Rebecca West: A Life (1987): Notes, research letters, and photocopies of Rebecca West's [c.1920s]-1983 letters and other c.1892-1978 papers relating to her family, 1981-1993, n.d.

File

Shelfmark: MS. 23709/6

Held in our offsite storage facility

Folder 1 includes:

Photocopies of West's 20 Feb 1967-27 May 1983 letters, including to Douglas Woodruff, Evelyn Hutchinson, and Anthony West, and diary, n.d.
Photocopies of 1978 papers relating to the death Letitia Fairfield, n.d.
Photocopies of West's 11 Jan 1972-14 May 1973 letters to Emily 'Mickey' Hahn Boxer, n.d.
Research papers relating to West's novella, The Only Poet (1992), n.d.
Victoria Glendinning's notes on interviews with Christina Byam Shaw, Gwenda David, and Margaret Hodges, 27 Jul-16 Aug 1983
Part photocopy of West's will, n.d.
Photocopy of the 17 Jan-15 Mar 1983 diary of Alison Macleod regarding West's death, n.d.

Folder 2 includes:

Photocopies of c.1892-1910 letters, articles, birth certificates, family trees, etc. relating to West's family, including her father Charles Fairfield and sister Letitia Fairfield, and West's early life and schooling, with Glendinning's notes, c.1983
Photocopies of West's c.1920s-1940s letters, some regarding The Fountain Overflows (1956), n.d.
Photocopies of [1926]-17 Apr 1941 letters from West to John Gunther, n.d.
Photocopies of Rebecca West's 17 May 1960-12 Jul 1982 letters, including to Anthony West and Katherine 'Kitty' West, and diary pages, n.d.
Interview transcript and news cuttings regarding West, 8 Jul 1981-22 Apr 1983, n.d.
Interview notes and letters from Alison Macleod, Norman Macleod, Anthony West, Diana Stainforth, Evelyn Hutchinson, Stanley Olson, and others, 14 May 1983-30 Aug 1993

Dates

2 folders

Closed.

MS. 23709/6

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