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Dame Edith Sitwell, 1923-1974.

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 15

Scope and Content

From the Collection: The collection consists of E. M. Watkins' extensive research on D.H. Lawrence and his contemporaries. There is a 3700 page typescript of excerpts from Lawrence's letters and journals, in addition to chronologies of the lives and works of D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, the Bloomsbury group, James Joyce, and others. Mrs. Watkins' purpose in amassing this material is unknown

This collection is divided into four series of handwritten and typewritten excerpts from other works about the Lawrences and their friends and contemporaries:

The first series, Typescript of D. H. Lawrence Research Notes, consists of E.M. Watkins 3700 page typescript of research notes from various sources about D.H. Lawrence and excerpts from Frieda Lawrence's journals and correspondence.

Series II, Bibliographic Sources and Indexes, consists of an index to people mentioned in the manuscript, a Lawrence bibliography, notes on the bibliography, and three boxes of bibliography and index notecards.

Series III, D.H. Lawrence Friends and Contemporaries, contains material about Lawrence's friends and contemporaries and the literary milieu of pre-1939 England and France. Frieda and D.H. Lawrence were very close friends with Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry, and this series includes material from their journals and letters. Other writers represented include James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Lady Cynthia Asquith, Lady Dorothy Brett, Aldoux Huxley, Virginia Woolf, and Leonard Woolf. Series III also contains chronologies of Lawrence and his contemporaries, drawn up by Watkins about people and events from 1882-1968, as well as Lawrence correspondence and reminiscences of Lawrence by his friends, from previously published sources.

Series IV, Miscellany, contains notes and excerpts from various authors, including Marcel Proust.

Dates

  • 1923-1974.

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 5 boxes (4.5 cu. ft.)

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451