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Title

Studies of Spender

Shelfmark

MS. 6647/151

Summary

Comprises:

Correspondence relating to the publication of the Jul 1997 edition of Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing, entitled 'Sir Stephen Spender: A Celebration', 1995-1997

One page 'brief recollection of Stephen Spender' by Ewald Osers, Oct 2001

Five page fragment of quotations by notable people on Stephen Spender, n.d.

Two page text 'Stephen Spender: Un Portrait Par Dominique Nabokov', n.d.

Various corrected works comprising: Corrections by John Sutherland for Ian Hamilton's critical essay on Stephen Spender in Against Oblivion (2001); printout of suggested corrections for an unknown work about Stephen Spender (a Penguin paperback); a manuscript page of suggestions for topics to cover in an unknown biography of Stephen Spender (possibly John Sutherland's offical biography); manuscript footnotes to an unknown work (in Natasha Spender's hand); photocopy of Natasha's corrections for a work by Paul Binding (1981); two corrected internet printouts, including the Wikipedia page on Stephen Spender; miscellaneous manuscript and photocopy corrections by Natasha Spender to works by third parties, 1981, 2005, 2009, n.d.

Printout of a Matthew Spender essay on a 9 Dec 1977 visit to Henry Moore with his father Stephen Spender, Jun 1992

A treatment for a filmed version of Spender's book World Within World, with a letter from Natasha Spender, n.d.

Text on Stephen Spender's unfinished novel Miss Pangbourne, 1995