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Title: Evelyn Waugh Papers
Dates: 1916-2008
Bulk dates: 1916-1986
Collection Call Number: mssEW 1-322
Creator:
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
Extent:
9 boxes and one oversize folder
Repository: The Huntington Library,
Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts
Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This
collection contains literary manuscripts, business and personal correspondence and
ephemera by and about the British writer Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966).
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
Services.
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.
[Identification of item]. Evelyn Waugh Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Gift of Loren and Frances Rothschild, December 27, 2013
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), was a British satirical writer whose published works
included
Decline and Fall,
A Handful of Dust,
Sword of Honour and
The Loved One, as
well as several travel books. Waugh's conversion to Catholicism in 1930 introduced
Catholic themes and subjects to his writing including, perhaps his most well-known
work,
Brideshead Revisited. Waugh was married twice and had seven children,
including the journalist Auberon Waugh; on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966, Waugh died
of heart failure at his home Combe Florey in Somerset.
Related Materials in the Huntington Library
- Evelyn Waugh Periodical Collection (Call number: 609462)
- Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross papers (Call number: mssKIN 1-6443)
The papers consist of the following series:
1. Manuscripts (Boxes 1-2) are arranged alphabetically by author and title. This
series includes a radio script for the BBC, two complete autograph manuscripts for
Decline and Fall and Ninety-Two Days, a printed copy of "The Cynic," and manuscripts
related to Basil Seal Rides Again, A Little Learning, The Loved One and an essay
about Pope John XXIII.
2. Correspondence (Boxes 3-8) is arranged alphabetically by author. The majority of
the letters in this series are business-related and cover the years 1961-1968; the
letters concern the publication of Waugh's last books, permission requests to quote
from Waugh's works and the re-issue of his earlier works after his death. The
correspondents include Waugh's literary agents, A. D. Peters, and his publishers
Associated Book Publishers Ltd., Chapman and Hall, Methuen and Co., and Penguin. The
correspondence between Waugh and Chapman and Hall goes into great detail about the
publishing of Waugh's books and his opinion of the quality of the publication.
Other correspondents in this series include: Robert Murray Davis, Anne Adelaide Ford,
Hugh Heckstall-Smith, James G. Hepburn, Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster, Sir Victor
Mallet, Alfred Robert McIntyre, Howard Irwin Ross, Christopher Sykes, Arthur Waugh,
Auberon Waugh, Laura Waugh and Joel Wells.
3. Ephemera (Box 9 and Oversize Folder) is arranged by subject and format. This
series includes the Inter-Office correspondence of Associated Book Publishers Ltd.,
compact disks, clippings, photographs, including an original Carl Van Vechten
photograph, printed material and original storage boxes. The Oversize Folder
contains one Long-Play phonographic record.
Waugh, Evelyn,
1903-1966
Howard, Brian, 1905-1958.
Waugh, Arthur, 1866-1943.
Chapman & Hall.
Authors, English -- 20th
century.
Business letters Great Britain 20th
century.
Ephemera Great Britain 20th
century.
Letters (correspondence) Great Britain
20th century.
Manuscripts Great Britain 20th
century.
Photographs Great Britain 20th
century.
Davis, Robert
Murray.
Ford, Anne Adelaide,
-1993, recipient.
Heckstall-Smith, Hugh
William, 1896-
Hepburn, James
G.
Lancaster,
Marie-Jaqueline, 1922-2010.
Mallet, Victor, Sir,
1893- recipient.
McIntyre, Alfred
Robert, 1886-1948, recipient.
Ross, Howard Irwin,
1907-
Sykes, Christopher,
1907-1986, recipient.
Waugh,
Auberon.
Waugh, Laura,
1916-1973.
Wells, Joel, 1930-2001,
recipient.
A.D. Peters
(Firm)
Methuen &
Co.