Guide to Library Special Collections

• Published in: Woolf studies annual 2016-01, Vol.22, p.97-116
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Academic libraries; Bell, Clive (1881-1964); Directories; Forster, E M (1879-1970); GUIDE; Library materials; Woolf, Leonard (1880-1969); Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
• ISSN: 1080-9317

Name of Collection: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature Contact: [e-mail] for access procedures Isaac Gewirtz, Curator [e-mail] Address: New York Public Library, Room 320 Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street New York, NY 10018 Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [e-mail] Hours: Tue.-Wed.: 11 am-6:45 pm Thu.-Sat.: 10 am-5:45 pm Closed Sun., Mon., and Legal Holidays Access Requirements: After acquiring Library card in room 315, check outerwear and all containers (briefcases, computer cases, handbags, folders, etc.) in Ground Floor cloakroom, and proceed to the Berg Collection. Collection level description may be accessed at www.archiveshub.ac.uk Name of Collection: The Lilly Library Contact: Joel Silver, Director Cherry Williams, Curator of Manuscripts Address: The Lilly Library, Indiana University 1200 East Seventh Street Bloomington, IN 47405-5500 Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail] Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 am-6 pm; Sat. 9 am-1 pm; Closed Sundays and Major Holidays Access Requirements: Valid photo-identification; brief registration procedure Restrictions: Closed stacks; material use confined to reading room; wheelchair-accessible reading room and exhibitions (but no wheelchair-accessible restroom) Holdings Relevant To Woolf: Corrected page proofs for the American edition of Mrs. Dalloway; letters to Woolf from Desmond and Mary (Molly) MacCarthy; 77 letters (published in Letters) from Woolf to correspondents including Donald Clifford Brace, Robert Gathorne-Hardy, Barbara (Strachey) Halpern, Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, Desmond MacCarthy and Molly MacCarthy; "Preliminary Scheme for the formation of a Partnership between Mr Leonard Sidney Woolf and Mr John Lehmann to take over The Hogarth Press" (includes contract signed by Lehmann, Leonard Woolf, and Virginia Woolf and receipt for Lehmann's payment to Virginia Woolf to purchase Virginia Woolf's share in the Hogarth Press); photographs of Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Strachey family, Roger Fry, and Vanessa Bell (Hannah Whitall Smith mss.); (Richard) Kennedy mss. (four hand-colored lithographs of Virginia Woolf: artist's proofs for RK's portfolio, VIRGINIA WOOLF: "AS I KNEW HER"; Sackville-West, V. mss. Name of Collection: Woolf/Hogarth Press/Bloomsbury Contact: Lisa J. Sherlock Address: Victoria University Library 71 Queens Park Crescent E. Toro