Joyce Cary, 1936 - 1955
Scope and Contents
A collection of 13 letters written by novelist Joyce Cary, consisting of 11 to fellow Anglo-Irish writer Sylvia Lynd and 2 to one Timothy Rogers of Reading, England.
Dates
- 1936 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (1888-1957) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and writer. He worked in the Red Cross during the first Balkan War in 1912 and then as an assistant district officer for the British government in the Bauchi province in Nigeria until the outbreak of WWI, at which time he fought against neighboring Cameroon, then occupied by Germany. By 1920 he moved back to England to be with his wife, Gertrude Margaret Ogilvie, and two sons, and it was then he began writing in earnest: An American Visitor (1933), The African Witch (1936), and Mister Johnson (1939) draw on his years in Nigeria, though his most popular was The Horse's Mouth (1944). During and after WWII, he published political treatises Power in Men (1939) and Process of Real Freedom (1943) as well as two idiosyncratic long poems, Marching Soldier (1945) and The Drunken Sailor (1947), and by the 1950s Cary had an established reputation in both the UK and US.
Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
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From the Collection: German
From the Collection: Norwegian
From the Collection: Persian
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From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu