Material Exchange ID,Document,Page number,Agent,Type,"Document (if reading, review or allusion)",People (if allusion),Recipient (if letter),Location written (if letter),Location received (if individual letter),Start date of activity,End date of activity,Summary
105,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,2,John Lehmann,Allusion,All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood _ 1928-05-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1928-05-01,1928-05-31,"Lehmann mentions that All the Conspirators was the third novel Isherwood wrote, but was the first that was published."
106,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,8-9,Stephen Spender,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Berlin City,,1931-01-01,1932-02-29,"Spender tells Lehmann about his friends and fellow-writers Auden, Isherwood, and Edward Upward. "
107,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,8-9,John Lehmann,Allusion,The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood _ 1932-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1931-01-01,1932-02-29,The publisher Jonathan Cape does not accept Isherwood's manuscript. After that Lehmann tries to persuade Leonard and Virginia Woolf to publish Isherwood's novel The Memorial.
108,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,9,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Nollendorfstraße, Berlin Street""",London City,1932-01-13,1932-01-13,Isherwood writes to Lehmann for the first time and informs him about his writing projects.
109,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,9,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Berlin City,London City,1932-01-15,1932-08-31,"Isherwood informs Lehmann about his writing projects. He doesn't feel ""nearly ready to write"" the ""Berlin book"" yet, but ""the other book is all in my head already"" (9)."
110,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,9,John Lehmann,Reading,The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood _ 1932-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1931-01-01,1932-01-31,Lehmann is fascinated by the novel and helps Isherwood to publish it.
111,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,9,John Lehmann,Allusion,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1932-01-13,1932-04-30,"Lehmann mentions that Isherwood's book ""after many changes of title and scope, was eventually published as Lions and Shadows"" (9)."
112,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,11,John Lehmann,Allusion,The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood _ 1932-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1932-08-01,1932-08-31,"Lehmann mentions The Memorial by Isherwood in his diary entry. He is attracted to Isherwood ""by the quality which appealed to me so much in The Memorial, an exact feeling for the deeper moods of our generation"" (12)."
113,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,11-12,John Lehmann,Reading,Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood _ 1976-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1987-01-01,1987-12-31,Lehmann quotes a passage where Isherwood describes their first meeting in his book.
2,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,12,John Lehmann,Reading,Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood _ 1976-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1987-01-01,1987-12-31,"Lehmann describes how Christopher and His Kind reveals Isherwood's true motivations to move to Berlin, namely ""to be introduced to the homosexual life"" (12) of the city. "
1,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,12,John Lehmann,Reading,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1987-01-01,1987-12-31,Lehmann describes Isherwood's motivation to move to Berlin based on his reading of Lions and Shadows.
114,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,13,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Nollendorfstraße, Berlin Street""",,1932-12-25,1932-12-31,Isherwood writes Lehmann a letter in which he mentions that he has spent some time with Lehmann's sister.
115,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,15,John Lehmann,Allusion,"""The Dog Beneath the Skin by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1935-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1933-01-01,1933-05-31,Lehmann mentions that the play by Isherwood and Auden features a character based on a friend called Francis Turville-Petre.
116,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,15-16,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,St Nicholas Island,,1933-07-01,1933-07-31,Isherwood complains about the heat in Greece. He stays in the tent reading detective stories and wishes he could leave if he knew where else to go.
117,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,16,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,St Nicholas Island,,1933-08-01,1933-08-01,"Isherwood poses the question ""Is there going to be a war?"" and explains that the ""Athens Messenger"" (16) is no help in finding out."
123,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,18,John Lehmann,Allusion,,Jean Ross,,,,1933-01-01,1934-05-31,Lehmann explains that Ross arranged for Isherwood to be hired by director Berthold Viertel because Viertel admired Isherwood's The Memorial.
118,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,21,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Tenerife Island,,1934-06-15,1934-06-30,"Isherwood writes about his writing projects and thinks that his novel about Mr. Norris ""will be dreadfully short"" (21). After that he plans to begin his ""other Berlin book at once"" (21)."
119,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,21-22,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Tenerife Island,,1934-06-20,1934-07-15,"Isherwood reports that the novel  about Mr Norris was ""exactly three quarters done"" (21). He also ""gives a vivid description of their life on the island"" (21) where he spends the summer with Heinz Neddermeyer.."
120,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,22,John Lehmann,Allusion,Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood _ 1935-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1934-08-12T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1934-08-01,1934-08-12,"Lehmann mentions that ""Mr Norris was finished on 12 August"" (22) in Tenerife."
129,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,23,John Lehmann,Allusion,,Gerald Hamilton,,,,1934-10-01,1935-07-01,"Lehmann describes Isherwood's attempts to find a way for Heinz Neddermeyer to change his nationality. Lehmann adds: ""Unfortunately the only person who appeared to have the right contacts to explore such possibilities was Gerald Hamilton"" (23)."
121,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,24,John Lehmann,Allusion,New Signatures by Michael Roberts _ 1932-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1934-07-01,1934-07-31,Lehmann mentions the anthology because the contributors could publish their writings in Lehmann and Isherwood's new planned literary magazine. 
122,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,24,John Lehmann,Allusion,New Country by Michael Roberts _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1934-07-01,1934-07-31,Lehmann mentions the anthology because the contributors could publish their writings in Lehmann and Isherwood's new planned literary magazine. 
124,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,25,John Lehmann,Reading,Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood _ 1976-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1987-01-01,1987-01-01,Lehmann quotes a passage from Christopher and His Kind to illustrate how differently Isherwood remembered a walk through Amsterdam in July 1934.
125,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,25-26,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,London City,Amsterdam City,1935-07-01,1935-08-31,"Lehmann tells Isherwood that everything concerning their magazine New Writing has been settled and that he has the contract in his pocket. Lehmann asks Isherwood to remind Auden and Spender to write their pieces which will be published in the first issue. Enclosed is a draft of the ""Manifesto,"" written by Lehmann, which will appear in the first issue too. "
126,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,26,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Amsterdam City,London City,1935-09-02,1935-09-02,"Isherwood gives Lehmann feedback on his ""Manifesto,"" which will appear in the first issue of their magazine. Isherwood discusses whether an advisory committee will be necessary."
127,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,26-27,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Brussels City,,1935-10-01,1935-10-31,"Isherwood tells Lehmann that Auden came for a visit in Brussels and that he has some texts (""lyrics and oddments he had written for films"" [26]) that might be interesting for their magazine."
128,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,27,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,,,1935-11-01,1935-11-01,"Isherwood sends a postcard. He writes ""The Kulaks are coming, hurrah, hurrah. Hope you‘ll like them."" The first extract from what remained of ""The Lost"" was originally to be called ""The Kulaks"" (27)."
130,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,27,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Sintra Municipality,,1936-01-16,1936-01-16,"Isherwood asks Lehmann which title to choose for ""The Kulaks""/""The Nowacks."" He is very busy on his novel and tells Lehmann that ""another section of ‘The Lost‘ is ready — about an English girl who sings in a Berlin cabaret, but I hardly think it would suit the serious tone of New Writing"" (27)."
131,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,27,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Sintra Municipality,,1936-01-17,1936-04-15,"Isherwood tells Lehmann that they are all very excited about New Writing. He apologizes for not finishing his story (""Sally Bowles"") for the next number. He writes ""something is radically wrong with it at present"" (27)."
132,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,28,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Sintra Municipality,,1936-04-15,1936-04-30,Isherwood shares his enthusiasm for the first issue of New Writing. He also suggests some texts for the second issue.
