Manuscripts

[Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986]. "To me, it is very important to be an outsider…:" [lecture : typewritten]

Description: (8 p.). With autograph corrections. Subject: Male homosexuality.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [approximately 1980]?
Call number: CI 4219
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.; purchased from December 2003.
Associated people: Auden, W. H. (1907-1973.); Bachardy, Don, (1934-); Britten, Benjamin, (1913-1976.); Bradbury, Ray, (1920-2012.); Bradshaw-Isherwood, Frank. (1868-1960.); Bradshaw-Isherwood, Kathleen, (1924-1984.); Capote, Truman, (1945-1988.); Clodd, Alan. (1879-1970.); Divine, (1950-approximately 1990.); Forster, E. M. (1904-2000.); Gates, Jim, (1904-1991.); Gielgud, John, (1889-1971.); Greene, Graham, (1894-1963.); Harris, Julie. (1907-1996.); Heard, Gerald, (1907-1987.); Hockney, David. (1874-1965.); Huxley, Aldous, (1903-1973.); Huxley, Laura Archera. (1893-1976.); Huxley, Maria. (1919-2010.); Kirstein, Lincoln, (1896-1990.); Lehmann, John, (1909-1995.); Maley, Ken. (1882-1971.); Maugham, W. Somerset (1925-2012.); Plomer, William, (1907-1981.); Prabhavananda, (1901-1987.); Salinger, J. D. (1911-1983.); Smith, Dodie,; Spender, Stephen,; Stravinsky, Igor,; Stravinsky, Vera.; Upward, Edward.; Vidal, Gore,; Viertel, Berthold.; Weissberger, L. Arnold,; Wescott, Glenway,; Williams, Tennessee,
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