Manuscripts

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. Repton Letters

Description: (18 p.) Annotated list of letters from Isherwood to his mother, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood, written during his last two years at Repton school.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1921-1922.
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.; purchased for the Huntington Library by the Library Collectors' Council Romaine Ahlstrom, March 2003.

Christopher Isherwood letters and postcards to Annie Avis, Emily Machell, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood ; Richard Isherwood diary

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This material includes 7 letters and postcards written by Christopher Isherwood to his nanny, Annie Avis (1911-1933, HM 83257-83261, 83263-83264); 1 letter to his grandmother, Emily Machell-Smith (1921, Dec. 28, HM 83262); 1 postcard to his mother, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood (1937, Mar. 22, HM 83265). Also included is a diary kept by Christopher Isherwood's brother, Richard Isherwood for the year 1956 (HM 83266); there is an inscription from Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood and various B&W photographs pasted into the volume, including photographs of Christopher Isherwood and Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood.

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Programme for the Repton School Speech Day and Commencement listing prizes won by Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward; newspaper clipping with mention of Repton

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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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Isherwood, Christopher (Manuscripts: Christopher and his Kind)

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986. To Lincoln Kirstein, 1907-1996

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L.S. (typewritten: 2p.). (Subject: Bower, Tony; Bradshaw-Isherwood, Kathleen, 1868-1960; Cadmus, Paul, 1904-; Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970; Isherwood, Richard; Lehmann, John, 1907-1987)

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Isherwood, Richard (Correspondence to Christopher Isherwood, 1977-1978)–Lincoln Kirstein (Manuscripts and Correspondence to Christopher Isherwood, -1943)

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Isherwood, Richard (Correspondence to Christopher Isherwood, 1970-1976)

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. Repton Letters

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