Papers of the Sitwell family [manuscript], 1970-1995.

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Papers of the Sitwell family [manuscript], 1970-1995.

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A collection of "Sitwelliana" compiled by Arthur P. Bean, Jr., includes Bean's correspondence with Sitwell collectors and scholars, book and manuscript dealers and the University of Virginia Library; business papers related to his purchases; printed material and a postcard photograph of Edith Sitwell. Letters from Frank Magro, Florence, Italy, mention Sitwell collecting, the Sitwell castle, the University of Virginia Sitwell exhibit and serving as literary executor for Osbert Sitwell. Correspondence with Paul W. Motter discusses an attempted publication of "The death of Venus," Motter's Edith Sitwell collection, exhibits at the University of Virginia and the Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco, a lunch with Francis Sitwell, and collector Neil Ritchie. Letters from Neil Ritchie discuss his revision of Richard Fifoot's bibliography of Sacheverell Sitwell, collecting Sitwell, Sitwell archives in the U.S. and emigration to South Africa. Several letters from Francis Sitwell and one from Reresby Sitwell mention performances, collections, and the death of Sacheverell. There is a very brief mention of a visit to Artur Rubenstein. Correspondence with the University of Virginia chiefly discusses Bean's gifts of Sitwelliana and also includes, deeds, lists, appraisals and a photograph of Francis and Susanna Sitwell at the Sitwell exhibit opening. Business papers include invoices and cancelled checks, dealer correspondence and quotes. Miscellaneous printed material include a program for "Facade," reviews, and articles. Larry McMurtry and Perdita Schaffner are correspondents.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Richard A. Gleeson Library (University of San Francisco)

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University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.

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Schaffner, Perdita.

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Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969

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Viola Garvin, literary editor of the Observer 1926-1942, and daughter of James Louis Garvin, editor of the Observer 1908-1942. From the description of Letter, 1940 October 21, Renishaw Hall, N. Sheffield to Viola Garvin. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 37429151 English poet and satirist. From the description of Letter : Cyprus, to Maurice [Baring], 1935 Feb. 15. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). Wor...

Motter, Paul W.,

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Bean, Arthur Parsons

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College professor, Sitwell collector. From the description of Papers of Arthur Parsons Bean [manuscript], 1948-1981. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817487 ...

McMurtry, Larry

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Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, was born in 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas. He spent his early years on his father's ranch outside of Archer City. He graduated from the University of North Texas in 1958 and from a graduate program at Rice University in 1960. That same year he was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His first novel Horseman, Pass By won the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters in 1962. Hud, a movie based on this novel, received numerou...

Ritchie, Neil. an annotated and descriptive bibliography 1916-1986.

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Sitwell, Susanna Carolyn Cross

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Sitwell, Sacheverell

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Sitwell was a poet, critic and author of volumes of verses. He died in 1988. From the description of The parrot's voice snaps out=No good to contradict=What he says he'll say again: Dry facts, like biscuits, = : calligraphed illustration. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863289 Sacheverell Sitwell was an English author and critic. Born into an aristocratic and gifted family, he joined with his brother Osbert and sister Edith to help change the tastes of British society in a...

Ritchie, Neil,

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Sitwell family.

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Sitwell, Reresby, 1927-2009

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Magro, Frank.

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Sitwell, Francis

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Rubenstein, Artur, 1887-

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