Includes correspondence and papers relating to Painter's work on Proust, Gide, Chateaubriand, and the Vinland Map. Also contains book reviews and poems by Painter.
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...
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...
Correspondence of others collected by George D. Painter
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Contains a letter from Hugh Kingsmill to [Victor] Pritchett, 1948; a letter to Georges Cattaui, 1960; transcription of a 1919 letter from James Joyce to [Carlo] Linati; typescripts of letters sent by ‘M.L.’ to unidentified correspondents relating to M.L.’s 1951 tour of Italy with a Mr Sanders and...
George D. Painter's papers relating to François-René de Chateaubriand
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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...
General correspondence of George D. Painter: correspondents A-D
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Much of the correspondence relates to Painter’s work on Proust, Chateaubriand, and Gide. Letters are from the following correspondents unless otherwise indicated: J. R. Ackerley, 1948-1959 Antoine Adam, 1953 Gwyneth Anderson, [1952] Patrick Anderson F. Anyon J. S. Atherton, 1964 Stephen Bagnall,...
General correspondence of George D. Painter: correspondents E-M
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Much of the correspondence relates to Painter’s work on Proust, Chateaubriand, and Gide. Letters are from the following correspondents unless otherwise indicated: Leon Edel, 1966 Jacques Edinger, 1965 Tim Eisenegger, 1974 T. S. Eliot, 1952-1955 Correspondence with Valerie Eliot, 1976-1984 George...
General correspondence of George D. Painter: correspondents N-W, and unidentified
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Much of the correspondence relates to Painter’s work on Proust, Chateaubriand, and Gide. Letters are from the following correspondents unless otherwise indicated: Correspondence with F. Naiditch, 1978Philip OakesJean Oberle, 1960 Dan O’FaolanIan Parsons, 1965Harold Pinter, 1983Anthony Powell, 19...