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Christopher Isherwood letters to Gerald Hamilton

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Description: A lengthy, affectionate, and gossipy correspondence from Christopher Isherwood to critic and author Gerald Hamilton, notably about Isherwood's own work including various screenplays, his views as a conscientious objector during World War II, Vedanta, discussions of screenwriting and films, including a comparison of silent films and talkies, and news of Denham Fouts, W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, and others, including commentary on W. Somerset Maugham's novella "Up at the Villa" and novel "The Hour Before the Dawn." Isherwood writes from various addresses in California, Cheshire, England, and Cannes, France.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1942-1961.
Call number: mssHM 82401-82421
Creator: Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd., June 2015.

Hamilton, Gerald, 1890-1970. 1 letter (1956, June 26) to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-

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 948.

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. The Miracle: screenplay (notes)

Manuscripts

Carbon copy (typewritten). Autograph note on first page by Isherwood: "Ideas for filming it – with Aldous Huxley."

CI 82.

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Christopher Isherwood letters and postcards to Annie Avis, Emily Machell, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood ; Richard Isherwood diary

Manuscripts

This material includes 7 letters and postcards written by Christopher Isherwood to his nanny, Annie Avis (1911-1933, HM 83257-83261, 83263-83264); 1 letter to his grandmother, Emily Machell-Smith (1921, Dec. 28, HM 83262); 1 postcard to his mother, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood (1937, Mar. 22, HM 83265). Also included is a diary kept by Christopher Isherwood's brother, Richard Isherwood for the year 1956 (HM 83266); there is an inscription from Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood and various B&W photographs pasted into the volume, including photographs of Christopher Isherwood and Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood.

mssHM 83257-83266

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986. To Lincoln Kirstein, 1907-1996

Manuscripts

L.S. (typewritten: 2p.). (Subject: Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973; Cadmus, Paul, 1904-; Charlton, Jim; Heard, Gerald, 1889-1971; Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963; Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986. The Condor and the Cows: a South American Travel Diary; Prabhavananda, Swami, 1893-; Samuels, Lesser; Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959)

HM 81698

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Christopher Isherwood letters to Richard Isherwood

Manuscripts

Three autograph letters from Christopher Isherwood to his younger brother Richard Isherwood; the letters are written from Berlin, Sellin on Insel Rügen, and Mohrin in the early 1930s. HM 83232 describes the taking of the often-reproduced photograph of Isherwood, Stephen Spender and W.H. Auden. Also enclosed are three green cloth cases which originally housed the letters.

mssHM 83231-83233

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Christopher Isherwood letters to Lincoln Kirstein

Manuscripts

The collection includes primarily letters from Isherwood to his friend Kirstein, with a few to and by others, and one poem by Isherwood: On His Queerness [approximately 1950].

mssHM 81664-81741

Christopher Isherwood letters to Gerald Hamilton

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