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Notebook containing autograph notes and heavily emended autograph draft for obituary essay on Virginia Woolf ; followed by Grant's "The Story of Narcissus" and two lengthy diary entries, with detached diary leaf laid-in ; with 5 pages of detached notes for essay in separate folder ; with two letters to Grant from Stephen Spender; and with copy of Horizon (June 1941).
- Title
- Notebook containing autograph notes and heavily emended autograph draft for obituary essay on Virginia Woolf ; followed by Grant's "The Story of Narcissus" and two lengthy diary entries, with detached diary leaf laid-in ; with 5 pages of detached notes for essay in separate folder ; with two letters to Grant from Stephen Spender; and with copy of Horizon (June 1941).
- Author
- Grant, Duncan, 1885-1978.
- Publication
- [London], 1923, 1941, 1950, 1951.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll+ Cased Grant V57 1941 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Description
- [109] leaves, + [5] loose leaves and [4] slips : ill. (drawings); 22-32cm
- Alternative Title
- Horizon.
- Subjects
- Note
- Manuscript notebook in 18th-century quarter calf over marbled paper over boards, letters and slips housed in two separate portfolios, all in custom solander case.
- Notebook begun by Grant as a sketchbook, signed by Grant in pencil, “Duncan Grant / 1923,” at the original front, with “H. Styleman” stamped on the front and rear pastedowns and on a preliminary leaf which also bears a red circular stamp with a crest; followed by three, full-page pencil sketches on two leaves, detached, drawn during 1923 trip to Spain, as indicated in autograph inscription on verso of third sketch.
- Sketched followed by diary entries of Jan. 28 and Feb. 1951, mostly about Grant’s dreams.
- Woolf obituary essay begins at other end of notebook, turned upside down; 9 leaves written on recto, plus one blank, with notes occasionally written on versos.
- Woolf essay followed by 14 blank leaves and the “The Story of Narcissus,” dated 1950, 70 leaves (including 2 blanks), first third written chiefly on rectos, balance written chiefly on versos, with sketch of vase and flowers, in blue pen, on fourth leaf, recto.
- Two autograph letters, signed from Spender to Grant, April 9 (1 p.) and 20 (2 p.), 1940, soliciting the obituary essay.
- Stephen Spender was an uncredited associate editor of Horizon until early 1941.
- Grant’s obituary essay on Woolf published in significantly different version in Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, vol. III, no. 18 (June 1941), p. 402-406.
- Caption title on first leaf: “Early Memories of Virginia Woolf.”
- From the first page: “Oddly enough I cannot remember the first time I met Virginia Stephen. I well remember the first time I met her brother Thoby & her sister Vanessa. This was at a meeting of the Friday Club, a club started by Vanessa Stephen for the discussion of every sort of subject and for exhibitions of pictures at intervals. It met in the studio of Henry Lamb in Chelsea and I was taken by my cousin Philippa Strachey. I had often been told of this family who lived in Kensington, 2 beautiful daughters and 2 sons of Leslie Stephen. They seemed from what I heard to be remarkable, but wrapped in gloom. They had lost their mother, a year later their half sister had married & died. For years they had lived with their father who was slowly dying. I remember being relieved to find Vanessa and Thoby two friendly human beings intensely & very much alive.”
- With (note)
- Horizon (June, 1941)
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Call Number
- Berg Coll+ Cased Grant V57 1941
- OCLC
- 897048390
- Author
- Grant, Duncan, 1885-1978.
- Title
- Notebook containing autograph notes and heavily emended autograph draft for obituary essay on Virginia Woolf ; followed by Grant's "The Story of Narcissus" and two lengthy diary entries, with detached diary leaf laid-in ; with 5 pages of detached notes for essay in separate folder ; with two letters to Grant from Stephen Spender; and with copy of Horizon (June 1941).
- Imprint
- [London], 1923, 1941, 1950, 1951.
- With:
- Horizon (June, 1941)
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission in holding division.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995.Grant, Duncan, 1885-1978. Addressee
- Added Title
- Horizon.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll+ Cased Grant V57 1941