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Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018

 Person

Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1980-02-01

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 2023.020.1.4.002
Scope and Contents

"This has been my first letter to you for five and a half years. I write it to let you know that I am quite lost without you (I feel less myself); that I realize now that you have given me an idea of myself that I need and that I have been thinking in the last two months of making the big step and legitimizing the whole thing..."

Dates: 1980-02-01
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers / Correspondence from Naipaul to Gooding

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1983-02-01

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 2023.020.1.4.003
Scope and Contents

"I was sick about the pearl necklace; and am even sicker thinking about the coon who stole it."

Dates: 1983-02-01
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers / Correspondence from Naipaul to Gooding

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, Sunday

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 2023.020.1.4.004
Scope and Contents

"Night after night I compare these hymns to you; and I know that in the morning the words will mock me, reminding me of what I haven't had. I will come to you again and soon; you will receive me. You will lie beneath me; I will enter you on that ridge inside your red moist mouth down below..."

Dates: Sunday
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers / Correspondence from Naipaul to Gooding

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, Undated

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 2023.020.1.4.005
Scope and Contents

"You will be thoroughly whipped if you think any disloyal thoughts - whipped all over your lovely white arse"

Dates: Undated
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers / Correspondence from Naipaul to Gooding

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, Undated

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 2023.020.1.4.006
Scope and Contents

"For Margaret - after forty years, Vido. bought in December 72; sent in May 73."

Dates: Undated
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers / Correspondence from Naipaul to Gooding

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1973-01-29

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 2023.020.1.4.007
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Consists of correspondence from V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, photographs, negatives, notes, clippings, ephemera, and correspondence between Naipaul and others.

Dates: 1973-01-29
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers / Correspondence from Naipaul to Gooding

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1973-05-15

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 2023.020.1.4.008
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Consists of correspondence from V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, photographs, negatives, notes, clippings, ephemera, and correspondence between Naipaul and others.

Dates: 1973-05-15
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers / Correspondence from Naipaul to Gooding

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1973-05-15

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 2023.020.1.4.009
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Consists of correspondence from V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, photographs, negatives, notes, clippings, ephemera, and correspondence between Naipaul and others.

Dates: 1973-05-15
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers / Correspondence from Naipaul to Gooding

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, Undated

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 2023.020.1.4.010
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Consists of correspondence from V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, photographs, negatives, notes, clippings, ephemera, and correspondence between Naipaul and others.

Dates: Undated
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers / Correspondence from Naipaul to Gooding

V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, 1976-02-16

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: 2023.020.1.5.002
Scope and Contents

"TELEPHONED UNSUCCESSFULLY YOUR BIRTHDAY MUCH LOVE / MUCH MISSING GREATLY HARASSED INDIAN ARTICLE UNABLE WRITE IMMEDIATELY VIDO"

Dates: 1976-02-16
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers / Telegrams from Naipaul to Gooding

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