Elizabeth P. Richardson Papers, 1865-1998
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Elizabeth P. Richardson Papers
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Time of Creation of Elizabeth P. Richardson Papers
Richardson, Elizabeth P., 1922-1998
Biographical History for: Elizabeth P. Richardson Papers
Biographical Note Elizabeth Power Richardson was born on August 28, 1922 in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College, graduating in 1943. Elizabeth Power Richardson was the supervising editor at McGraw Hill College Division, specializing in the physical sciences. She continued to work as a freelance editor after she married American Foreign Service officer W. Garland Richardson in 1949. Richardson's interest in Virginia Woolf began at the age of twelve, when she first heard Flush read out loud. She began collecting articles for her Virginia Woolf scrapbooks in the early 1940s, with the idea of creating a book that would track the fluctuation in Woolf's reputation. Although this project was abandoned, Richardson's interest in Woolf continued as she accompanied her husband abroad to countries such as Suriname and Japan. Unfortunately, her first library of early editions of Virginia Woolf was dropped into Yokohama Harbor by mistake en route from Monrovia, Liberia, to Tokyo. But Mrs. Richardson continued to collect, expanding her collection to include members of the Bloomsbury Group and others associated with Virginia Woolf. Over the years her "working collection" grew to include nearly two thousand volumes along with numerous scrapbooks of ephemera. Richardson was inspired by Roger Fry's statement that "the really useful collector [is one] who by merely bringing objects together, classifying them, interpreting their interrelationships creates new values altogether."1 While living in Suriname, Mrs. Richardson began creating illustration lists for the books in her collection and continued to do so after her return to the United States. Indexing photographic reproductions of the Bloomsbury Group became a passion, which eventually resulted in Mrs. Richardson's meticulously researched publication A Bloomsbury Iconography (Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1989). Soon after her bibliography was published, she moved from her home in Geneva, New York, to Northampton, Massachusetts. In 1985, Elizabeth Richardson presented to Smith College a photograph album compiled by Leslie Stephen in 1895. Mrs. Richardson's children presented their mother's Bloomsbury Iconography Collection to the Mortimer Rare Book Room after her death in 1998. 1 Richardson, Elizabeth P. A Bloomsbury Iconography. Preface. St Paul's Bibliographies, 1989.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Elizabeth P. Richardson Papers consist of 15 linear feet of material, dating from 1865 to 1998. Types of materials include correspondence, a collection of scrapbooks containing articles and images related to Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, reading notes, drafts of essays, notes and galley proofs for Richardson's A Bloomsbury Iconography , and artwork. This collection was assembled by Elizabeth Power Richardson and donated to Smith College in 1998. Original correspondence from Elizabeth Richardson was donated by Panthea Reid and J. Howard Woolmer. Tony Bradshaw donated letters written to Barbara Strachey. The papers are arranged in six series.
Bloomsbury group.
lcsh
Novelists, English--20th century.
Women novelists, English--20th century.
Richardson, Elizabeth P.
lcnaf
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Bell, Quentin.
Bell, Anne Olivier.
Bicknell, John W., 1913-
Boyd, Elizabeth French, 1905-
Kirkpatrick, B. J. (Brownlee Jean)
Reid, Panthea.
Rosenbaum, S. P. (Stanford Patrick), 1929-
Spotts, Frederic.
Strachey, Barbara, 1912-
Woolmer, J. Howard.
series
Series I. Correspondence of Elizabeth P. Richardson, 1961-1998
This series includes correspondence relating to Richardson's book A Bloomsbury Iconography. Correspondents include museums, libraries, publishers, and Woolf scholars and authors, such as Joanne Trautmann Banks, John Bicknell, Elizabeth French Boyd, Angelica Garnett, Diane Gillespie, B. J. Kirkpatrick, Panthea Reid, S. P. Rosenbaum, Richard Shone, and Barbara Strachey. Particularly extensive is Richardson's correspondence with Quentin and Anne Olivier Bell, Leonard Woolf scholar Frederic Spotts, and J. Howard Woolmer, bookseller and author of A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1938. A folder of permission letters for A Bloomsbury Iconography (Box 4, folder 128) completes the series.
Series II. Scrapbooks, 1905-1998
This series consists of thirty-two scrapbooks compiled by Elizabeth P. Richardson. The scrapbooks include clippings and photocopies of articles and reviews of works by and about Virginia Woolf (Boxes 5-9, 30), articles about the Bloomsbury Group (Box 10), and articles about peripherary figures, such as Julia Margaret Cameron (Box 29). Also included are photocopies of dust jackets, photocopies of obituaries, indexes Richardson created for books related to Bloomsbury, and ephemera.
