McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
General Correspondence
Series
16 containers
The series contains Leon Edel's correspondence, with the majority before 1989. The correspondence ranges from personal to professional and literary, with letters from friends, acquaintances, scholars, authors, and publishers, such as Harvard University Press. Files that are significant either because of the correspondent or due to the extent of the correspondence include W. W. Norton, Anais Nin, Hannah Arendt, E. M. Forster, H. Montgomery Hyde, Geoffrey Keynes, and Allen Ginsberg. Many of the letters represent Edel's ongoing work to acquire copies of Henry James's correspondence and seek out information about the author from his contemporaries. Also includes a number of letters related to various lectures given during the 1960s and 1970s.
The series is arranged alphabetically by the last name of correspondent in containers 1 through 16.
Identifiers for file-level descriptions are composed of the container number and the file number (example: File 2.3 is file 3 located in container 2).