Other Family Correspondence, Friends, and Former Students
Scope & Content:
Contains letters to Penelope Fitzgerald from family (except those listed in separate files within this sub-series) and friends. Includes letters from Maryllis Condor (‘Willie’); Hugh Lee (‘Ham’); and Janet Probert (née Russell). Generally, correspondence from friends has been included in this fi...
General Personal Correspondence and Domestic Business
Scope & Content:
Included within the general correspondence are letters to Penelope Fitzgerald from Baron Beloff, Philip Brebner, Chris Carduff (editor, Houghton Mifflin), Joseph Lloyd Carr, Michael Dibdin, Jane Gardam, Harman Grisewood, Phyllis Neame (owner of the Sole Bay Bookshop, Southwold, where Fitzgerald ...
Materials relating to Penelope Fitzgerald's teaching activities, including: • One notebook ‘Teacher Training: English as a Foreign Language, and Russian’, containing Fitzgerald’s notes on Byron as well as general notes about teaching, students and lesson plans (includes miniature illustrations)...
Items relating to talks and professional appearances given by Penelope Fitzgerald, including: • Autograph notes for an event ‘In Conversation’ with Christopher Hope in 1989 (one page of the notes’ contents are actually about autobiographical details from Fitzgerald’s life and writing career) as...
Comprises correspondence, newspaper cuttings, and printed information about the authors/works being considered for the 1998 prize as well as dispatch lists of books (heavily annotated with Penelope Fitzgerald’s notes). For other prize-judging activities, see Add MS 89289/3/7 and Add MS 89289/4...
Correspondence, lists, and Penelope Fitzgerald’s notes for prizes other than the Booker Prize, such as Forward Poetry Prize (1996) and Arts Council bursaries (1989-1990). For other prize-judging activities, see Add MS 89289/3/7 and Add MS 89289/4/3.