Guide to the Grover Smith collection of Aldous Huxley correspondence, 1908-1965

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Series I: Family History, n.d.

Series II: Correspondence, 1908-1965

Guide to the Grover Smith collection of Aldous Huxley correspondence, 1908-1965


Descriptive Summary
	Title:	Guide to the Grover Smith collection of Aldous Huxley correspondence
	Dates:	1908-1965
	Abstract:	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.
	Identification:	MS 462
	Quantity:	4.75 cubic feet
	Language:	Materials are in English.
	Repository:	Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX

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.

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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.

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Arrangement
	This material is arranged in two series:

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

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Restrictions

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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.

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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.

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	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.

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Series I: Family History, n.d.

Box

Folder

Huxley-Nys families genealogies, n.d.

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

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Guide to the Grover Smith collection of Aldous Huxley correspondence, 1908-1965

Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note

Scope and Contents

Arrangement

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Use Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Acquisition Information

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series I: Family History, n.d.

Series II: Correspondence, 1908-1965