Saxon Sydney-Turner Letters to Clive Bell: Finding Aid mssHM 57632-57679

Gayle M. Richardson
The Huntington Library
November 2023
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San Marino, California 91108
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Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library
Title: Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell
Creator: Sydney-Turner, Saxon, 1880-1962
Identifier/Call Number: mssHM 57632-57679
Physical Description: 1.2 Linear Feet (1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1905-1953
Abstract: A collection of letters from Saxon Sydney-Turner to his friend Clive Bell.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Sotheby's (lot 373), December 1980.

Biographical / Historical

Saxon Sydney-Turner (1880-1962) was a British civil servant and member of the Bloomsbury group, this was a group of friends, artists, writers, and intellectuals whose members included Thoby Stephen, Lytton Sttachey, Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf.

Scope and Contents

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.

Processing Information

Processed by Rebecca Tuttle in April 1998; in November 2023, Gayle M. Richardson created the finding aid.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Bloomsbury group
English literature -- 20th century
Drawings
Letters (correspondence)
Poems
Bell, Clive, 1881-1964
Stephen, Thoby, 1880-1906

Box 1, Folder 1-48

Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell 1905-1953