The windows have flat stone keystone arches. The gables and parapet are castellated. The rear has 3 gabled bays, one of which is XX century and brick. Isherwood was born in on his family's estate close to the Cheshire-Derbyshire border. The Isherwood family estates came into their possession on the marriage of Mary Bradshaw of the family that had held them for centuries to Nathaniel Isherwood, a felt-maker from Bolton, Lancashire, in the early s.
Queer Places, Vol. In , the Terrace was demolished and a big block of flats was built on its site. They moved into 19 Pembroke Gardens, W8. Number 19 was a smaller but much pleasanter house than the other, and the street was very quiet. Toward the end of , Christopher settled down in Berlin and only returned to London on fairly short visits. He visited the city three times in that year and it was in November that he chose to stay indefinitely.
Simeon Church. The building was occupied by many famous writers, musicians, and poets including W. Much of the space is currently under sublease to the School of Visual Arts except for apartments still occupied by original non-student tenants who pay stabilized rent, and who are still protected under NYC rent laws.
Professionally, Isherwood was a well-known novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. He identified as gay and often explored this identity as a central theme in his literary work. Most of the leading characters in Cabaret represent an archetype. The Emcee is the personification of unfettered sexual freedom. He is the movie industry in contemporary America, as well as the recording industry, television, and tabloid journalism.
The Kit Kat Klub can therefore be seen as a symbol of two things at once. It can be said to represent the notion of a utopian ideal where everybody is equal and conflict never penetrates. On verso: poem by Auden: And Sunday Walks typewritten. The Letter: [poem], [, c. The Lost Flower of Youth: [poem], [], A. Lover's Lane: [poem], [, Aug.
The Megalopsych: [poem], [, May-June]. The Mill Hempstead : [poem], [, Apr. Missing: [poem], [, Jan. Narcissus: [poem], [, Apr. Nightfall: [poem beginning] "As ghosts peer over a bedroom curtain," []? On verso: poem in German A. November at Salthouse: [poem], []? Ode: [poem beginning] "Though aware of our rank and alert to obey orders," [, Nov. The Old Colliery: [poem], [, Sep. The Old Lead-mine: [poem], [, Feb. On Sunday Walks: [poem], [, Aug.
Following the above: note from Auden to Christopher Isherwood, -. Wystan Hugh , and Isherwood, Christopher, -. The Platonic Blow by Miss Oral: [poem], [ca.
Ploughing: [poem], [], A. Progress: [poem], [], A. On verso: poem written by Auden: Waste A. Punchard: [poem], [, July], A. Following the above: poem by Auden: To E. The whole: 6 p. The Question: [poem beginning] "To ask the hard question is simple," [?
Rain: [poem], [, Sep. Following the above: autograph note from Auden to Christopher Isherwood, both with the author's autograph corrections. Richard Jefferies: [poem], [, May],A. The Robin: [poem], [, July], MS. The Rookery: [poem], [, Sep.
Rookhope Weardale, Summer : [poem], [, Apr. The Sawmill: [poem], [? Say Yes! The Seekers: [poem beginning] "Consider, if you will, how lovers lie," [, May]. Skyreholme Hill: [poem], [, Feb. Some suggestions for the play: [notes], []? Song: [poem beginning] "The merriest cuckoo," [, Aug. Following the above: poem by Auden: Sonnet [beginning] "April is here but when will Easter come?
With the author's autograph corrections. Stone Walls: [poem], [? Auden W. Sunday Morning: [poem], [? Sunshine: [poem], [? On verso: poem by Auden: "Because we're where, because" A. A Tale of Love: [poem], [].
The Tarn: [poem], [, Sep. Following the above: poem by Auden: "We who were small have found so great a thing" typewritten. The whole: 1 p. This Loved One: [poem], [, Mar.
This verse is also known as the epithalamium written for Cecil Day- Lewis' wedding. Thomas Prologizes: [poem], [, Apr. Three Posthumous Poems.
Aubade: [poem], [, July], MS. Through the Looking-Glass: [poem], [, Dec. The Traction-engine: [poem], [, Nov. A Visit: [poem], [? The Walk: [poem], [, July], A. And how! Above the first line: "Tune. Winter Afternoon: [poem], [], A. Yes and No: [poem], [], A. Wystan Hugh , and Kallman, Chester, Wystan Hugh , , and Bachardy, Don, -. Appletreewick: [poem beginning] "I chose this lean country," [, June-July], A.
Aware: [poem], [, May], MS. Bach and the Lady: [poem], [, May], MS. A Birthday Ode: [poem], []? Following the above: "For instance once a line:" [poem]. On verso: "Sir, no man's enemy, for giving all:" [poem, crossed out by Auden]. Chanson: [poem], []? In French, with the author's autograph corrections. With pencil annotation by Christopher Isherwood, -. Consequences: [poem], [, c. On verso: Early Morning: [poem], and Tea in November: [poem], with the author's autograph corrections.
Following the above: poem by Auden, "Beethoven, Beethoven, bully of Britain. Encounter: [poem], [], A. The Fronny: [verse play: fragments], [], A. Following the above: letter from Auden to Isherwood.
