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Manuscripts
Leigh Wiener photograph of Christopher Isherwood
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
A B&W photograph of Christopher Isherwood; signed on verso by Orphanos.
mssHM 82996
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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.
mssCIJZ
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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.
mssCIJZ
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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.
mssCIPT
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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.
mssCIJR
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The three photographs include: (a) photo of Christopher Isherwood sitting at a desk in an office; (b) photo of bookshelves; and (c) photo of sink with light above it. These photographs were taken in the apartment on Saltair Avenue, Los Angeles, where Isherwood lived from 1952 to 1953. The photographer is unknown.
mssHM 83417 (a-c)