Manuscripts
Collection of Christopher Isherwood ephemera
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Diehl, Digby. 1 letter to Christopher Isherwood, 1904-
Manuscripts
L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.). Previously enclosed in "Tomorrow," between pages 56 & 57, cataloged separately in Ephemera.
CI 3048.
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Christopher Isherwood letters to Jack Rosen
Manuscripts
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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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-. [Draft of review for The Martian Chronicles]
Manuscripts
A.MS. (1 p.). Also: typed draft with variations. Previously enclosed in "Tomorrow," between pages 56 & 57, cataloged separately in Ephemera.
CI 3064.
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Christopher Isherwood letters to Selden Rodman
Manuscripts
Two letters and four postcards to writer and editor Selden Rodman, discussing writing and publishing, and possible contributions to Common Sense, a magazine founded by Rodman. Letters are undated; postcards are dated 1939, 1942, and 1951. All items are fire damaged around the edges, with minimal loss of content.
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Christopher Isherwood letters to Selden Rodman
Manuscripts
Two letters and four postcards to writer and editor Selden Rodman, discussing writing and publishing, and possible contributions to Common Sense, a magazine founded by Rodman. Letters are undated; postcards are dated 1939, 1942, and 1951. All items are fire damaged around the edges, with minimal loss of content.
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Isherwood, Christopher (Manuscripts: Christopher and his Kind)
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.
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