Collections of Sir Hugh Walpole

A collection made by Sir Hugh Walpole of manuscripts and letters of writers and artists of the late 19th and early 20th century, with some papers relating to them. Many of the letters are addressed to John Lane, and many of the papers have headings in the hand of A.J.A. Symons. The collection consists of:

• Papers of Lord Alfred Douglas, 1910-38
• Papers of Richard Le Gallienne, 1893-1914
• Papers of Stephen Phillips, 1898-1916
• Papers of F.W. Rolfe 'Baron Corvo', 1881-1958
• Papers of A.W. Symons, 1891-1927
• Papers of William Watson, 1893-1919
• Miscellaneous, 1892-1941

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a novelist and man of letters. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

The collection was bequeathed to the Library by Walpole in 1941.

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 55537-602.