Papers, 1942-1967.

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Papers, 1942-1967.

Chiefly correspondence, including that (1942-1949) with Gardiner's financeĢe 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.

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Gardiner, Cynthia Kortright

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Gardiner, Charles Wrey, 1901-1981

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British author, poet, and publisher. Died 1981. From the description of The wings of chance, book 5 : manuscript notebook, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122546507 Charles Francis Wrey Gardiner, British author, poet, and publisher; d. 1981. From the description of Charles Wrey Gardiner papers, 1918-1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 495526653 British author, editor of POETRY QUARTERLY. From the descr...

Wilson, Colin, 1931-2013

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British author. From the description of Collection, 1951-1962. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122597893 Colin Henry Wilson (born June 26, 1931 in Leicester) is a prolific British writer. He first came to prominence as a philosopher and has since written widely on true crime, mysticism, fiction and other topics. From the description of Colin Wilson collection. [1952-1965]. (University of Victoria...

Grey Walls Press

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Spark, Muriel

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Heath-Stubbs, John, 1918-2006

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x00012b John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs, the poet, was born in London in 1918 and educated at Worcester College for the Blind and The Queen's College, Oxford; he published his first poems in the wartime volume, Eight Oxford Poets . He was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University between 1952 and 1955, then taught in foreign universities for several...

Scott, Paul, 1920-1978

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British author. From the description of Paul Scott Collection, 1952-1976. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122648393 British novelist. From the description of Notes for a review of The secret ladder, by Wilson Harris, [1963]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 86141826 Author of the Raj Quartet (1966-1975), a fictional treat...