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Box 1

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Contains 22 Results:

"Personal Prejudices"

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Typed poem with handwritten revisions, 2p.

Dates: 1923 - 1980

"Rat Week"

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Typed poem with handwritten revisions by Osbert Sitwell.

Dates: 1923 - 1980

Manuscript notebook containing handwritten drafts and draft fragments including:

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"El Camino de Santiago."

Article on Spain.

Preliminary drafts of a proposed "Credo":

"Death of a fly;" "Fantasy on a painting by Hieronymus Bosch;" "Matterig;" "Floral games;" "Actor found dead in an empty flat."

2 versions of a postscript to an unidentified work.

Unidentified.

Dates: 1923 - 1980

Edith Sitwell. A Biography.

 Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Geoffrey Elborn material is subdivided into writings and correspondence. The writings consist of research and manuscript materials relating to Elborn's, Edith Sitwell. A Biography (1981). This material includes 6 audio cassette tape-recorded interviews with Lorna Andrade, Geoffrey Gorer, Alanah Harper, Alec Guiness, John Lehmann, and Stephen Spender; handwritten, typed, and photocopied typescript drafts in several versions (including 4 manuscript notebooks and a signed typescript of a...
Dates: 1923 - 1980

Audio Tapes

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Elborn's recorded interviews with Lorna Andrade, Geoffrey Gorer, Alanah Harper, Alec Guinness, John Lehmann, and Stephen Spender.

Dates: 1923 - 1980

A Unicorn Among Lions.

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Working notes, each piece numbered and left in the order in which it was found

Dates: 1923 - 1980

Pages 1-202.

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Working notes, each piece numbered and left in the order in which it was found

Dates: 1923 - 1980

Handwritten and typed research notes, the majority of which are written on 4"x6" index cards; 1855 cards.

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Scope and Contents From the Series: The writings consist of research and manuscript material relating to Pearson's biography, Facades; Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell. (1978). This material includes handwritten and typed research and interview notes (the majority of which are written/typed onto 1,855 4x6" index cards); typed notes on Christabel Aberconway, Harold Acton, Lorna Andrade, Cecil Beaton, Fr. Philip Caraman, Fr. Martin D'Arcy, Geoffrey Gorer, David Horner, John Lehmann, Frank Magro, Elizabeth Salter, Osbert...
Dates: 1923 - 1980

[Aberconway], Christabel to Zosia Kochanski , 1951 Oct 4

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" My dear Zosia, This is to take you Osbert's and my love. I am staying with him in this unbelievably beautiful country where the sun shines all day...." Handwritten and signed postcard.

Dates: 1951 Oct 4

Clark, Leonard to Miss Fraser , 1956 Nov 21

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"Dear Miss Fraser, I now return Dr. Sitwell's MSS. of Street Songs..." Typed and signed letter, 1s.

Dates: 1956 Nov 21