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Garnett, David, 1892-1981 (author)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1892 - 1981

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

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Correspondence 1936, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/D42/5
Scope and Contents Correspondents include Alfred Reginald Allen, M. F. Ashley-Montagu, Van G. Borcoman, Melbert B. Cary, Chatto and Windus, John Dreyfus, David Garnett, A. S. B. Glover, Vivian Holman, St. John Hornby, Paul Johnston, Elbert Lenrow, George Macy (an original typescript letter from Meynell), Curtis Moffat, Barry Neame, Stephen Potter (with a typescript memorandum of 8 pages captioned 'Nonesuch texts and manuals'), Gerard Proost, and Arthur Waugh. With the letters is a programme for a revue 'The...
Dates: 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence from David Garnett

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9388/109-112
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Novels, essays, memoir, and biographical correspondence.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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David Garnett, 1940-1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/C1/35
Scope and Contents

With the letters are printed announcements for a Foyles luncheon in honour of Garnett (1972).

Dates: 1940-1972
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from David Garnett, (1892-1981), author, (Hilton Hall, Huntingdon) to Siegfried Sassoon sending thanks for ''The Tasking'', 18 Jan. 1954-18 Jan. 1955 (year given mistakenly as 1954)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8889/3/148
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection largely comprises letters addressed to Sassoon although there are few other recipients such as Glen Byam Shaw and Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, Siegfried Sassoon's mother. There are also some postcards; draft and unpublished copies of poems; bills; and other related papers.

Dates: 18 Jan. 1954-18 Jan. 1955 (year given mistakenly as 1954)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter of David Garnett to Siegfried Sassoon, 26 Apr. 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/109
Scope and Contents

Photocopy.

Dates: 26 Apr. 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters relating to the 'album party' on 11 October, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/F18/7
Scope and Contents

The writers include Nicolas Barker, A. W. Bell, Christopher Bradshaw, Harry Carter, John Carter, Will Carter, William Cox, Brooke Crutchley, John Fairleigh, Elisabeth Friedlander, David Garnett, Joan Hassall, John Hayward, Ashley Havinden, Ellic Howe, Geoffrey Keynes, Lynton Lamb, Rauri McLean, Vivian Ridler, John Ryder, Hans Schmoller, Herbert Simon, John Simpson, and John Westwood. A few others are unidentified.

Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Nonesuch century (1936), 1935-1968

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/D6/6
Scope and Contents

Clippings and tear-sheets of reviews. These include an article by David Garnett in Penrose Annual (1937; photocopy). With this is correspondence between Meynell, Garnett, and R. B. Fishenden about the review (1937-1968).

Dates: 1935-1968
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).