[OASIS]Harvard University Library
OASIS: Online Archival Search Information System		Frames Version
Questions or Comments   Copyright Statement
MS Span 117

Ocampo, Victoria, 1891-. Victoria Ocampo papers: Guide.

Houghton Library, Harvard College Library

[link]


Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

© 1999 The President and Fellows of Harvard College

Last update 2009 January 12

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Span 117
Creator: Ocampo, Victoria, 1891-.
Title: Victoria Ocampo papers,
Date(s): 1908-1979.
Quantity: 34 boxes (11.3 linear ft.)
Language of materials: Collection materials are in Spanish, French, and English.
Abstract: Papers of Victoria Ocampo (d.1979), the Argentine writer, translator, publisher, feminist, and founder of the review Sur.

Processing Information:

Processed by: J.F. Coakley and Bonnie B. Salt

Acquisition Information:

*90M-50. Purchased from the Fondacion Sur with funds provided by the Amy Lowell fund, 1991.

Access Restrictions:

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.

Alternative Form Available:

The papers are available on microfilm at the Academia Argentina de Letras Buenos Aires, Argentina. Permission to quote from the microfilm copy at the Academia must be obtained from the Houghton Library. This microfilm was prepared before the final cataloging; there is some variation in the order of the files between the microfilm and the final cataloged arrangement.

Preferred Citation for Publication:

Victoria Ocampo Papers (MS Span 117). Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Arrangement

Organized into the following four series: The letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent, the compositions alphabetically by author.

Historical Note

Victoria Ocampo (1908-1979) was an Argentine writer, translator, publisher, feminist, and founder of the review Sur.

Scope and Content

The papers of Victoria Ocampo are primarily correspondence. The correspondents include many European and South American literary figures, as well as the staff of Sur, officials of UNESCO, and others. Correspondents include: Ernest Ansermet, José Luis Borges, Roger Caillois, Albert Camus, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Waldo David Frank, Graham Greene, Ricardo Güiraldes, Aldous Huxley, Hermann Graf von Keyserling, A.W. (Arnold Walter) Lawrence, André Malraux, Gabriela Mistral, José Ortega y Gasset, Denis de Rougemont, V. (Victoria) Sackville-West, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Valéry, Virginia Woolf, and others.

Container List


hou00038