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The memorial : portrait of a family
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The memorial : portrait of a family : manuscript
Manuscripts
A bound autograph manuscript by Christopher Isherwood; with a 98 word inscription to W. H. Auden, dated January, 1933. The final page is also dated: "London Sep. 1928" and "Berlin Nov. 1930," many of the pages have been trimmed to various lengths and there is some staining but no loss of text.
mssHM 83281
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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. The Memorial: Portrait of a Family: [novel: early draft], ca.1930?, A.MS. (26 p.)
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 1101.
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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. The Memorial: Portrait of a Family: [novel: earliest draft?], ca.1930?, A.MS. (15 p.). Autograph note by Isherwood: "Don't know what this was to have been about – but there are suggestions of the Margaret Lanwin-Edwin Blake relationship later used in The Memorial."
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 1100.