urn:taro:rice.wrc.00059 Guide to the Grover Smith collection of Aldous Huxley correspondence, 1908-1965 Text converted by SPI Content Sciences Inc., March 2003. Finding aid written in English. 20030715 Edited with XMetal 3 by Mandy York, according to instructions in TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. Descriptive Summary Guide to the Grover Smith collection of Aldous Huxley correspondence 1908-1965 4.75 cubic feet MS 462 Materials are in English. Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX The Grover Smith papers are largely comprised of photocopies of letters between literary critic and author Aldous Huxley and numerous correspondents -- literary, scientific, firends, and family -- mainly from Great Britain and the U.S., dating from 1908-1985, bulk years 1930s-1950s. Some original correspondence between Julian Huxley and Smith exists, which relates to Smith's publication of the Huxley letters as Letters of Aldous Huxley, Harper & Row, 1970. Biographical Note

Grover Cleveland Smith, born Sept. 6, 1923 in Atlanta Georgia, was educated at Columbia University, receiving his B.A. in 1944, M.A. in 1945, and Ph. D. in 1950. Smith taught classes in English at CCNY, Rutgers, and Yale Universities. He was Professor of English at Duke University from 1952 until his retirement in the mid-1980s. His publications include a critical study of T.S. Eliot, entitled T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays.

Aldous Leonard Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, on July 26, 1894 into a prominent British family, which included his father, Leonard Huxley (biographer, editor, poet), grandfather T.H. Huxley (biologist), and brother Julian Huxley (biologist). He studied at Eton College (1908-13) and received a B.A. in English from Oxford College in 1916. Huxley worked for the War Office in London in 1917 and taught at Eton College and Repton. His first collection of poetry appeared in 1916, and he wrote biographical and architectural articles, screenplays, and reviews of fiction, drama, music, and art.

Huxley married Maria Nys in 1919 and lived in Italy during the 1920s. In 1932, Huxley published his best known work, Brave New World. In the late 1930s the couple moved to the United States and eventually settled in Southern California in 1947. They had one son. Maria died in 1956, and Huxley married Laura Archera. Huxley died on Nov. 22, 1963.

 Scope and Contents

The Grover Smith papers are largely comprised of photocopies of letters between Aldous Huxley and numerous correspondents -- literary, scientific, firends, and family -- mainly from Great Britain and the U.S., dating from 1908-1985, bulk years 1930s-1950s. Some original correspondence between Julian Huxley and Smith exists, which relates to Smith's publication of the Huxley letters as Letters of Aldous Huxley, Harper & Row, 1970.

 Arrangement

This material is arranged in two series:

Series I: Family History, n.d. Series II: Correspondence, 1908-1965 Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Permission to publish material from the Grover Smith collection of Aldous Huxley correspondence must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, and/or from the institutions which holds the item's copyright.

If a notation of origin is not included on the photocopy of the letter, consult Letters of Aldous Huxley (Harper & Row, 1970) for original repository information. Contact Woodson staff for assistance.

 Preferred Citation

Grover Smith collection of Aldous Huxley correspondence, 1908-1985, MS 462, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

 Acquisition Information

Gift of Grover Smith, September 1997, as a compliment to the library's Julian Huxley papers.

 Index Terms Correspondents Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975. Smith, Grover Cleveland, 1923- . Subjects (Persons) Huxley family. Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 - Correspondence. Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 - Correspondence. Huxley, Juliette, 1896- - Correspondence. Smith, Grover Cleveland, 1923- - Correspondence. Subjects Authors, English - 20th century - Correspondence. Formats Correspondence. Genealogies. Related Materials

See the following related materials at the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University:

Julian S. Huxley papers, MS 50 Juliette Huxley papers, MS 474 Max Nicholson / Julian Huxley papers, MS 54 Kenneth Clark . Julian Huxley letters, MS 55 Solly Zuckerman / Julian Huxley correspondence, MS 56 Julian S. Huxley letter to G.W.N. Eggers, MS 57 Julian S. Huxley letter to Fred M. Dyke, MS 58 Julian S. Huxley information (vertical) file. Detailed Description of the Collection Series I: Family History, n.d. 1 1 Huxley-Nys families genealogies, n.d. Series II: Correspondence, 1908-1965

This series includes photocopies of letters between Huxley and over 275 correspondents, institutional correspondents and family members. It also includes folders of original correspondence between Smith and Julian and Juliette Huxley, and between Smith and individual contacts who could offer no letter for Smith's book project.

