British and Commonwealth Literary Studies

The Manuscripts holdings of the Stanford University Libraries in the field of British and Commonwealth Studies focus on 19th and 20th Century authors.

Some of the principal collections include the James A. Healy Collection of Irish literature, the Aldous Huxley Collection, the D.H. Lawrence Collection, and the William S. Maugham Collection.

Prominent collections include the Alfred Austin Papers, the Walter De la Mare Papers, the John Galsworthy Papers, the Gibbon Family Papers, the George Harley Writings, the Herbert Percy Horne Letters, the Gordon F. Madding Collection, the Frank O'Connor Papers, the Frank Cheyne Papé Letters and drawings, the Michael Sadleir Letters, the Wilfred Healey Stone Papers, the Newton Taylor Collection, the Henry Major Tomlinson Papers.

Curator Annette Keogh is the primary individual responsible for selecting manuscript collections that fall into this area. For a fuller description of her current collecting activities, please refer to the British and Commonwealth Literary Studies home page.