133,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,28,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,London City,Vienna City,1936-10-01,1936-10-31,"Isherwood writes ""Sally Bowles has unexpectedly passed Edward Upward — so I am sending it to you, If you like it and want to publish, we must somehow get the consent of the original, who is at present abroad, otherwise the risk of an action is too great for us to take"" (28)."
137,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,28-29,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,,,1936-10-01,1937-01-31,"Lehmann expresses his concerns that ""Sally Bowles"" is too long to appear in New Writing and that the publishers might not approve of the abortion episode."
134,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,29,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Brussels City,,1937-01-01,1937-01-31,"Isherwood responds to Lehmann's worries about the abortion episode in ""Sally Bowles."" Isherwood cruelly writes, ""It seems to me that Sally, without the abortion sequence, would just be a silly little capricious bitch"" (29)."
136,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,29,John Lehmann,Reading,Sally Bowles by Christopher Isherwood _ 1937-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1936-10-01,1937-01-31,"Lehmann reads Isherwood's ""Sally Bowles"" because he is considering publishing it in New Writing. Even though Lehmann is fascinated by it, he thinks that it is too long, and he worries that the publishers might not approve of ""the abortion episode"" (29)."
138,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,29,John Lehmann,Allusion,Sally Bowles by Christopher Isherwood _ 1937-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1937-01-01,1937-12-31,"Jean Ross gave Isherwood permission to publish ""Sally Bowles,"" and it was published by Hogarth with what struck Lehmann ""as considerable courage"" (29)."
135,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,31-32,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Sintra Municipality,,1936-03-01,1936-03-31,Isherwood writes about their gambling at the Casino in Estoril and describes their living situation in Portugal.
139,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,32,John Lehmann,Allusion,"""The Ascent of F6 by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1936-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1936-04-01,1936-07-31,"Lehmann mentions that this play ""was to be more truly a collaboration than the earlier play"" (32)."
140,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,33-34,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Portugal Country,,1936-07-01,1936-07-31,Isherwood gives Lehmann feedback on a short story about Vienna. He suggests to rewrite it once more. 
141,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,35,John Lehmann,Allusion,,"Gerald Hamilton,Christopher Isherwood",,,,1936-09-01,1937-05-31,"Gerald Hamilton tried to help Isherwood to obtain a Mexican passport for Heinz Neddermeyer. Lehmann was astonished by Christopher's trust in Hamilton because he thought that ""most of the money went into Gerald's own pocket"" (35), and in Lehmann's opinion ""Gerald was capable of diddling his closest friends"" (35)."
142,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,36,John Lehmann,Reading,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1937-01-01,1937-01-31,"Isherwood gives Lehmann ""the typescript of 'The North-West Passage,' in the last stages of its transformation into Lions and Shadows but not yet finished"" (36). Lehmann reads it in a café in Brussels and thinks it's ""one of his most original works"" (36)."
143,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,36-37,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Luxemburg Country,Vienna City,1937-04-01,1937-04-30,Isherwood tells Lehmann about the troubles Heinz had got into with the French police in Paris. Isherwood still believes that Heinz will get a Mexican passport any day.
144,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,37-38,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Brussels City,,1937-05-01,1937-06-30,Isherwood tells Lehmann that Heinz Neddermeyer is in prison. Isherwood thinks about visiting Lehmann in Vienna.
145,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,38,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,,,1937-06-01,1937-10-31,Isherwood tells Lehmann about his projects; he is very busy finishing manuscripts and preparing lectures.
146,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,39,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Pembroke Gardens, Kensington and Chelsea Street""",,1937-11-01,1937-11-30,"Isherwood writes about Edward Upward's book Journey to the Border being published by Hogarth. He is currently working on ""The Landauers"" and hopes ""to have it for the date we fixed"" (39)."
148,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,41,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Stephen Spender,,,,1938-02-24,1938-02-24,"Isherwood alludes to Spender in one of the letters he sends to Lehmann. He writes ""I suppose the Spender gossip must wait till we return"" (41)."
147,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,41-42,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Hong Kong City,,1938-02-24,1938-02-24,"Isherwood tells Lehmann about their travel plans, the hospitality in Hong Kong, and his writing projects. He writes: ""Hong Kong is the ugliest town in the loveliest harbour I have ever seen"" (42)."
149,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,43,John Lehmann,Allusion,"""Journey to a War by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1939-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1938-01-01,1938-12-31,"Lehmann writes ""The story of [Isherwood and Auden's] explorations of the war zones is told In their Journey to a War"" (43)."
150,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,47,John Lehmann,Review,"""On the Frontier by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1939-10-01,1939-10-31,"Lehmann writes ""it was not a rousing success; less successful than either of its two predecessors. This, I think, was almost certainly because its theme was far too much of a reality in the minds of the audience at that particular moment in history to be dealt with in oblique fantasy"" (47)."
151,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,50-51,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,New York City,,1939-05-01,1935-05-31,"Isherwood plans to write a piece about New York for Lehmann. Auden and Isherwood wrote a new ending for The Ascent of F. 6. Isherwood realizes that he is a pacifist and therefore he has to ""to find out what that means, and what duties it implies"" (51). Goodbye to Berlin is a flop in America."
152,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,51,John Lehmann,Allusion,"""The Ascent of F6 by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1936-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1939-05-01,1939-05-31,"Lehmann mentions that it ""was not the first time, nor the last, that Auden and Isherwood wrote a new ending"" of The Ascent of F6 (51). "
153,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,51,John Lehmann,Allusion,Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood _ 1939-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1939-05-01,1951-12-31,"Lehmann writes about Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin which ""had to wait for John Van Druten to turn part of it into the play I am a Camera before it sailed into everyone‘s consciousness"" (51)."
154,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,52,John Lehmann,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""7136 Sycamore Trail, Los Angeles Street""",,1939-07-01,1939-07-31,"Isherwood writes about his life in Hollywood, his homesickness, and his worries about Europe and war. He misses his friends and apologizes for not sending a piece that Lehmann could publish in New Writing. He has ""become very much interested in Yoga philosophy"" (53)."
155,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,53-54,John Lehmann,Allusion,,"W. H.  Auden,Christopher Isherwood",,,,1939-07-01,,Lehmann describes how Isherwood's interest in Yoga philosophy is one reason for Isherwood and Auden's extrangement. 
156,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,54-55,John Lehmann,Allusion,,"Christopher Isherwood,W. H.  Auden",,,,1939-09-01,1939-12-31,"Soon after the outbreak of World War II, critics try to persecute Auden and Isherwood because they are seen as ""deserters and cowards"" (54)."
157,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,55,John Lehmann,Review,Another Time by W. H.  Auden _ 1940-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1939-10-01,1930-12-31,"Lehmann writes that he was ""irritated by the bland above-the-battle tone of Wystan‘s lines in 'September 1st 1939'"" (55)."
158,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,55,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,Gerald Hamilton,California State,,1939-09-01,1941-12-31,"Isherwood sends Hamilton a letter, which will later be leaked to the press. In the letter Isherwood writes ""about the ridiculous behaviour of some of the German refugees who were crowding into California"" (55). He says: ""I have no intention of coming back to England"" (55)."
159,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,57,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,,1941-07-03,1941-07-03,"Isherwood feels guilty about not having written his promised piece on New York for Lehmann. He tells Lehmann that he confessed to ""the English boy"" (57) that their relationship wouldn't work but that he should receive some money. He asks Lehmann to send the boy some of the royalties from Goodbye to Berlin. "
242,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,57-58,John Lehmann,Reading,The Penguin New Writing by John Lehmann _  _ ,,,,,1941-07-15,1942-12-31,"Lehmann reads Isherwood's contribution ""A Day at La Verne."""
