Guide to the Dorothy Brett Collection

Descriptive Summary

Collection Title: Dorothy Brett Collection, Span Dates, 1922-1969, Bulk Dates: 1922-1948, 1965-1969
Call number/identifier: Manuscript Series XXVII
Origination: Dorothy Eugenie Brett, 1883-1977
Extent: 1 box, 0.4 linear feet
Languages: Collection is labeled in English.
Repository: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

Abstract: Artist Dorothy Brett, a member of the Bloomsbury group, was a friend of Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, and Frieda and D.H. Lawrence. This collection includes typescripts for her autobiography, a continuation of her memoirs on D.H. Lawrence, and some of her correspondence to John Middleton Murry about the Lawrences. Brett's diaries recounting her visits to Taos, New Mexico (1924), and Capri (1926); a copy of her manuscript on her friendship with Katherine Mansfield; and an interview and correspondence with Leland H. Roloff (1965-1969) are also part of the collection.