Manuscripts

A Meeting by the River Photograph Album, Address book, black leather wallet

Description: (3 pieces). All photographs and material removed and cataloged separately.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [before 1986]
Call number: Folder 5
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.

Personal material removed from black wallet : copy of birth certificate, naturalization certificate, passport and photos, vaccination certificate, social security cards, membership and library cards, envelope with "Julie's hair"

Manuscripts

(17 pieces). Note: removed from black leather wallet; now cataloged separately.

Folder 5

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Christopher Isherwood's Address book : loose pages

Manuscripts

(129 p.). Note: in pencil; removed from small brown leather multi-ring notebook, now cataloged separately.

Folder 1

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Photograph envelopes annotated by Don Bachardy

Manuscripts

(36 pieces). Note: photographs now removed to Photograph binder boxes; these annotations were used to create the photo captions.

Folder 9

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Photographer: Weissberger, L. Arnold, 1907-1981. "'A Meeting by the River' stage production"

Manuscripts

43 color photographs. Note: photos removed from a small white photo album, now in Ephemera.

CI 4702 (a-rr)

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Ephemera : Photograph Envelopes, Photo Album, Wallet. (1-5)

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.

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Negatives : Removed from Photographs

Manuscripts

Note: these negatives were removed from photographs now cataloged in photo binder boxes.

Envelopes (1-16)

A Meeting by the River Photograph Album, Address book, black leather wallet

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Personal material removed from black wallet : copy of birth certificate, naturalization certificate, passport and photos, vaccination certificate, social security cards, membership and library cards, envelope with "Julie's hair"

Christopher Isherwood's Address book : loose pages

Photograph envelopes annotated by Don Bachardy

Photographer: Weissberger, L. Arnold, 1907-1981. "'A Meeting by the River' stage production"

Ephemera : Photograph Envelopes, Photo Album, Wallet. (1-5)

Negatives : Removed from Photographs