The whole: 8 p. The Fronny: [verse play: fragments, beginning] "I saw them stoop in workshops, " "This Roman peace was broken," [and] "Unison. The strange electric writing," []? The Fronny: [verse play: fragment, beginning] "With northern winter, snowballing season," [], A. On verso: letter from Auden to Christopher Isherwood, -.
The whole: 5 p. The Megalopsych: [poem], [, May - June], A. On verso: "I ain't much to look at:" [poem]. Both poems in pencil, the whole: 2 p. Begins with variant first line: "This the address of the lost soul to the lost body. Begins with the variant first line: "This is the address of the lost soul to the lost body. Following the above: "Look about you on life's journey:" [poem], and dialog fragment.
Fragments of The Enemies of a Bishop? Following verses and dialog: A. Manuscript includes three stanzas not in the published version. Wystan Hugh , , and Isherwood, Christopher, -. Later, this poem became part VI of "The Megalopsych.
A Tale of Love: [poem], [], A. Followed by: A. On verso: list of revisions to earlier poems. CI , , , , and Auder, Viva.
Barrie, Michael. Baxter, Anne. Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, Sir, Beesley, Alec. Bengston, Billy Al. Blanc-Roos, Rene. Bloom, Claire, Bohle, Kathleen, and Bohle, Robert. Bok, Derek Curtis. Borden, H. Bowles, Paul, Bradbury, Ray, Bradshaw-Isherwood, Elizabeth. Bradshaw-Isherwood, Frank. Rental agreement for cottage, , Jan. Bradshaw-Isherwood, Henry.
Bradshaw-Isherwood, John. John Wilkinson, A. Bradshaw-Isherwood, Kathleen, The Baby's Progress: volume of notes, photographs, etc. Diary, Diary: travel, Diary: in Spain, Diary: in Dalmatia, , Setp. Bell, A. Bradshaw-Isherwood, Mary. Brecht, Bertolt, Bridges, James. The British Broadcasting Corporation. Britten, Benjamin, Britton, P. Brogan, Hugh.
Brooks, Louise. Brown, Bill, d. Drawings of Isherwood and others? Brown, Harry, Button, John. Cadmus, Paul, Capote, Truman, Caskey, William. Scobie, , phot. Chapman, Kent. Charlton, Jim.
Dream journal, ca. Energy Through Air-power: report, , July, phot. Journal of LSD trip, ca. Chetanananda, Swami. Chetwyn, Robert. Clemson, W.
Cobbold, Edith. Collier, John, Collins, John. Common Wealth Award. Connolly, Cyril, Cotter, Terence, and Isherwood, Richard. The Happy Home Mag, No. Craft, Robert. Crawford, Joan. Cukor, George, Curtis Brown Ltd. Dale, Jim. Dangerfield, George. Daubeny, Ethel. Dehn, Paul, De Rieras, Isidro. Edington, George. Edman, Irwin, Ekman, Rolf, England, Ronald S. Exman, Eugene. Featherstone, Warren. Ferguson, Garth. Ferry, W. Wilbur Hugh. Technology and Jobs: speech, , Nov.
Forster, E. Edward Morgan , Notes from memory on my speech, January 9th, , [delivered at a luncheon in his honor], , Jan. Also: remarks by "N. Correspondence to Isherwood, —Heinz Neddermeyer. Fouts, Denham. Notes on a yoga class, ca. Fouts Denham. Untitled novel: 3 partial drafts, ca. Fried, Philip. Friedman, Stanley P. Fritch, Bernardine. Froehlich, Winfried. Frost, David. Fryer, Jonathan.
Astrological interpretation for Virgo, ca. Gamble, Joe. Gates, Jim. Gear, Jonathan. Gielgud, John, Sir, Gilbert, Clement Scott. Ginsberg, Allen, Goldsmith, Joel S. Goodwin, John B.
Green, Henry, Greene, C. Greene, Graham, Gross, Alfred A. Grosz, George, Guinness, Alec, Gunn, Thom. Hamilton, Gerald, Harewood, Myron.
Harold Ober Associates. Harris, Julie, Harvey Anthony, Hatanaka, Paul S. Haynes, E. Edmund Sidney Pollock , Heard Gerald, Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Hewit, Jacky. Hill, Susan Susan Elizabeth. Hockney, David. Hoetis, Themistocles. Hooker, Evelyn Caldwell. Hope, Robin. Horst, B. Howard, Brian, Hunter, Allan A. Allan Armstrong , b.
Huxley, Aldous, Huxley, Laura Archera. Huxley, Maria. Inge, William. Afterwards: [short story], , June 9 — July 31, MS.
All the Conspirators: [novel: foreword to a new edition], , Apr. Arriving in Japan [travel essay], ? Berlin: February [essay], , MS. Berthold Viertel: [biographical sketch], , MS. Autograph note by Isherwood: "My first essay at Cambridge. Buddha: [lecture], , Feb. Also: carbon copy. Buddha II: [lecture], , Mar. A Calendar, [list of books published each year], before , MS.
