File contains the following: Correspondence with the Skotidas family, Volos, Greece, with related photographs. Material relates to Swift's visit there in 1973. This period is referred to in the chapter 'Greece Again' in Making an Elephant. Correspondence with Thomas Skassis, translator, principa...
Correspondence: Slovakia and Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia)
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File contains the following: 2 letters to Swift from Manuela Lenochova (nee Gheorghe), PhD student. Dated 1993 to 1994. Correspondence to Swift from Jamila Karas, Czechoslovakia as was, chiefly regarding possibility of interview for Xantippe magazine, with poster advertising Civic Forum entitled...
File contains the following: 2 letters from Karen Hewitt, Perspective Publications, Russia. Dated 1998 and 1999 regarding Russian translations of Swift's work. 2 letters from Vladimir Tolstoy, Yasnaya Polyana, Leo Tolstoy Museum Estate regarding invitations for Swift to attend 2 International Me...
Correspondence (European): Ignacio Padilla (Edinburgh and Salamanca, Spain)
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File contains 5 letters from Mexican writer Ignacio Padilla to Swift regarding translation, publication and promotional activities, including an interview given by Swift to Padilla, in Spain and Mexico. Padilla encloses in the letter dated 10 Feburary 1996 2 copied press cuttings giving reviews o...
File contains material from the following correspondents, in alphbetical order: Bruce Coffin. Dated 2009 to 2010. The two met when Swift gave a talk at Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University. Stephen Gyllenhaal, director of screen adaptation of Waterland. Email correspond...