Correspondence Relating to the Sale of Penelope Fitzgerald Papers to the Harry Ransom Center
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Includes correspondence between Terence Dooley, Bertram Rota Booksellers, Smith College, and the HRC. Also includes lists and inventories of the papers.
Copies of Penelope Fitzgerald’s Prose Held at the Harry Ransom Center
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Contains copies of manuscripts of ’The Likeness’, ‘A Great Loss to Sopmore’, ‘The Iron Bridge’/’Volodya’/’Turkey’, ‘Ventriloquism’, ‘Sale or Return’, and ‘Offshore’.
Includes page proofs of the preliminaries and end matter of Penelope Fitzgerald: A House of Air - Selected Writings, ed. Terence Dooley (London: Harper Perennial, 2005). Dooley was Fitzgerald’s son-in-law.
Copies of correspondence with Stuart Proffitt and Dorothy Coles
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The correspondence dates from c 1986-c 1993. Proffitt succeeded Richard Ollard as Penelope Fitzgerald’s editor at Harper Collins. Coles was a weaver and expert on William Morris’s poetry.
Copies of Correspondence Collected for So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
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Copies of Penelope Fitzgerald's correspondence from the period 1940-1998 with Mary Lago, Alberto Manguel, Philip Christensen, Francis King, Masolino D’Amico, David Cecil, Norah Hartley [L P Hartley’s sister], Richard Garnett, and Hugh and Penny Lee.