Christopher and His Kind: [autobiography: notes], , MS. Christopher and His Kind: [autobiography: stray pages], , MS. Christopher and His Kind: [autobiography: unused chapter: three drafts], , MS. Christopher and His Kind: [autobiography: first draft], , MS. Isherwood, Christopher Manuscripts: Christopher and his Kind. Christopher and His Kind: [autobiography: second draft], , MS.
Incomplete: chapters only. Christopher and His Kind: [autobiography: third draft], , MS. Christopher and His Kind: [autobiography: fourth draft], , Apr. The Condor and the Cows: [travel book], , MS. Isherwood, Christopher, , and Auden, W. Diary of a Trip to Asia, , Jan. Contains drafts of poems, portions of plays, and other notes; in ink and pencil.
Isherwood, Christopher Manuscripts: Die Die Staerkeren: [novel: foreword], ? Divine Grace: [lecture], before , MS. Transcribed from tape recording. Down There On a Visit: [novel fragment: Ambrose episode], ca. Working title: The Lost, the Shade, the Forgotten. Down There On a Visit: [novel:] first draft: chapters , , Apr.
Working title: The Forgotten. Down There On a Visit: [novel:] second draft — rewrite of first draft, , Feb. Working title: Forgotten. Isherwood, Christopher Manuscripts: Down there on a Visit. Down There On a Visit: [novel: rewrite of second draft], , Apr. Down There On a Visit: [novel: third draft], , Apr.
Down There On a Visit: [novel: fourth draft], , Aug. Note by Isherwood: "An attempt to write the novel as basic dialogue. Down There On a Visit: [novel:] fifth draft, , Aug. Down There On a Visit: [novel:] rough draft, , Sept. Down There On a Visit: [novel: rough draft], ?
Down There On a Visit: [novel:] seventh draft, completely revised story-line, , Oct. Also: 5 pages of notes by Isherwood. Down There On a Visit: [novel:] eighth draft — attempted opening, , Mar.
Down There On a Visit: [novel:] draft of a prologue, ca. Down There On a Visit: [novel:] Paul episode: draft of the ending, ca. Autograph note by Isherwood explains that this manuscript includes the hashish scene and a different end to the story.
Down There On a Visit: [novel: Paul episode:] revised draft of the same ending, ca. Autograph note by Isherwood explains that this is a revised draft of the hashish scene and ending. The Englishman: [novel], , Sept. Early draft of A Single Man.
The Englishwoman: [novel], , Apr. Published in New York Herald Tribune. Also: letter from Isherwood to Chester Kallman, Apr. Gems of Belgian Architecture: [short story], ? The Hero [and] Two Brothers: [short stories], , Mar. Two stories bound together in a single volume. Lecture delivered at USC. Transcription from tape recording. For this reason I am a novelist:" [untitled lecture notes ], , Feb. Lecture delivered at UC Riverside. Influences: [essay adapted from a series of lectures entitled "A Writer and His World"], ca.
Influences: [lecture], , May, Ms. Lecture delivered at UC Berkeley. Also: autograph notes, clipping, brochures, maps. Isherwood, Christopher Manuscripts: Karin Karin and Helen: [novel fragment], ca. With autograph insertion. Karin and Erich: [novel fragment and synopsis of chapters], ca. Karin and Erich: [novel fragment], cal? Kathleen and Frank: [biographical study: notes and correspondence], , MS.
Kathleen and Frank: [biographical study:] diary extracts and letters, before , MS. Kathleen and Frank: [biographical study: first draft], , Jan. Kathleen and Frank: [biographical study: stray pages from two or more drafts], before , MS. Kathleen and Frank: [biographical study: diary extracts and letters:] letters from Mamie Tristram, before Last Time: [autobiographical essay], ca.
Also: photocopy of lecture, with the author's autograph note in pencil on p. A Letter from England: [essay], , Feb.
Alternate title: "Coming to London. A Meeting by the River: notes made for revision of first draft. Memoirs of "Pine House" preparatory school, ? The Memorial: Portrait of a Family: [novel: earliest draft? Autograph note by Isherwood: "Don't know what this was to have been about — but there are suggestions of the Margaret Lanwin-Edwin Blake relationship later used in The Memorial. The Memorial: Portrait of a Family: [novel: early draft], ca.
Midnight in New York: [essay], , Jan. My Guru and His Disciple: [autobiography: title page, dedication, and foreword: drafts], ca. My Guru and His Disciple: [autobiography: draft of introduction outline], ca. Isherwood, Christopher Manuscripts: My Guru CI 4.
My Guru and His Disciple: [autobiography: notes], , A. My Guru and His Disciple: [autobiography: corrections, typos, etc. My Guru and His Disciple: [autobiography: pages to be xeroxed: corrections], , A. My Last Lecture: [notes, autograph draft, and typewcript], , Apr. The Nature of the Interest: [short story anthology: notes], ca.
Also: 3 lists of possible stories and authors for anthology. With the author's autograph notes. Notes on Children's Literature, ca. Notes Taken from Lectures at L. State, ca. The Novel and the Novelist: [lecture], , Mar. Delivered at Los Angeles City College. Also: photocopy, with the author's original autograph corrections. The Old Game: [short story], , Feb.
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