Personal correspondence, 1927-1988
Folder 1) Mostly letters to Vivien, with a few copies of her out-going letters, relating to the Second World War, her separation from her husband, her faith, dolls' houses and social events. Includes letters from:
- Alan Barnsley, author, pseudonym Gabriel Fielding, 1962-1964, one describing an evening with Graham Greene, 30 Nov 1964, and a copy of a letter from Vivien, relating to her sense of the supernatural and her relationship with Graham, including his many acts of cruelty, 18 July [?1964]
- Joyce Cary, writer, 8 Jan 1955, 21 Jan 1957
- Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, 9 Sep 1969
- Rupert Hart-Davis, publisher and writer, 1982
- Dorothy Glover, her husband’s mistress, 1954
- John Hayward, literary scholar, 1938-1944
- Elizabeth Jennings, poet, [?1962]
- Margaret, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine, 1983
- Enoch Powell, politician, 1987
- A.L. Rowse, historian, 1974
- John Sparrow, scholar, 1982-1986
- Enid Starkie, French scholar, 18 July 1954
- Norman St John-Stevas, politician, 1988
- Paul Theroux, American author, 1984
- Charles Paget Wade, collector and illustrator, Snowshill Manor, 1944-1952
- Stella Weaver and her husband Reggie Weaver, President of Trinity College Oxford, 1927-1948
- Doris Young, her husband’s secretary, with information on her husband’s movements, 1948-1958
Folder 2) correspondence with her lawyers, Bischoff & Co, London, regarding the terms of her separation from her husband Graham Greene, including the deed of separation, 1948-1949.
Folder 3) letters from Valentine Ackland, poet, and her partner, Sylvia Townsend Warner, author, 1962-1969, many undated.
Dates
- Creation: 1927-1988
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 9696/5
Subject
- Ackland | Mary Kathleen Macrory | 1906-1969 | poet, who used the pseudonym Valentine Ackland (Person)
- Barnsley | Alan Gabriel | 1916-1986 | novelist and poet who used the pseudonym Gabriel Fielding (Person)
- Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author (Person)
- Davis | Sir | Rupert Charles | Hart- | 1907-1999 | knight | author, editor, and publisher (Person)
- Ellis | Sir | Bertram Clough | Williams- | Knight | 1883-1978 | architect (Person)
- Hayward | John Davy | 1905-1965 | literary scholar (Person)
- Jennings | Elizabeth Joan | 1926-2001 | poet (Person)
- Powell | John Enoch | 1912-1998 | politician (Person)
- Rowse | Alfred Leslie | 1903-1997 | author and historian (Person)
- Sparrow | John Hanbury Angus | 1906-1992 | Warden of All Souls College, Oxford (Person)
- Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar (Person)
- Stevas | Norman Antony Francis | St John- | Baron St John of Fawley | 1929-2012 | politician (Person)
- Wade | Charles Paget | 1883-1956 | collector and illustrator (Person)
- Warner | Nora Sylvia Townsend | 1893-1978 | writer (Person)
- Weaver | John Reginald Homer | 1882-1965 | President of Trinity College, Oxford (Person)
Repository Details
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