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George Milton Collection on the Bloomsbury Group

 Collection — oversize: Box1
Identifier: MSS 83-4

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of portrait paintings, books, and a variety of papers by and about the Bloomsbury Group and individuals associated with Bloomsbury.

According to George Milton, the donor, "These portraits are strictly personal impressions, gleaned from a study of letters, memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, as well as photographs, several trips were made to England, in order to visit residences, and places frequented by many of the subjects."

Subjects and persons significant to this collection include: Bloomsbury maps, exhibits, Ottoline Morrell, Virginia Woolf portrait and diary, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Queen Elizabeth, Aldous Huxley letters, Roger Fry, Rupert Brooke, India, poetry, Marianne Thornton, D. H. Lawrence, Quetzalcoatl, women in literature, women authors, Augustus John, V. Sackville-West, John Maynard Keynes, Katherine Mansfield, Western philosophy, the Sitwell family, and James Stephens.

Dates

  • Created: 1882-1979
  • Other: Date acquired: 06/01/1983

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Biographical or Historical Information

The Bloomsbury Group was an informal but influential group of intellectuals, artists and writers associated with the residential district of Bloomsbury in west central London in the early 20th century. Notable members include Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keyes, Clive Bell, and Lytton Strachey.

Extent

305.00 items

Language of Materials

English

Source of Acquisition

Gift of George Merritt Milton

Separated Materials

The following books were cataloged separately from the manuscript collection:

1. Bell, Quentin. Bloomsbury. London: Futura Publications Ltd., 1974. RARE DA 688 .B37 1974

2. Edel, Leon. Bloomsbury: A House Of Lions. New York: Avon Books, 1980. General Collection DA 688 .E3 1979

3. Gadd, David. The Loving Friends; A Portrait Of Blooms­bury. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. RARE DA 688 .G23 1974b

4. Shone, Richard. Bloomsbury Portraits, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Their Circle. Oxford: Phaidon. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976. RARE ND 497 .B44 S56 1976

5. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Volume One, Virginia Stephen, 1882-1912. Frogmore, St. Albans, Herts, Eng.: Triad/Paladin, 1976. RARE PR 6045 .O72 Z545 1976 v.1

6. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Volume Two, Mrs. Woolf, 1912-1941. Frogmore, St. Albans, Herts, Eng.: Triad/Paladin, 1976. RARE PR 6045 .O72 Z545 1976 v.2

7. Lehmann, John. Thrown To The Woolfs. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. RARE PR 6023 .E4 Z519 1979

8. Lehmann, John. Virginia Woolf and Her World. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. RARE PR 6045 .O72 Z776

9. Woolf, Virginia. Moments Of Being; Unpublished Auto­biographical Writings. Edited by Jeanne Schulkind. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. RARE PR 6045 .O72 Z496 1976

10. Spater, George. A Marriage Of True Minds; An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. RARE PR 6045 .O72 Z877 1977

11. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters Of Virginia Woolf. Volume I. 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen) Editor: Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovano­vich; 1975. RARE PR 6045 .O72 Z525 1977 v.1

12. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters Of Virginia Woolf. Volume II. 1912-1922. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. RARE PR 6045 .O72 Z525 1977 v.2

13. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volume I. 1915-1919. Intro. by Quentin Bell. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell. Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin Books 1979. RARE PR 6045 .O72 Z494 1979

14. Nobel, Joan Russell. Recollections of Virginia Woolf. New Work: William Morrow & Co., 1972. RARE PR 6045 .O72 Z833 1972b

15. Woolf, Virginia. The Years. Frogmore, St. Albans, Herts, Eng.: Granada Publishing, Ltd., 1977. RARE PR 6045 .O72 Y4 1979

16. Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1953. RARE PR 6045 .O72 M7 1953

17. Woolf, Virginia. To The Lighthouse. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1955. RARE PR 6045 .O72 T6 1955

18. Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas. Middlesex, Eng., Penguin Books, 1977. RARE PR 6045 .O72 T5 1977

19. Woolf, Virginia. A Writer's Diary, Being Extracts From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Leonard Woolf. Frogmore, St. Albans, Herts, Eng.: Triad/Panther Books, 1978. RARE PR 6045 .O72 W75 1978

20. Woolf, Virginia. Women and Writing. Bow, London: The Women's Press, 1979. RARE PR 111 .W66 1979 

21. Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room; The Waves. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1959. RARE PR 6045 .O72 J3 1959

22. Woolf, Leonard. Growing, An Autobiography Of The Years 1904-1911. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1961. RARE JA 94 .W6 A28 1961

23. Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey, A Critical Biography. Volume I, The Unknown Years (1880-1910) New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1967. RARE PR 6037 .T73 Z69 1967 v.1

24. Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey, A Critical Biography. Volume II The Years Of Achievement (1910-1932) New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1968. RARE PR 6037 .T73 Z69 1967 v.2

25. Strachey, Lytton. Five Victorians; Queen Victoria, General Gordon, Florence Nightingale, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold of Rugby. London: The Reprint Society, 1942. RARE CT 782 .S75 1942

26. Strachey, Lytton. Elizabeth And Essex; A Tragic History. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1928. RARE DA 355 .S74 1928

27. Lady Ottoline's Album; Snapshots And Portraits Of Her Famous Contemporaries (And Herself), Photographed For The Most Part By Lady Ottoline Morrell. Edited by Carolyn G. Heilbrun. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. RARE DA 676 .8 .A1 L3 1976

28. Morrell, Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck. Ottoline At Garsington, Memoirs Of Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1915-1918. Edited with an introduction by Robert Gathorne-Hardy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. RARE DA 566 .9 .M63 A36 1975

29. Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life Of Lady Ottoline Morrell. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1975. RARE DA 566 .9 .M63 D37 1975

30. Huxley, Aldous. Letters of Aldous Huxley. Edited by Grover Smith. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. RARE PR 6015 .U9 Z53 1969

31. Huxley, Aldous. Point counter Point. New York: Modern Library, 1928. RARE PR 6015 .U9 P6 1928

32. Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry. Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1979. RARE N7483 .F79 W66 1979

33. Hassall, Christopher Vernon. Rupert Brooke, A Biography. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1964. RARE PR 6003 .R4 Z67 1964

34. Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. RARE PS 3509 .L43 F6 1971

35. Forster. E. M. (Edward Morgan) A Passage To India. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1952. RARE PR 6011 .O58 P3 1952

36. Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns) The Waste Land and Other Poems. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1962. RARE PS 3509 .L43 W3 1958

37. Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) Marianne Thornton, A Domestic Biography, 1797-1887. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1956. RARE CT 788 .T566 F6 1956

38. Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) Aspects Of A Novel. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1955. RARE PN 3353 .F6 1955

39. Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) Howards End. New York: Vintage Books, 1921. RARE PS 6011 .O58 H6 1921

40. Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) The Longest Journey. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Co., 1922. RARE PR 6011 .O58 L6 1922

41. Hahn, Emily. Lorenzo; D. H. Lawrence And The Women Who Loved Him. Philadelphia, New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1975. RARE PR 6023 A93 Z63117 1975

42. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert). The Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. RARE PR 6023 .A93 P58 1926

43. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert). Women In Love. New York: Modern Library, 1950. RARE PZ 3 .L4345 Wo 1950

44. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert). The Lovely Lady. New York: The New American Library, 1946. RARE PR 6023 .A93 L66 1933b

45. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert). The Portable D. H. Lawrence. With an introduction by Diana Trilling. New York: Viking Press, 1947. RARE PR 6023 .A93 A6 1947

46. Holroyd, Michael. Augustus John, A Biography. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. RARE ND 1329 .J63 H64 1975

47. Stevens, Michael. V. Sackville-West, A Critical Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. RARE PR 6037 .A35 Z87 1974

48. Alsop, Susan Mary. Lady Sackville: A Biography. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1978. RARE CT 788 .S12 A64 1978

49. Harrod, Roy Forbes. The Life of John Maynard Keynes. Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1972. RARE HB 103 .K47 H28 1972

50. Lekachman, Robert. The Age of Keynes. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1975. RARE HB 99 .7 .L4 1975

51. Mansfield, Katherine. The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. RARE PR 6025 .A57 A15 1965

52. Women And Fiction: Short Stories By And About Women. Edited by Susan Cahill. New York: New American Library, 1975. RARE PN 6025 .A57 A15 1965

53. Russell, Bertrand. Portraits From Memory And Other Essays. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956. RARE B1649 .R94 A3 1956

54. Russell, Bertrand. Wisdom Of The West; A Historical Survey Of Western Philosophy In Its Social And Political Setting. New York: Crescent Books, Inc., 1959. RARE B72 .R83 1959

55. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree; My Quest For Liberty And Love. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. RARE HQ 1595 .5 .R85 A36 1975

56. Sitwell, Dame Edith. Selected Letters, 1919-1964. Edited By John Lehmann and Derek Parker. New York: The Vangard Press, Inc., 1970. RARE PR 6037 .I8 Z53 1970

57. Pearson, John. The Sitwells, A Family Biography. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. RARE PR 6037 .I79 P43 1979

58. Stephens, James. Letters of James Stephens; With Appendix Listing Stephens Published Writings. Edited by Richard J. Finneran. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974. RARE PR 6037 .T4 Z53 1974b

Processing Information

Processed June 1983

Title
George Milton Collection on the Bloomsbury Group
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
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Language of description note
eng

Repository Details

Part of the FSU Special Collections & Archives Repository

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