160,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,58-59,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,London City,1939-10-01,1940-04-30,"Isherwood tells Lehmann that he is stuck ""in one of his sterile periods"" (58). He says he has ""a very extraordinary life -- one third German Refugee, one third Yoga and one third Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer"" (58)."
161,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,59,John Lehmann,Allusion,,Christopher Isherwood,,,,1940-01-01,1950-12-31,"Lehmann writes about the ""MGM part"" of Isherwood's life. Isherwood ""was kept very busily at work, but very few of the scripts he worked on were ever used for films"" (59)."
162,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,59-62,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,London City,1940-04-16,1940-04-16,"Isherwood tells Lehmann about the projects he is working on for MGM. He writes: ""Money swirls around me like autumn leaves"" (60). He fears that his opinion on war will alienate him from his friends in England. "
163,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,62,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,,1941-01-01,1941-12-31,"Isherwood says that he ""shall never write anything till this war's over"" (62)."
166,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,63,John Lehmann,Allusion,My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood _ 1980-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1980-01-01,1980-12-31,Lehmann alludes to this book in which Christopher describes his devotion to the Swami.
167,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,64,John Lehmann,Allusion,Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood _ 1962-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1962-01-01,1962-12-31,"Lehmann mentions that ""the material of ‘Paul is Alone‘ was transformed into the last episode of Down There on a Visit"" (64)."
164,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,64-65,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,,1943-01-09,1943-01-09,"Isherwood tells Lehmann about his writing projects: a study called Prater Violet, a story of Heinz, and ""a somewhat modified version of 'Paul is Alone'"" (64). However, Isherwood has trouble finding ""a new 'tone of voice'"" (64). Also, Isherwood announces that he is ""going to live at the Vedanta 'monastery' here in Hollywood"" (65)."
165,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,64-65,John Lehmann,Review,Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood _ 1945-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1945-01-01,1946-12-31,"Lehmann says that the novel ""showed that the old magician had lost none of his cunning: the structure was masterly, the pace beautifully controlled, and Dr Bergmann one of his most brilliant tragi-comic creations"" (64)."
168,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,67,John Lehmann,Allusion,,Christopher Isherwood,,,,1942-01-01,1945-12-31,"Isherwood begins to ""work on a Somerset Maugham story; [. . .] but the film was never made"" (67)."
169,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,67,John Lehmann,Allusion,The Condor and the Cows by Christopher Isherwood _ 1949-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1948-03-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1947-01-01,1948-12-31,"Lehmann describes that Isherwood takes Bill Caskey to ""South America, as companion and photographer, on the six months‘ visit that produced The Condor and the Cows, in the winter of 1947-8"" (67). "
170,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,68,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,,1943-01-01,1945-08-31,"Isherwood writes about his writing projects, one being finished. He thinks of Lehmann and spends ""more and more of my time with you, and others who aren't here; and there is a curiously satisfactory feeling of communication"" (68)."
171,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,68,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,,1943-01-01,1945-08-31,Isherwood thinks of his friends in England and plans to come to England as soon as the war is over.
172,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,70,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Santa Monica, California City""",,1946-12-01,1946-12-31,"Isherwood tells Lehmann that he is ""a Yank"" (70) because his accent has changed."
173,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,72,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Wyberslegh Hall, Greater Manchester Private Home""",London City,1947-01-01,1947-01-31,"Isherwood spends some time at Wyberslegh Hall. He writes ""I was never meant for these latitudes"" (72), most of his time he spends reading his old diaries and wahing dishes."
174,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,72,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Wyberslegh Hall, Greater Manchester Private Home""",London City,1947-01-01,1947-01-31,"Isherwood is still at Wyberslegh Hall, looking at old letters, photographs, and books. He comes across Lehmann's Evil Was Abroad and wishes Lehmann would write another novel."
175,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,72,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,Evil was Abroad by John Lehmann _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1947-01-01,1947-01-31,Isherwood alludes to Evil Was Abroad in one of his letters to Lehmann when he spends some time at Wyberslegh Hall. He wishes Lehmann would write another novel.
176,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,74,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,New York City,,1947-03-01,1947-04-30,Isherwood thanks Lehmann for his hospitality during his trip to England. He describes his journey back to the United States and mentions plans for a new novel.
177,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,74-74,John Lehmann,Review,The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood _ 1954-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1987-01-01,1987-12-31,"In Lehmann's opinion The World in the Evening ""didn't turn out a very funny book"" (75)."
178,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,77,John Lehmann,Allusion,,Christopher Isherwood,,,,1948-01-01,1948-12-31,"Lehmann mentions that Isherwood thought very highly of Vidal's novel, The City and the Pillar. Lehmann had published it in England ""not without difficulty"" (77)."
179,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,77,John Lehmann,Allusion,,Gore Vidal,,,,1964-01-01,1964-12-31,Lehmann mentions that Isherwood dedicated A Single Man to Gore Vidal.
180,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,77,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""333 East Rustic Road, Santa Monica Private Home""",,1948-11-06,1948-11-06,"Isherwood tells Lehmann about his ""work at the studio, on the Dostoevsky picture"" (77). Caskey found a new house to live in. Isherwood has to write a travel book but he admits that South America bored him. "
181,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,79,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""333 East Rustic Road, Santa Monica Private Home""",,1951-04-01,1951-04-30,"Isherwood gives Lehmann an update on his novel. He writes, ""It‘s the most complicated bitch of a thing I ever attempted"" (79). At that time, he had no money but he would have loved to come over to England."
182,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,79,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,,1952-09-01,1952-09-30,Isherwood gives Lehmann a further report on the novel and on his relationship with Bill Caskey; they are very happy. He hopes to finish his novel soon.
183,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,79-80,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,,1953-10-01,1953-10-31,"Isherwood thinks he will write ""a Los Angeles letter"" (79) for Lehmann. His novel has been accepted by two publishers in America and England."
184,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,80,John Lehmann,Review,The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood _ 1954-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1954-01-01,1955-12-31,"Lehmann thinks of The World in the Evening as Isherwood's ""worst novel"" (80). He thinks that ""there was something wrong with almost all the characters -- they didn't ring true"" (80)."
241,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,80,John Lehmann,Allusion,Vedanta and the West by  _  _ ,,,,,1950-01-01,1955-12-31,"Lehmann thinks that Isherwood's ""increasing obsession with sainthood"" (80) is foreshadowed in his article ""Problems of the Religious Novel,"" which originally appears in Vedanta and the West. "
185,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,81,John Lehmann,Allusion,Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood _ 1962-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1954-01-01,1955-12-31,"The idea for the novel came to Isherwood ""on a brief trip to Mexico he made in the winter of 1954-5. This eventually formed the basis of Down There on a Visit"" (81)."
4,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,82,John Lehmann,Review,The Grass Harp by Truman Capote  _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1951-10-01,1966-01-16,"Lehmann states the following: ""I sincerely admire his [first] two novels . . . He can be very funny and very touching, But I can't help feeling he's often guilty of playing with the reader"" (82)."
3,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,82,John Lehmann,Review,"""Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote  _ 1948-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1951-10-01,1966-01-16,"Lehmann states the following: ""I sincerely admire his [first] two novels . . . He can be very funny and very touching, But I can't help feeling he's often guilty of playing with the reader"" (82)."
