Robert Graves Letters, 1962/1970

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Dr.
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 26041-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Robert Graves Letters, Ms1972-008, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Abstract:
The collection contains five letters, four from Robert Graves while in Majorca, Spain, and Oxford, England, and one to him from Melville Hardiment of London, with a note on it by Graves.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Robert Graves Letters, Ms1972-008, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection involves five letters, four from Robert Graves while in Mallorca, Spain, and Oxford, England, and one to him from Melville Hardiment of London, with a note on it by Graves. Robert Graves' letters are mostly in response to other correspondence. He discusses his own writing, though not in great detail.

Biographical / historical:

Robert Graves was a British poet, novelist, critic, and translator. Graves was born in Wimbledon, England, in 1895. Over the course of his lengthy career, he he published fifty-five collections of poetry, fifteen novels (including I, Claudius in 1934), ten translations, and forty works of nonfiction, autobiography, and literary essays. He spent much of the middle of his life in Majorca and the United States, he eventually returned to England and taught at Oxford. Graves died in 1985.

Acquisition information:
The Robert Graves Letters were purchased by Special Collections in September 1972.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Robert Graves Letters was completed in 1972. Additional description was completed in March 2011.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard