Call Number:

C0470

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 3 boxes
• 1.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); R. A. Walker Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1930-1936 (inclusive)

Creator:

Derry, Georges, 1886-1960

Form:

Correspondence. and Typescripts.

Abstract:

Consists of papers of English editor R.A. Walker related to his edition of Letters of Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers (1937). Walker used the pseudonym of Georges Derry.

R.A. Walker, who used the pseudonym "Georges Derry," was an important early champion of Aubrey Beardsley. He edited three collections of Beardsley's letters, wrote extensively about him, was the first to publish a number of Beardsley's drawings, and assembled materials for a definitive catalog. In 1955, Walker edited 55 letters from the Gallatin Collection of Beardsley in the Princeton University Library, which was printed in the Princeton University Library Chronicle (vol. XVI, no. 1).

The collection consists of Walker's related correspondence, his annotated typescripts, and galleys--as well as photostats of Aubrey Beardsley's letters in the Huntington Library--for the First Edition Club's edition of the Letters of Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers (1937), which was edited, with notes and an introduction, by Walker. Some of the correspondence also concerns the Print Collector's Quarterly in London and other matters related to Beardsley; included is correspondence between A.J.A. Symons of the First Edition Club and Oliver W. F. Lodge.

Arranged in the following order: preface, lists, transcripts, photostats, galleys, correspondence, documents, miscellaneous.