Collection ID: LMC 2220
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Summary

Creator:
Graves, Richard Perceval
Abstract:
The Graves mss., 1914-1994, consists of correspondence and research materials collected by Richard Perceval Graves, 1945-, in preparation for writing his biography of Welsh author Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, 1900-1976.
Extent:
3 Boxes (3 standard)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Graves mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

Richard Perceval Graves, 1945-, was born in Brighton, England, on 21 December 1945. He was educated at Oxford, where he met Richard Hughes, who was friends with his uncle, poet Robert Graves. Following publication of his biography of A.E. Housman in 1979, Richard Graves approached Hughes' widow, Frances Catherine Ruth Bazley Hughes, about doing a biography of her husband. Meanwhile, he conducted research and corresponded with Hughes' family and friends and, in 1984, was selected by Hughes' literary executor, Lucy McEntee, to do an authorized biography. The resulting book, Richard Hughes: A Biography, was published by A. Deutsch in 1994 [Lilly PR6015.U35 Z6].

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, 1900-1976, was born in Weybridge, Surrey, on 19 April 1900. He graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1922. He worked as a journalist and published four novels during his career.

Scope and Content:

The Graves mss., 1914-1994, consists of correspondence and research materials collected by Richard Perceval Graves, 1945-, in preparation for writing his biography of Welsh author, Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, 1900-1976.

Included in the collection are biographical notes on both Richard and Frances Hughes; and correspondence of Richard Perceval Graves with family and friends of Hughes, Hughes' literary executor, and his eventual publisher of the biography, Andre Deutsch, Ltd. Correspondents include: Gwenol (Satow) Heneker, Owain Gardner Collingwood Hughes, Robert Elistan Glodrydd Hughes, Peter Levi, Lucy McEntee, Penelope (Hughes) Minney, Geraint Dyfnallt Owen, Lleky (Hughes) Papastavrou, Thomas Gabriel Rosenthal, Norah Smallwood, Anthony Thwaite, and Colin Michael Wells.

Also present in the collection are several issues of The Carthusian, the school magazine of Charterhouse which Hughes attended before going on to Oxford, and a folder of clippings about Hughes and his writings. Two drafts of the full biography, including endnotes, complete the collection.

Acquisition information:
Purchase: 1994
Arrangement:

The collection is divided into three series: I. Biographical materials and correspondence; II. Printed materials; III. Richard Hughes Biography.

Physical location:
Lilly - Stacks

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This collection is open for research.

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Graves mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu