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Correspondence ; Drawings, and Photographs. 1934-1966

box 1, folder 1

Letters to Terence Ian Armstrong (pseudonym John Gawsworth) , from Sussex and Corfu. 1934-1937

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 1, folder 2

Letters to Terence Ian Armstrong (pseudonym John Gawsworth) , from Paris, Innsbruck, and London. 1937-1939

General Physical Description note: 15 items.
box 1, folder 3

Letters to Terence Ian Armstrong (pseudonym John Gawsworth) ,from Egypt, England, Argentina, and Yugoslavia. 1943-1951

General Physical Description note: 12 items.
box 1, folder 4

Letters to Jean Franchette, , mostly from Nimes. 1955-1959

General Physical Description note: 37 items.
box 1, folder 5

Letters to Jean Franchette, , mostly from Nimes. 1960-1961

General Physical Description note: 20 items.
box 1, folder 6

Letters to Jean Franchette, and undated, mostly from Nimes. 1962

General Physical Description note: 12 items.
box 1, folder 7

Letters to Theodore Stephanides, , from Corfu, Paris, and Innsbruck. 1936-1938

General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 1, folder 8

Letters to Theodore Stephanides, , from Athens and Alexandria. 1939-1945

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 1, folder 9

Letters to Theodore Stephanides, , from Rhodes and Argentina. 1946-1948

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 1, folder 10

Letters to Theodore Stephanides, , from Belgrade. 1949-1953

General Physical Description note: 27 items.
box 1, folder 11

Letters to Theodore Stephanides, , from Cyprus and England. 1953-1956

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 1, folder 12

Letters to Theodore Stephanides, , from France and Corfu. 1957-1965

General Physical Description note: 26 items.
box 1, folder 13

Letters to Theodore Stephanides, , from France. 1966

General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 1, folder 14

Letters to J. Tambinuttu from Alexandria, Rhodes, Argentina, and England.

General Physical Description note: 8 items.
box 1, folder 15

Miscellaneous correspondence with Michael Frankel, Peter Owen, Spencer Curtis Brown, Covici-Friede, Maurice Girodias, Alfred Pérlès, George Wickes, Ivan Zarian, Osbert Sitwell, Terence Tiller, and Alan Thomas.

General Physical Description note: 39 items.
box 1, folder 16

Correspondence with Lawrence Clark Powell, , including letters from Rhodes, Bournemouth, Argentina, and Provence. 1946-1966

General Physical Description note: 26 items.
box 1, folder 17

Correspondence between Lawrence Clark Powell and various persons regarding the Durrell Collection, . 1947-1960

General Physical Description note: 67 items.
box 1, folder 18

Drawings and watercolors by Durrell and Nancy Durrell, including watercolor with photograph of Durrell, inscribed "To Henry with love and good wishes; Larry Durrell." "Paris 1938."

General Physical Description note: 13 items.
box 1, folder 19

Photographs of Lawrence Durrell and his family.

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
 

Manuscripts of poems, stories, articles, and plays by Lawrence Durrell.

box 2, folder 1

Faces. [London, 1934]

Scope and Contents note

4 l. Typescript. Dedication to John Gawsworth on first l. signed by Durrell. Poem with five verses.
box 2, folder 2

The cherries, n.p., . ca 1936

Scope and Contents note

6 l. 26 cm. Typescript with holograph corrections. First published in "Masterpiece of Thrills," Daily Express, London, 1936.
box 2, folder 3

A Christmas carol. Corfu, [1936]

Scope and Contents note

1 p.1, 22 l. 28 cm. Typescript. Later published under title "Asylum in the Snow" in Seven, No. 3 (Winter 1938), 49-54; also in Zero and Asylum in snow. Two Excursion into Reality. Rhodes, 1946, privately printed.
Another copy. 1 p.1., 21 l. 27 cm. Typescript (carbon copy).
box 2, folder 4

Ionian profile, by Charles Norden. London. September 31, [1936 or 1937]

Scope and Contents note

2 l. Galley proofs. Appeared in Time and Tide, London, September 31, 1936 or 1937. Dedicated to Theodore Stephanides.
box 2, folder 5

