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We'll shift our ground, or, Two on a tour, almost a novel
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Two letters of the Lord Bishop of London: : the first, to the masters and mistresses of families in the English plantations abroad; ... The second, to the missionaries there; ... To both which is prefix'd, an address to serious Christians among our selves, to assist the Society for Propagating the Gospel
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Our Dylan Thomas memorial number : with two chapters from the hitherto unpublished novel 'Adventures in the skin trade'
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495738
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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. [Untitled novel], 1922, ca.June – Aug., A.MS. (16 p.). Consists of two chapters: "Two Days," and "Impressions." Annotated later by Isherwood: "Almost the first attempt at fiction I ever made."
Manuscripts
The collection includes drafts of most of Isherwood's works, as well as book reviews, essays, interviews and travel narratives; the collection also includes extensive correspondence files containing letters from W. H. Auden, Don Bachardy, Truman Capote, E. M. Forster, John Lehmann, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and others. The correspondence files also contain the letters of Isherwood's parents, Frank Bradshaw-Isherwood and Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood, as well as diaries kept by Kathleen, containing references to the first World War. The correspondence files deal with the literary works of Isherwood and others, male homosexuality, Isherwood's interest in Hinduism, World War One and World War Two among other subjects. Also included are important series of poems and other literary manuscripts by Auden and Spender, audiovisual material, photographs and negatives, a scrapbook and ephemera. A box of Addenda was added to the collection in 2020, it contains manuscripts, photographs, printed material, and ephemera.
CI 1143.