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9481. Add MS 89227/4/1-3

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Add MS 89227/4/1-3
Title:
Correspondence and papers relating to George D. Painter’s biography of Marcel Proust
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence with publishers and fellow Proust scholars relating to British, French, and Italian editions. Painter’s biography was originally published in two volumes in 1959 and 1965. A revised, single volume was published in 1989 in the UK and in 1992 in France.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Portuguese
Date Range:
1958-1993
Extent:
3 files

9482. Add MS 89227/4/2

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Add MS 89227/4/2
Title:
Correspondence and papers relating to George D. Painter’s biography of Marcel Proust (II)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1988-1993
Extent:
1 folder

9483. Add MS 89227/4/3

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Add MS 89227/4/3
Title:
Press reviews of George Painter’s biography of Marcel Proust
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Portuguese
Date Range:
1959-1989
Extent:
1 folder

9484. Add MS 89227/5

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Add MS 89227/5
Title:
Book reviews by George D. Painter
Scope & Content:
Includes reviews of books by or about Proust, Kafka, Angus Wilson, Thomas Mann, John Steinbeck, Henry Williamson, George Barker, John Cowper Powys, Gide, Malraux, Sartre, Auden, Rimbaud, Joyce Cary, Matthew Arnold, Anatole France, Montesquiou. The majority of the reviews are from The Listener an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1948-1988
Extent:
1 folder

9485. Add MS 89227/7

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Add MS 89227/7
Title:
George D. Painter's papers relating to François-René de Chateaubriand
Scope & Content:
Includes: an autograph letter by Chateaubriand [no year], purchased by Painter in 1970; correspondence with the Société Chateuabriand and the French Embassy in London relating to a proposal to site a blue plaque on a building occupied by Chateuabriand in London; correspondence of Painter and Pie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
bef 1849-1989
Extent:
1 folder

9486. Add MS 89227/11

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Add MS 89227/11
Title:
Miscellaneous papers of George D. Painter
Scope & Content:
Includes: galley proof of Painter's The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. An introduction on the dream, the dreamer, the artist, and the printer (London: Eugrammia Press, 1963); a prospectus for the Eugrammia Press's 1964 collotype facsimile of Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Apocalypse; a copy of Le d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1963-1970
Extent:
1 folder

9487. Add MS 89231/11/37

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Add MS 89231/11/37
Title:
D'Oyly Carte: Correspondence and Papers Concerning Productions of The Mikado in French
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning productions of The Mikado in French, including newspaper cuttings (1965-66).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1954-1969
Extent:
1 file

9488. Add MS 89231/11/52

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Add MS 89231/11/52
Title:
D'Oyly Carte: Correspondence and Papers Concerning The Gondoliers (1)
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning productions of The Gondoliers. The file includes the cast list for the 1963/1964 season, and a number of newspaper cuttings. Some letters written in French.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1924-1966
Extent:
1 file

9489. Add MS 89231/25/43

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Add MS 89231/25/43
Title:
Cox-Ife Bequest to D'Oyly Carte Archive: Letters Received from Librairie Hachette and Associated Correspondence
Scope & Content:
Letters received from Librairie Hachette of Paris regarding Cox-Ife's musical contribution to Le répétiteur d'anglais, recordings to support a course of English language instruction for young French learners prepared by P. M. Richard and Wendy Hall. The file includes letters from Wendy Hall. Fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1964-1979
Extent:
1 file

9490. Add MS 89235

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Add MS 89235
Title:
Archive of Alfred Forbes Johnson
Scope & Content:
Letter and postcard correspondence written by Alfred during his time serving in France and Belgium from 1914 to 1919, and sent to his wife Essie, plus diaries of his experience, written retrospectively, and personal mementoes including postcards and newspaper cuttings. Also includes letters from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1919
Extent:
3 boxes of 473 items of correspondence and postcard items, 3 diaries, 7 maps.

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