 Subseries A: Special-General Correspondence 1 2 Originals to Grover Smith re: Aldous Huxley, but no copies of Huxley's letters (list included) 1 3 Originals/copies to Grover Smith from Julian & Juliette Huxley, 1964-75, 1978, 80, 83-85 Subseries B: Letters (photocopies) between Aldous Huxley and specific correspondents, 1911-1969 1 4 Catalog (incomplete) of correspondents, 1985 1 5 Abercrombie, Lascelles; 1931 1 6 Alberts, W. Watson; 1956, 65 1 7 Aldington, Richard; 1930 1 8 Allen, Rita; 1955 1 9 Armitage, Edith; 1962, 65 1 10 Atkins, John; 1955, 65, 67 1 11 Austin, Freda; 1963, 65 1 12 Baillot, Juliette [see also Correspondence-Family]; 1918 1 13 Bedford, Sybille; 1930, 42, 46, 55, 61, 63, 68 1 14 Beerbohm, Max; 1922, 67 1 15 Beja, Morris; 1957, 65 1 16 Bell, Clive; 1930, 31, 65 1 17 Benet, W.R.; 1930 1 18 Bennett, Arnold; 1921-23, 26, 29 1 19 Benoit, Hubert; 1949-50, 66-67 1 20 Bernstein, Leonard; 1957, 67 1 21 Bertalanffy, Ludwig von; 1949, 52, 54-55, 57, 61-62, 67-70 1 22 Bibby, Cyril; 1960, 65 1 23 Blumenfeld, Ralph; 1930, [75] 1 24 Bremer, Beth; 1957, 65, 67 1 25 Brett, Dorothy; 1918-19, 31, 67 1 26 Brochway, A. Fenner; 1930 1 27 Brooke, Anthony; 1961 1 28 Brooks, B.G.; 1920-21, 24, 27-29, [65] 1 29 Brunner, R.K.; 1931-32, 35-36, 46-47, 63 1 30 Bryan, Elizabeth; 1940 1 31 Buday, Gyorgy; 1936 1 32 Buzzard, Joan; 1911, 13, 24, 39, 41-42, 67, 69 1 33 Canby, H.S.; 1929, 33 1 34 Carrington, Dorothy; 1917-18 1 35 Carswell, Catherine; 1931 1 36 Cary, Richard; 1959-60, 67 1 37 Cassapidis, Olivia; 1956, 58, 60-62, 65 1 38 Closs, August; 1947, 50, 65 1 39 Closs, Hannah; 1950 2 1 Cohen, John; 1962 2 2 Collier, Ethel; 1927 2 3 Corke, Helen; 1930 2 4 Cowan, Wilfrid; 1961 2 5 Craft, Robert; 1955, 57-58 2 6 Craigie, Colin; 1944, [68] 2 7 Crane, Allan J.; 1963 2 8 Crowninshield, Frank; 1923 2 9 Cukor, George; [1965] 2 10 Dahlberg, Dorothy; 1957, [65] 2 11 D'Aranyi, Jelly; 1913-16, 18, n.d. 2 12 Dardis, Thomas; 1963 2 13 Davenport, []; 1949 2 14 Davies, Richard Ed.; 1959 2 15 Dawe, Winifred; 1932 2 16 Diston, Marshall; 1930 2 17 Donovan, William A.; 1960 2 18 Douglas, Norman; 1922, 24-25, 30, 34 2 19 Dubin, Nathan; 1962 2 20 Dumaine, Philippe; 1945-47 2 21 Duncan, []; 1937 2 22 Eisenstein, Sam; 1961-62 2 23 Eliot, T.S.; 1924-26, 30-34, 36, [65] 2 24 Elliott, Robert C.; 1961 2 25 Elmhirst, Dorothy; 1963 2 26 Eschelbach, Claire John; 1961 2 27 Estabrooks, George H.; 1961-63 2 28 Fancher, Raymond; 1962 2 29 Farrar, John; 1928 2 30 Fenton, Roy; 1934 2 31 Fischer, John; 1963 2 32 Fitch, Ellen; 1962 2 33 Fletchtheim, Ossip K.; 1946 2 34 Forster, E.M.; 1935 2 35 Forster, Flora; 