Manuscripts

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

Description: Carbon copy (typewritten), with the author's autograph notes, and typewritten and autograph corrections).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1934.
Call number: CI 1.
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.

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Paid on Both Sides: script (first version of play)

Manuscripts

Typewritten. With the author's autograph notes corrections.

CI 5.

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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Paid on Both Sides: script (second version of play)

Manuscripts

Typewritten. With the author's autograph corrections and inscribed by Auden to Isherwood. Also inscribed by Auden to C. (Cecil) Day-Lewis, 1904-1972.

CI 6.

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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Poet of Disenchantment: W. H. Auden: [interview and readings] from a television film shown on BBC Channel 1

Manuscripts

Carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 22 p.).

CI 3041.

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Auden, W. H. (Wystan High), 1907-1973, and Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. The Enemies of a Bishop, or, Die When I Say When: A Morality in Four Acts: play

Manuscripts

Typewritten. With Auden's autograph notes and corrections.

CI 3.

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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. The Fronny: [verse play: fragments], [1930]

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.

CI 2821.

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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. "There is a danger:" [poem], [1931]?

Manuscripts

CI 2907.

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

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