186,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,82,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Truman Capote ,,,,1951-10-01,1951-12-31,"Isherwood talks about Capote in the New Soundings series. He says that Capote ""can be very funny and very touching"" (82) and that he admires Capote's novels."
187,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,83,John Lehmann,Reading,My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood _ 1980-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1987-01-01,1987-12-31,Lehmann quotes a passage from My Guru and his Disciple to give an insight to the relationship between Don Bachardy and Isherwood. It shows Isherwood's devotion to Bachardy.
188,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,89-91,John Lehmann,Reading,The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood _ 1954-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1954-05-01,1954-05-31,"Lehmann expresses his ""rather muted appreciation"" of Isherwood's The World in the Evening, which ""was not very warmly received"" (89)."
189,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,91-92,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1954-05-15,1954-06-30,Isherwood replies not very surprised to Lehmann's feedback on his novel The World in the Evening. Isherwood tells Lehmann about his screenplay project.
190,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,92,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1955-09-01,1955-09-30,"Isherwood's reaction to the film I Am a Camera is as follows: ""For the record, I found it disgusting ooh-la-la near pornographic trash -- a shameful exhibition"" (92). "
191,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,93,John Lehmann,Reading,Great English Short Stories by Christopher Isherwood _ 1957-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1957-01-01,1957-12-31,Lehmann quotes the Introduction written by Isherwood for Great English Short Stories.
192,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,93,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1959-06-01,1959-06-30,Isherwood tells Isherwood that he is short on money and will go on a trip with Bachardy to New York and England.
240,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,94,John Lehmann,Reading,London Magazine by John Lehmann _ 1959-10-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1959-06-01,1959-07-31,"Lehmann reads Isherwood's ""Mr Lancaster."""
193,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,94-95,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,England Country,California State,1959-06-15,1959-07-15,"Lehmann accepts ""Mr Lancaster"" and wants to publish it in the London Magazine."
194,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,95-96,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1959-07-01,1959-08-31,"Isherwood is delighted that Lehmann liked ""Mr Lancaster,"" which is autobiographical as Isherwood explains. Isherwood describes his idea of a novel in four episodes."
195,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,96,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Denham Fouts,,,,1959-07-01,1959-08-31,"In his letter Isherwood describes his idea for a novel (Down There on a Visit). In one episode he plans to write ""about Denny Fouts and yoga and drugs. And there will be an epilogue after the war, about 1952, in Berlin when Denny is dying"" (96)."
196,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,96,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1960-12-15,1960-12-24,"Isherwood tells Lehmann that ""the novel [Down There on a Visit] is finished"" (96)."
197,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,96,John Lehmann,Reading,Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood _ 1962-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1961-07-01,1961-07-31,"Lehmann reads Down There on a Visit and enjoys it immensely. He is ""struck by the sheer marvellousness of the writing"" (96)."
198,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,96-97,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,England Country,California State,1961-07-01,1961-07-31,Lehmann compliments Isherwood on his novel Down There on a Visit. 
200,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,98-99,John Lehmann,Review,Afterwards by Christopher Isherwood _  _ 1959-09-30T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1959-10-15,1959-12-31,"Lehmann reads Isherwood's short story ""Afterwards."" He likes the story but is irritated by the hurried end. He praises ""the psychological inventiveness"" but points out that ""there was an element of erotic fantasy that was dangerously near getting out of hand running right through it"" (99). "
199,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,"98, 100",Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1959-10-15,1959-10-31,"Isherwood sends Lehmann a typescript of a long short story called ""Afterwards."" Isherwood allows Lehmann to show it around."
201,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,99,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,England Country,California State,1959-10-15,1959-12-31,"Lehmann gives Isherwood feedback on his short story ""Afterwards."""
202,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,100,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,E. M. Forster,,,,1959-10-15,1959-10-31,"In his letter Isherwood suggests that Lehmann show his own short story ""Afterwards"" to Forster ""just because he has let me see some things of his in this genre from time to time"" (100)."
203,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,101,E. M. Forster,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,,,1962-01-01,1962-12-31,"Forster writes a letter to Isherwood to tell him that he ""didn‘t much care for the book"" (Down There on a Visit) (101)."
204,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,101-102,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1962-01-01,1962-12-31,"Isherwood writes about the reception of Down There on a Visit, some favorable and unfavorable reviews. He has a new idea for a novel, is currently working on ""the Ramakrishna biography,"" and is teaching at one of the local colleges."
205,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,102,John Lehmann,Allusion,A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood _ 1964-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1964-01-01,1964-12-31,"Lehmann mentions that A Single Man was originally called ""An Englishwoman."" However, in the published version, the Englishwoman is reduced to a minor role. The novel has been praised and ""is thought by many to be Christopher's masterpiece"" (102). Lehmann adds that Isherwood was working as a professor at the time he was writing the novel, ""which gave him much fresh material for the new novel"" (102)."
207,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,103,John Lehmann,Review,A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood _ 1964-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1964-04-01,1964-05-31,"Lehmann reads A Single Man and thinks it is done beautifully and that it is ""funny in a new way, a sour, sardonic, merciless way"" (103)."
206,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,103-104,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,Sussex County,California State,1964-05-01,1964-05-31,Lehmann writes to Isherwood about A Single Man and how much Lehmann has enjoyed reading it.
208,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,104,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1962-12-01,1962-12-31,Isherwood writes about Charley Laughton's death to Lehmann.
209,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,104,John Lehmann,Allusion,Ramakrishna and His Disciples by Christopher Isherwood _ 1965-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1965-01-01,1965-12-31,"Lehmann mentions that this book was a ""weary task"" for Isherwood and he ""published it without any enthusiasm on his part"" (104)"
210,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,104-105,John Lehmann,Review,Exhumations by Christopher Isherwood _ 1966-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1966-01-01,1966-12-31,"Lehmann writes that ""though inevitably uneven in interest, it is full of plums and essential reading for the Isherwood enthusiast"" (105)."
211,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,105,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1965-04-01,1965-04-30,"Isherwood writes that he hardly expects Lehmann to like his Ramakrishna book. He tells Lehmann about his other writing projects, that Exhumations is supposed to be published in the autumn, and that he is trying another novel about two brothers in an Indian monastery. He adds: ""‘You will have to watch The Loved One narrowly to catch a glimpse of me!"" (105)."
213,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,106,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1966-05-15,1966-07-31,Isherwood writes Lehmann that he was delighted and moved by his review of Exhumations.
214,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,106-8,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,California State,England Country,1967-03-01,1967-06-30,"Isherwood tells Lehmann that he has written ""seventy-some pages"" and that there ""will be a lot of research to do in England"" (106) for his novel. Isherwood thinks that Lehmann's autobiography is fascinating."
215,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,107,Christopher Isherwood,Review,The Ample Proposition by John Lehmann _ 1966-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1967-01-01,1967-06-30,"Isherwood reads Lehmann's autobiography and thinks that it is ""so fascinating, and such a picture of your time"" (107)."
216,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,107,John Lehmann,Review,A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood _ 1967-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1967-01-01,1967-12-31,"Lehmann describes A Meeting by the River as Isherwood's ""most ambitious attempt to write 'the religious novel', ending as it does with a vision in which the brother who is becoming a Hindu monk feels himself mystically united with his ‘guru‘ [. . .] I cannot say that this mystical climax made me sympathetically disposed to the work, but I recognize that it is a work of extreme subtlety and complexity"" (107)."
10,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,114,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Isherwood and Bachardy's Home, Santa Monica Private Home""",,1968-01-24,1968-01-24,Isherwood tells Lehmann that he is going through his mother's diaries and father's letters in preparation to write another non-fiction book. 
