Guide to the Dr. Wilfred Healey Stone Papers, ca. 1940-1990 M0207

Processed by JTJ; machine-readable finding aid created by C. Del Anderson
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
1998; updated with additional accessions 2023
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Wilfred Healey Stone Papers
Identifier/Call Number: M0207
Identifier/Call Number: 917
Physical Description: 9.5 Linear Feet (15 manuscript boxes, 2 flat-boxes)
Date (inclusive): ca. 1940-1990
Abstract: Research materials from the career of Stanford English professor Wilfred Healey Stone.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36 hours in advance.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Dr. Wilfred Stone 1971, 1989, 1990, 1991

Biography

Wilfred Healey Stone (1917-2015) was an author and professor of English at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1950 after earning his PhD from Harvard University, and served in the Department of English for 36 years His areas of research included nineteenth century and modern English literature with a particular emphasis on the Bloomsbury Group. He published two books on the fiction of these periods: Religion and Art of William Hale White (Mark Rutherford) in 1954, and The Cave and the Mountain: A Study of E.M. Forster in 1966.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Dr. Wilfred Healey Stone Papers, M0207, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Content

The collection is mainly research materials on the Bloomsbury group, E.M. Forster, and William Hale White. Materials include lectures, research card indexes, and materials for Stone's publications. Also included are correspondence with E.M. Forster, Arthur Sale, Noel Annan, Basil Willey, Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, and relatives of William Hale White. Some materials about Stone's academic career at Stanford are also included.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

 

Series 1. Accession 1971-020

Box 1, folder 1-5

PROSE STYLE: A HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS printed proofs 299543

Box 1, folder 6-7

PROSE STYLE author's proofs with marginal corrections and alterations 299533

Box 1, folder 8-9, Box 2, folder 1

PROSE STYLE original typescript with marginalities 299529

Box 2, folder 2

INDEX TO CURRENT USAGE original typescript with marginalia, pp. 1-100 299523

 

Series 2. Accession 1989-173

Box 2, folder 3

Correspondence - E.M. Forster 1950s-1960s

Box 2, folder 4

Correspondence - Leonard Woolf 1964-1965

Box 2, folder 5

Correspondence - Robert Graves 1963

Box 2, folder 6

Correspondence - Noel Annan 1957-1970

Box 2, folder 7

Correspondence - Patrick Wilkinson 1960s-1970s

Box 2, folder 8

Correspondence - David Garnett, Angelica Garnett, Gretchen Bell, & Duncan Grant 1960s-1970s

 

Series 3. Accession 1990-051

 

William Hale White ("Mark Rutherford") research project

Box 2, folder 9

Correspondence - William Hale White 1950-1980

Box 2, folder 10

Correspondence - Dorothy Vernon White 1940s-1950s

Box 2, folder 11

Correspondence - Requests for info on William Hale White 1940s

Box 2, folder 12

Correspondence - William Hale White's family members 1950s

Box 2, folder 13

Correspondence - Simon Newell-Smith 1950s

Box 3, folder 1

Correspondence - Responses from people on book & articles 1940s-1960s

Box 3, folder 2

William Hale White letters & writings

Box 3, folder 3

William Hale White research

Box 3, folder 4

The Black Notebook (transcription of notebook kept by WHW)

Box 3, folder 5

Unpublished article by Stone on letters found among WHW's literary estate

Box 3, folder 6

Correspondence - WHW to son

Box 3, folder 7

Misc. Materials copied from Dorothy V. White's originals

Box 3, folder 8

Notes on WHW by second son; Correspondence with Thomas Hutchinson

Box 3, folder 9

Notes on WHW by eldest son

Box 3, folder 10

The Aberdeen Herald notes

Box 3, folder 11

The Rochedale Observer notes

Box 3, folder 12

The Birmingham Daily Post notes

Box 3, folder 13

Excerpts from WHW's scrapbooks

Box 4, folder 1

Norfolk News notes

Box 4, folder 2

Misc. WHW notes

Box 4, folder 3-6

Stone's research card index on WHW

Box 5, folder 1

Abstract for RELIGION AND ART OF WILLIAM HALE WHITE

Box 5, folder 2

RELIGION AND ART OF WILLIAM HALE WHITE 1950

Box 5, folder 3

Criticism & Comments for RELIGION AND ART OF WILLIAM HALE WHITE

Box 6, folder 1

ACCENT Quarterly : article on WHW by Irvin Stock 1952

Box 7

RELIGION AND ART OF WILLIAM HALE WHITE printer's proofs

Box 7

WHW research microfilm

 

Assorted Personal & Professional Files

Box 6, folder 2

SEQUOIA article comments and criticism 1960s

Box 6, folder 3

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Association 1960s

Box 6, folder 4-6

Correspondence - Arthur Sale 1960s-1980s

Box 6, folder 7

Correspondence - Bevis Sale 1980s

 