Down the Styx in an air-conditioned canoe. Paris, . 1937

Scope and Contents note

1 p.1., 10 l. 26 cm. Typescript. Published in The Booster, II (December 1937 - January 1938), 14-17. Signed by the author.
box 2, folder 6

Hamlet, prince of China. Corfu, [1937]

Scope and Contents note

9 l. Typescript. Letter addressed to Henry Miller regarding the book Hamlet by Michael Frankel and Henry Miller. Published in Delta, 2c année, No. 3, Christmas 1938.
box 2, folder 7

A hymn to the Pycnik for Henry Miller, Paris, . 1938

Scope and Contents note

4 p. Holograph. At head: "MS for Henry Miller of Paris gent. Feb. 9th 1938," Poem with seven verses.
box 2, folder 8

Proems. London, Fortune Press, [1938]

Scope and Contents note

96 p. illus. 19 cm. Contains Lawrence Durrell's "Unckebunck" with holograph revisions for projected radio adaptation. Bound in black morocco. Inscribed by Lawrence Durrell.
box 2, folder 9

Black honey; an historical farce. [Alexandria, ca 1942]

Scope and Contents note

1 p.1., 50 l. 33 cm. Typescript (carbon copy). Bound in green cloth spring binder.
box 2, folder 10

Cities, plains, and people; poems. London, Faber & Faber [1945]

Scope and Contents note

63 l. 18 cm. Page proofs with holograph corrections. Bound in gray cloth with black morocco spine. First published by Faber & Faber, London, 1946.
box 2, folder 11

On seeming to presume. Argentina, , 1948

Scope and Contents note

1 p.1., 15 l. Galley proofs. First published by Faber & Faber, London, 1948. In blue and gray morocco box. Gift of Bill McKeown to Lawrence Clark Powell, 1948.
box 2, folder 12

Another copy with holograph letter to Henry Miller on p.1.

box 2, folder 13

Henry Miller, n.p., . 1949

Scope and Contents note

12 l. 28 cm. Typescript.
box 2, folder 14

For immediate release. Cyprus, . 1956

Scope and Contents note

14 l. 33 cm. Holograph. Published as chapter in Esprit de Corps; Sketches from Diplomatic Life; London, Faber & Faber, 1957.
box 2, folder 15

Sappho. n.p., . 1957

Scope and Contents note

2 p.1., 61 l. 33 cm. Typescript with corrections, cuts, etc. in producer's hand for radio version, 1957. First published by Faber & Faber, London, 1950.
box 2, folder 16

The willpower man.

Scope and Contents note

1 p.1., 19 p. 33 cm. Holograph manuscript. Purchased from the House of Books, 18 E 60th Street, New York.
box 2, folder 17

Kavaphis, Konstantinos Petro, .Translations from the poems of Kavaphis of Alexandria, [by] Lawrence Durrell. 1863-1933

Scope and Contents note

1 p.1.,11 l. 22 cm. Typescript.
 

Manuscripts of Pope Joan.

box 3, folder 1

Rhoïdes, Emmanuel D., . 1835-1904

Scope and Contents note

Pope Joan, by Emmanuel Royidis. Translated from the Greek with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. n.p., ca 1948. 2 p.1., 83 l. 33 cm. Typescript with holograph corrections. Bound in red linen with a red morocco backstrip.
box 3, folder 2

Preface and notes to Emmanuel Rhoïdees' Pope Joan, by Lawarence Durrell. n.p., . ca 1948

Scope and Contents note

2 p.l., 11, 7 [1] l. 33 cm. Typescript with a few holograph corrections to the preface.

