Manuscripts

Hart, James D. 4 letters to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-

Description: On verso of CI 3058: draft of Isherwood's reply.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1977-1981.
Call number: CI 3056-3059.
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.

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. 2 letters to James D. Hart

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 3074-3075.

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Brogan, Hugh. 3 letters (1974) to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-

Manuscripts

With CI 654: poem, "Love Letter to Christopher Isherwood." With CI 655: nine poems: "Cold Counsel," "Betjeman . . .," "Pound 1967," "Lines Written on Finding a Victorian Book . . .," "Consultation," "Quacks," "Three Love Poems," "The Voyage from Cythera," and "In Memory of Wystan Hugh Auden."

CI 654-656.

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Horst, 1906-. 1 letter to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-

Manuscripts

L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.). Enclosures: photographs of Christopher Isherwood, 1904- and Don Bachardy, 1934-, taken Aug. 24-25, 1979, cataloged separately as CI 3767-3772.

CI 3061.

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Cox, Christopher. 1 letter to Christopher Isherwood, 1904- and Don Bachardy, 1934-

Manuscripts

L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.). Enclosures: photographs of Christopher Isherwood, 1904- and Don Bachardy, 1934-, cataloged separately as CI 3720-3721.

CI 3047.

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Thomas, Peter. 1 letter to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-

Manuscripts

L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.). Also: typescript of essay, "Goodbye to Berlin: Re-focusing on Isherwood's Camera."

CI 3091.

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. Down There On a Visit: [novel: one of the drafts of the Mexican version]

Manuscripts

Carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 95 p.). With occasional author's corrections. This is a carbon copy of CI 1056.

CI 3097.

Hart, James D. 4 letters to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-

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