Descriptive Summary
Administration Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Christopher Isherwood letters to Lincoln Kirstein
Dates: 1943-1963
Collection Number: mssHM 81664-81741
Creator:
Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
Extent:
78 pieces in two boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: manuscripts@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The collection includes primarily letters from Christopher Isherwood to Lincoln Kirstein.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Administration Information
Access
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information,
please go to
www.huntington.org .
Publication Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and
obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Letters from Christopher Isherwood to Lincolm Kirstein, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Fuller d'Arch Smith Booksellers by the Library Collectors' Council, Jan. 2007.
Biography
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), British-American author, emigrated to the United States in 1939. Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996)
was an American author and co-founder of the New York City Ballet.
Scope and Content
The collection includes primarily letters from Isherwood to his friend Kirstein, with a few to and by others, and one poem
by Isherwood: On His Queerness [approximately 1950]
Arrangement
Arrangement
The materials are arranged alphabetically by author's last name, then chronologically.
Indexing Terms
Personal Names
Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Bachardy, Don, 1934-
Bower, Tony
Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999
Caskey, William, 1921-1981
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
Harris, Julie, 1925-2013
Heard, Gerald, 1889-1971
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
Lehmann, John, 1907-1987
Martínez, José, 1913?-1997
Prabhavananda, Swami, 1893-1976
Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Viertel, Berthold
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
Subjects
Authors, American -- 20th century
Authors, English -- 20th century
British Americans
Gay authors -- Great Britain
Gay authors -- United States
Geographic Areas
South American -- Travel and description
Genre
Letters (correspondence) -- 20th century