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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Robert Graves Letters, Ms1972-008, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The Robert Graves Letters were purchased by Special Collections in September 1972.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Robert Graves Letters was completed in 1972. Additional description was completed in March 2011.

Biographical Note

Robert Graves was a British poet, novelist, critic, and translator. Graves was born in Wimbledon, England, in 1895. Over the course of his lengthy career, he he published fifty-five collections of poetry, fifteen novels (including I, Claudius  in 1934), ten translations, and forty works of nonfiction, autobiography, and literary essays. He spent much of the middle of his life in Majorca and the United States, he eventually returned to England and taught at Oxford. Graves died in 1985.

Scope and Content

The collection involves five letters, four from Robert Graves while in Mallorca, Spain, and Oxford, England, and one to him from Melville Hardiment of London, with a note on it by Graves. Robert Graves' letters are mostly in response to other correspondence. He discusses his own writing, though not in great detail.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Authors, English -- 20th century
• British literature
• Correspondence

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Robert Graves Letters by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).