Manuscripts

Isherwood, Richard. [Miscellaneous notes], ca.1972-1979, A.MS. (4 p.)

Description: 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, 1904-. My Guru and His Disciple: [autobiography: notes], 1977-1979, A.MS. (3 p.)

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 1107.

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Fouts, Denham. Notes on a yoga class, ca.1946, A.MS. (4 p.)

Manuscripts

CI 875.

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. My Guru and His Disciple: [autobiography: notes for Afterword], 1977-1979, A.MS. (2 p.)

Manuscripts

CI 1110.

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. My Guru and His Disciple: [autobiography: pages to be xeroxed: corrections], 1977-1979, A.MS. (4 p.)

Manuscripts

CI 1109.

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. My Guru and His Disciple: [autobiography: Afterword: version 4], 1977-1979, A.MS. (5 p.)

Manuscripts

CI 1114.

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. The Brontes – Irene Cooper Willis: [notes, plus a chart of the characters in Wuthering Heights], ca.1960?, A.MS. (4 p.)

Manuscripts

CI 1023.

Isherwood, Richard. [Miscellaneous notes], ca.1972-1979, A.MS. (4 p.)

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