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Box 4

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Joyce Cary, 1936 - 1955

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1-3
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

Sir Reginald Colby, 1927 - 1957

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 4-8
Scope and Contents

25 letters, post cards and notes written to Colby from a variety of acquaintances, including noted literary critic Maurice Bowra and prolific romance novelist Berta Ruck. A curatorial file by Scheetz is also included.

Dates: 1927 - 1957

John Roger Bullock & George Barry Hornsby, 1947 - 1970

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 9-18
Scope and Contents A collection of materials related to John Roger Bullock and George Barry Hornsby, two British men who were friends and close companions. There are 148 handwritten letters to Bullock from Hornsby tracing their relationship from early 1947 to 1970. The story begins when both men were living in the United Kingdom (Bullock in Derby and Hornsby in Leeds), carries through Bullock’s departure to Seattle, WA in late 1947, and drop off in May of 1949 when Hornsby joined his friend in the States. The...
Dates: 1947 - 1970