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Stephen Spender papers, approximately 1945-1972.
BANC MSS 2017/113 box 1; BANC MSS 2017/113
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Stephen Spender papers, approximately 1945-1972Creator/Contributor:
Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Allen, Mary Hope, author.Creator/Contributor:
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Stansky, Peter, 1932-, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Abrahams, William Miller, 1919-1998, correspondent.Abstract:
Contains a typescript carbon copy volume of a dramatization of Henry James' "The Golden Bowl", co-authored by Stephen Spender
and Mary Hope Allen (132 leaves, undated [1945?]). Also includes one folder of correspondence containing seven letters by
Stephen Spender, one typescript draft of a letter to Spender by Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, one letter from Edmund
Wilson to Peter Stansky on letterhead stationery of The New Yorker, and one printed promotional brochure for Spender's lecture
work.
Date:
1945 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caSpender, Stephen -- 1909-1995 -- Archives
Spender, Stephen -- 1909-1995 -- Correspondence
Spender, Stephen -- 1909-1995 -- Pictorial works
Wilson, Edmund -- 1895-1972 -- Correspondence
James, Henry -- 1843-1916 -- Adaptations
Poets, English -- 20th century
Essayists -- Great Britain -- 20th century
Authors, English -- 20th century
Note:
Stephen Spender papers, approximately 1945-1972, BANC MSS 2017/113, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Purchase from Jeff Maser ; 2017.
Related collection: Stephen Spender papers, 1929-1986, BANC MSS 76/184 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Related collection: Stephen Spender papers, 1931-1967, BANC MSS 70/177 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Sir Stephen Harold Spender (February 28, 1909-July 16, 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on
themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in
Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965.
In English.
Type:
Plays.Physical Description:
print
0.2 (1
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2017/113 box 1
BANC MSS 2017/113