Manuscripts

A meeting by the river : a play in two acts

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Description: A mimeographed copy with the number "15" written on the top right-hand corner, with original paper cover. A play co-written with Don Bachardy, this copy was sent to Ruth Ford in order for her to consider playing the part of "Mother." Also enclosed is a typewritten letter from Elizabeth R. Woodman (casting consultant) to Ruth Ford, Dec. 29, 1978 (1 p.).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1978, July 11.
Call number: mssHM 83284
Creator: Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., March 22, 2010.

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986, and Bachardy, Don, 1934-. A Meeting by the River : A Play in Two Acts : [photocopy and typewritten]

Manuscripts

(91 p.). With autograph corrections. Also enclosed: autograph notes and revised script pages (55 p.). All originally in orange spring folder.

CI 4209

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Rage in heaven : screenplay and ephemera

Manuscripts

A mimeographed screenplay with paper covers and autograph notes and additions; co-written by Christopher Isherwood and Robert Thoeren. "Rage in Heaven" was a noirish psychological thriller based on a novel by James Hilton (published in 1932), starring Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, and George Sanders. The film was directed by W.S. Van Dyke after the original director, Robert Sinclair, quit. Richard Thorpe was brought in to direct the retakes and this appears to be his shooting script. Also enclosed is a printed press campaign booklet (8 p.) for the film.

mssHM 83255

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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. [A Meeting by the River:] How I began A Meeting by the River, 1965?, Carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 1 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 1096.

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Little Friend: cast list and story of the film

Manuscripts

A mimeographed copy of the credits, cast list and lengthy story for the film "Little Friend," based on the novel by Ernst Lothar; produced by the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Ltd., and directed by Berthold Viertel. The scenario and dialogue were written by Margaret Kennedy and Christopher Isherwood and the 1934 film depicts a young girl at the center of her parents' deteriorating marriage. The copy is stained and creased with slight tears on the bottom of the pages; with light foxing on all pages.

mssHM 83794

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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. The Chase: play

Manuscripts

Carbon copy (typewritten), with the author's autograph notes, and typewritten and autograph corrections).

CI 1.

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Frederick Billings letters to Solomon Foot

Manuscripts

Billings writes that he would consider the vacant law commissioner office of the Southern District of California (HM 20713, written 1851, December 15 in San Francisco), and asks Foot to impress that he would be for Vermont, though he believes he has lived in California long enough to be called a Californian. He writes further of the open office (HM 20714, 1851, December 31, from San Francisco), saying that he would be gratified by the appointment, but does not want "to exhibit too much anxiety for any political office." In HM 20715, written 1862, March 10 in New York, Billings is leaving for California with his wife, and asks Foot to communicate with several mutual friends, including Hiram Barney and Samuel Ford.

mssHM 20713-20715

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