Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0975
Creator:
Stone, Wilfred Healey, 1917-
Title: Wilfred Healey Stone papers
Dates: 1946-2004
Physical Description:
9 Linear feet
Summary: Collection largely pertains to his professional career at
Stanford University and includes correspondence with former students and colleagues,
committee files, class materials, lecture notes and references files on authors, and
manuscripts. Some of the correspondence and manuscripts pertain to his work on E. M.
Forster and the Bloomsbury group. Items of note in that category include notes from
interviews with Julian Bell, Clive Bell, F. L. Lucas, Patrick Wilkinson, and Noel Annan;
correspondence with David Garnett, Duncan Grant, and Noel Annan; and notes from his
interviews with E. M. Forster, 1957-58. Stanford faculty among his correspondents
include Robert McAfee Brown, H. Bruce Franklin, Albert and Barbara Gelpi, Arturo Islas,
Diane Middlebrook, Tom Moser, Richard Scowcroft, and Albert J. Guerard. Other
correspondents include William Chace, 1971-94; John O. and Mairi McCormick, 1962-2000;
Jean and Stephen Parrish, 1949-2000; Lucio and Marcia Ruotolo, 1965-99; Arthur and
Penelope Sale, 1960-2001; and Oliver and Gunnvor Stallybrass, 1958-2000.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Information about Access
Access: papers written by Stanford students may not be photocopied.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Cite As
Wilfred Healey Stone Papers (SC0975). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Wilfred Healey Stone earned his bachelor's (1941) and master's (1946) degrees in English
at the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD at Harvard in 1950; he was awarded a
Fulbright Grant for study at University of London in 1949. He joined the Stanford
faculty in 1950 and served as director of freshman composition from 1962 to 1964. His
published works include PROSE STYLE, A HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS and THE CAVE AND THE
MOUNTAIN; A STUDY OF E. M. FORSTER. Stone retired in 1986 as professor emeritus.
Description of the Collection
Collection largely pertains to his professional career at Stanford University and
includes correspondence with former students and colleagues, committee files, class
materials, lecture notes and references files on authors, and manuscripts. Some of the
correspondence and manuscripts pertain to his work on E. M. Forster and the Bloomsbury
group. Items of note in that category include notes from interviews with Julian Bell,
Clive Bell, F. L. Lucas, Patrick Wilkinson, and Noel Annan; correspondence with David
Garnett, Duncan Grant, and Noel Annan; and notes from his interviews with E. M. Forster,
1957-58. Stanford faculty among his correspondents include Robert McAfee Brown, H. Bruce
Franklin, Albert and Barbara Gelpi, Arturo Islas, Diane Middlebrook, Tom Moser, Richard
Scowcroft, and Albert J. Guerard. Other correspondents include William Chace, 1971-94;
John O. and Mairi McCormick, 1962-2000; Jean and Stephen Parrish, 1949-2000; Lucio and
Marcia Ruotolo, 1965-99; Arthur and Penelope Sale, 1960-2001; and Oliver and Gunnvor
Stallybrass, 1958-2000.
Access Terms
Annan, Noel Gilroy Annan, Baron, 1916-
Bell, Clive, 1881-1964.
Brown, Robert McAfee, 1920-2001.
Chace, William M.
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934-
Garnett, David S.
Gelpi, Albert.
Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth.
Grant, Duncan, 1885-1978.
Guerard, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1914-
Islas, Arturo, 1938-1991.
Lucas, F. L. (Frank Laurence), 1894-1967.
MacInnes, Mairi.
McCormick, John, 1918-
Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007.
Moser, Thomas C.
Parrish, Stephen Maxfield.
Ruotolo, Lucio P.
Sale, Arthur (Arthur H. J.).
Scowcroft, Richard.
Stallybrass, Oliver.
Stanford University. Dept. of
English--Faculty.
Stone, Wilfred Healey, 1917-
Wilkinson, L. P.
English literature --20th century.