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Christopher Isherwood letters to Richard Isherwood
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Christopher Isherwood letters and postcards to Annie Avis, Emily Machell, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood ; Richard Isherwood diary
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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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Christopher Isherwood letters to John Zeigel
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Six typed letters, signed, from Christopher Isherwood to John Zeigel, who was living in Jalisco, Mexico, at the time. Most were sent from Isherwood's home in Santa Monica, California, though a few were written during a trip to London. Letters discuss Isherwood's current literary projects, publishing, teaching, and travels, his partner Don Bachardy's artistic career, and friends including W.H. Auden and Gerald Heard. The last letter is dated November 9 but has no year; it is likely from November 1962, soon after the death of Zeigel's partner Ed Halsey.
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Christopher Isherwood letters to John Zeigel
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Six typed letters, signed, from Christopher Isherwood to John Zeigel, who was living in Jalisco, Mexico, at the time. Most were sent from Isherwood's home in Santa Monica, California, though a few were written during a trip to London. Letters discuss Isherwood's current literary projects, publishing, teaching, and travels, his partner Don Bachardy's artistic career, and friends including W.H. Auden and Gerald Heard. The last letter is dated November 9 but has no year; it is likely from November 1962, soon after the death of Zeigel's partner Ed Halsey.
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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986. To Lincoln Kirstein, 1907-1996
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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 Jack Rosen
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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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Christopher Isherwood letters to Gerald Hamilton
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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.
mssHM 82401-82421