Here’s a quick research note: a list of Wilfrid Voynich’s archives…
- The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library not only has the Voynich Manuscript itself (“Beinecke MS 408”), but also various other WMV- and VMs-related materials in accompanying boxes (marked A to N). This includes various photographs (in box D), which are also accessible on the Beinecke main site.
- The Grolier Club in New York has 8 boxes of WMV’s personal and book-trade effects, 1916-1948 (this also contains correspondence carried on by Anne Nill after WMV’s death in 1930, as well as some writing by Ethel Voynich).
- The London School of Economics has 15 boxes of WMV’s “Pamphlets and treatises, concerning the Polish struggle for independence, 1846 – 1914“, though these have now been withdrawn and are accessible only on microfilm. Ref: COLL MISC 0261.
- The Wellcome Institute Library has a box of correspondence with WMV (dated 1922-1924), (though I don’t know how many letters this contains, probably not many). Ref: WA/HMM/CO/Chr/A.110 — Box 89.
There may well be more, but that should be enough to keep any researcher going for a bit… 🙂
For those researching Wilfrid’s book-buying and -selling. Mention of some works recently acquired from him by the Art Institute of Chicago is seen in
American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan. – Mar., 1916), pp. 95-124
Published by: Archaeological Institute of America
Article DOI: 10.2307/497206
JSTOR Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/497206
The column is ‘Archaeological News’ and byline
William N. Bates