The Edith Sitwell Literary File Photography
Collection consists of 145 items and includes portraits of Sitwell alone and with
others.
Call Number:
PH-02977
Language:
English
Access:
Open for research. To make an appointment or to reserve photography materials, please email Visual Materials Reference staff. Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to the Materials Use Policy before using archival materials.
Use Policies:
Ransom Center collections may contain material with sensitive or confidential information
that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers
are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable
living
individuals represented in the collections without the consent of those individuals
may have
legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy
may
arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be
deemed
highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the Ransom Center and The University
of
Texas at Austin assume no responsibility.
Restrictions on Use:
Authorization for publication is given on behalf of the University of Texas as the
owner of
the collection and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder
which must be obtained by the researcher. For more information please see the Ransom
Centers' Open Access and Use Policies.
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Edith Sitwell Literary File Photography Collection (PH-02977). Harry Ransom Center,
The
University of Texas at Austin.
The Edith Sitwell Literary File Photography Collection consists of 145 items (photographic
prints, half-tone reproductions, postcards) and includes portraits of Edith, Osbert,
and
Sacheverell Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, John Lehmann, and Pavel Tchelitchew, among others.
There
are also views of the Sitwell home, Renishaw Hall, and Castello Di Montegufoni, as
well as
photographic reproductions of paintings by Tchelitchew and several photographic prints
of
rescued animals. An index at the end of this guide lists photographers whose work
is
featured in this file. Further descriptions of some items may be available in a card
catalog
in the repository.
This file forms a part of the Literary Files Photography Collection that is comprised
of
photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures,
and
generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
Related Material
Associated and related material by and about Sitwell can be found in the Center's
library
and in the Dame Edith Sitwell Collection (MS-03855) and the Edith Sitwell Art Collection
(AR-00371).
