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Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966
Literary File, Photography Collection

110 items (1 box)

Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Susan McClellan, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None

Table of Contents

Scope and Contents
Item List
Index of Photographers

Scope and Contents

The Evelyn Waugh Literary File consists of 110 items, the majority of which are interior and exterior views of Waugh's residence. There are also portraits of Waugh, various family members, and other people among the loose prints, as well as 17 images of or pertaining to Hugh Walpole contained in an album. Further descriptions of some items are available in a card catalog in the repository.

This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

*Items are located at LF:Waugh, E., Box unless otherwise noted.

Item List

Container Accession / P No.      Description
*P1-P4 Portraits of Waugh (photographic prints).
*P7Group portrait with Waugh, his second wife Laura Herbert, and their family (photographic print).
*P8-P9 Portraits of Waugh with his first wife Evelyn Gardner (photographic prints).
*P10.1-P10.71 Interior and exterior views of Waugh's residence (photographic prints formerly housed in album).
*P11 Group portrait with Waugh and other World War II Royal Army Corps officers (photographic print).
*P12-P15 Portraits of Alec Waugh, including one with W. Somerset Maugham (photographic prints).
*P17-P22, P26, P27 Images pertaining to Waugh, including a portrait of Ronald Knox (6 photographic prints, 2 color 35mm slides).
*999:0015:0001 Portrait of Waugh in a bowler hat, holding a cigar and a cane (photographic print); with Waugh's initialed inscription below image (referring to 999:0015:0002).
*999:0015:0002 Portrait of Miss Evelyn Waugh of Surry County, North Carolina (halftone print).
PH:LF:Albums:Waugh, E., 1 [was P10]Album cover with 6 blank leaves (71 items once housed in this album now removed to box and numbered P10.1-P10.71).
PH:LF:Albums:Waugh, E., 2 957:0055:0001-0017 17 BW photographic prints; portraits of Hugh Walpole and views of his house and surrounding countryside.

Index of Photographers

Bailey Bros. (Vancouver, B.C.)--P27
C. N. & Co.--P26
Gatti (Nice, France)--P15
London News Agency--P13
Perry, Bernice B.--P14
Yevonde, Madame, 1893-1975--999:0015:0001

Evelyn Waugh Literary File Finding Aid
(Last modified: 27 June 2007)

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