Series III. Personal Papers, 1963-1998
This series consists of seven reading notebooks, loose notes on photographs of the Bloomsbury Group, and drafts of Richardson's writings, excluding A Bloomsbury Iconography. Also included is the Ribblesdale Lear Scrapbook, in which Elizabeth P. Richardson presents her research on the copy of Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense owned by Thomas Lister, fourth Baron Ribblesdale (Mortimer Rare Book Room 825 L47b 1889). The Ribblesdale family used this book as a guest book, encouraging family and friends, such as John Singer Sargent, to color the illustrations (Box 36). Two audio recordings are also included in this series: one in which Richardson reads Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf and another entitled "A taste of green olives" (Box 38) in which Richardson discusses her Bloomsbury collection and her interest in Virginia Woolf.
Series IV. Subject Files, 1865-1997
This series consists of nineteen items, including photocopies of novels, articles, and essays related to the Bloomsbury Group. Also included is a video recording of a performance of A Room of One's Own by Eileen Atkins (Box 41, Folder 166) and a T-shirt featuring a caricature of Woolf.
Series V. A Bloomsbury Iconography, [1979]-[1991]
This series consists of working papers for Elizabeth P. Richardson's A Bloomsbury Iconography. The series includes a fragment of an early draft composed in 1979 (Box 42, Folder 167), two later drafts, and corrected galley proofs. Also included are illustrative material, including original sketches by Sarah Black for Appendix A (Box 44, Folder 180), and a typescript of A Bloomsbury Iconography (Boxes 46-47).
Series VI. Artwork, 1923-1996
Series VII. Oversize
Asterisks denote significant correspondence.
Alex Reid and Lefévre Ltd. 1984 Dec 26-1985 Jun 6
Allen Memorial Art Museum 1989 Aug 7-Aug 25
Annan, Noel Gilroy 1984 Jul 2-1984 Jul 18
Art Institute of Chicago 1984 Sep 14-Oct 22
Ashmolean Museum 1990 Jan 19-Feb 14
Bachardy, Don 1984 Dec 28-1989 Jul 8
*Banks, Joanne Trautmann 1985 Nov 22-1996 Jul 24
BBC Hulton Picture Library 1983 Aug 18-1984 Apr 25
Bedford, Sue 1997 Sep 22-1997 Oct 4
*Bell, Quentin and Anne Olivier 1976 Jul 19-1997 Feb 22
Berg Collection 1982 Nov 20
Bethe, Rose Ewald 1979 Dec 15
*Bicknell, John W. 1983 Nov 19-1998 Apr 14
Black, Sarah
See: Smith College
Bloomsbury Workshop 1988 Mar 10-[1997]
Blunt, Wilifred 1976 Nov 2-Nov 6
*Boyd, Elizabeth French 1976 Apr 13-1983
British Institute of Professional Photography 1985-1987
Cadmus, Paul 1984 Dec 23-Dec 27
Carrington, Noel 1987 Dec 10-1998 Apr 13
Cecil, Lord David 1984 Mar 4-1984 Mar 14
*Charleston Trust 1984 Jun 16-[1992] Jan 11
*Chatto & Windus 1979 Aug 13-1988 Jan 23
Clements, Keith 1984 Jul 20-1985 Apr 18
*Condé Nast Publications, Inc. 1983 Mar 12-1987 Jul 18
Contemporary Art Society (London) 1985 Feb 22-1985 Mar 12
Darroch, Sandra Jobson 1976 Feb 2-1988 Nov 30
Delaney, Paul 1987 Oct 10-1987 Dec 30
Diamand, Pamela 1976 Sep 11-Jun 6
Emery, Jane 1991 Nov 13-Dec 11
Florence, Barbara Moench [1984 Dec 14]-1985 Dec 17
Ford, M. A. [1976 Jan ?]-1976 Mar 22
Freedman, Abby 1994 Apr 19- 1994 May 17
Gallery Edward Harvane 1976 Mar 17-1976 Mar 29
*Garnett, Angelica 1976 Aug 14-1988 Jan 2
Garnett, Henrietta 1988 Jan 23-1988 Jun 24
Gertler, Luke 1988 Apr 22-1988 May 1
*Gillespie, Diane F. 1987 Apr 8-1989 Jul 24
Glendinning, Victoria 1983 Dec 4-1989 Apr 24
Halls, Michael A. 1987 Oct 12-1987 Dec 14
*Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 1975 Sep 24-1985 Apr 17
Hart-Davis, Rupert 1987 Nov 23-1987 Dec 7
Harvard University Library 1981 Aug 31-1985 Dec 17
Haverford College Library 1984 Sep 27-Oct 2
Heffers Booksellers 1985 Mar 18
Heilbrun, Caroline G. 1985 Nov 3-1989 Aug 5
Herley, David 1979 Jul 17
Hershkowitz, Robert 1985 Mar 19-1985 Mar 31
Hill, Brian 1989 Jun 17
Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1989 Jun 10-1989 Jun 15
House of El Dieff, Inc. 1982 Nov 18- 1982 Dec 6
Hussey, Mark 1996 Jul 22- 1996 Jul 30
Hutchinson, Lord Jeremy 1985 June 7-1985 Jun 17
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House 1985 Sep 22, n.d.
