Pieraccini collection on Aldous and Maria Huxley, 1860-1998

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Summary

Creators:
Pieraccini, Rolando, Huxley, Aldous, Huxley, Laura Archera, and Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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.
Extent:
1.3 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English, French, and Italian.
Preferred citation:

[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.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Purchased from Bernard Quaritch LTD, 2016.
Processing information:

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Processed by Genie Guerard and Jasmine Larkin, 2022. The materials are arranged in the existing order in which they were received from the seller.

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Physical location:
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Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Preferred citation:

[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.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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