Series 4. Accession 1990-057

 

Personal & Professional Materials

Box 8, folder 1

Stone's Curriculum Vitae

Box 8, folder 2

Browning Society

Box 8, folder 4

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

 

Teaching - Bloomsbury Group

Scope and Contents

Generally consists of files with seminar papers, lecture notes, and readings from various authors.
Box 8, folder 5

Syllabi & Class Notes

Box 8, folder 6

Articles & Illustrative Materials

Box 8, folder 7-8

Seminar Papers - E.M. Forster

Box 8, folder 9-10

Assorted Student Papers

Box 8, folder 11

Bloomsbury - Bibliography

Box 8, folder 12

Seminar Papers - Vanessa & Clive Bell

Box 9, folder 1

Gerald Brenan

Box 9, folder 2

Rupert Brooke

Box 9, folder 3

Dora Carrington

Box 9, folder 4

Edward Carpenter

Box 9, folder 5

G. Lowes Dickinson

Box 9, folder 6

Roger Fry

Box 9, folder 7

David Garnett

Box 9, folder 8

D.H. Lawrence

Box 9, folder 9

F.R. Leavis

Box 9, folder 10

Rosamund & John Lehmann

Box 9, folder 11

G.E. Moore

Box 9, folder 12

Lady Ottoline Morrell

Box 9, folder 13

William Plomer

Box 9, folder 14

Vita Sackville-West & Harold Nicholson

Box 9, folder 15

Leslie Stephen

Box 9, folder 16

Lytton Strachey

Box 9, folder 17

Leonard Woolf

Box 9, folder 18

Virginia Woolf

 

General Teaching & Academic Research

Box 8, folder 3

William Hale White research

Box 10, folder 1

Virginia Woolf - The Waves

Box 10, folder 2

Virginia Woolf lecture notes

Box 10, folder 3

Virginia Woolf newsletter

Box 10, folder 4

E.M. Forster - Commonplace Book

Box 10, folder 5

E.M. Forster - general papers

Box 10, folder 6

E.M. Forster - Stevenage Museum

Box 10, folder 7

E.M. Forster - Conference at Concordia University 1979

Box 10, folder 8

E.M. Forster - The Cave & The Mountain (Stanford Press)

Box 10, folder 9

E.M. Forster - Preliminaries to making tape with W. Oliver Stally Brass

Box 10, folder 10

E.M. Forster - Search for Illustrations in The Cave & The Mountain

Box 10, folder 11

E.M. Forster - Reviews

Box 10, folder 12-14

E.M. Forster - Lectures given by Stone

Box 11, folder 1

E.M. Forster - Bibliography

Box 11, folder 2-7

Articles about E.M. Forster

Box 11, folder 8

Articles by E.M. Forster

Box 11, folder 9

E.M. Forster - Publishing The Cave & The Mountain

Box 11, folder 10-13

William Hale White - Lectures and Readings

Box 12, folder 1

Stone research card index on Self-Confessional Impulse (abandoned project)

Box 12, folder 2-5

University Presses (Rutgers, Penn State, Stanford, Cornell)

Box 13, folder 1-2

Correspondence re: FORM & THOUGHT IN PROSE

Box 13, folder 3

Articles for FORM & THOUGHT IN PROSE

Box 13, folder 4

Ronald Press : FORM & THOUGHT IN PROSE

Box 13, folder 5

Stallybrass biography of E.M. Forster

Box 13, folder 6

Introduction to Poetry course materials

Box 13, folder 7-8

THE SHORT STORY (2nd edition)

Box 14, folder 1-2

THE SHORT STORY correspondence

Box 14, folder 3

PROSE STYLE 2nd edition

Box 14, folder 4

PROSE STYLE 3rd edition

Box 14, folder 5

PROSE STYLE 4th edition

Box 14, folder 6

Various talks, 1962

Box 14, folder 7

Danforth Workshop and Composition, 1976

Box 14, folder 8

Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, 1986

Box 14, folder 9

University of Northern Iowa report, 1983

Box 15

Stone general research card index

Box 16

Stone research card index on E.M. Forster

Box 17

English Handbook galley proofs

 

Stanford University

Box 12, folder 6-12

Alumni Conferences

Box 12, folder 13

Speech on Activities Controversy 1955

Box 12, folder 14

Stephens College (MO) visit

Box 12, folder 15

Stanford Overseas Studies

Box 12, folder 16

The Grand Inquisitor

Box 12, folder 17

Dinkelspiel Award

Box 12, folder 18

House System

Box 12, folder 19

SEQUOIA literary magazine

Box 14, folder 10

Jay Wallace Sterling

Box 14, folder 11

Richard W. Lyman

Box 14, folder 12

Don Kennedy