Manuscripts
Spender, Stephen, 1909-
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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-, Stephen Spender, 1909-, Tony Hyndman. Portugal Diary
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(91 p.) A typed copy of this diary cataloged as CI 1130; some differences.
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Spender, Stephen, 1909-. Schiller's Mary Stuart: freely translated and adapted by Stephen Spender
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Spender, Stephen (Correspondence to Christopher Isherwood, 1954-1968)
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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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