94,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,115-116,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,"""Cornwall Gardens, London Square""",,1969-05-14,1969-05-14,"Lehmann writes about ""the ceremony of unveiling the memorial of Byron in Westminster Abbey"" (115), Lehmann wishes to know more about how Isherwood's projects are going. "
95,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,117,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Isherwood and Bachardy's Home, Santa Monica Private Home""",,1969-06-01,1969-06-01,"Isherwood informs Lehmann of his projects: the ""film story of Cabaret,"" a ""musical version of The Dog Beneath the Skin,"" and a trip to Australia. "
96,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,118,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Isherwood and Bachardy's Home, Santa Monica Private Home""",,1969-09-19,1969-09-19,"Isherwood tells Lehmann about his trip to Tahiti, Samoa, New Zealand, Autralia, and Honolulu, and that he met Mick Jagger. Isherwood is ""engaged in producing a screenplay of I, Claudius"" (118)."
217,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,119-121,John Lehmann,Allusion,,E. M. Forster,,,,1970-10-01,1970-12-31,Forster's will and literary archive are discussed by Isherwood and Lehmann several times. 
218,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,121,John Lehmann,Reading,Maurice by E. M. Forster _ 1971-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1950-01-01,1956-12-31,Lehmann mentions that Forster had shown the manuscript of Maurice to him in the early fifties.
219,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,121,John Lehmann,Review,The Life to Come and Other Stories by E. M. Forster _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1970-11-20,1970-11-26,"Lehmann reads ""an extraordinary long short story [. . .] of quite extraordinary power and depth"" (121)."
220,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,123-124,John Lehmann,Allusion,,E. M. Forster,,,,1970-12-16,1970-12-16,"Lehmann remembers Forster's personality, ""one wonderful side of Morgan: his habit of writing, out of the blue, to his friends, praising and encouraging"" (123). When Lehmann thinks of Forster ""the pictures that always come to mind first, are of his gaiety. I see him sitting on my sofa, in my library at Egerton Grescent, convulsed with merriment at some absurd joke or situation"" (124)."
97,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,127,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,"""Austin, Texas City""",,1971-03-08,1971-03-08,Lehmann thanks Isherwood for his hopitality on his visit in Los Angeles.
221,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,127,John Lehmann,Reading,Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood _ 1971-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1971-02-15,1971-03-08,"Isherwood shows Lehmann bits of Kathleen and Frank. Lehmann writes that his ""appetite was terribly whetted"" (127)."
98,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,131,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,"""San Diego, California City""",,1971-11-25,1971-11-25,Lehmann mentions a meeting with Isherwood and tells him about a special event he attended. He encloses two poems and wishes to hear Isherwood's opinion.
222,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,135,John Lehmann,Allusion,,Christopher Isherwood,,,,1973-01-10,1973-01-10,"Lehmann writes that Isherwood has ""never been convinced that he is a good script-writer for films or plays"" (135)."
99,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,136-137,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,"""Cornwall Gardens, London Square""",,1975-07-18,1975-07-18,"Lehmann writes about the biographer Jonathan Fryer who wants to meet Lehmann to talk about Isherwood. Lehmann wants Isherwood to let him know ""to what extent I am to be discreet/indiscreet"" (136). Lehmann asks Isherwood about his projects and announces the publication date of his ""Virginia Woolf book"" (137). "
100,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,138-139,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,"""Cornwall Gardens, London Square""",,1975-08-06,1975-08-06,Lehmann writes about the biographer Jonathan Fryer and his current projects. He suggests to meet with Gillian Freeman and gives advice about a specific book project.
101,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,140,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,"""Cornwall Gardens, London Square""",,1975-09-06,1975-09-06,"Lehmann informs Isherwood about a review of ""The Berlin of Sally Bowles,"" which contains a misprint: an unknown character called Marge is mentioned."
102,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,141,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Isherwood and Bachardy's Home, Santa Monica Private Home""",,1977-07-31,1977-07-31,Isherwood informs Lehmann about his writing projects: he is working on a memoir of his life in the 1940s.
103,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,141,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,"""Isherwood and Bachardy's Home, Santa Monica Private Home""",,1978-03-13,1978-03-13,"Isherwood reviews Edward Lear and his World by Lehmann and looks forward to Thrown to the Woolfs. He mentions his ""book about the Swami"" (141)."
223,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,141,Christopher Isherwood,Review,Edward Lear and his World by John Lehmann _ 1977-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1978-03-13,1978-03-13,"Isherwood thinks that the book is ""absolutely beautiful"" (141)."
104,Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir by John Lehmann _ 1987-10-22T00:00:00.000Z _ ,142,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,"""Cornwall Gardens, London Square""",,1983-11-21,1983-11-21,"Lehmann writes about ""the Auden celebrations in New York"" (142). He congratulates Isherwood on receiving the Award form the Modern Languages Association. Lehmann wishes to read Isherwood's next book and writes about his own writing project. "
11,Letter from Norman Douglas to Hilda Doolittle by Norman Douglas _  _ 1922-01-14T00:00:00.000Z,,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Robert McAlmon,,,,1922-01-14,1922-01-14,"In a letter to H.D., Douglas accuses McAlmon of being a narciccist and says he should tackle him by plying him with drugs."
12,Letter from Norman Douglas to Hilda Doolittle by Norman Douglas _  _ 1950-07-24T00:00:00.000Z,,Norman Douglas,Reading,Poem in Life and Letters by Hilda Doolittle _  _ ,,,,,1950-07-24,1950-07-24,"Douglas said he enjoyed H.D.'s ""most suggestive poem"" in an issue of the journal Life and Letters."
29,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,45,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Joe Orton,,,,1970-04-07,1970-04-07,"Isherwood sees Douglas Hickox's 1970 film adaptation of Joe Orton's 1963 play Entertaining Mr Sloane, a film ""about which nothing need be said"" (45)."
17,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,134,Christopher Isherwood,Reading,Letters of Henry James by Henry James _  _ ,,,,,1971-01-29,1971-01-31,"Christopher Isherwood says that he is ""dipping into Henry James's letters, just bought"" (134). It is unclear to which exact edition he is referring."
22,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,136,Don Bachardy,Reading,The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1932-11-30T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,,1971-02-03,Don Bachardy finishes reading Gertrude Stein's novel.
19,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,225,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1972-03-11,1972-03-11,"Christopher Isherwood invites Peter Schneider to meet his Swami. He describes him as ""lurking in the shadows"" (225) like Peter Quint from Henry James's ""The Turn of the Screw."""
23,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,240,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Radclyffe Hall,,,,1972-07-03,1972-07-03,"Christopher Isherwood receives a letter from the only gay delegate from California to the Democratic National Convention at Miami Beach. The delegate has helped set up the Isherwood-Radclyffe Foundation: the women voted to name it after Radclyffe Hall, the men after Isherwood. Isherwood hopes to talk them out of the name."
24,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,253,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Radclyffe Hall,,,,1972-07-23,1972-07-23,"Christopher Isherwood describes Oreste Pucciani, a Professor of French at UCLA, as looking ""exactly like Radclyffe Hall"" (253)."
18,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,359-360,Christopher Isherwood,Reading,The Aspern Papers by Henry James _ 1888-09-29T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1973-05-13,1973-05-13,The director George Cukor suggests that Christopher Isherwood should work with him on a film script adaptation of James's The Aspern Papers to star Maggie Smith and Katharine Hepburn.
