Finding-Aid for the William Somerset Maugham Collection (VMF112)


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Collection Outline

Descriptive Summary

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Collection Outline

Clippings 1954-1964.

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Descriptive Summary

Creator: Maugham , William Somerset , 1874-1965 , British author.
Title: William Somerset Maugham Collection
Identification: VMF112[Accession: 1248]

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Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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Administrative Information

Source

Laid in Strictly Personal [essays] Adler Collection.

Processed: January, 1971 HH

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Box/folder
5/Maugham

Clippings, 1954-1964. (11 items.)

Clippings from newspapers hailing the 80th and 90th birthdays of W. Somerset Maugham; reviews of late essays and recounting personal incidents, including financial settlement with daughter, Lady John Hope, in dispute over nine impressionist paintings and report that the author wished all his personal correspondence destroyed at his death.
Some dates indicated in ink in unidentified hand.

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