Beinecke Library. W. Somerset Maugham Collection (Gen Mss 263).
Series 1. Correspondence
Maugham to Toole Stott (14 TLS and ALS, including 1 from Alan Searle on behalf of Maugham), 1949-1964, n.d.
Maugham to others (3 TLS to Mr. Dieher, Mr. Kilham Roberts, and Miss Jamieson), 1923, 1949, 1957
Alan Searle (Maugham's secretary) to Toole-Stott (6 TLS and 1 ALS), 1972-1973
Toole-Stott to Maugham mainly regarding bibliographical details (10 TL carbons), 1948-1958, n.d.
From and to Toole-Stott, some personal, but mainly regarding his Maugham bibliographies (includes extensive correspondence with libraries and individuals holding Maugham materials, printed and manuscript), ca. 1948-1957
From and to Toole-Stott (cont.), ca. 1949-1974
To Toole-Stott from E. L. [Ethel Lillian] Voynich, author of The Gadfly, regarding Toole-Stott's dramatic adaptation of the novel (includes typescript of Toole-Stott's adaptation), 1928-1930
Series 2. Maugham Printed Material
By Maugham (mainly issues of magazines with articles by Maugham, arranged chronologically), 1909-1962
About Maugham (mainly articles and reviews), ca. 1934-1974
Announcements and Programs (art exhibitions, lectures, radio programs), ca. 1951-1960
Sotheby Auction Catalogs, 1962, 1967
Series 3. Toole-Stott's Maugham Bibliographies
Subseries 1. Research Files
Facsimiles and notes on various editions
Typed notes re Maugham short stories
Typed lists of Maugham's works in foreign languages
Library book loan slips
Newspaper articles on Maugham's life and works
"Flirtation" - carbon typescript of a short story by Maugham, 1904
Notebooks
Catalog cards
[Introduction to bibliography?]
Revised bibliography (mainly copies of articles and other works by Maugham)
Maugham's will (copy)
Subseries 2. Drafts
Typescript copies of the 1956 bibliography
Typescript of addenda to the 1956 bibliography
Galley sheets of supplement to the 1956 bibliography
Typescript copies of the 1973 bibliography
Galleys and related material associated with the 1973 bibliography
Series 4. Photographs
Color polaroids of Maugham books
Series 5. Scrapbook
Clippings about Maugham, in British newspapers, mainly 1960s