20,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,388-390,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1973-09-14,1973-09-14,"Christopher Isherwood is reading S. N. Behrman's autobiographical essays People in a Diary (1972), which describe a meeting between Behrman and Siegfried Sassoon near a ""sinister house"" (388) that resembles the Bly mansion in Henry James's ""The Turn of the Screw."" Behrman also describes the Villa Mauresque in France as a ""Turn-of-the-Screw house"" (390) in Isherwood's description."
21,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,516,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Gertrude Stein,,,,1976-07-02,1976-07-02,Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy talk to Frank Konigsberg about a Gertrude Stein film that was never produced.
25,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,568,Christopher Isherwood,Review,Conversations with Willie: Recollections of W. Somerset Maugham by Robin Maugham _ 1978-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1978-06-02,1978-06-02,"Isherwood describes Maugham's memoir as a ""real downer"" in its ""awful determination to be miserable"" (568)."
26,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,572,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,"Kenneth Halliwell,Joe Orton",,,,1978-09-02,1978-09-02,"Christopher Isherwood reads about the apparent ""neurotic patterns"" (572) of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton in John Lahr's biography of the latter."
28,Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood _ 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,574,Christopher Isherwood,Reading,Crimes of Passion: The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp by Joe Orton _ 1967-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1964-01-01T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1978-09-02,1978-09-02,"Isherwood quotes a passage from Orton's play that he professes to love, a playful scene about homoeroticism between male siblings."
30,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,55,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,"Compton Mackenzie,E. F. Benson",,,,1923-01-01,1923-12-31,"Isherwood shows Chalmers (Edward Upward) an early manuscript of Lions and Shadows. He says that Chalmers envied his ""fatal facility for pastiche"" (55) of writers such as Compton Mackenzie and E. F. Benson in an ""arch, pretty, competent, quaint"" (55) style."
7,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,86,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1925-01-07,1925-01-07,"Isherwood finishes a full draft of Lions and Shadows, which he had been working on for 18 months. A woman novelist who is a friend of the family reads the completed manuscript and dismisses the book ""in the phraseology of Henry James"" (86), namely in a polite, roundabout way."
9,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,124,Christopher Isherwood,Reading,Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1927-01-01,1927-12-31,Isherwood is persuaded by E. M. Forster's exciting reading of the plot of Gide's Les Faux-Monnayeurs to read the French novel. 
32,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,128,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1926-04-01,1926-04-05,"Isherwood travels down to Cornwall to visit Chalmers (Edward Upward) with the first six chapters of a new novel called The Summer at the House. He says that the style is ""stiffened with undigested chunks of Henry James"" (128)."
33,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,130,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,Howard's End by E. M. Forster _ 1910-10-18T00:00:00.000Z _ 1910-07-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1926-04-01,1926-04-05,"Isherwood enjoys Chalmer's (Edward Upward's) theories of Forster's novel-writing being ""based on the tea-table"" (129), in other words making literary scenes sound like ""mothers'-meeting gossip"" (129). Isherwood begins to plan his new novel with a character based on one from Forster's Howard's End."
34,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,160-161,W. H.  Auden,Reading,The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein _ 1925-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1911-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1926-12-01,1926-12-07,"Weston (W. H. Auden) thrusts a copy of The Making of Americans into Isherwood's hands and exclaims ""my God, she's good!"" (161)."
35,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,221,Christopher Isherwood,Allusion,,Radclyffe Hall,,,,1928-01-01,1928-10-31,"Isherwood's friend at medical school engages in a failed experiment that results in a blocked drain full of ""poisonous-smelling black liquid"" (221). Isherwood's friend refers to it as ""the Well of Loneliness"" (221), a reference to Radclyffe Hall's novel published the same year."
229,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,17,Norman Douglas,Allusion,Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1927-01-01,1933-12-31,"Norman Douglas mentions that he ""sold the property,"" a house on Capri, ""to the gentleman who figures in Compton Mackenzie’s Vestal Fire as Joseph Neave"" (17)."
230,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,32,Norman Douglas,Allusion,Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1927-01-01,1933-12-31,"Norman Douglas writes about Gilbert Clavel and mentions that ""There is a caricature of him [. . .] as the 'ebullient Belgian hunchback called Martel' in Compton Mackenzie's Vestal Fire"" (32)."
231,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,59,Norman Douglas,Reading,Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1927-01-01,1933-12-31,"Douglas writes that a good portrait of Godfrey Townley as the character Burlingham can be found in Vestal Fire, which has ""a smack of the 'nineties"" (59)."
232,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,84,Norman Douglas,Allusion,Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1927-01-01,1933-12-31,"Douglas mentions that Colonel Bryan Palmes ""is the 'Major Natt' of Compton Mackenzie's Vestal Fire"" (84)."
233,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,128,Norman Douglas,Allusion,Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1927-01-01,1933-12-31,"Norman Douglas writes that he was acquainted with a youngster ""who is called Nigel Dawson in Compton Mackenzie's Vestal Fire"" (128)."
224,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,255,Norman Douglas,Reading,Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick William Rolfe _ 1904-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1932-01-01,1933-12-31,"Norman Douglas mentions that he ""just glanced into Hadrian the Seventh"" by Rolfe and exclaims, ""How correctly he describes his own character!"" (255)."
225,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,255,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Frederick William Rolfe,,,,1913-01-01,1913-10-25,"Norman Douglas remembers that Edmund Barton told him ""that he [. . .] was with Rolfe when he died of exposure in that open boat in which he passed his last days, for lack of money to live on shore"" (255)."
226,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,255,Norman Douglas,Review,In His Own Image by Frederick William Rolfe _ 1901-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1914-07-28,1918-10-01,"Norman Douglas describes In His Own Image by Rolfe as ""a smirky book, not much to my taste"" (255)."
243,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,293,Norman Douglas,Review,Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1927-01-01,1933-12-31,"Norman Douglas mentions that ""there is a full-length portrait"" of Le Comte de Fersen as ""Count Marsac"" in Mackenzie's Vestal Fire, which ""successfully catches the comic side of Fersen's personality"" (293)."
362,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,293,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen,,,,1927-01-01,1933-12-31,"Norman Douglas mentions that ""there is a full-length portrait"" of Le Comte de Fersen as ""Count Marsac"" in Mackenzie's Vestal Fire, which ""successfully catches the comic side of Fersen's personality"" (293)."
244,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,342,Norman Douglas,Reading,Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1927-01-01,1933-12-31,"According to Douglas, there is a portrait of ""Jerome, the American Consular Agent"" as ""Scudamore"" in Compton Mackenzie's Vestal Fire (342)."
227,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,376-377,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,"Oscar Wilde,Lord Alfred Douglas",,,,1897-06-01,1897-12-31,"Norman Douglas writes about ""a curious little episode"" (376) in 1897 when Oscar Wilde had arrived in Naples. Matilda Serao, an editor of the ""Mattino"" newspaper, had confused Campo Alegre with Oscar Wilde and Norman Douglas with Lord Alfred Douglas. In the newspaper, Serao ""spoke of the arrival of Wilde at the Villa Maya,"" Norman Douglas's villa, commenting that ""Wilde must have been disgracefully treated in his English prison, as he could hardly stand on his legs"" (377)."
245,Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion by Norman Douglas _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,399,Norman Douglas,Allusion,Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1927-01-01,1933-12-31,"Norman Douglas meets a person in Capri who is called ""Nigel Dawson"" in Vestal Fire."