Bibliography

Bibliography: final leaf.
box 3, folder 3

Rhoïdes, Emmanuel D., . 1835-1904

Scope and Contents note

Pope Joan. Translated from the Greek Lawrence Durrell. n.p., ca 1948. 36 l. 64 cm. Galley proofs, partially corrected by Theodore Stephanides.
box 3, folder 4

Later copy with corrections in red ink by Theodore Stephanides.

box 3, folder 5

Rhoïdes, Emmanuel D., . 1835-1904

Scope and Contents note

[Pope Joan] The curious history of Pope Joan. Translated out of the modern Greek of Emmanuel Royidis by Lawrence Durrell and illustrated by John Buckland-Wright. 13 illustrations. London, Rodney Phillips and Green, 1948. xxii, 134 p. 26 cm. Bibliography: p. 134. Unbound copy on mould-made paper. Never issued. The firm of publishers who planned it went out of business before the book could be produced. There was to have been an edition limited to 150 on mould-made paper. First published by Derek Verschoyle, London, 1954. Subsequent editions published, 1960 and 1961.
box 3, folder 6

Miscellaneous additional page proofs.

box 3, folder 7

Prospectus with text and illustrations issued by Rodney Phillips and Green.

box 3, folder 8 and 9

Buckland-Wright, John. Illustrations for the curious history of Pope Joan, by Emmanuel Royidis, translated out of the modern Greek by Lawrence Durrell. London, Rodney Phillips and Green [1948]

Scope and Contents note

Includes: series of 15 pencil and pen-and-ink drawings, some in wash. 14 l., 27 x 21 cm; 5 pen-and-ink drawings, original jacket design, and 2 copies of jacket.
box 3

Rhoïdes, Emmanuel D., . 1835-1904

Scope and Contents note

[Pope Joan] The curious history of Pope Joan, by Emmanuel Royidis. Translated out of the modern Greek by Lawrence Durrell and illustrated by John Buckland-Wright. 13 illustrations, London, Rodney Phillips and Green [1948] xxiv, 134 p. 25 cm. Page proofs. Proofs cut and mounted in gray linen with maroon backstrip.
Most illustrations on Neg. Microfilm # 06596 - see shelf list for details
box 3

Rhoïd#x0113;s, Emmanuel D., . 1835-1904

Scope and Contents note

Pope Joan; the female Pope. Translated from the Greek of Emmanuel Rhoïdes with preface by Charles Hastings Collette. London, George Redway, 1886. 102 p. 19 cm. Bound in red cloth.
box 3

Buckland-Wright, John. Illustrated title page for The curious history of Pope Joan, by Emmanuel Royidis, translated out of the modern Greek by Lawrence Durrell. London, Rodney Phillips and Green [1948] Printer's engraved plate mounted on wood.

 

Manuscripts of novels and printed books by Lawarence Durrell.

box 4, folder 1

Cefalu. [In three parts] Rhodes, . 1945

Scope and Contents note

4 p.1., 151 [2] l.28 cm. Typescript with holograph corrections. First published by Editions Poetry, London, 1947. Later published, 1958, under title: The Dark Labyrinth. Gift of Friends of the UCLA Library, 1962, in honor of Lawrence Clark Powell.
box 4, folder 2

Balthazar; a second Justine. In two parts. n.p., . ca 1958

Scope and Contents note

5 p.l., 180 l. 27 cm. Typescript with holograph corrections. First published by Faber & Faber, London, 1957.
box 4, folder 3

Tunc. London, Faber & Faber, . 1968

Scope and Contents note

316 l. illustrated. 20 cm. Page proofs with holograph corrections. First published by Dutton, New York, 1968. Gift of Henry Miller, June,1969.
box 4, folder 4

Quaint fragment. [London] Cecil Press, . 1931

Scope and Contents note

[38] p. Mounted port. Photocopy. Los Angeles, 1951.
box 4, folder 5

A landmark gone. Los Angeles, Private print, . 1949

Scope and Contents note

1 p.1., 11, 7 [1] p. 21 ½ cm. Title in black and green. "First published in Middle East Anthology, London, 1946." "125 copies printed by Reuben Pearson... for the friends of Lawrence Clark Powell." "A note on Lawrence Durrell" (p. [1] - ii) signed: L.C.P. [Lawrence Clark Powell].
 

Printed material relating to Lawrence Durrell.

box 5, folder 1

Poems by Durrell. Clippings from newspapers, photo reproductions, and typed copies.