1917 2 36 Foster, Joseph G.; 1950 2 37 Frere, A.S.; 1957 2 38 Frits, Bernardine; 1962, n.d. 2 39 Furnas, J.C.; 1961 2 40 Gabor, O.; 1962 2 41 Gardner, Reid; 1962 2 42 Garnett, Edward; 1930 2 43 Garrett, Eileen; 1953-58, 60-63 2 44 Geller, James; 1958, 60, 61, 63 2 45 Gertler, Mark; 1937 2 46 Gielgud, Kate; 1920 2 47 Gielgud, Lewis/Eleanor; 1914-18, 27-28, 40-41, 48-49 2 48 Glass, Douglas; 1932, 35 2 49 Glover, Mrs. J. Howard; 1918 2 50 Godel, Roger; 1950, 52-55 3 1 Graham, Aelred; 1953 3 2 Green, Russell; 1921, 25, 34 3 3 Gross, Cynthia Maris; 1956 3 4 Guermans, Lil[]; 1957 3 5 Haldane, Naomi; 1915 3 6 Hall, []; 1928, 61 3 7 Handley, Leonard; 1931, 34 3 8 Harding, Walter; 1953 3 9 Harper, Allanah; 1954-55 3 10 Harvey, Helen; 1957 3 11 Haulleville, Rose de; 1953, 55-56, 62 3 12 Hawley, Carolyn; 1962 3 13 Haynes, E.S.P.; 1923-24, 31-32, 40, 45 3 14 Hepburn, James; 1956 3 15 Hermann, Eva; 1936-37, 39, 42, 47, 61 3 16 Hersey, John; 1959 3 17 Hessig, S.; 1962 3 18 Heywood, Jean E.; 1945-46 3 19 Hilton, Laurence; 1936 3 20 Hofmann, Albert; 1958, 61-62 3 21 Honig, Camille; 1953 3 22 Howard, George E.; 1927 3 23 Hubbell, Jay B.; 1937 3 24 Hubble, Edwin & Grace; 1944, 48-49, 53, 55-56, 63 3 25 Hujita, Soiji; 1961 3 26 Hupfel, Mary McEldowney; 1936-37 3 27 Hutchins, Robert M.; 1959, 62 3 28 Irving, William H.; 1954 3 29 Isherwood, Christopher; 1942, 44, 50 3 30 Isherwood, Margaret; 1955, 57, 59, 64 3 31 Janiger, Oscar; 1957, 60 [see also Menninger Foundation] 3 32 Johnson, []; 1954 3 33 Jones, Idwall; 1937 3 34 Kahn, Lucille; 1961-63 3 35 Kauffer, E. McKnight; 1932 3 36 Kelley, Nancy; 1960 3 37 Kennedy, James G.; 1961 3 38 Kester, Max; 1961, 63 3 39 King, Carlyle; 1955 3 40 Kiskadden, Peggy; 1944, 50, 55-56, 60, 62 3 41 Knight, G. Wilson; 1931, 63 3 42 Kripalani, Krishna; 1961-63 3 43 Kusel, Heinz; 1956 3 44 Lamson, Roy & Peggy; 1961-62 3 45 Land, Myrick; 1962 3 46 Lawrence, Frieda; 1930, 46, 51, 55-56 3 47 Leary, Timothy; 1961-63 3 48 LeCron, Leslie M.; 1962 3 49 Leonard, Florence; 1961 3 50 Lewis, C. Day; 1937 3 51 Lion, Leon M.; 1944, 47 3 52 Lippis, Nathan; 1941 3 53 Loos, Anita; 1926, 41, 45, 47, 49-50, 53, 55-57 3 54 Lucas, E.V.; 1924 3 55 Luhan, []; 1930 3 56 Lyngstad, Sverre; 1959 3 57 MacDonald, Pirie; 1926 3 58 Mann, Felix; 1961 3 59 Mann, Klaus/Thomas; 1933-35 4 1 Marsh, Edward; 1921-22 4 2 Martens, S.; 1928 4 3 Martin, Kingsley; 1939 4 4 Massingham, John H.; 1930 4 5 Mazia, Gertrude; 1959 4 6 McConoughey, Gerald; 1962 4 7 McCormack, Jeanne E.; 1946 4 8 McLeod, A.W.; 1930 4 9 Medlin, Frank; n.d. 4 10 Mencken, H.L.; 1921-22, 29, 34 4 11 Merton, Thomas; 1958-59 