Stone (Wilfred Healey) papers, 1946-2004

Collection context

Summary

Title:
Wilfred Healey Stone papers
Dates:
1946-2004
Creators:
Stone, Wilfred Healy
Extent:
17 Linear Feet
Language:
Undetermined .
Preferred citation:

[item identification], Wilfred Healey Stone papers (SC0975). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
University Archives staff
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-02-06 14:06:20 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Boxes 19 and 20 are restricted for 75 years from the date of creation. They may be made available in 2061. All other materials are open for research.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

[item identification], Wilfred Healey Stone papers (SC0975). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022