Manuscripts
Christopher Isherwood letters to Paul Taylor
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Christopher Isherwood letters to Paul Taylor
Manuscripts
This collection contains five letters written by Christopher Isherwood to his friend and fan Paul Taylor. Isherwood writes about his work, travel, and observations of daily life as well as offering brief insights into the early years of his relationship with Don Bachardy. The letters were sent from different addresses in Santa Monica, California before Isherwood and Bachardy settled into their home. There are also two photographs of Paul Taylor.
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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. 5 letters to Paul Almond
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.
FAC 1384-1388.
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Taylor, Paul. 1 letter (1955, Sept. 20) ) to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-, L.S. (typewritten: 4 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 2254.
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Christopher Isherwood letters to Jack Rosen
Manuscripts
The collection consists of eight postcards and one note written by Christopher Isherwood to Jack Rosen of Portland, Oregon. The correspondence refers to Isherwood's and Don Bachardy's creative output, and several works including A Meeting By the River, Exhumations, Cabaret, Frankenstein: The True Story, Kathleen and Frank, My Guru and His Disciple, and others; Isherwood also mentions his friends W. H. Auden, Igor Stravinsky, and Vera Stravinsky. The postcards are autograph or typewritten and are all written from Santa Monica, California, the home of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. The collection also includes one empty envelope postmarked January 15, 1975.
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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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Horst, 1906-. 1 letter to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-
Manuscripts
L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.). Enclosures: photographs of Christopher Isherwood, 1904- and Don Bachardy, 1934-, taken Aug. 24-25, 1979, cataloged separately as CI 3767-3772.
CI 3061.