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Spender, Stephen, 1909-. 1 letter (1974, Jan. 11) to "Dear Forum Member" [letter to members of the Forum for Contemporary History], 1974, Jan. 11, phot. copy (L.S., typewritten: 4 p.). Also: photocopy of article, "Who Is We?" by Lowell Ponte (1 p.)

Description
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.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1864-2004.
Call number
CI 2052.
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.
gift of James Cummins Bookseller, April 2003.
purchased from Michael Silverman Autographs, London, December 2003.
purchased from December 2003.
Associated people
Auden, W. H. (1907-1973.)
Bachardy, Don, (1934-)
Britten, Benjamin, (1913-1976.)
Bradbury, Ray, (1920-2012.)
Bradshaw-Isherwood, Frank. (1868-1960.)
Bradshaw-Isherwood, Kathleen, (1924-1984.)
Capote, Truman, (1945-1988.)
Clodd, Alan. (1879-1970.)
Divine, (1950-approximately 1990.)
Forster, E. M. (1904-2000.)
Gates, Jim, (1904-1991.)
Gielgud, John, (1889-1971.)
Greene, Graham, (1894-1963.)
Harris, Julie. (1907-1996.)
Heard, Gerald, (1907-1987.)
Hockney, David. (1874-1965.)
Huxley, Aldous, (1903-1973.)
Huxley, Laura Archera. (1893-1976.)
Huxley, Maria. (1919-2010.)
Kirstein, Lincoln, (1896-1990.)
Lehmann, John, (1909-1995.)
Maley, Ken. (1882-1971.)
Maugham, W. Somerset (1925-2012.)
Plomer, William, (1907-1981.)
Prabhavananda, (1901-1987.)
Salinger, J. D. (1911-1983.)
Smith, Dodie,
Spender, Stephen,
Stravinsky, Igor,
Stravinsky, Vera.
Upward, Edward.
Vidal, Gore,
Viertel, Berthold.
Weissberger, L. Arnold,
Wescott, Glenway,
Williams, Tennessee,
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