J. Paul Getty Museum 1987 Mar 24-1987 Apr 6
Kennedy, Richard 1987 Dec 18-1988 Feb 2
Keynes, Milo 1984 Oct 12-1986 Apr 13
*Kirkpatrick, B.J. 1961 Feb 6-1993 Mar 23
Kirstein, Lincoln 1984 Sep 24
Laing, Donald A. 1983 Oct 16-1983 Dec 12
Lilly Library 1983 Jan 8-1983 Jan 10
Lee, Hermione 1996 Nov 5-1996 Jun 12
Lehmann, John 1977 Jan 6- 1977 Jan 15
Lewis, R.W.B. 1976 Jul 14-1984 Oct 11
Mandel, Ann S. 1985 Apr 15-1989 Aug 21
Mansell Collection 1987 Jul 9-1987 Jul 14
McNellie, Andrew 1993 Mar 23-1993 Apr 12
Meisel, Perry 1985 Dec 16-1985 Dec 19
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989 Jun 5-1989 Jun 16
Moggridge, D. E. 1984 Oct 20-1984 Dec 22
Moore, Timothy 1988 Jul 10-1988 Jul 18
Morris Gallery 1984 Sept 12-1985 Jan 12
Mortimer, Ruth
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1977 Jul 8-1978 Sep 30
*National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) 1983 Feb 21-1997 Nov 7
National Trust for Places of Historic Interest 1984 Oct 11-1986 Jan 7
New York Public Library
See: Berg Collection.
The New York Times Book Review 1976 Jan 10
Nicolson, Nigel 1979 Jun 22-1988 Aug 22
Norton, Lucy [1976 Sep] 2-1976 Oct 17
Paige, Phyllis C.
Partridge, Frances 1984 Dec 26-1985 Oct 29
Perlin, Bernard 1984 Dec 28-1985 Jan 8
Peters, Jean 1984 Mar 5-1984 Apr 12
Photo Researchers, Inc. 1985 Jan 11-1985 Jan 18
Pierpoint Morgan Library [1981 Jun 11]
Pugh, Patricia 1987 Jul 17-1987 Oct 26
Quick Jonathan R. 1987 Sep 12-1987 Sep 17
Reed, Christopher [1987] Aug 8-1996 Jul 24
Regan, Tom 1988 Jun 14-1988 Jul 4
*Reid, Panthea (from and to) 1994 Jul 30-1997 Jan 26
Ritchie, Trekkie 1989 Aug 22-1992 May 3
Roche, Paul 1989 Oct 30-1989 Nov 28
*Rosenbaum, S. P. 1976 Jul 13-1994 May 1
Royal Pavillion Art Gallery, and Museum 1990 Jan 19-1990 Mar 17
Russell, John 1984 Oct 12-1984 Oct 28
Rylands, George 1984 Aug 14-1984 Aug 25
Scott, Alison
*Shone, Richard 1981 Jun 3-1994 Mar 8
Smith, Warren Hunting 1984 May 7-1985 Jan 10
*Smith College 1982 Sep 3-1989 Oct 9
Sotheby & Co. 1983 May 18-1985 Jan 23
Southampton Art Gallery 1989 Jul 20-1989 Sep 6
*Spotts, Frederic 1986 Nov 15-1997 Jan 22
Stansky, Peter [1985] Sep 30-[1985 Oct]
Stone, Wilfred Healey 1976 Oct 17-1976 Nov 6
*Strachey, Barbara (from and to) 1980 Nov 10-1989 Jun 1
Strachey, Simonette 1985 Dec 17-1986 Jan 23
St. Paul's Bibliographies 1987 Oct 26-1990 May 22
Taylor, Roger 1987 Aug 4-1987 Aug 8
Temple University 1989 Apr 26
Turnbaugh, Douglas Blair [1988]-1989 Aug 2
University of Leeds 1989 May 25-1989 Sep 2
University of California 1984 Jun 1-1984 Jun 13
University of Hull 1990 Jan 19-1990 Feb 19
University of Reading 1985 Jan 1-1989 Sep 15
University of Sussex 1984 May 13-1997 Oct 1
Vassar College Art Gallery 1985 Jan 12-1985 Mar 19
Vaughan, Janet 1985 Dec 16-1985 Dec 31
Victoria and Albert Museum 1983 Apr 12-1985 Feb 25
Victoria University (Toronto) Library 1984 Oct 20-1984 Nov 1
Vinogradoff, Julian 1976 Dec 30-[1983 Aug 15]
Whaley, Charles E. 1984 Jun 25-1984 Jul 20
Willis, J. H. 1984 Oct 8-1984 Nov 7
Wolf, Ina 1981 Mar 22-1987 Dec 21
Wolf, Sylvia 1996 Dec 20-1996 Dec 27
*Woolmer, J. Howard (from and to) 1976 Sep 12-1998 Apr 28
Unidentified 1976 Mar 15-[1996 Jul]
Permission letters requesting use of quotations in A Bloomsbury Iconography 1985 Jan 13- 1989 Jan 19
(scrapbook 1.1- scrapbook 1.5)
Articles and reviews of works by and about Virginia Woolf.
