Scope and arrangement
This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence. The manuscripts include holographs of poems and memoranda, as well as a holograph of Max Beerbohm's 1943 Rede lecture on the author. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1905 to 1931, to John Maynard Keynes, Edward Sackville-West, Roger Senhouse, Edith Sitwell, Leonard Woolf, and others. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from 1904 to 1934, between various correspondents including Dora Carrington, Roger Senhouse, Francis Hackett, Robert Calverley Trevelyan, and Leonard Woolf. There are letters to Strachey from Rupert Brooke, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Senhouse, James Strachey, and Virginia Woolf, dating from 1906 to 1931.
The Lytton Strachey collection of papers are arranged in two series: