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Tomislav Sabljak (born 1934 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian writer, translator, and retired university professor, associated with the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the University of Zagreb. The collection comprises letters, postcards, and a telegram received by Tomislav Sabljak at Zagreb in Yugoslavia, later Croatia, from English poets W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, and Stephen Spender, as well as Americans Mark Schorer, author, and Karl Shapiro, poet, dated 1963-1972, and 1995. The correspondence, conveying a sense of literary fellowship, chiefly concerns the translation of the writers' works into Croatian, and their publication. Travel plans are also discussed. Auden and Spender answer questions about meanings held in their poems, with Spender explaining two terms with small pen drawings (1966 January 6). Present are thirteen autograph and typed letters signed by W. H. Auden, and a telegram, 1964-1972, including the typed text of his poem "August 1968" (1969 February 14); eight autograph and typed letters signed by Stephen Spender, 1964-1967, 1995; two typed letters signed by T. S. Eliot, 1963 August 27 (aerogramme) and 1964 May 7, thanking Sabljak for articles he sent; and a typed letter signed by Ted Hughes, 1968 December 3, enclosing typescripts of three poems for translation: "Carrion Tiresias Examines the Sacrifice," "A Kill," and "Notes for a Little Play." Two postcards from Mark Schorer in Italy, 1964, concern his intention to visit Zagreb, and a typed letter signed by Karl Shapiro from Nebraska, 1966 February 23, expresses his thanks. The writers mention Auden and Spender, respectively. Also present is an undated autograph letter signed by Natasha Spender, postmarked 1995 August 31, advising of her husband's death less

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), whom he first met in 1919. Carrington married his friend Ralph (Reginald S.) Partridge (1894-1960) in 1921; 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 less