Lawrence Durrell collection

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Box G037

1. Correspondence
File 28

  • TL, 1942. To Henry Miller.
  • Airgram, TLs, May 12, 1944. To "Duddles and Boo".
  • TLs, [September 1944]. To Mary Honor.
  • TL, [1945]. To "Boodles (composite from Boo and Duddles)".
  • ALs in pencil, [1949]. Begins "Hurrah!". Accompanied by a mock Shakespearean piece.
  • ALs, [1949]. To "Boo dear".
  • TL from "Larry and eve m", Xmas Day [1949]. To "Dear Boo and Duds".
  • ALs, [1950]. To "Duddles & Boo!".
  • TL, [1950s]. Begins "Lovely to hear ......".
  • Post card, September 7, 1957, To "Dear Mary and Duddles".
  • TL, January 6, 1959. To "Budleigh Salterton".
  • TL, 1959. To "Dear Dudley and Mary".
  • ALs, [circa April 10, 1960]. To "Dear Duddles and Boo".
  • Post card, June 1961. To "dear duddles".
  • Envelope, 1968.
  • ALs, [1976]. Begins "Telephone. GARD. 80.02.81".

2. Manuscripts
File 29

  • "Uncebuncke. A Biography in Little", with a few holograph emendations, ts., 14 pp., 1938.
  • "The Sonnet of Hamlet", ts. with several holograph emendations, 8 pp., [193?].
  • "A Private Country. Poems", ts. with emendations, 26 pp., 1937 40. (Published by Faber and Faber, 1943).

File 30

  • "Alexandria", ts. carbon (ts. on verso), 1 p., n.d.
  • "English Primitive: A Study in National Character", ts. with holograph emendations, 3 pp. (2 pages numbered "2"), [194?].
  • "Fangbrand", ts. carbon, 1 p., [193?].
  • "Strati Thallassinos among the Agapathi", ts., 1 p., [193?].
  • "Mythology", ts., 1 p., [193?].
  • "Conon in Exile", ts. carbon, 1 p., n.d.
  • "In Europe", ts. carbon, 3 pp., n.d.
  • "Letter to Seferis the Greek", ts. with holograph emendations, 3 pp., 1941.
  • Untitled, begins "The peasants are ...", ts., 1 p., n.d.
  • "On First Looking into Loeb's Horace", ts. with holograph emendations, 1p., n.d.
  • "Aquarius for Long Journeys", ts. carbon, 1 p., n.d.
  • "Tea for 2", ts., 1 p., n.d.
  • "Song for a Nursery Wall", ts. with holograph emendations in pencil, 1 p., n.d.
  • Newsclipping from La Semaine Egyptienne with Durrell's poem "Matapan", [194?].
  • Photocopy of inscription by Durrell from book titled Airborne Invasion, September 5, 1942.

Two inscribed books by Durrell: Cities, Plains and People: Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 1966, Res. Coll. PR6007.U76C5 c.2); and On Seeming to Presume: Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 1968, Res. Coll. PR6007.U760 c.2).

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