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Journey to a War


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    Charlton, Jim. [Design for House on Saltair Avenue]

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    (3 pieces) Also: photocopy of a letter from Christopher Isherwood to "Whom it May Concern," 1953, Feb. 26, concerning Jim Charlton; autograph letter from Jim Charlton to Don Bachardy, 1995, June 2Note: originally enclosed with photographs of the interior of the house on Saltair Avenue, cataloged separately.

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    Scripts, Isherwood (The Day's Journey–Frankenstein)

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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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