NTE2cg643.xml Guide to the Stephen Tennant Papers 1929-1977 Tennant (Stephen) Papers Finding aid prepared by Cheryl Gunselman. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2017 Finding aid encoded by Doug Lambeth. 2017 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd Edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Cage 643 Stephen Tennant Papers1929-1977 .5 linear feet of shelf space 1 box Letters, including some original covers, sent to Stephen Tennant by various friends and acquaintances. Includes holograph version of "Daphne" by Edith Sitwell, and postcards, clippings, and photographs. Collection materials are inEnglish.

The Honorable Stephen James Napier Tennant (1906-1987) was an English artist and author. He was part of a London social circle popularly known in the 1920s as the Bright Young Things or Bright Young People, and he had many friends and acquaintances in the Bloomsbury set as well.

This collection consists primarily of correspondence, including some original covers, sent to Stephen Tennant by various friends and acquaintances. It includes a holograph version of "Daphne" by Edith Sitwell, postcards, clippings, and photographs. Some of the letters are incomplete, and many are undated. Among the notable correspondents are Cecil Beaton, Edith and Osbert Sitwell, Virginia Woolf, Nancy Mitford, E.M. Forster, Juliet Huxley, and Daphne du Maurier. Some items are annotated by Tennant.

This collection is arranged alphabetically by correspondent name. Items from unidentified correspondents (illegible signatures, signed with initials or first name only and not identified during collection processing, or unsigned) are filed under Miscellaneous (folder 23).

This collection is open and available for research use.

Copyright restrictions apply.

[Item Description]

Stephen Tennant Papers, 1929-1977 (Cage 643)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

The Washington State University Libraries purchased this collection in 1990 (MS.1990.10).

Initial processing was performed by staff in 1996. Beth Blakesley and Cheryl Gunselman performed additional processing in 2013 and 2017.

Stephen Tennant Papers, 1945-1953 (Cage 4722)

Thomas Balston Papers of the Sitwells, 1924-1960 (Cage 9)

Siegfried Sassoon Papers of the Sitwells, 1918-1957 (Cage 165)

Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell Papers, 1917-1972 (Cage 531)

Nina Hamnett Papers, 1914-1953 (Cage 534)

Ada Leverson Letters from the Sitwells, circa 1920-1935 (Cage 4669)

Edith Sitwell Correspondence, 1922-1964 (Cage 4793)

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Tennant, Stephen, 1906-1987 -- Archives Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980. Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974. Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989. Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975. Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938. Pitter, Ruth, 1897-1992. Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Huxley, Juliette, 1896-1994. Hutton, Barbara, 1912-1979. Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence Literature 1 1 undated Christabel [Aberconway]. 1 2 1968 and undated Princess Alexandra. 1 3 1929-1973 and undated Cecil Beaton (letters, postcards, notes, and photographs). 1 4 undated Marthe [Bibesco?]. 1 5 1965 Edmund [Blunden]. 1 6 1970 [?] Bryant. 1 7 undated David Cecil. 1 8 1933 E.M. Forster. 1 9 1970-1971 and undated Leslie [L.P. Hartley]. 1 10 1972 Michael Holroyd. 1 11 1973 Eileen [Hose]. 1 12 undated Barbara Hutton. 1 13 1959-1977 and undated Juliette and Julian Huxley. 1 14 1973-1977 Daphne du Maurier. 1 15 1952-1956 Nancy [Mitford]. 1 16 1965 Angus Ogilvy. 1 17 1966-1973 and undated Ruth Pitter. 1 18 undated Edith Sitwell (letter and "Daphne" holograph). 1 19 undated Osbert Sitwell. 1 20 undated Lucile Thurber. 1 21 1966-1972 Laurie [Laurence Whistler]. 1 22 undated Virginia Woolf. 1 23 1929-1972 and undated Miscellaneous (items from unidentified correspondents, including Margaret, Violet, Aunt Violet, David, and Rosamund; also items signed with initials only, with illegible signatures, or unsigned).