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.
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...
Correspondence and papers relating to George D. Painter’s biography of Marcel Proust
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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.
Correspondence and papers of Frances, Countess Waldegrave and Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford
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A collection of correspondence and papers of Frances Elizabeth Anne Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave, and Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Bulgarian, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Correspondence and papers of Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford
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Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue was born in 1823. The Fortescues were a prominent Anglo-Irish family, with many of the family taking prominent roles in Irish political life. He took the name Parkinson after inheriting from his Aunt, Anna Maria Parkinson-Ruxton’s husband, William Parkinson-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Bulgarian, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin