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Papers, 1955-1986, of Mary Elizabeth Gaither at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Electronic finding aid encoded by Beth Benda.
Indiana University Digital Library Program © 2003
Repository:
Lilly
Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
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Creator:
Gaither, Mary E.
Title:
Gaither mss.,1955-1986
Collection No.:
LMC 2215
Extent:
238 items
Language:
Materials are in English.
Abstract:
Consists of correspondence and writings
of Mary Elizabeth Gaither relating primarily to work on Leonard and Virginia Woolf and
on the publications of their Hogarth Press. Additions to the collection include receipts
and invoices, 1961-1969, for the purchase of Hogarth Press books.
This collection is open for research.
Indiana University Professor Emeritus of English.
Consists of correspondence and writings of Mary Elizabeth Gaither relating primarily to work on Leonard and Virginia Woolf and on the publications of their Hogarth Press. Additions to the collection include receipts and invoices, 1961-1969, for the purchase of Hogarth Press books.
The first folder of correspondence is between Leonard Woolf and Mary E. Gaither, 1955-1961. In 1961 Gaither interviewed Woolf and the notes for that interview are in the first folder of writings. The majority of the correspondence is from 1974-1986 and is primarily with book dealer and bibliographer J. Howard Woolmer, first of Andes, New York, later of Revere, Pennsylvania. In 1976, Woolmer's A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, with a Short History of the Press by Mary E. Gaither, was published by the Hogarth Press in London and by Woolmer-Brotherton in the US. Work on the revised edition began in 1985 and was published in late 1986. In addition to "the Short History" present in the writings section, there are offprints of two articles that Gaither did for The Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 112, in 1991: "Hogarth Press" and "Nonesuch Press."
A few miscellaneous items at the end of the collection include a photographic copy of a portrait of Leonard Woolf that is in the National Portrait Gallery, and a group of news clippings about him, mostly from the 1960s.
Additions to the Gaither mss. include receipts and invoices, 1961-1969, for the purchase of Hogarth Press books by Mary Gaither. Her main source for her collection was British bookseller R.A. Brimmell, first located in Middlesex then in Sussex. Also present in this group is an exchange with American bookseller Robert A. Wilson relating to the purchase of Virginia Woolf’s Two Stories in 1965.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT , the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.
Acquisition Information:
Gift, 1999, 2001.
Usage Restrictions:
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons
from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their
visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Item], Gaither mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
1955-1961. Correspondence with Leonard Woolf
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
1965-1974. Correspondence – general
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
1974-1986: Correspondence re: Hogarth checklist and history,
chiefly with J. Howard Woolmer
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Writings: interview with Leonard Woolf, 1961
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Writings, re: Hogarth Press manuscript, 1968
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Hogarth Press Bibliography, draft, ca. 1968
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
[Short history of Hogarth Press], and Appendix, 1976
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Offprints: review of Hogarth Press checklist; "Hogarth Press" from
DLB 112; "Nonesuch Press" from
DLB 112
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Notes, pencil, re: Lytton Strachey / Virginia Woolf correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Photograph of portrait of Leonard Woolf
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Miscellaneous clippings and printed items.
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Receipts and invoices, for purchase of Hogarth Press books. 1961-1964
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Receipts and invoices, 1965-1969
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