Diary and papers relating to D.C. [Dora Carrington] 1925-1926 : typescript copy with autograph manuscript revisions

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{"value"=>"186319", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS 186319", "type"=>"local_call"}

origination

{"value"=>"Brenan, Gerald", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Diary and papers relating to D.C. [Dora Carrington] 1925-1926 : typescript copy with autograph manuscript revisions"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1932 or 1933", "type"=>"inclusive"}

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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 item (124 pages) ; 26 x 21 cm housed in springboard binder 28 x 24 cm"}]}

note

{"value"=>"<p>Place and date of creation supplied from: Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan. Gerald Brenan : the interior castle : a biography (London: Faber & Faber, 1992; ebook edition 2014). See chap. 14, \"Marriage.\"</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>A complete copy in Spain, with Brenan's 1964 preface and list describing persons mentioned, was translated into Spanish and published in 2012: Brenan, Gerald. Diarios sobre Dora Carrington y otros escritos (1925-1932). Edited by Carlos Pranger. Translated by Laura Naranjo and Carmen Torres García. Málaga: Editorial Confluencias, 2012</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Inscription on inner front wrapper: \"Gerald Brenan / (This copy left with R.S.P.)\" At page 124: \"End. (This diary is continued by Diary and Journal 1927-1932.)\"</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Binding: Commercial black cloth spring binder, with loose inner cardboard wrapper</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

langmaterial

{"value"=>"Text in English and Spanish"}

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eng

spa

relatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<p>Sources for this work can be found in Brenan's papers. The chief holdings are at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin; and the Fundación Gerald Brenan, Málaga, Spain</p>"}

acqinfo

{"method"=>"Purchase", "source"=>"Peter Harrington Limited", "date"=>"2023", "value"=>"<p>Purchase, Peter Harrington Limited, 2023</p>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Gerald Brenan (Edward Fitz-Gerald Brenan, 1894-1987) was a British writer and hispanist whose notable works include The Spanish Labyrinth and South from Granada. This item, Diary and papers relating to D.C. [Dora Carrington] 1925-1926 (Brenan's title), in typescript carbon copy with his autograph manuscript revisions, is the first part of Brenan's account of the end of his love affair with Bloomsbury artist Dora Carrington (1893-1932). They first met in 1919, and began their affair in 1921, the year Carrington married his friend Ralph (Reginald S.) Partridge (1894-1960). Partridge lived with her and Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) at Ham Spray House. After Carrington died by suicide in 1932, Brenan compiled selections from his diaries and correspondence about their relationship, with added reflections. The first part of the work tells of their breakup in 1925, although sporadic contact continued. The second part, not found for this copy, covers the years 1927-1932; it tells of a final estrangement, his life with Gamel Woolsey, and the deaths of Strachey and Carrington. Brenan's diary entries, written chiefly in England, date from August 1925 until his departure for France in May 1926. Topics also include his social circle and Bloomsbury friends; his encounters with other women; his health, dreams, and finances; family visits and travels; and the progress of various writing projects. A few sentences or phrases are written in Spanish. Entries are followed by \"Some papers relating to D.C.,\" spanning 1923-1926. These comprise diary entries and letters from Brenan to others, including Carrington and her friend Helen Anrep. Most of the letters were left unsent. The typescript sheets, with text on rectos only, are numbered by hand. The sheets are loose in a cardboard wrapper inscribed by Gerald Brenan, and placed in a springboard binder"}

custodhist

{"value"=>"<p>Brenan left this copy with Ralph Partridge; it was later held in the papers of Richard Heron Ward.</p>"}

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1 item (124 pages) ; 26 x 21 cm housed in springboard binder 28 x 24 cm

prefercite

{"value"=>"Diary and papers relating to D.C. [Dora Carrington] 1925-1926 : typescript copy with autograph manuscript revisions, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library"}

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