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Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982

 Person

Biography

Frank Arthur Swinnerton (1884-1982), English novelist, critic, biographer, and essayist.

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Beer family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 73
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Beer family. Extensive files of correspondence and papers for family members from the 1850s through the 1980s detail the lives and activities of such family members as William Collins Beer, a lobbyist for J.P. Morgan and Company, International Harvester Company, and the government of Italy, and a close friend of Mark Hanna; Thomas...
Dates: 1740-1981, bulk 1827-1981

Joseph Conrad Collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1207
Abstract:

The Joseph Conrad Collection contains writings, correspondence, and other material by or relating to Joseph Conrad.

Dates: 1860-1957

"Elizabeth", n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box 123: [Barcode: 39002093714534], Folder: GROUP 507, V-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Novel, holograph manuscript, signed, with corrections and additions.

Dates: n.d.

Letter : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Earl E. Fisk, 1950 Oct 30

 Part of Collection — Box 28: [Barcode: 39002137225042], Folder: GROUP 507, F-5
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS with envelope.

Removed from his Tokefield Papers (London, 1949).

Dates: 1950 Oct 30

Letter : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Herbert Van Thal, 1939 May 16

 Part of Collection — Box 28: [Barcode: 39002137225042], Folder: GROUP 507, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

TLS responding to Van Thal's questions about George Gissing and The Private Life of Henry Maitland by Morley Roberts.

Removed from his George Gissing: A Critical Study (London: Martin Secker, 1912).

Dates: 1939 May 16

Letter : Cranleigh, Surrey, to John Farrar, 1956 Apr 5

 Part of Collection — Box 28: [Barcode: 39002137225042], Folder: GROUP 507, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS regarding his Background With Chorus.

Dates: 1956 Apr 5

Letters and clipping, 1921-67, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box 28: [Barcode: 39002137225042], Folder: GROUP 507, F-3
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Ten ALS, to A. B. Cooper, K. Kinninmoat, S. C. Roberts, Martin Freud, A. V. Miller, Mr. Hurt, Mr. Wollman, Frank Warren, and James T. Babb; two cards, holograph, signed, to F. C. Joiner, Messrs. William Jackson Books, Ltd., and to Herbert Ashley; postcard, holograph, signed, to Frank Warren; and clipping of a photograph of Swinnerton, signed.

Dates: 1921-67, n.d.

Letters : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Earl E. Fisk, 1950, 1951

 Part of Collection — Box 28: [Barcode: 39002137225042], Folder: GROUP 507, F-6
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS enclosing a second ALS, both dated Sep 6, 1950; and TLS dated Feb 23, 1951.

Accompanied by a copy of a TL, carbon, from Fisk to Swinnerton.

The letters concern A. E. Coppard.

Dates: 1950, 1951

Letters : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Earl E. Fisk, 1951, 1953

 Part of Collection — Box 28: [Barcode: 39002137225042], Folder: GROUP 507, F-8
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS, dated Apr 4, 1951, and TLS, dated Jan 6, 1953, with envelopes.

Accompanied by four clippings of reviews of books by Swinnerton and by a TNS from John Meyer to Fisk, dated May 8, 1951.

Dates: 1951, 1953

William McFee collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 991
Abstract: The William McFee Collection contains correspondence between McFee and literary colleagues, publishers, friends, and family; third-party correspondence concerning McFee, his family, and his friendship with James T. Babb; autograph manuscript or typescript drafts for most of McFee's novels, and for short stories, essays, books reviews, and poems; autograph manuscript diaries, 1911-1963; writings of others, including Margery Allingham and Beatrice Allender McFee; photographs of McFee and...
Dates: 1862-1966, bulk 1900-1966

Letters to Stephen McKenna

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 316
Abstract:

Letters to the English novelist Stephen McKenna, principally from other authors, including Alfred Austin, Arnold Bennett, John Drinkwater, John Galsworthy, Compton Mackenzie, John Masefield, Arthur Wing Pinero, Frank Swinnerton, Hugh Walpole and Arthur Waugh. Many of the letters concern invitations to literary dinners and other social events.

Dates: 1917-1939

Louise Morgan and Otto Theis papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 80
Abstract:

The papers document the literary and personal lives of Morgan and Theis, and contain correspondence, subject files, and professional papers related to the 20th century British literary world. There is correspondence regarding Evelyn Scott, and correspondence as well as poems by Nancy Cunard.

Dates: 1903-1983, bulk 1930-1960

Note : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Charles Wilson, 1931 Dec 16

 Part of Collection — Box 28: [Barcode: 39002137225042], Folder: GROUP 507, F-7
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC

Note : East Devonshire, to [Henry D.?] Davray, 1923 Feb 15

 Part of Collection — Box 28: [Barcode: 39002137225042], Folder: GROUP 507, F-4
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC

"Women", 1918 Jul-Aug

 Part of Collection — Box 28: [Barcode: 39002137225042], Folder: GROUP 507, F-9
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Essay, manuscript, corrected, attributed to Swinnerton.

On title page: "Martin Secker Ltd."

Dates: 1918 Jul-Aug