(scrapbook 2)
Background articles and extracts about the Bloomsbury Group.
(scrapbook 3.1- scrapbook 3.2)
Reproductions of Bloomsbury-related photographs and artwork.
(scrapbook 4)
Catalogues of Vanessa Bell's exhibitions.
(scrapbook 5)
Catalogues of Duncan Grant's exhibitions.
(scrapbook 6.1- scrapbook 6.4)
Miscellaneous exhibition catalogues, 1912-1987. Catalogues of exhibitions and auctions, as well as newspaper articles about openings.
(scrapbook 7)
Extracts from reviews containing reproductions of Bloomsbury images.
(scrapbook 8)
Dust jackets, letters, and lists of illustrations in books.
(scrapbook 9.1-9.8)
Bloomsbury 1919-1998. Includes reviews of books and movies about Bloomsbury, obituaries, sales announcements, cartoons, and exhibition reviews.
(scrapbook 10)
Articles about Julia Margaret Cameron. Extra notebook contains photocopies from Victorian Pictures of Famous Men and Fair Women.
(scrapbook 11)
Notes and comments by Elizabeth P. Richardson about her collection.
(scrapbook 13)
Indexes prepared by Elizabeth P. Richardson of Bloomsbury-related books.
(scrapbook 14)
Ephemera. Includes programs, fliers, and brochures for Bloomsbury related sites and events.
Reading Notebook 1. Reading notes on Virginia Woolf's life and works 1963-1965
Reading Notebook 2. Reading notes on Bloomsbury-related images 1983-1984
Reading Notebook 3. Reading notes on Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury-related material 1984-1986
Reading Notebook 4. Reading notes on Virginia Woolf's essays and Bloomsbury-related books 1987-1996
Notebook A. Contains drafts and notes on the Iconography, as well as the addresses of people knowledgeable about Bloomsbury.
Notebook B. Contains notes on Bloomsbury-related books, mostly concerning photographs [?1983]
Notes and sketches of photographs of Lydia Lopokova.
Notes on the dating and identifying of the Beresford photographs of Virginia Woolf.
Stationery featuring reproduction of a photograph of Virginia Woolf by Beresford.
"Bloomsbury Squares" cartoon. photocopy 1980 Dec 8
Reproductions of photographs in the Leslie Stephen album, with captions by Elizabeth P. Richardson [?1985]
Pattle family trees 1985
See: Oversize
Map of Sussex, England
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture: typescript, corrected by EPR [1998]
Drafts of essays for Smith College class taught by Professor Doug Patey typescript, corrected 1993 Feb 23-Mar 11
Includes: The Urkheim Mile And Other Blessings of a Hands-Off Technology and Some Uses and Abuses of the En Dash.
Drafts for a review of Leonard Woolf: A Bibliography by Leila Luedeking and Michael Edmonds: typescript, corrected [1993]
Budget of Elizabeth P. Richardson for 1992 and 1993.
Map of Elizabeth P. Richardson's library.
Notebook on the Ribblesdale Lear, a copy of Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense owned by Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale. Research on guests of the family who colored and signed it. n.y. Mar 24
Notes on Edward Lear cartoons from the Ribblesdale Lear
Notes on the Ribbldale Lear Scrapbook: typescript, corrected.
The Ribblesdale Lear Scrapbook 1993
Audio recording of Elizabeth P. Richardson reading Virginia Woolf's Moments of Being.
