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Rare Books
The rainbow picnic : a portrait of Iris Tree
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
P1.1 - Group Portraits - Picnic at Visalia in Mooney Grove - parade
photCL SCE 02 - 05964
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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 2262-2264.
Manuscripts
Glass plate with two photographs. One photograph shows a house surrounded by a picket fence with large trees in the front yard and a family standing on the front porch. The other is a group portrait of the same family in front of the house.
mssLattaS, Box 114, Folder 1, Item 1
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Books
ND1010.V38 W495 1999
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Rare Books
274978