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Scope and Contents File found entitled as above in a boxfile labelled ‘18thC / 19thC Cadalso, Larra’. Contains typescript draft essays / papers / lecture notes? by Helen Grant with handwritten corrections and additions, as follows:1) ‘Spain in the 18th Century. Cadalso. II’;2) Spain in the early 19thC;3) ‘Cadalso and the Reign of Charles III’ [Jose de Cadalso y Vazquez, 1741-82, Colonel of the Royal Spanish Army, author, poet, playwright and essayist, producer of Spanish Enlightenment...

Scope and Contents ‘Unamuno and the Generation of ’98’ [Miguel de Unamuno, 1864-1936, Spanish Basque essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics and later Rector of the University of Salamanca. ‘The Generation of 1898’ was a name given to a group of young men of the Spanish intelligentsia more or less at the beginning of their careers at the end of the 19thC]. These papers appear to have been used as [part of?] a series of lectures on the period 1868-1938. They include a...

Scope and Contents ‘Ortega’: notes and papers etc by Helen Grant on the life and work of José Ortega y Gasset [Spanish philosopher and essayist, 1883-1955], probably all compiled for a series of lectures. Typescript with handwritten annotations and amendments, and handwritten, including a handwritten paper entitled ‘La Deshumanizacion del Arte’ [a humanist concept developed by Ortega in his work of the same name 1925]. Some in Spanish. The file also contains an offprint of Gabriel Trillas, ‘Ortega y Gasset en...

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Concerning matters of literary interest, together with some press cuttings about Guillen. JG’s letters to HG comment on her publication ‘El mundo al reves’ [The World Upside Down]. The file comprises:
Copy letter from HG to JG, no date but probably circa 1947 [mentions the death of JG's wife, who died in 1947];
Letters to HG from JG 1980-1982;
Press cuttings 1984.

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Two issues of ‘El Imán’, review of the Oxford University Spanish Club, containing items written by Helen Newsome, as follows:
1) June 1929, includes a [short story?] in Spanish, entitled ‘Recuerdo Sentimental de Antaño’ and initialled HFN;
2) June 1930, includes an article in Spanish entitled ‘Señorita Maria de Maeztu’ and initialled HN.

Scope and Contents France [1954], Spain [1956] and Canada [1958]: concerts in Ottawa 1957-58; gala dinner menu from RMS Saxonia, Cunard Line, 24 September 1958; items from the International Union of Crystallography symposium, Madrid 1956, including a dinner menu and a concert programme; and ephemera kept from Christine Kelsey’s trip to Paris for the 3rd International Crystallography Congress, 1954, including opening ceremony programme, menu for a dinner at the Chateau de Versailles, theatre programmes,...

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Authors including Maria Teresa Babin, Juan Villegas, J M Aguirre, Nicholas J Collins, and R M Nadal, some inscribed with greetings to Helen Grant.

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Adela Investment Company S A monthly bulletin: Feb/March/April 1975; January 1976; March 1976, October 1976;
Ingeniero Andino: October 1975; November/December 1975;
Proyeccion December 1975; June 1976.

Scope and Contents Chiefly academic, some personal. Some letters are in Spanish. Correspondents include:Agnia (1);Diana (London N6) (1) 1967;Enid [Starkey] (from Oxford) (1) 1967;Enriqueta [Harris] (1) 1974?;Ilsa [Barrea] (Vienna) (1) 1972;Laura [Garcia Lorca, nee de los Rios] (2) 1974;Jose Manuel Blecua (1);Gerald Brenan (1) (no date);Jose Luis Cano (4) 1958-59 and 1974;Soledad Carrasco (1) 1974;Jack Cohen (2) 1968 and 1975;Isobel [Henderson?] (1)...

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Chiefly concerning the possibility of the daughter of Paco and Laura studying in Cambridge and HG’s assistance and advice in respect of this. The first letter, from Paco, mentions Federico Garcia Lorca’s ‘Bodas de Sangre’ and [Seňor] ‘Nadal’, and the file also includes a speech of thanks [given by HG?] for the Norman Macoll lecture series, given by a Seňor Nadal on the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca [in the 1970s?].

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1) Commemorative booklet for ‘Exposicion Ibero-Americano’ in Seville 15 March 1929, in Spanish;
2) Programme for 1933 course of the International Summer-University of Santander, in English;
3) Programme for an event at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando held to mark the centenary of the death of the painter, Goya, April 1928. In Spanish.

Scope and Contents Notes by Helen Grant on the work of Lorca, mostly handwritten, some typescript, chiefly for lectures? The file also contains three letters, as follows:From the University of Cambridge Board of Extra-Mural Studies, 9 May 1967, asking H G if she is willing to give a lecture on Lorca at a course for technical managers at IBM to be held at Churchill College; From ‘RMN’, 15 January 1973, thanking her for a copy of her work on ‘El mundo al reves’ (The World Upside Down) and discussing...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Isabel Fonseca x2, from Madrid, 1975 in Spanish, chiefly re various library facilities?; Geoffrey Ribbans, University of Liverpool, 1975-76, x 2, chiefly re Antonio Machado; Harold Wilson, 1977, thanking Helen Grant for hers; Letter from Clementine Churchill to Shiela Newsome, asking her to thank HG for thinking of sending ‘the Spanish report’, 1943, with related letter from Shiela Newsome to HG, 1975; Alec / Alex?, from Madrid, 7 May 1976, re the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, papers and cuttings compiled and collected during a month spent by Helen Grant in Spain in connection with work for a project for which she had been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. During this month she interviewed several Spanish politicians, including Coll Alentorn, Joan Reventos-Angli, Jordi Pujol and Sr Canyellas. The file includes the following:letters from H G to The Times and the BBC, November 1975, passing on various points of note from the politicians...

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Kept presumably for general interest and / or for research purposes. Including:
Industry in Peru March 1975 (in English and Spanish);
Caretas 5-19 February 1975 and 3 February 1977 (in Spanish);
Institutional Investor October 1976.

Scope and Contents File contains:Reviews from UK, French, German and Spanish publications, 2009, including black and white and colour photographs of P D James; Press releases produced by Greene & Heaton, literary agents, and by Faber & Faber, publishers, August 2010; Copy of Seven, the Sunday Telegraph magazine, 18 July 2010, with a photograph of PDJ on the front cover and an interview with PDJ entitled ‘The Silver-Tongued Devil. PD James at 90 by Nigel Farndale’, pages...