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Collection
Identifier: 2015-052
Scope and Contents
Letters from Jean Rhys to Alexis Lykiard; photographs and snapshots featuring Jean Rhys to be used for proposed photo-illustrations for Lykiard's book, Jean Rhys Revisited; 3 audio cassette recording of ; and 2 video tapes (content unknown).
Dates:
1969 - 1976
Collection
Identifier: 1988-013
Scope and Contents
Consists of editorial, production and publicity files for approximately 2000 books published by this London firm. Includes correspondence with Jean Rhys, Stevie Smith, and V.S. Naipaul, among many others. Also represents a great deal of the work of Deutsch editor Diana Athill who influenced women's writing in Britain.
Dates:
1952 - 1995
Collection
Identifier: 1979-011
Scope and Contents
Archive of a Paris literary periodical published from 1929-1931 consists of correspondence from various individuals (including Aldington, Sherwood Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams and Thornton Wilder) to Bifur's editor, Nino Frank. The correspondence is addressed to Frank unless otherwise noted and is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Dates:
1929 - 1931
Collection
Identifier: 1976-002
Scope and Contents
This artificial collection was begun in 1976 with the acquisition of Connolly's library, which contained some manuscript materials. Gradually, further manuscripts and Connolly specific books were added. Literary critic, editor of Horizon magazine, and writer, these papers document Connolly's life and career
Dates:
1912 - 1974
Collection
Identifier: 1975-003
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence between Richardson and Eliot Bliss, Peggy Kirkcaldy, Rose Odle and John Hinsdale Thompson, John Cowper-Powys, Phyllis Cowper-Powys to Rose Odle, H. G. Wells and Miriam Grossman to Leon Edel. The correspondence dates from 1928 to 1952. Also included in the collection are typescript and carbon copy typescript transcriptions of articles by Richardson, reminiscences of Richardson by Elizabeth Odle Turner and Pauline Marrian, and a checklist and annotated...
Dates:
1909 - 1959
Collection
Identifier: 2005-003
Collection
Identifier: 1988-007
Scope and Contents
J. Howard Woolmer collecton of Poetry Bookshop research materials consists largely of Woolmer's research materials and pre-publication drafts of the bibliography but includes PBS manuscripts and ephemeral printing. The collection is organized into two series: Series 1: Correspondence: Joy Grant: letters from British writers and collegues of Harold Monro in reply to Grant as she wrote Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967) including correspondents...
Dates:
1913 - 1988
Collection
Identifier: 1988-006
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of 68 letters, half of which are from J.R. Ackerley to Patricia Avis Strang Murphy the wife of Anglo-Irish poet Richard Murphy. The other 34 letters, addressed to Patricia, are from mutual friends of Ackerley and Murphy, which include Kingsley Amis, Dan Jacobson, Patrick Kavanagh, Bruce Montgomery, Edna O'Brien, Brian O'Nolan, Honor Tracy and Richard Murphy. Included with the collection is a lengthy essay prepared by Colin Franklin, which discusses Ackerley, his home...
Dates:
1951 - 1968
Collection
Identifier: 1977-005
Scope and Contents
Consists of 33 autograph, typescript and carbon copy typescript letters and one typescript postcard primarily between John Fowles, Herbert van Thal, and Gillon Aitken, and date from 1963-1978. Also included among the papers are the typescript and carbon copy typescript drafts of The French Lieutenant's Woman; gallery posters, black/white and color stills, and press release kits for the film adaptations of The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Magus; 35mm film trailer from the...
Dates:
circa 1960s-1970s
Collection
Identifier: 1979-020
Scope and Contents
The papers are organized into three categories: 1) Correspondence: handwritten and typescript letters between Bell and fellow poets and writer’s organizations, dating from 1932 to 1967. 2) Writings: twenty-three manuscript notebooks containing drafts and draft fragments of poems, reviews, and letters; handwritten drafts, typescript and carbon copy typescripts of loose poems and poem fragments including the autograph, typescript, and carbon copy typescript draft poems to be included in...
Dates:
1932 - 1969
