Copies of Penelope Fitzgerald’s Prose Held at the Harry Ransom Center
Scope & Content:
Contains copies of manuscripts of ’The Likeness’, ‘A Great Loss to Sopmore’, ‘The Iron Bridge’/’Volodya’/’Turkey’, ‘Ventriloquism’, ‘Sale or Return’, and ‘Offshore’.
Correspondence relating to So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
Scope & Content:
Includes Terence Dooley’s contract and letters enclosing items Dooley might wish to consider for the book. Correspondents include Mavis Batey, Simon Callow, Hermione Lee, and Hugh Lee.
Other correspondence collected for So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald (I)
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence, both copies and originals, from the period 1974-2000, with Julian Barnes, Harold Macmillan, Michael Holroyd, Frank Kermode, Mavis Batey, and Maryllis ‘Willie’ Conder.
Other correspondence collected for So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald (II)
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence, both copies and originals, from the period 1960s-1999, with Christina and Maria Fitzgerald, Penelope Fitzgerald’s daughters, Colin Haycraft, Rachel Hichens, James and Elizabeth Barnett, and Mary and Dennis Dooley.
Copies of correspondence with Stuart Proffitt and Dorothy Coles
Scope & Content:
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
Scope & Content:
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.