Add MS 81990

Strachey/Holroyd Papers. Vol. xviii (ff.134). Loose leaves containing various transcriptions of letters, notes on sources and transcriptions of Lytton Strachey’s poems ‘The Haschish’, ‘The two triumphs’, ‘Happiness’, and ‘Ely: an ode’, the radio script of ‘Portraits from memory: 2. J. M. Keynes and Lytton Strachey’, by Bertrand Russell, broadcast in the B.B.C. Home Service, 10 July 1952, transcripts of taped interviews with contemporaries of Lytton Strachey, and ‘Duncan Grant: a personal appreciation and the education of an eye’ by Paul Roche; 1952, 1972, n.d. Autograph, photocopies and typewritten. Original sources and dates of the texts of the interviews are unknown.

includes:

• ff. 62-72 Poetry ENGLISH: Giles Lytton Strachey, writer: Transcriptions of poems of G. L. Strachey, made by M. Holroyd: circa 1964: Copies, partly typewritten.
• ff. 84-92, 101-105 Giles Lytton Strachey, writer: Correspondence of G. L. Strachey with various correspondents, transcribed by M. Holroyd: circa 1964: Copies.
• f. 96 Giles Lytton Strachey, writer: Copy of birth certificate, 1880: 1962: Partly printed.
• ff. 98-100 St John Hutchinson, Master of the Bench, Middle Temple: Sir Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthy, literary critic and writer: Appreciation of St J. Hutchinson, with a transcription of his memorial tablet by M. Holroyd: 1942, circa 1964: Partly photocopy.
• ff. 106-111 John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes: Giles Lytton Strachey, writer: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell: 'Portraits from memory', transcription of a broadcast talk by B. A. W. Russell on J. M. Keynes and G. L. Strachey: 1952: Photocopy.
• ff. 112-130 Duncan James Corrowr Grant, painter: Frances Partridge, née Marshall; CBE: Leonard Sidney Woolf, author and publisher: Professor John Dover Wilson, Shakespearean scholar: Philip Guedalla, barrister and writer: Marjorie Colvile Strachey, sister of G L Strachey: David Garnett, author: William Charles Franklyn Plomer, author: Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, philosopher: Noël Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan: Lord David Cecil: Frank Swinnerton, writer: Transcriptions of recorded and other memories of G. L. Strachey by F. Partridge, F. Swinnerton, D. Garnett, Sir P. Guedalla, C. E. M. Joad, J. D. Wilson, N. Annan, D. Grant. W. Plomer, Lord D. Cecil, M. Strachey, L. Woolf, possibly made by M. Holroyd: circa 1964: Typewritten.
• ff. 131-134 Duncan James Corrowr Grant, painter: Don Roche, called Paul; companion of Duncan Grant: 'Duncan Grant: a personal appreciation and the education of an eye', a memoir: 1972: Typewritten.