Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982
Biography
Frank Arthur Swinnerton (1884-1982), English novelist, critic, biographer, and essayist.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Beer family papers
Joseph Conrad Collection
The Joseph Conrad Collection contains writings, correspondence, and other material by or relating to Joseph Conrad.
"Elizabeth", n.d.
Novel, holograph manuscript, signed, with corrections and additions.
Letter : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Earl E. Fisk, 1950 Oct 30
ALS with envelope.
Removed from his Tokefield Papers (London, 1949).
Letter : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Herbert Van Thal, 1939 May 16
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).
Letter : Cranleigh, Surrey, to John Farrar, 1956 Apr 5
ALS regarding his Background With Chorus.
Letters and clipping, 1921-67, n.d.
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.
Letters : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Earl E. Fisk, 1950, 1951
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.
Letters : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Earl E. Fisk, 1951, 1953
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.
William McFee collection
Letters to Stephen McKenna
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.
Louise Morgan and Otto Theis papers
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.
Note : Cranleigh, Surrey, to Charles Wilson, 1931 Dec 16
TNS.
Note : East Devonshire, to [Henry D.?] Davray, 1923 Feb 15
ANS.
"Women", 1918 Jul-Aug
Essay, manuscript, corrected, attributed to Swinnerton.
On title page: "Martin Secker Ltd."