"A taste for green olives." Elizabeth P. Richardson discusses her Bloomsbury collection. On reverse, Richardson reads Julia Margaret Cameron by Virginia Woolf.
"Architectural Review." May 1930
Bicknell, John W. "Leslie Stephen: Victorian Man of Letters" lecture at Drew University. Introduced by Noel Annan. 1996
Byre, John. "Faulty Connections." A review of Julian Symonds: A bibliography by John J. Walsdorf with Bonnie J. Allen. Times Literary Supplement 1997 Apr 11
Cannan, Gilbert. Pugs and Peacocks. London : Hutchinson & Co.
Charleston Trust. Sale catalogue for an auction to benefit the Charleston Trust.
Cragg, Steven. T-shirt featuring a caricature of Virginia Woolf. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Largely Literary Designs 1992
Ellenberger, Nancy W. "The Souls and London "Society" at the End of the Nineteenth Century." Victorian Studies Winter 1982
Hafley, James. The Glass Roof: Virginia Woolf as Novelist. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1954
Higgens, Diana. Grace at Charleston: Memories and Recipes. Lockholt & Company Limited. With foreword by Quentin Bell.
Mozley, Anita Ventura, Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life. Stanford University Museum of Art 1974
Nicolson, Nigel. Sissinghurst Castle: An Illustrated Guide. Bedford: The Sidney Press Limited 1966
Reed, Chris. Checklist of illustrations of Bloomsbury art 1986
Ross, Robert. Masques & Phases. London : Arthur L. Humphreys 1909
315 pages. Photocopy, with Richardson's index.
315 pages. photocopy, with richardson's index.
Shone, Richard. Monk's House: A Catalogue of Pictures 1985
Southeby's Belgravia. Early Photographic Images and Related Material. catalogue for auction held 1975 26 Jun
Stansky, Peter, On Or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and Its Intime World." Introduction." Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1996
Stephen, Leslie. The "Times" on the American War. London: William Ridgeway 1865
Strachey, Marjorie. The Counterfeits. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1927
Woolf, Virginia. "Julia Margaret Cameron" Victorian Pictures of Famous Men and Fair Women. Read by Elizabeth Power Richardson.
See: Box 38, folder 147
Woolf, Virginia. Kew Gardens and woodcuts from Monday or Tuesday
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse selections read by Celia Johnson. Record. New York: Caedmon Publishers 1959
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Film performed by Eileen Atkins. videocassette.
Early Draft, typescript, corrected [1979 Aug 4]
Draft A in 6 notebooks, typescript, corrected n.d.
Draft fragments, typescript, corrected n.d.
Draft B, typescript, corrected n.d.
Galley proofs, corrected 1988 Oct.
Galley proofs, corrected, with printer's annotations. Stamped "Jan 23 1989."
Original sketches by Sarah Black for "Appendix A: The Cameron Photographs of Julia Stephen" in A Bloomsbury Iconography.
Illustrative material
Permission letters.
See: Box 4, Folder 128
Advertisements and Reviews 1989 May-1990 May
Notes on Paper Darts: The Illustrated Letters edited by Frances Spalding, typescript [1991]
(scrapbook 12A and 12S)
A Bloomsbury Iconography. Updated by the author after publication, typescript, [1991]
Black, Sarah. Original sketches for "Appendix A: The Cameron Photographs of Julia Stephen" in A Bloomsbury Iconography.
See: Box 45, Folder 180
Fry, Roger.
Grant, Duncan. Duncan Grant at Charleston, 19 photographic slides.
Kennedy, Richard.
Starr, Martha H. and Elizabeth W. Hill. Virginia Woolf Calendar Diary 1982. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1981
Starr, Martha H. and Elizabeth W. Hill. Virginia Woolf Calendar Diary 1983. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1982
PERSONAL PAPERS
Map of Sussex, England.
SUBJECT FILES
Architectural Review, May 1930
A BLOOMSBURY ICONOGRAPHY
ARTWORK
The Charleston Calendar 1990 Bloomsbury Portraits by Lettice Ramsey.
The Charleston Calendar 1991 Virginia Woolf.
The Charleston Calendar 1992 A Bloomsbury Garden
The Charleston Calendar 1996 Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell: Book Jackets.
Charleston Revisited: A new view of Bloomsbury in the country. Poster for an exhibition at the Francis Kyle Gallery 1993
Fry, Roger. Outside Avila: lithograph 1923
Fry, Roger. Still Life 1918
Kennedy, Richard. Virginia Woolf: lithograph n.d.
Kennedy, Richard. Virginia Woolf Setting Type: ink and graphite drawing n.d.
Illustration for Kennedy's A Boy at the Hogarth Press (London 1972).