350,"""My Life and Times, Octave Four 1907-1915 by Compton Mackenzie _ 1965-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,179,Compton Mackenzie,Review,Siren Land by Norman Douglas _ 1911-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1913-01-01,1913-02-28,"Mackenzie said that he had been ""as much bewitched"" by Siren Land ""as any mariner of long ago by the Sirens' song"" (179)."
351,"""My Life and Times, Octave Four 1907-1915 by Compton Mackenzie _ 1965-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,182,Norman Douglas,Letter,,,Compton Mackenzie,London City,"""Punta Campanella, Campania Nature reserve""",1913-01-01,1913-02-28,Douglas sent Mackenzie letters of introduction for his first visit to Capri.
352,"""My Life and Times, Octave Four 1907-1915 by Compton Mackenzie _ 1965-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,182,Compton Mackenzie,Allusion,,Oscar Wilde,,,,1913-01-01,1913-02-28,"Mackenzie recalls speaking to some Germans at the Pensione Faraglioni in Capri who lamented that the English ""had been unable to appreciate the genius of Oscar 'Vilda' and for that reason had persecuted him"" (182)."
287,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",62,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Magnus Hirschfeld,,,,1921-11-05,1921-11-05,"Douglas writes that ""Hirschfeld is not quite unfamiliar to me. Nor are certain other matters"" (62)."
304,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",69,Norman Douglas,Letter,,,Hilda Doolittle,,,1921-12-20,1921-12-20,"Douglas writes a letter to ""Unicorn in reply to its very nice letter"" (69), Unicorn being an alias for H.D."
296,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",84,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Robert McAlmon,,,,1922-06-09,1922-06-09,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas alludes to Bryher and McAlmon's incompatibility: ""That is a real nuisance about Robert and his silly café haunting habits"" (84) in reference to his antics in Paris."
306,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",88,Norman Douglas,Allusion,Arrow Music by Bryher  _ 1922-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1922-07-13,1922-07-13,Douglas receives Arrow Music by Bryher and plans to take a look at it.
310,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",95,Norman Douglas,Allusion,Two Selves by Bryher  _ 1923-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1922-08-18,1922-08-18,"Douglas alludes to Bryher's second novel, writing ""I do hope your novel will be ready by the time you leave"" (95) for London. The novel, Two Selves, would be published the following year."
311,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",123,Norman Douglas,Review,Two Selves by Bryher  _ 1923-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1923-10-22,1923-10-22,"Douglas reads Bryher's second novel Two Selves ""with great interest and without skipping a word,"" finding that it reveals ""A singular state of society and of mind"" (123). "
321,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",145,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,"Romaine Brooks,John Ellingham Brooks",,,,1924-04-24,1924-04-24,"Douglas alludes to ""the Brooks."" He tells Bryher that he will try to get some ""Capri monographs"" from them."
288,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",150,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,André Gide,,,,1924-06-14,1924-06-14,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas poses the question: ""Where can one meet Gide?"" (150)."
297,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",170-171,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Robert McAlmon,,,,1924-11-19,1924-11-19,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas discusses McAlmon's plans to print his short story ""A Fragment"" in the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers (1925), which McAlmon brought out through his independent press. Douglas goes on to joke that ""If Robert wants to do something really funny, why does he not reprint my report on the Pumice Stone Industry of Lipari [. . .]?"" (171)."
309,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",175,Norman Douglas,Allusion,A Picture Geography for Little Children: Part One - Asia by Bryher  _ 1925-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1924-12-26,1924-12-26,"Douglas alludes to Bryher's forthcoming work: ""Your geography enterprise sounds very interesting. I am sure you will make a good job of it"" (175)."
320,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",178,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Sylvia Beach,,,,1925-03-11,1925-03-11,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas writes about a misunderstanding with Beach: ""I did not mean Miss Beach to bring the book out. I meant to send her the copies from here; she to distribute them in Paris at a profit of 40-50% on each copy (for herself)"" (178). By ""book,"" Douglas means his Experiments."
298,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",238,Norman Douglas,Reading,Pool Reflection by Kenneth Macpherson _ 1927-03-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1927-10-06,1927-10-06,"Douglas states that he ""enjoyed Poolreflection [sic] immensely"" (238), Macpherson's first novel. "
291,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",246,Norman Douglas,Allusion,The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall _ 1928-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1928-12-20,1928-12-20,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas writes ""The Well of Loneliness (which I haven't read, or even seen: I never get the books I want!) business was a perfect scandal. Where will all this nonsense end?"" (246) in reference to the obscenity court case brought against the Radclyffe Hall novel in November 1928. "
308,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",254,Norman Douglas,Review,"""Close Up by Hilda Doolittle, Kenneth Macpherson, Bryher  _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1929-03-30,1929-03-30,Douglas alludes to the film magazine Close Up and appears to be writing a review of the February 1929 issue.
303,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",289,Hilda Doolittle,Letter,,,Norman Douglas,Vienna City,Florence City,1933-04-01,1933-05-10,Douglas receives a letter from H. D. before leaving for Calabria.
294,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",301,Norman Douglas,Review,Water on the Brain by Compton Mackenzie _ 1933-07-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1933-10-22,1933-10-22,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas asks her to send him Mackenzie's book. He writes, ""I like it immensely; it is so amusing and very cleverly done"" (301)."
299,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",314,Norman Douglas,Letter,,,Kenneth Macpherson,Florence City,,1935-10-24,1935-11-27,"Douglas writes to Macpherson ""to ask if he would care to come with me to India for a month or so"" (314)."
305,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",329,Norman Douglas,Review,Ion by Hilda Doolittle _ 1937-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1937-02-27,1937-02-27,"Douglas writes that Doolittle's translation of the Euripides drama ""is admirable and her notes exactly the right thing, and most suggestive and stimulating"" (329)."
322,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",332,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Mary Butts,,,,1937-03-17,1937-03-17,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas mentions Mary Butt's death. He is very sorry and writes, ""I liked her so much -- what I saw of her here"" (332)."
289,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",339,Norman Douglas,Reading,Retour de l'U.R.S.S. by André Gide _ 1936-11-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1936-10-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1937-08-15,1937-08-15,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas writes that he liked Gide's ""Russian book [. . .] very much"" (339)."
290,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",345,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,André Gide,,,,1938-06-20,1938-06-20,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas writes, ""And I think I shall leave André Gide alone as he is sure to be up to his neck in engagements"" (345)."
323,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",349,Norman Douglas,Reading,As Much as I Dare by Faith Compton Mackenzie _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1938-09-09,1938-09-09,"Douglas tells Bryher that he read Faith Compton Mackenzie's book and liked it. However, he goes on to state the following: ""At the same time, I thought she might have made it still more interesting"" (349)."
302,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",413,Norman Douglas,Letter,,,Hilda Doolittle,Antibes City,London City,1939-11-06,1939-11-06,Douglas mentions that he wrote a letter to H. D. 
292,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",415,Norman Douglas,Reading,Escape With Me: An Oriental Sketchbook by Osbert Sitwell _ 1939-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1934-02-01T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1939-12-28,1939-12-28,"Douglas plans to read the Sitwell text, stating ""I shall start on Osbert (looks the most promising) tomorrow"" (415)."
324,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",439,Norman Douglas,Letter,,,Faith Compton Mackenzie,Portugal Country,,1941-08-24,1941-08-24,Douglas writes a letter to Mackenzie expressing delight that she intended to dedicate her next book to him (439).
293,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",440,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Osbert Sitwell,,,,1941-09-17,1941-09-17,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas writes, ""Hope Osbert is doing well?"" (440)."
