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McFarlin Library. University of Tulsa.  2933 E. 6th St.  Tulsa, OK.  74104-3123 (OKT - OkTU)

Christopher Isherwood papers

Collection 1979-012 

Dates:  1909-1954.

Extent:  (10 boxes, 1 oversize).

Level of Description:  Item level.

Name of creator(s):  Christopher Isherwood.

Date of creation:  Undetermined.

Scope and Content:   The papers are comprised of correspondence to and from Isherwood’s mother, Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood, and his brother, Richard, dating from 1936 through 1954. Other correspondence includes letters (most of which contain references to Isherwood) from various individuals to Kathleen or to Richard dating from 1915 through 1978. There is also miscellaneous material belonging to Kathleen which includes her handwritten notes and transcriptions of reviews and articles pertaining to Isherwood and his writings, and a personal journal for 1909. Also contained within the collection are typescripts of Isherwood’s writings, diaries and notebooks kept during his school days, photographs of himself from infancy to middle age, photographs of relatives and friends, and a photograph album of his trip to the Canary Islands and Spanish Morocco. Miscellaneous material includes press cuttings of book reviews and articles, an admission ticket for an Isherwood lecture in 1937, 2 calling cards, a scrapbook of paintings and drawings of Marple Hall by Isherwood’s parents, and an Ezra Pound genealogy and chronology.

Administrative/Biographical History:  The correspondence is arranged alphabetically into two groups: letters to Kathleen and letters to Richard. Each group is followed by unidentified correspondents. Next, are Isherwood’s writings, arranged alphabetically by title followed by diaries and notebooks, photographs, oversize, and miscellaneous material.

Access and Copyright:

Language and Scripts:  English.

Finding aid/Inventory:  Finding aid is available online.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition:   Purchased from Bertram Rota at various times throughout the 1980s.

Date(s) of description:   Milissa Burkart, Feb 1990.

Access Points:

Subject Headings 

 
Personal names 


Corporate names

Places
 

Inventory
Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood
  Correspondence    
1:1

Alderson, Cicely and Frank. 1941.

Balhurst, Margaret. 1942.

Bary, Mary A. 1941-1942.

Bell, Margaret. 1954.

Bernhard-Smith, Molly. 1940-1943.

    
       
1:2 Bradshaw-Isherwood, Richard. 1937-1938.    
1:3 May 1938-Nov 1938.    
1:4 Feb 1939-Sept 1939.    
1:5 Oct 1939-Dec 1939.    
1:6 Jan 1940-May 1940.    
1:7 Jun 1940-Feb 1941, undated.    
       
1:8

Cobbold, Edith M. 1932, 1940.

Collett, Leonara J. 1941.

Cronchey, Geoffrey R. 1944.

Cronchey, Robert J.  Undated.

Cronchey, T.H. 1943-1944.

    
       
1:9

Durrant, Isabel. 1953-1954, 1959.

Fogg, A. 1944, 1948.

Fowler, Lilian. 1939-1941.

    
       
1:10

Green, Dora. 1924, undated.

Harvey, Mrs. E. 1941-1943.

Hastings, A.G. 1941.  Handwritten and signed letter to Hastings from Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood. 1941.

Hatton, Jose. 1952. (See also Fogg, A.)

Hudson, B.C. 1942.

   
       
1:11 Isherwood, Christopher. 1931, 1937, undaeted.    
       
1:12

Lamb, Phillippa. 1943.

Lance, Ada C. 1915, 1941-1949.

Lane, Mary S. 1940-1946..

Leach, E.E. 1941.

   
       
2:1

Mayer, Alice M.  Undated.

Mills, Dorothy. 1939.

Newton, Caroline. 1941. Handwritten and signed letter to Newton from Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood.

Nicholson, Helen. 1958.

Peat, Elizabeth. 1940-1942, incomplete date.

    
       
2:2 Pell, K.M. 1940-1945.    
       
2:3

Rivaz, Dick. 1942, 1945.

Robertson, R.B. 1915.

Royal Naval War Libraries. 1942.

Scrymson-Nicol, E.M. 1926, 1942-1951.

    
       
2:4

Simpson, Ethel. 1942, undated.

Smith, Winifred. 1942.

Townend, Basil. 1941.

Travis, Margaret. 1953.

Wilson, Amy M. 1942-1958. .

Wilson, Christopher. 1931.

