Isherwood
MS. Spender 52
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Isherwood
Shelfmark
MS. Spender 52
Summary
Letters from Spender to ISHERWOOD, Christopher. Includes three contemporary Spender copies of outgoing letters but mainly photocopy Spender letters, including a photocopy of the shared journal of Isherwood and Spender from their stay in Sintra, Portugal, Dec 1935-Mar 1936. Includes photocopies of Spender manuscript poems opening "Never being but always at the edge of being", "Diving through air, gliding like bird", "This is not storm", "Be w[?]ed now by the truthful sign", The Human Condition. Includes a corrected typescript photocopy of Spender's review of Down There On A Visit by Isherwood, 1929-1938, 1940, 1947-1951, 1953-1956, 1958-1965, c. 1967, 1968, 1972-1974, 1976-1977, 1979, 1981-1982, 1984-1985, n.d.
Date
1925-1989, n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (2 folders)
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Collection contents
Correspondence and papers
Named correspondence and papers
Isherwood
