Series II. Correspondence
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, estate records and documents, financial records and account books, drawings, photographs, research notes, publishing correspondence, clippings, book reviews, and other papers of Violet Hunt, with particular reference to her family and social relations, her publishing career, and to her book The Wife of Rossetti. Includes genealogies and others records relating to the Hunt and Hueffer families, three diaries (1914, 1918, 1919), and an address book.
Major correspondents and subjects include Ford Madox (Hueffer) Ford, Francis Hueffer, Ford Madox Brown, Richard Garnett, Rebecca West, Elizabeth Siddall Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Charles Algernon Swinburne, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, John Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Radclyffe Hall.
Dates
- 1858-1962.
Creator
- From the Collection: Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942. (Person)
- From the Collection: Siddall, Elizabeth. (Person)
- From the Collection: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882. (Person)
- From the Collection: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909. (Person)
- From the Collection: Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hall, Radclyffe. (Person)
- From the Collection: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. (Person)
- From the Collection: Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939. (Person)
- From the Collection: Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hueffer, Francis, 1845-1889. (Person)
- From the Collection: Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893. (Person)
- From the Collection: West, Rebecca, 1892-1983. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942. (Title of work: Wife of Rossetti..) (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
9.7 cubic feet. (9.7 cubic feet.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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