4 12 Miles, Hamish; 1934 4 13 Mitchison, Naomi; 1916-18, 20, 25, 32, 37, 52, 58 4 14 Moeller, Philip; 1931 4 15 Monro, Harold; 1919 4 16 Mora-Figueroa, Santiago de; 1963 4 17 Murray, W.H.; 1945 4 18 Murrell, Elise; 1951-52, 54-60 4 19 Murry, J. Middleton; 1925, 46, 60 4 20 Myers, Frederic W.H.; 1962 4 21 Neveux, Jeanne; 1962 4 22 Neveux, Suzanne & Georges; 1938, 47-49, 53-57, 59-63 4 23 Newton, Marianna; 1955-56, 63 4 24 Nichols, Dudley; 1944 4 25 Nichols, Phyllis; 1963 4 26 Nichols, Robert; 1917-18, 23-30, 33, 35, 37 4 27 Nicolas, Suzanne; 1923-24, 46, 55, 60-62 4 28 Nilson, Ebba Sparre; 1933 4 29 Noailles, Charles; 1932-33, 35 4 30 Norris, E.E.A.; 1949 4 31 Ocampo, Victoria; 1931, 34-36, 43, 45-47, 49, 52-53, 55, 58-59, 62-63 4 32 Orwell, George; 1949 4 33 Osborn, Fairfield; 1948, 53 4 34 O'Shea, Daniel T.; 1963 4 35 Osmond, Humphrey; 1954 5 1 Osmond, Humphrey; 1953-56 5 2 Osmond, Humphrey; 1957-63 5 3 Overton, Grant; 1920, 22 5 4 Paget, Viola; 1925 5 5 Parsons, Ian; 1948, 56-57, 59, 61-63 5 6 Petersen, Frances; 1915-18 5 7 Petrie, Maria; 1960-62 5 8 Philipson, Morris; 1960 5 9 Piercy, Josephine; 1929 5 10 Pinker, Eric S.; 1922-29, 36 5 11 Pinker, J.B.; 1921 5 12 Pinker, J. Ralph; 1929-32, 39 5 13 Pollinger, Laurence; 1959 5 14 Powell, L.C.; 1940, 42-45, 50, 52, 56-57, 60-61 5 15 Prabhavananda, Swami; 1943, 47, 51, 53-56 5 16 Prentice, C.H.C. [see also Chatto & Windus]; 1927, 29-31 5 17 Priestly, J.B.; 1938 5 18 Prouty, Bertha L.; 1942 5 19 Queval, Jean; 1953-54 5 20 Randel, William; 1963 5 21 Raymond, Harold [see also Chatto & Windus]; 1927, 32, 36-37, 39-40, 42,-44, 46-52, 55 5 22 Rhine, J.B.; 1936-37, 42-43, 46-47, 51, 53-54, 57, 60, 63 5 23 Roberts, Kethevan; 1932-33, 36, 38, 41 5 24 Robinson, G. Gidley; 1916 5 25 Rorem, Ned; 1953, 65 5 26 Rossiter, []; 1962 5 27 Roth, Sanford H.; 1952 5 28 Rothenstein, William; 1922-23, 33 5 29 Roy, Dilip Kumar; 1948 5 30 Royde-Smith, Naomi; 1926 5 31 Rugg, H.G.; 1923 5 32 Russell, Bertrand; 1940, [64] 5 33 Ryland, Henry E.; 1933 5 34 Sackville-West, Eddy; 1920, 26, 32, 34, n.d. 6 1 Saxton, Eugene F.; 1926-27, 30-43 6 2 Sayre, Nevin; 1945 6 3 Schauer, Marianna; 1955 6 4 Schwartz, []; 1949-50 6 5 Scott-James, R.A.; 1936 6 6 Seldes, George; 1959 6 7 Semprun, Sylvia de; 1961 6 8 Seward, William W., Jr.; 1956 6 9 Sewell, Gordon; 1939-40 6 10 Sheldon, William H.; 1951-53, 58 6 11 Shoemake, Peter; 1955 6 12 Shorter, Clement K.; 1922 6 13 Simonson, Solomon; 1945 6 14 Singh, Karan; 1962 6 15 Sitwell, Edith; 1950, 54 6 16 Smallwood, Norah; 1965 6 17 Smith, Grover; 1952 6 18 Smith, Huston; 1952 6 19 Standen, Edith; 1956 6 20 