Content Description

Collection of publisher's files relating to American novelist David Plante and four of his novels: Figures in Bright Air, The Family, The Country and The Woods and a memoir he wrote on his relationships with women and his life as a young writer in London in the late 1970s, Difficult Women, a memoir of three: Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, Germaine Greer. Also includes material regarding a proposed novel titled "The Secret".

Scope and Contents Approximately 28,300 letters addressed to the London Centre of the PEN Club complemented by carbon copies of approximately 23,200 letters from the General Secretaries and their respective assistants. The correspondence spans roughly the years 1940 to 1980, bridging Herman Ould's administrative command which ended wih his death in 1951, the years 1951-1974 in which David Carver was International Secretary, Tresurer, and General Secretary of the London Centre, and more recentlly Pater...

Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence from poets, artists, musicians, writers, and publishers to Michael Andre, founder and editor. The archive includes manuscripts (not used for publication), advertising, gallery announcements, circulars, photographs, art work and mechanicals, transcriptions of interviews with poets (including Ginsberg), and recordings of interviews and readings.