Manuscripts

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-197. Journal

Description: (135 p.)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1929, Apr.
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.

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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(17 pieces)

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986, and Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Postcard to Don Bachardy, 1934-

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London, Eng. (1 p.)

CI 4424

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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. The Chase: play

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Carbon copy (typewritten), with the author's autograph notes, and typewritten and autograph corrections).

CI 1.

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Auden, W.H. (Oversize Box)

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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Auden, W.H. (Manuscripts: Gen'lemen–Stone)

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Auden, W.H. (Manuscripts: After–Frost)

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Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-197. Journal

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