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Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents gathered by Carpenter in writing his W.H. AUDEN: A BIOGRAPHY, including correspondence and recollections of Auden from friends and acquaintances, and the typescript of Carpenter's first draft of the book. Correspondents include Sir Cecil Beaton, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Christopher Isherwood, Sir Peter Pears, Frederick Prokosch, Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, and Stephen Spender.
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. The collection is arranged into three series.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Humphrey Carpenter papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Source of acquisition--293. Date of acquisition--04/08/82. Accession number--M-82-08-04.
Carpenter, Humphrey. W. H. Auden : a biography. London : George Allen & Unwin, 1981.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 04/17/89.
2009-06-26 File created.
2012-11-05 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Biographer. Humphrey Carpenter was born in 1946.
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