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Sydney-Turner (Saxon) Letters to Clive Bell
mssHM 57632-57679
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell
Creator:
Sydney-Turner, Saxon, 1880-1962
Identifier/Call Number: mssHM 57632-57679
Physical Description:
1.2 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1905-1953
Abstract: A collection of letters from Saxon
Sydney-Turner to his friend Clive Bell.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Sotheby's (lot 373), December 1980.
Saxon Sydney-Turner (1880-1962) was a British civil servant and member of the Bloomsbury
group, this was a group of friends, artists, writers, and intellectuals whose members
included Thoby Stephen, Lytton Sttachey, Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf.
A collection of letters from Saxon Sydney-Turner to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell.
the letters discuss mutual friends, including Thoby Stephen, plays, symphonies, their
co-authored book Euphrosyne and other personal matters. The collection also includes one
drawing and several poems by Sydney-Turner.
Processed by Rebecca Tuttle in April 1998; in November 2023, Gayle M. Richardson created
the finding aid.
Arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bloomsbury group
English literature -- 20th century
Drawings
Letters (correspondence)
Poems
Bell, Clive,
1881-1964
Stephen, Thoby,
1880-1906