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Add MS 88962/2/8
- Record Id:
- 040-001578520
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001577982
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001043.0x000169
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88962/2/8
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Correspondence and papers relating to Eleanor Farjeon's membership of P.E.N. Includes: Menu for a luncheon to inaugurate Norwegian P.E.N., 31 Mar 1941; programme of lectures given in London, 1-13 Sep 1941; letter from Arthur Koestler to P.E.N.; letter from Eleanor Farjeon to 'Doley' reporting on the lectures; letter from E ΠSomerville to Eleanor Farjeon; postcard signed by members of the P.E.N. committee; text of a letter and list of its recipients sent to launch a game in aid of P.E.N. members affected by the Second World War, with responses, mostly negative, from Richard Church, Noel Coward, C Day Lewis,Najendra Gangulee, Laurence Housman, Arthur Koestler, Rosamond Lehmann, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Rose Macaulay, J B Priestley, Herbert Read, Bernard Shaw (a short note on a returned letter), Sir Osbert Sitwell; prospectus for conference held 22-26 Aug 1944; menu for and list of events at a dinner in honour of Hermon Ould, 6 Mar 196 (designed by Mervyn Peake); order of service for memorial service for Hermon Ould, 11 Oct 1951; letters to Eleanor Farjeon from David Carver of P.E.N., 9 Oct 1954, and Theodor Kramer, 1 Nov 1957; correspondence of Gervase Farjeon with Axel H Goodbody relating to Theodor Kramer, 1997-98
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001577982
036-001578011
040-001578520 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88962 : Additional papers and correspondence of Eleanor Farjeon and her family
Add MS 88962/2 : Correspondence of Eleanor Farjeon and members of her family
Add MS 88962/2/8 : Correspondence and papers relating to Eleanor Farjeon's membership of P.E.N. Includes: Menu for a luncheon to inaugurate… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001577982[0002]/036-001578011[0004]/040-001578520
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88962
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1941
- End Date:
- 1998
- Date Range:
- 1941-1998
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Carver, David Dove, singer and pianist, General Secretary International PEN, 1903-1974 (Author)
Church, Richard Thomas, poet, author, 1893-1972 (Author)
Coward, Noël Peirce, Knight, playwright and composer, 1899-1973 (Author)
Farjeon, Gervase, designer, son of Herbert Farjeon, b 1920 (Correspondent)
Gangulee, Nagendra Nath, agriculturalist, 1889-1954 (Author)
Goodbody, Axel H, academic, b 1950 (Correspondent)
Housman, Laurence, author and art critic, 1865-1959 (Author)
Koestler, Arthur, author, 1905-1983 (Author)
Kramer, Theodor, poet, 1897-1958 (Author)
Lehmann, Rosamond Nina, writer, 1901-1990 (Author)
Lewis, Cecil, poet, 1904-1972 (Author)
Lowndes, Marie Adelaide Belloc, author, 1868-1947 (Author)
Macaulay, Emilie Rose, DBE, author, 1881-1958 (Author)
Ould, Hermon, General Secretary PEN, 1885-1951 (Subject)
Peake, Mervyn Laurence, author and artist, 1911-1968 (Artist)
Priestley, John Boynton, novelist, playwright and essayist, 1894-1984 (Author)
Read, Herbert Edward, Knight, author and art critic, 1893-1968 (Author)
Shaw, George Bernard, author and playwright, 1856-1950, (Correspondent)
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080436250
Sitwell, Francis Osbert Sacheverell, 5th Baronet, poet and writer, 1892-1969 (Author)
Somerville, Edith Anna Oenone, artist and author, 1854-1949 (Author)