Manuscripts

Printed Items: "Tomorrow."

Description: (1 piece) Previously enclosed between pages 56 and 57: letter from Ray Bradbury to Digby Diehl, 1973, May 30, FAC 1383; letter from Digby Diehl to Christopher Isherwood, 1973, June 19, CI 3048; two drafts of review of new edition of The Martian Chronicles, ca. 1973, CI 3064.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1950, Oct.
Call number: mssCI
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.

Diehl, Digby

Manuscripts

3 items: letter, 8/1/1973, from Jane Kolb, Account Executive, Harshe-Rotman & Druck, to Vance Stickell of LAT, with a copy of DIgby Dieh'sl library list for the cruise ship, Island Princess ; letter, 8/3/1973, from Vance Stickell to Jane Kolb, thanking her for sending the list ; 8-pp. list of "200 books for the Island Princess Library - selected by Digby Diehl."

mssLAT

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-, Stephen Spender, 1909-, Tony Hyndman. Portugal Diary

Manuscripts

(91 p.) A typed copy of this diary cataloged as CI 1130; some differences.

mssCI

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Bassett, Mark T. Christopher Isherwood's Diaries and the Diary Form: [essay]

Manuscripts

MS. (typewritten: 14 p.). With pencil autograph corrections by Don Bachardy, 1934-. CI 3099. Material previously restricted in Box 139 -- Opened for research in Jan. 12, 2019. (Note: the added entry on CI 3099 has not been entered as part of the Added Entries.)

CI 3099.

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Clippings and Articles about Subjects, Printed Items, and Miscellaneous

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.

mssCI

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Brogan, Hugh. 3 letters (1974) to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-

Manuscripts

With CI 654: poem, "Love Letter to Christopher Isherwood." With CI 655: nine poems: "Cold Counsel," "Betjeman . . .," "Pound 1967," "Lines Written on Finding a Victorian Book . . .," "Consultation," "Quacks," "Three Love Poems," "The Voyage from Cythera," and "In Memory of Wystan Hugh Auden."

CI 654-656.

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Printed Items: Booklets, pamphlets, offprints, fliers, journals

Manuscripts

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mssCI

Printed Items: "Tomorrow."

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-, Stephen Spender, 1909-, Tony Hyndman. Portugal Diary

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Clippings and Articles about Subjects, Printed Items, and Miscellaneous

Brogan, Hugh. 3 letters (1974) to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-

Printed Items: Booklets, pamphlets, offprints, fliers, journals