Manuscripts

Masselink, Ben. 1 letter to Don Bachardy, 1934-

Description: N.S. (typewritten: 1 p.). Addressed to Don and Tom, and signed Dee and Ben.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1996, Dec.
Call number: CI 3082.
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.

Forbes, Bryan, 1926-. 1 letter to Don Bachardy, 1934-

Manuscripts

L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.). Enclosures: 3 contact prints of Don Bachardy , an unidentified female child and adult woman, Sept. 24, 1961, cataloged separately.

CI 3050.

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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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Pickett, James Carroll, d. 1994. 1 letter to Don Bachardy, 1934-

Manuscripts

L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.). Enclosure: photograph of Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, Michael Kearns, James Carroll Pickett, and Jon Sharp, dated Feb. 24, 1984, cataloged separately as CI 3848.

CI 3086.

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Masselink, Jo, and Masselink, Ben. 11 letters (1954-1963) to Christopher Isherwod, 1904-, and Don Bachardy, 1934-

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 1774-1784.

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Masselink, Ben, 1919-2000 and Masselink, Jo, approx. 1900-1988. Letter to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-1986 and Don Bachardy, 1934-

Manuscripts

(1 p.). With envelope. Also enclosed: autograph note by Isherwood.

CI 4506

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Bassett, Mark T. 1 letter to Don Bachardy, 1934-

Manuscripts

L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.). Material previously restricted in Box 139 -- Opened for research in Jan. 12, 2019.

CI 3100.

Masselink, Ben. 1 letter to Don Bachardy, 1934-

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