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Christopher Isherwood photographs on Saltair Avenue

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    Christopher Isherwood photograph

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    A B&W photograph of Christopher Isherwood; signed on verso by Orphanos.

    mssHM 82996

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    Leigh Wiener photograph of Christopher Isherwood

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    A signed and dated photograph of Christopher Isherwood taken in his Santa Monica home.

    mssHM 83283

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    Christopher Isherwood letters to Richard Isherwood

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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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    Christopher Isherwood July 12 1979 : drawing by Don Bachardy

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    A printed paper B&W poster of a Bachardy drawing of Christopher Isherwood, advertising the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.

    mssHM 82991

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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 Lincoln Kirstein

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    The collection includes primarily letters from Christopher Isherwood to his friend Lincoln Kirstein, with a few to and by others, and one poem by Isherwood: On His Queerness [approximately 1950].

    mssHM 81664-81741