Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986

After Isherwood dropped out of Cambridge University in 1925, he became the private secretary to the French violinist André Mangeot. Mangeot's son, Sylvain, the manuscript's illustrator, would become the Diplomatic Editor for the Reuters News Agency and the author of The Adventures of a Manchurian: The Story of Lobsang Thondup (Collins, 1974).

From the description of People one ought to know : autograph manuscript signed : [London], January 1926. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 697846122

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