    
       
  Unidentifieds alphabetically by first name    
2:5 Esther. 1940-1942, undated.    
2:6 Heinz. 1937.    
2:7-8 Others.    
       
  Miscellaneous    
2:9

Correspondence to/from people other than the Isherwoods.

Publication announcements, pamphlet on schizophrenia.

Pencil diagram of the layout of a church yard.

Handwriiten draft titled,  "Appreciation of Wyberslech", by Roy Vince, 2p.

Fuel and food ration books.

Death announcements, obituaries, memorials.

Press cuttings.

Empty post-marked and addressed envelopes.

    
       
2:10

Items written in Kathleen Bradshaw-Isherwood's hand: Selected quotes from reviews of The Dog Beneath the Skin. 1935.

Transcription of a segment of a blurb from the American edition of The Dog Beneath the Skin.

Biographical information about C. Isherwood.

Notes on reviews of Goodby to Berlin.

Transcription of a review by Lilo Linke of Goodby to Berlin.

List of foreign languages into which C. Isherwood's books were translated.

    
       
2:11 Journal. Oct 4-Nov 4, 1909.    
       
Richard Bradshaw-Isherwood
  Correspondencd    
3:1

Alderson, F.G.S. 1942.

Aldred, Anne. 1963-1964.

    
3:2 1965-1966.    
3:3 1967-1970.    
3:4 1971-1972.    
3:5 1973-1974.    
3:6 1975,1977, undated.    
 

Angelo, Ann. 1970.

Arnold, E.J.  Undated.

    
       
3:7

[Balhurst], Margaret. 1957-1960.

Bentley, R. 1941.

    
       
3:8 Bernhard-Smith, Mollie. 1960-1965, incomplete date.    
       
3:9 Blease, Fred. 1958-1970, undated.    
       
3:10

Bolton, Aileen. 1951, undated.

Bradley, E.D. 1963.

    
       
3:11 Bradshaw-Isherwood, Kathleen. 1936-1938.    
4:1 1939-1940.    
4:2 1947-1954.    
       
4:3 Bronton, Maude. 1939, 1944, 1950-1959.    
       
4:4

Bulley, [Rosamira]. 1978.

Burrell, June.  Undated.

Bury, M.S. 1953.

Butler, A.T. (See Windsor Herald).

Collett, Leonora J. 1958-1960, incomplete date.

Cotton, Mrs. 1935, 1941.

    
       
4:5 Cronchey, Richard. 1963-1968.    
       
4:6 Cronchey, T.H. 1928, 1962-1974.    
       
4:7

Dobson, Millie. 1966.

Durrant, Isabel. 1950, incomplete date.

Edwards, Jean. 1964.

Fond, Ina. 1975.

Fowler, Lilian. 1928.

    
       
4:8

Glover, Isabel. 1944.

Grafton-Robinson, Gwenllian. 1960, 1973-1974, undated.

    
       
4:9 Grant, Chrissie L. 1951-1952, undated.    
       
4:10 Greene, Cecil. 1941, 1959-1966.    
       
4:11 Greene, Edward. 1965.    
4:12 Feb 1966-Oct 1966.    
5:1 Aug 1966-1967.    
       
5:2 Greene, Eva. 1965-1966.    
       
5:3 Isherwood, Christopher. 1973.    
       
5:4

Key, Robert E. 1960.

Land, Jean.  Undated.

Langdon, Ethel. 1967.

Lees, Mrs. 1951.

Marmaduke. 1973-1974.

    
       
5:5 Marshall, A. and Snow, E. M. 1964-1966.    
       
5:6

Mason, Bernard. 1954-1955.

Norman, Jean. 1965.

Nunn, M. 1965.

Owen, Gwenllian. (See Grafton-Robinson, Gwenllian.)

    
       
5:7

Pell, K.M. 1935, 1960.

Reid, Mary. 1950.

Robson, Cicily. 1958, 1967.

Smith Fort & Symonds. 1979.

Snow, Joyce. 1965-1967.

Snow, E.M. (See Marshall, A.)

Snowden, Mabel. 1951.

    
       
5:8

Stanley, John. 1972.

Storer, L. Day. 1963.

Tayleur, Ethel T. 1952.

[Taylor], Marion. 1951, undated.

Townend, H. Basil. 1960.

    
       
5:9

Waller, M. 1958.

Watts, Mrs. 1952, undated.

Whitlock, K. 1958.

Whiting, Ada G. 1955-1959, undated.

Wiles, E.W. 1950.