General Physical Description note: 8 items.
box 5, folder 2

Articles and prefaces by Durrell. Clippings from newspapers and journals and typed copies.

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 5, folder 3

Monitor. [Television script of an interview between Durrell and Weldon]. London, British Broadcasting Corporation, . Feb. 14, 1960

General Physical Description note: 1 item.

Scope and Contents note

6 l. 32 ½ cm. Mimeographed. Gift of Robert Collison, July, 1960.
box 5, folder 3

Extract from tonight. [Television script of an interview between Durrell and Hart]. London, British Broadcasting Corporation, . June 23, 1960

General Physical Description note: 1 item.

Scope and Contents note

2 l. 32 ½ cm. Mimeographed. Gift of Robert Collison, August, 1960.
box 5, folder 4

Periodical articles and extracts from books on Durrell and his works.

General Physical Description note: 17 items.
box 5, folder 5

Newspaper clippings relating to Durrell and his works.

General Physical Description note: 52 items.
box 5, folder 6

Newspaper articles and programs relating to the German production of Actis in Hamburg, . November, 1961

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 5, folder 7

Newspaper articles and programs relating to the German production of Durrell's Sappho at Hamburg, and to the British premiere of Sappho at the Edinburgh Festival, . November, 1959, August, 1961

General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 5, folder 8

Newspaper articles and programs relating to the production of Durrell's Sappho at the Edinburgh Festival, . August, 1962

General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 5, folder 9

Book jackets of Durrell's works.

General Physical Description note: 12 items.
box 5, folder 10

Booksellers' catalogs and brochures advertising Durrell material.

General Physical Description note: 34 items.
box 5, folder 11

Unidentified printed and manuscript materials.

General Physical Description note: 6 items.
 

Books from the library of Lawrence Durrell.

box 6

Catullus Tibullus and Pervigilium Veneris. London, Heineman; Cambridge, Harvard University Press, . 1950

Scope and Contents note

Durrell's bookplate on first p.1. Signed "Lawrence Durrell, Moharram Bey, Alexandria."
box 6

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his family and friends, translated by Ethel Colburn Mayne. London, Chatto and Windus, . 1914

Scope and Contents note

Contains Durrell's bookplate. Signed "Lawrence Durrell, Moharram Bey, Alexandria."

General note

missing 1/5/81
box 6

Freud, Anna. The psycho-analytical treatment of children. London, Imagos . 1946

Scope and Contents note

Contains Durrell's bookplate. Signed "Lawrence Durrell, Bellepoix in Cyprus '55."

General note

missing 1/5/81
box 6

Humphreys, Christine, Zen Buddhism. London, Heineman . 1949

Scope and Contents note

Contains Durrell's bookplate. Signed "Lawrence Durrell, Bellepoix Abbey, Cyprus, gift from H. M."
box 6

Miller, Henry. Big Sur and the oranges of Hieronymus Bosch. New York, New Directions, . 1957

Scope and Contents note

Inscribed "Patricia Rodda from Lawrence Durrell, Sommieres Gard, France '57."
box 6

The Portable Plato. New York, Viking, . 1948

Scope and Contents note

Contains Durrell's bookplate. Signed "Lawrence Durrell, Belgrade."
box 6

Books in the collection from the library of Lawrence Clark Powell

box 6

Spencer, Bernard. Aegean Islands and other poems. London, Editions Poetry, . 1946

General Physical Description note: 2 copies.

Scope and Contents note

Ex Libris: Lawrence Clark Powell.
box 6

Webster and Ford. Plays. London, J.M. Dent, New York, Dutton. Signed "LC Powell, Bournemouth, , Gift of Alan Thomas," 1951

box 6

Wickes, George, editor. Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller, a private correspondence. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., . 1965

Scope and Contents note

Presentation copy to Lawrence Clark Powell from George Wickes, Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller. Enclosed are two signed cards from the authors.
box 7

Oversize packages Original painting in poster colours on blue paper of the harbour and town of Kyrenia in Cyprus. Signed "Larry."