Osbert Sitwell Collection, 1887-1969.

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Osbert Sitwell Collection, 1887-1969.

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Seventy-one notebooks with handwritten drafts of a wide variety of works make up a large portion of the Osbert Sitwell Collection, along with galley files and typescripts of additional titles, and an extensive assortment of correspondence. The Works series is composed of page and galley proofs for all five volumes of Sitwell's autobiography, LEFT HAND, RIGHT HAND. Holograph and typescript drafts of the collected essays of PENNY FOOLISH are present, as are drafts of POUND WISE, THE RED HORIZON, and SING HIGH! SING LOW!. The seventy-one notebooks which comprise the rest of the works series contain drafts of many of Sitwell's notable works, individual poems, and draft letters. Of particular note in the correspondence series are nearly a thousand letters from Sitwell to his companion David Horner, written between 1926 and 1964. There are smaller batches of letters to and from Lorna Andrade, Richard Grants, Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell, and others. The small Personal Papers Series comprises bank and royalty records, legal documents, lists, and Sitwell family photographs. The David Horner Series contains letters primarily to Horner from various friends and acquaintances. Leslie Hartley and Edith Sitwell are well represented in this series. The Third-Party Works and Correspondence Series holds works by Sitwellian scholars and friends as well as correspondence between his friends and business associates. Galley proofs of Richard Fifoot's bibliography of Edith Sitwell's work are present, in addition to poems by Sacheverell Sitwell and a holograph draft of Max Wykes-Joyce's TRIAD OF GENIUS. Also of note is a pen and ink sketch of Sitwell by Peter Roseland, lists and materials for Sitwell's poetry reading tour in America, and letters and documents regarding Ida Sitwell's scandal-laden bankruptcy.

45 boxes (18.9 linear feet), 5 galley folders, 1 oversize folder.

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