Violet Hunt papers

Collection — mapcase folder: 1

Identifier: 4607

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

Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942. (Person)
Siddall, Elizabeth. (Person)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882. (Person)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909. (Person)
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898. (Person)
Hall, Radclyffe. (Person)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. (Person)
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939. (Person)
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. (Person)
Hueffer, Francis, 1845-1889. (Person)
Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893. (Person)
West, Rebecca, 1892-1983. (Person)
Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942. (Title of work: Wife of Rossetti..) (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

British author, biographer.

Extent

9.7 cubic feet. (9.7 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

SERIES LIST

Series I. Family Boxes 1-5

Series II. Correspondence Boxes 6-10, 24, 26

Series III. Diaries Boxes 10-12, 24, 27

Series IV. Manuscripts Boxes 12-18, 25, 26

Series V. Documents - Miscellaneous Documents, By Individual Boxes 18, 25, 26

Series VI. Miscellaneous Boxes 18, 24, 27

Series VII. Photographs Boxes 19, 20, 22

Series VIII. Printed Material Box 21

Series IX. Drawings Boxes 23-26

Series X. Research Material - Research Notes Box 26

Physical Description

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, estate records and documents, financial records and account books, drawings, photographs, research notes, publishing correspondence, clippings.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Elizabeth GuzynskiJulia Parker
Date completed:: 1994March 1999
EAD encoding:: Peter Martinez, April 2004