Add MS 83138

Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. lxii (ff. 184); 24 April 1930-28 Jan. 1966, n.d.

1. ff. 1-53. [italics]Typewritten[/italics] copies of the original correspondence between Eleanor Farjeon and William Joseph Ibbett, typed by Eleanor Farjeon; 24 April 1930-2 April 1934. With one original [italics]typewritten[/italics] letter from Eleanor to William Ibbett (ff. 11-12) and one original [italics]autograph[/italics] letter from Ibbett to Eleanor (f. 27). With [italics]autograph[/italics] annotations and commentaries in Eleanor Farjeon’s hand on some of the copies. Eleanor Farjeon’s own foliation has been mostly respected. The letters were intended to be included in an unpublished work on Ibbett, ‘William Joseph Ibbett: His Life Letters and Works’, and were later to be incorporated into Eleanor Farjeon’s memoirs.

2. ff. 54-98. Partly [italics]typewritten[/italics] correspondence between Eleanor Farjeon and Tony Kraber; 4 June 1938-28 Jan. 1966, n.d. With [italics]autograph[/italics] annotations in Eleanor Farjeon’s hand on some of the early letters from Tony Kraber. Includes a letter from Eleanor Farjeon to Phil and Ginney Brown, with instructions on how to how to bring Tony Kraber and his wife to Eleanor’s cottage in Hampstead (f. 97) and a letter from Denys Blakelock to Tony Kraber informing him of Eleanor’s death (f. 98).

3. ff. 99-184. [italics]Photocopies[/italics] of partly [italics]typewritten[/italics] letters from Eleanor Farjeon to Otto Lampel; 25 May 1941-21 March 1952, n.d. For ‘The Great Alexis’, written in collaboration with Otto Lampel, see Add. 83091-83092.