1. Berg Collection, New York Public Library. Items in this collection include business and personal letters (many to Sir Edward Marsh), fair copies of poems, corrected typescripts and a notebook of early poems. A list of 81 items from this collection, in the form of photocopies of Berg Collection record cards, is held by the St John's College Robert Graves Trust. Details of 7 uncatalogued items (as of 2/11/87) are also held at the Graves Trust Archive.
2. Fred H. and Jeanette Higginson Robert Graves Collection, University Libraries, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. "Several hundred printed books by and about Graves, including many items of ephemera. This collection was acquired by Kansas State in 1983 and is currently in the process of being catalogued. Fred Higginson is the original author of the standard bibliography of Robert Graves publications.
3. Lilly Library, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana. Reported in Focus on Robert Graves, January 1972 (Ellsworth Mason), as having special holdings of Robert Graves Material. This library has not published a catalogue of its Graves holdings. [Higginson, Append. II, p314-5]. Information about this is held by the St John's College, Oxford Robert Graves Trust: information given in response to an inquiry in 1987 by William Graves. The late Karl Gay's (Robert Graves secretary for many years) correspondence with R.G. from 1934 to 1976 is held here (sometimes written on the versos of manuscripts). Other correspondents are also represented. 18 manuscripts given by R.G. to Gay are here. Plus some photographs. There is a chronological listing by Gay of the letters written by Graves held in this collection (and one of his letters), made by the manuscripts dept. Nancy Nicholson's letters to R.G. until 1973 are also here. The collection was bought in 1987 from Sam Graves.
4. McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. "Aside from their original holdings, this library acquired the Graves Collection of Ellsworth Mason in the 1980's. This collection includes several hundred items of printed books and ephemera and is particularly strong on variant copies". A full listing of their manuscript holdings is now available via gopher. In addition to the Graves Collection at Tulsa, archives for Siegfried Sassoon and Laura Riding also exist, and listings are available from the Tulsa University server.
5. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, University Library. Reported in Focus on Robert Graves, January 1972 (Ellsworth Mason), as having special holdings of Robert Graves Material. This library has not published a catalogue of its Graves holdings. [Higginson, Append. II, p314-5]. No information as yet about the Robert Graves material held in this library is available electronically. Which is puzzling since they make a vast amount of information available via http and gopher already.
6. Reese, William. "William Reese Company, 409 Temple Street, New Havern, Connecticut 06511. Mr Reese is both a dealer and Graves collector, his collection and stock are open to any responsible scholar for use. Aside from rare and scarce printed editions his collection holds significant Graves manuscripts, advance and proof copies, and other material".
7. Robert Graves Collection in the Poetry/Rare Books Collection, University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo [Lockwood Memorial Library in the first edition of the Higginson Bibliography. "A catalogue for this collection is currently in preparation [1987]. The collection holds a complete first edition collection of all books and pamphlets published from 1913 [Higginson, sic] to the present; 314 letters, 9 linear feet of manuscripts covering the years 1911 to 1980; 52 letters and 1 foot of manuscripts in the Laura Riding Collection; plus four linear feet of Graves materials in the Martin Seymour-Smith archive. This latter material is now available via the Research Libraries Information Network, accounts for about half of the relevant items downloadable from RLIN. In 1987 the Library was about half-way through an attempt to catalogue the material, according to the covering letter from the librarian R. J. Bertholf to W. Graves. This process has not been completed, according to a recent letter from Robert Bertholf to Robin Alston [July 1994]. A description of the collection is available at the Robert Graves Archive.
8. Robert Graves Manuscripts and Letters at Southern Illinois University: an Inventory. Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing, 1976. pp.viii + 262. Reproduced from typescript. 1,315 items, with index and introduction. Organized in the following categories: poetry, prose fiction, critical prose, unpublished manuscripts, letters to Graves, letters from Graves, manuscripts by others [Edmund Blunden, Laura Riding, and others; 19 items only], miscellaneous items and ephemera. Compiled by John W. Presley. The St John's College, Oxford Robert Graves Trust has a copy of this inventory, formerly housed in the College Library as part of the Graves Collection. Photocopies of the Graves/Milligan Correspondence from the Southern Illinois University collection are held by The Graves Trust at St John's College, so that it is possible for a researcher to at least read all the material at one location.
9. The Saint John's College Robert Graves Trust at St John's College, Oxford. The holdings of the Trust can be found at this website in the form of a checklist. The correspondence held at the Graves Trust amounts to just over 3 linear feet of material. Many non-English editions of Robert Graves publications are held in the Archive, and a full set of English first editions may be lent to the Trust by William Graves in the near future.
10. The.Robert Graves Collection of the University of Otago Library, A Checklist, Dunedin: University of Otago, New Zealand, 1972. 13 leaves. Photographically reproduced from typescript and printed catalogue entries of books by Graves in this library (136 items). Checklist compiled by Max Broadbent and Catherine Swift. No manuscript materials are held by this library, but they have a virtually complete collection of printed first editions.
11. University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada: University Library. Reported in Focus on Robert Graves, January 1972 (Ellsworth Mason), as having special holdings of Robert Graves Material This library has not published a catalogue of its Graves holdings. [Higginson, Append. II, p314-5]. No information available as yet about the material held in this library.
12. University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, University Library. Reported in Focus on Robert Graves, January 1972 (Ellsworth Mason), as having special holdings of Robert Graves Material. This library has not published a catalogue of its Graves holdings. [Higginson, Append. II, p314-5]. St John's College, Oxford Robert Graves Trust holds photocopies of items held here. These can be identified in the checklist of the St John's College Graves Archive, reproduced elsewhere in this website.
13. University of Texas at Austin, Humanities Research Center. This collection includes business and personal letters and some fair copies of poetry. Precise detail for 222 items at Austin is held at the Graves Trust, St John's College.
14. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia. Higginson reported that this library had not formally published a catalogue of its Graves holdings. [Higginson, Append. II, p314-5]. However a massive amount of information about this collection has been available in recent years, partly as the result of an inquiry made by W.G. in 1987. The material is catalogued essentially in the booksellers lots in which the manuscripts were sold to the library. An article by the special collections librarian published in the Malahat Review (n.d., but before 1985) lists 18 lots apart from the restricted Graves/ Laracuen correspondence. A list covering 23 lots is held at St John's College, Oxford. The listing is available at this website in a revised form. A Robert Graves Full Inventory (covering some subsequently acquired lots) has been produced by the Special Collections Department of the University of Victoria Library, and has been available electronically since October 1998.
Document first published 3-Mar-96. Modified 12-Nov-98
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