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Elizabeth P. Richardson Papers
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Series Descriptions
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1961-1998
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1.5 linear feet
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Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Scope and content:
This series includes correspondence relating to Richardson's book A Bloomsbury Iconography. Correspondents include museums, libraries, publishers, and Woolf scholars and authors, such as Joanne Trautmann Banks, John Bicknell, Elizabeth French Boyd, Angelica Garnett, Diane Gillespie, B. J. Kirkpatrick, Panthea Reid, S. P. Rosenbaum, Richard Shone, and Barbara Strachey. Particularly extensive is Richardson's correspondence with Quentin and Anne Olivier Bell, Leonard Woolf scholar Frederic Spotts, and J. Howard Woolmer, bookseller and author of A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1938. A folder of permission letters for A Bloomsbury Iconography (Box 4, folder 128) completes the series.
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1905-1998
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7.5 linear feet
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Arrangement:
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and content:
This series consists of thirty-two scrapbooks compiled by Elizabeth P. Richardson. The scrapbooks include clippings and photocopies of articles and reviews of works by and about Virginia Woolf (Boxes 5-9, 30), articles about the Bloomsbury Group (Box 10), and articles about peripherary figures, such as Julia Margaret Cameron (Box 29). Also included are photocopies of dust jackets, photocopies of obituaries, indexes Richardson created for books related to Bloomsbury, and ephemera.
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1963-1998
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1.5 linear feet
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Arrangement:
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and content:
This series consists of seven reading notebooks, loose notes on photographs of the Bloomsbury Group, and drafts of Richardson's writings, excluding A Bloomsbury Iconography. Also included is the Ribblesdale Lear Scrapbook, in which Elizabeth P. Richardson presents her research on the copy of Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense owned by Thomas Lister, fourth Baron Ribblesdale (Mortimer Rare Book Room 825 L47b 1889). The Ribblesdale family used this book as a guest book, encouraging family and friends, such as John Singer Sargent, to color the illustrations (Box 36). Two audio recordings are also included in this series: one in which Richardson reads Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf and another entitled "A taste of green olives" (Box 38) in which Richardson discusses her Bloomsbury collection and her interest in Virginia Woolf.
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1865-1997
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1.25 linear feet
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Arrangement: Scope and content:
This series consists of nineteen items, including photocopies of novels, articles, and essays related to the Bloomsbury Group. Also included is a video recording of a performance of A Room of One's Own by Eileen Atkins (Box 41, Folder 166) and a T-shirt featuring a caricature of Woolf.
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[1979]-[1991]
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2 linear feet (10 items)
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This series consists of working papers for Elizabeth P. Richardson's A Bloomsbury Iconography. The series includes a fragment of an early draft composed in 1979 (Box 42, Folder 167), two later drafts, and corrected galley proofs. Also included are illustrative material, including original sketches by Sarah Black for Appendix A (Box 44, Folder 180), and a typescript of A Bloomsbury Iconography (Boxes 46-47).
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1923-1996
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.5 linear feet ( 4 items)
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Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by artist.
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.75 linear feet (16 items)
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