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Anthony Lawlor correspondence on Katherine Mansfield, 1938-1966
41 itemsAutograph and typed letters from various literary people to Lawlor. This correspondence is relevant to his book on Katherine Mansfield, THE MYSTERY OF MAATA, 1946, some during his work on the presumably unpublished manuscript of hers"Maata" some later and some more personal. There are letters from Martin Armstrong, Sylvia Berkman, Princess Marthe Bibesco, Elizabeth Bowen, Ivor Brown, Willa Cather, Isabel C. Clarke, Sir Newman Flower, Edward Morgan Forster, Anne Friis, Robert John Gibbings, Oliver St. J. Gogarty, Miron Grindea, D.B.W. Lewis, Sylvia D. Lynd, Michael McLaverty, Ethel Mannin, W. Somerset Maugham, Charles Morgan, J. Middleton Murry, David Nicholson, Frank Norris, George Oliver, Herbert Read, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Sencourt, Edward A. Shanks, Sir Osbert Sitwell, Lionel Stevenson, L.A.G. Strong, Julian G. Symons, Henry Major Tomlinson, Nelia Gardner White.
Naomi Mitchison papers, 1909-1979
1 linear feetCorrespondence with authors and other well-known figures, and also manuscripts of her own writings.
Siegfried Sassoon papers, 1894-1966
3 linear feetCorrespondence and manuscripts. The collection includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of two volumes of his autobiography: THE OLD CENTURY AND SEVEN MORE YEARS, 1938; and THE WEALD OF YOUTH, 1942. There are also 13 volumes of early notebooks for the period 1894 until 1909 (from age 8 to 22) containing drafts of over 200 poems, 19 short stories and many drawings. There is some correspondence about the autobiography. Also includes 21 letters from Arnold Bennett, 51 letters from Lady Ottoline Morrell, 26 letters from H.M. Tomlinson, 19 letters from Sassoon to his mother-in-law, Lady Gatty, 22 letters from Sassoon to his son, letters from many others, and a typescript of his poem "A love affair" with holograph note