Overview
Papers of Victoria Ocampo (d.1979), the Argentine writer, translator, publisher, feminist, and founder of the review Sur.
Dates
- Creation: 1908-1979
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in Spanish, French, and English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to the bulk of this material.
Partially restricted: donor permission required to consult or quote from item (814a); consult curatorial staff.
Extent
11.3 linear feet (34 boxes)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.
Biographical / Historical
Victoria Ocampo (1908-1979) was an Argentine writer, translator, publisher, feminist, and founder of the review Sur.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following four series:
- I. Letters to Victoria Ocampo
- II. Letters from Victoria Ocampo
- III. Other letters
- IV. Compositions
The letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent, the compositions alphabetically by author.
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
90M-50. Purchased from the Fondacion Sur with funds provided by the Amy Lowell fund, 1991.
2013M-99. Gift of Catherine Camus, 2013 May (item 814a).
Existence and Location of Copies
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.
Processing Information
Processed by: J.F. Coakley and Bonnie B. Salt
- Title
- Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979. Victoria Ocampo papers, 1908-1979: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00038
Repository Details
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