Stevens, Barry; 1955, 59, 66 6 21 Strachey, Lytton; 1922 6 22 Straumann, Heinrich; 1929, 31 6 23 Stravinsky, Igor; 1951-52 6 24 Strick, Anne; 1959, n.d. 6 25 Strong, L.A.G.; 1923, 32 6 26 Strousse, Flora Floyd Starkey; 1928-35, 37-38, 40-41, 45, 55 6 27 Stuart, R.; 1963 6 28 Swinnerton, Frank; 1924, 34 6 29 Taylor, Colin; 1959 6 30 Tedlock, E.W., Jr.; 1957, 59 6 31 Temple, F.J.; 1963 6 32 Thoma, Richard; 1955 6 33 Thorn, Joe; 1963 6 34 Tickell, Renee; 1945, 48, 51, 53 6 35 Traube, Shepard; 1950 6 36 Unknown; 1919, 44 6 37 Urquhart, Fred; 1931 6 38 Valery, Paul; 1929-30, 35 6 39 Van Doren, Irita; 1926, 35, 59 6 40 Van Oruten, John; 1937, 41, 45-46 6 41 Ventura, []; 1956 6 42 Vinzant, Mark H., Jr.; 1960 6 43 Waldal, Per; 1963 6 44 Watts, Alan W.; 1942, 44, 50, 52 6 45 Wellings, Arthur; 1928 6 46 Wells, H.G.; 1927, 32, 34, 36 6 47 Wendell, Betty[]; 1955-57, 59-60, 62-63 7 1 White, Claire; 1947, 49, 55, 62-63 7 2 White, Robert W.; 1949 7 3 White, Victor F.; 1958 7 4 Whiting, John; 1960-61 7 5 Wickes, George; 1959, 62 7 6 Wiess, R.C.; 1947 7 7 Wilson, Charles; 1930 7 8 Wittycombe, E.G.; 1927 7 9 Woolf, Leonard; 1936 7 10 Worthington, Marjorie; 1934 7 11 Wylie, Elinor; 1926, 28 7 12 Wylie, Philip; 1949, 52 7 13 Young, []; 1940 7 14 Zeitlin, Jake; 1937-41, 43, 48, 55, 57-58, 60-62 7 15 Zuccaro, Francesca; 1915-18 Subseries C: Institutional Correspondents, 1926-1963 8 1 Chatto & Windus; 1926-33, 35-39 8 2 Chatto & Windus; 1940-49 8 3 Chatto & Windus; 1950-63 8 4 Harper & Row, 1938-56 8 5 Harper & Row, 1957-60 8 6 Harper & Row, 1961-63 8 7 Library of Congress; 1929-30, 42, 44, 48, 55 8 8 [Karl] Menninger Foundation; 1958-60 8 9 University of California at Santa Barbara; 1937, 57-61, n.d. Subseries D: Family, 1908-1965 9 1 Eckersley, Tobias; 1961 9 2 Huxley, Gervas; 1908-10, 14, 40, 42, 47, 61, 63 9 3 Huxley, Henrietta; 1910 9 4 Huxley, Julian & Juliette; 1950, 55-63 9 5 Huxley, Julian; 1908-34 9 6 Huxley, Julian; 1935-53 9 7 Huxley, Julian; 1954-63 9 8 Huxley, Juliette; 1917-18, 27-28, 30, 33, 44, 49-50, 53-54 9 9 Huxley, Juliette; 1955-61, 63 9 10 Huxley, Juliette from Laura Huxley; 1963 9 11 Huxley, Juliette from Maria Huxley[?]; 1925, 45, 49, 54 9 12 Huxley, Leonard; 1910-15 9 13 Huxley, Leonard; 1916-17 10 1 Huxley, Leonard; 1918-24 10 2 Huxley, Leonard; 1925-33 10 3 Huxley, Matthew; 1927, 43-44, 47-49, 53, 56, 59-63 10 4 Huxley, [Mrs. Matthew] Ellen; 1953, 55-56, 58-60, 63 10 5 Huxley, Matthew & Ellen; 1952-58 10 6 Huxley, [Mrs. Matthew] Judy; 1963-65 10 7 Huxley, Rosalind; 1912, 14, 18-19, 33-34, 36, 55 10 8 Huxley, Tessa/Trev; 1957, 61, 63 10 9 Whitridge, Arnold; 1936