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Creator
Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Isherwood
Physical description
75 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Access to materials
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, and portraits.

Biographical/historical information

Christopher Isherwood was a British expatriate who emigrated to America in 1939. He authored novels, plays, screenplays, expositions, and translations of the Vedanta.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, and portraits. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of plays written with W. H. Auden, articles by Howard Griffin and James Stern about Isherwood, and reviews by John Maynard Keynes. Also present is correspondence, dating from 1926 to 1975, from the author to Benjamin Britten, Rupert Doone, Howard Griffin, Alfred Kazin, Olive Mangeot, Elizabeth Mayer, Judith Moffett, and Glenway Wescott, as well as letters from Herbet Mitgang to Isherwood, dating from 1967 to 1975. There are letters to Isherwood from W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Herbert Mitgang, D. A. Parry, and Glenway Wescott, dating from 1939 to 1975.

The Christopher Isherwood collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Some material was previously owned by Caroline Newton and the Group Theatre Archive.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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