Charles Wrey Gardiner papers

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Charles Wrey Gardiner papers

1942-1967

https://search.libraries.emory.edu/catalog/990010908200302486

The collection chiefly contains correspondence, including that (1942-1949) with Gardiner's financée and third wife, Cynthia Kortright Gardiner, as well as letters from friends and acquaintances, including John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs, Paul Scott, Edith Sitwell, Muriel Spark, and Colin Wilson; together with poems and other papers. Topics in the correspondence include Grey Walls Press, which Gardiner owned from 1940 to 1954, and his efforts to publish his fourth autobiographical novel, The Answer to Life is No.

.42 linear ft. : (1 box)

eng, Latn

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