Manuscripts
Christopher Isherwood letters to Gerald Hamilton
Image not available
You might also be interested in
Image not available
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.
Image not available
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.
Image not available
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
Image not available
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
Image not available
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
Image not available
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