Manuscripts

Photographer: Unidentified. "Photos and slide from Chris' desk or billfold"

Description: 8 B&W photographs, 2 color photographs, 1 color slide. Note: includes photos of Chris, Don, Kathleen and Richard Bradshaw-Isherwood, Jo and Ben Masselink and Swami.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [before 1986]
Call number: CI 4757 (a-k)
Creator: Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired as a gift and purchase from Don Bachardy, April 1999, July 2000, June 2012, and May 2020.; purchased from Wayne Shimabukuro, June 1999.; gift of Robin French, August 1999.; purchased from Stanley P. Friedman, September 1999.; purchased from Roland Jaeger, from estate of Dodie Smith, May 2000 and June 2002.; purchased for the Huntington Library by the Library Collectors' Council Romaine Ahlstrom, March 2003.

Photographer: Unidentified. "Christopher Isherwood and his garden house at…Saltair Ave. (with Stephen Spender, Evelyn and Edward Hooker)"

Manuscripts

16 sepia photographs. Also enclosed: a detailed map of the house; evidently the photos and map were sent to Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood in England.

CI 4518 (a-q)

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Photographer: Unidentified. "Photos from U.C.S.B."

Manuscripts

6 B&W prints. Note; removed from a letter from Christopher Isherwood to Don Bachardy, Mar. 29, 1961.

CI 4569 (a-f)

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White, Jules. A Book for Chris: [written and hand illustrated for Christopher's birthday], 1978?, ca.Aug. 26, A.MS.S. (11 p.). With photo of Jules White

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 2699.

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Photographer: Unidentified. "Julie on Mesa Rd."

Manuscripts

11 B&W photographs. Note: Photos include Julie Harris, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy.

CI 4526 (a-k)

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Photographer: Unidentified. "Chris and Don during filming of 'Success Story' for British TV by Julian Jebb & Co."

Manuscripts

11 color photographs

CI 4633 (a-k)

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Photographer: Unidentified. "Chris and Richard Sassin in Santa Monica"

Manuscripts

2 color photographs

CI 4725 (a-b)

Photographer: Unidentified. "Photos and slide from Chris' desk or billfold"

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Photographer: Unidentified. "Christopher Isherwood and his garden house at…Saltair Ave. (with Stephen Spender, Evelyn and Edward Hooker)"

Photographer: Unidentified. "Photos from U.C.S.B."

White, Jules. A Book for Chris: [written and hand illustrated for Christopher's birthday], 1978?, ca.Aug. 26, A.MS.S. (11 p.). With photo of Jules White

Photographer: Unidentified. "Julie on Mesa Rd."

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