Collection Overview

Title:

Guide to the Papers of Dilys Laing, ca. 1917 - ca. 1960

Call Number:

Manuscript MS-984

Collection Dates:

ca. 1917 - ca. 1960

Size of Collection:

7 boxes (8.75 linear ft.)

Abstract:

Dilys Laing, 1906-1960, writer, poet, and artist. Consists of correspondence of multiple family members, newspaper clippings, corrected scripts, drawings, an improvised Aztec dictionary, personal notes, drafts and chapters of Laing's book Corazun, printer's typescripts, files of poems, reviews, prose, political writing. Documents her relationship with her family and her development as an artist and writer and thinker.

Access to Collection:

Unrestricted.