Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Christopher Isherwood interviews and performances of his works, broadcast over KPFA and KPFK
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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
This interview took place on April 18, 1971 at the California home of Christopher Isherwood. The material includes a typewritten, corrected transcript of the interview which contains corrections and comments by Isherwood (in pencil) and Bohle (in pen) (HM 83267); the transcript may not be complete as it begins on page 6. Also included is the original audiocassette of the interview and (4) compact disc copies (HM 83268 a-e).
mssHM 83267-83268
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This was filmed at an event at the Huntington Library celebrating Christopher Isherwood and his works; readers include, among others: Don Bachardy, Sue Hodson, Dan Luckenbill, Mickey and Jan Rooney, Gloria Stuart and Michael York.
mssHM 83285
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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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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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A signed and dated photograph of Christopher Isherwood taken in his Santa Monica home.
mssHM 83283
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A printed paper B&W poster of a Bachardy drawing of Christopher Isherwood, advertising the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.
mssHM 82991