Windsor Herald. 1943.

Wood, Winifred (ALS from Richard Bradshaw-Isherwood). 1959.

Xavier, J. Beatrice. 1950.

    
       
  Unidentifieds alphabetically by first name    
5:10 Brenda. 1964-1965, undated.    
15:11 Clive. 1967-1968, 1970.    
15:12 Frances. 1964, 1973, 1975.    
6:1 Jose and Joe. 1944-1952, undated.    
6:2 Marjorie [C-B]. 1952-1956.    
6:3 Nora. 1956-1966.    
6:4 Roger. 1964, undated.    
6:5 Ursula. 1954-1968, undated.    
6:6-11 Others.    
       
  Miscellaneous    
6:12

Receipts.

Empty post-marked and addressed envelopes.

2 inspirational cards.

    
       
Christopher Isherwood
  Writings    
7:1 "A Berlin Diary. (Winter 1932-1933.)" Incomplete TMs draft with AMs revisions; pages numbered 35-55.    
       
7:2 "From Hankow to Shanghai, Through The Back Door." (with W. H. Auden) ccTMs draft with AMs revisions, 20p.    
       
7:3

"Hankow--Winter and Spring, 1938." (with W.H. Auden)   Carbon copy typed draft with handwritten revisions, 24p.

Journey to War. 1939. (with W. H. Auden)

    
       
7:4

Carbon copy typed travel diary with handwritten revisions and printer's notations.

"London To Hong Kong,"  6 typed poems by Auden, 6p.  Forward, 2p.

    
7:5 p1-68.    
7:6 p69-133.    
7:7 p134-170.    
       
7:8 "In Time of War. A Sonnet Sequence."  17 typed sonnets by Auden, p221-248.    
7:9 "Commentary,"  p249-256.    
       
7:10 China Information Committee News Releases. No. 105 and 109, 1938.    
       
7:11 Lions and Shadows:  An Education in the Twenties.  1938.  Incomplete typed and carbon copy typed draft with handwritten revisions, p441-586.    
       
7:12 "The Nowaks."  Typed draft with handwritten revisions; title page, p1-34, 34, 35-55.    
       
7:13 "On Ruegen Island. (Summer 1931.)"   Typed draft with handwritten revisions; title page, p1-35.    
       
7:14 Folder which contained the above.    
       
 

Diaries

    
8:1 c1917-1918.  "Jottings From A Holiday Diary."  Handwritten travel journal with photographs, postcards, etc.    
8:2 1918.  Includes Christopher Isherwood's last two terms at St. Edmund's and the Easter and summer holidays before going to Repton.    
8:3 1933.  Daily entries from Jan-May; sporadic entries from Oct-Dec; address section towards the back.    
8:4 1937.  Daily entries; records of meetings with friends and others; notes on the progress of his work; address section towards the back; records of payments received from publishers, newspapers, etc.    
       
  Notebooks    
8:5

1919.  Handwritten notes taken during a preparatory address for confirmation.

c1920-1921.  Handwritten notes related to school studies during later years at Repton.

    
8:6 Botany.    
8:7 Chemistry.    
8:8 English Literature.    
9:1 English History.    
9:2 Factors In Modern History....    
9:3 The Holy Roman Empire....    
9:4-5 History.    
9:6 Poetry Commonplace Book.    
9:7 Practical Physics.    
10:1 Practical Zoology.    
10:2  Zoology.    
       
  Photographs    
10:3 16 photographs of Isherwood from infancy to middle age.    
10:4 23 photographs of family and friends, unidentifieds.    
10:5 Photograph album: Canary Islands and Spanish Morocco. 1934.    
       
   Miscellaneous    
10:6

Postcard to "Nanny."   Undated.

Postcard to Miss A. Avis. 1932.

Press cuttings of book reviews.

Article about Isherwood in Reader's News, Mar, 1940.

Admission card for Isherwood lecture, Nov 14, 1937.

Postcard of a house in Sweden.

2 Isherwood calling cards.

Blank stationary from Corpus Christie College.

    
       
  Oversize    
11:ALL

Photograph of Christopher and Richard Isherwood, age 8 years and 1 2/3 years. June 1913.

Photograph of Isherwood and W.H. Auden. New York City, 1938.

2 photographs of the Repton class. 1919-1920.

Watercolors, drawings, and photographs of Marple Hall produced by Isherwood's parents, bound in a scrapbook.

    
 
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