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Christopher Bradshaw Isherwood done at Repton at 15 years and 8 months: snapshot
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Christopher Bradshaw Isherwood: photo postcard
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With envelope; description of photo written on front of envelope.
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Kathleen Bradshaw Isherwood with Pandy: photograph
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On verso: autograph identification; Pandy was one of Kathleen Bradshaw Isherwood's cats.
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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. Repton Letters
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(18 p.) Annotated list of letters from Isherwood to his mother, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood, written during his last two years at Repton school.
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Bradshaw-Isherwood, Frank and Bradshaw-Isherwood, Kathleen
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(8 pieces)
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Isherwood, Christopher (Correspondence to Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood, 1937-1939)
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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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A History of My Friends: text by Christopher Isherwood, copied out by Kathleen Bradshaw Isherwood
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A juvenilia booklet of Christopher Isherwood's early creative ideas, telling the stories of his first friendships. Some pages are loose.
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