295,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",440,Norman Douglas,Allusion,The Red Tapeworm by Compton Mackenzie _ 1941-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1941-09-17,1941-09-17,"Douglas mentions that he has not read Osbert Sitwell's Tapeworm, although the novel was actually written by Compton Mackenzie."
325,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",445-446,Norman Douglas,Letter,,,Faith Compton Mackenzie,Lisbon City,,1941-12-17,1941-12-17,"Douglas writes a letter to Mackenzie asking her to ""keep her eyes open for some room in her neighbourhood (Vale of Health) where I can stay for a short time and have a look around"" (446)."
301,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",464-467,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Hilda Doolittle,,,,1946-08-23,1946-09-27,"In his letters to Bryher, Douglas alludes to H.D.'s breakdown and writes, ""So sorry to hear about Hilda. Anyhow, I should think she could not be better off than in a Swiss sanatorium"" (467)."
307,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",484,Norman Douglas,Reading,Beowulf by Bryher  _ 1948-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1948-07-22,1948-07-22,"In his letter to Bryher, Douglas mentions that he has read her novel Beowulf ""and liked it very much. Something quite different from other books of that kind, and what I should like to know is how you managed to live yourself into that set of people. One would think you had spent half your life among them. You must have a good memory!"" (484)."
300,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 6, Dear Sir (Or Madam): Letters of Norman Douglas to Bryher and two letters from Bryher to Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-03-06T00:00:00.000Z""",489,Kenneth Macpherson,Letter,,,Norman Douglas,,Capri Island,1950-01-01,1950-01-28,"Douglas receives a letter from Macpherson who ""is already longing to be back "" (489) in Capri."
353,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 11, Uncle Norman: Miscellaneous letters to and from Norman Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-11-15T00:00:00.000Z""",14,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1922-01-08,1922-01-08,"Douglas writers in a letter that writers such as Henry James lack ""red blood"" and ""guts and balls"" (14) in a presumed disparagement of the author's effeminacy."
354,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 11, Uncle Norman: Miscellaneous letters to and from Norman Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-11-15T00:00:00.000Z""",15,Norman Douglas,Allusion,,Stephen Spender,,,,1922-02-06,1922-02-06,"In a letter to Edward Bunyard, Douglas talks of his connections to the British Institute of Florence via the director Arthur Francis Spender, uncle of the poet Stephen Spender."
355,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 11, Uncle Norman: Miscellaneous letters to and from Norman Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-11-15T00:00:00.000Z""",33,Norman Douglas,Letter,,,E. M. Forster,Florence City,,1923-01-05,1923-01-05,"Douglas replies to a letter from Forster and asks him whether he has stopped visiting Egypt and tells him that he has become ""a fixture"" (33) in Florence after trying to live in many different places. Douglas also wonders whether he and Forster have ever met or have they simply read one another's work."
356,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 11, Uncle Norman: Miscellaneous letters to and from Norman Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-11-15T00:00:00.000Z""",35,E. M. Forster,Letter,,,Norman Douglas,"""E. M. Forster's House, Weybridge, Surrey Private Home""",,1923-01-09,1923-01-09,"Forster confirms that he and Douglas have never met but that he has had the pleasure of reading Douglas's books. He talks about his travels in Egypt and India, where in a tiny Hindu court he was shown ""very much that was queer, and little that was beautiful"" (35). Forster says he is now in England and speaks fondly of Italy but wonders whether the things he disliked about the country have become more prominent."
357,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 11, Uncle Norman: Miscellaneous letters to and from Norman Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-11-15T00:00:00.000Z""",35,E. M. Forster,Allusion,South Wind by Norman Douglas _ 1917-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1923-01-09,1923-01-09,Forster reminds Douglas that he has previously written to him to praise Douglas's novel South Wind. 
358,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 11, Uncle Norman: Miscellaneous letters to and from Norman Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-11-15T00:00:00.000Z""",35,E. M. Forster,Review,Alone by Norman Douglas _ 1921-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1923-01-09,1923-01-09,"Forster describes parts of Douglas's Alone as being ""most marvellously on the spot"" (35)."
359,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 11, Uncle Norman: Miscellaneous letters to and from Norman Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-11-15T00:00:00.000Z""",37,E. M. Forster,Letter,,,Norman Douglas,Cambridge City,,1923-02-17,1923-02-17,"Forster sends Douglas a copy of his travel book Alexandria: A History and a Guide (1922). He complains about the length of time his publisher has taken to print the book and distribute the stock. Forster has been invited by Douglas to meet in Italy, but Forster does not think he will be travelling internationally in the immediate future.  "
360,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 11, Uncle Norman: Miscellaneous letters to and from Norman Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-11-15T00:00:00.000Z""",38,Norman Douglas,Letter,,,E. M. Forster,Florence City,Cambridge City,1923-02-23,1923-02-23,"Douglas acknowledges receipt of Forster's travel book about Alexandria, commiserates about its poor sales, and encourages him to write another novel. Douglas says he is tired of Florence and wants to move to a village near Sorrento where he can ""live and drink and write and --"" (38). He tries to set up a meeting between Forster and his friend Dr. Rouse in Cambridge, and proposes sending Forster a copy of his book London Street Games (1916)."
361,"""Norman Douglas Selected Correspondence, Volume 11, Uncle Norman: Miscellaneous letters to and from Norman Douglas by Norman Douglas _ 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1951-11-15T00:00:00.000Z""",38,Norman Douglas,Allusion,Alexandria: A History and a Guide by E. M. Forster _ 1922-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1923-02-23,1923-02-23,Douglas acknowledges receipt of Forster's travel book about Alexandria and commiserates about its poor sales. 
330,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,9,Janet Flanner,Review,The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein _ 1925-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1911-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1926-01-01,1926-12-31,"Flanner describes Stein's The Making of Americans as an ""intellectual success"" (9)."
331,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,9,Janet Flanner,Allusion,,Gertrude Stein,,,,1926-01-01,1926-12-31,"Flanner comments that ""No American writer is taken more seriously than Miss Stein by the Paris modernists"" (9)."
332,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,9,Janet Flanner,Allusion,Portraits and Prayers by Gertrude Stein _ 1934-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1934-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1926-01-01,1926-12-31,Flanner states that Stein is working on her collection Portraits and Prayers in Paris.
333,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,12,Janet Flanner,Allusion,,Sylvia Beach,,,,1926-01-01,1926-12-31,"Flanner comments that Sylvia Beach ""may [. . .] be forced to call in legal counsel"" (13) for publishing the second volume of Frank Harris's erotic memoir My Life and Loves. "
334,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,20,Janet Flanner,Allusion,,"Sylvia Beach,Norman Douglas,W. Somerset Maugham",,,,1927-01-01,1927-12-31,"Flanner comments on Beach's collection of signatures in protest of ""Samuel Roth's pirating of her unprotected bookrights in America"" (20). Among the signatories are W. B. Yeats, Havelock Ellis, Norman Douglas, and W. Somerset Maugham. "
337,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,56,Janet Flanner,Allusion,The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall _ 1928-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1929-01-01,1929-12-31,"Flanner comments that Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, which had been banned in England and debated in New York, was now being published locally in France. She says that most copies are sold ""from the news vendor's cart serving the de luxe train for London [. . .] at the Gare du Nord"" (56). It seems English readers were buying the banned book while travelling back to England from Paris. "
339,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,56,Janet Flanner,Review,The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall _ 1928-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1973-01-01,1973-12-31,"Flanner dismisses the literary or psychological merits of Hall's The Well of Loneliness since its interpretation of the origins of sexuality was too literal: ""her whole analysis was false and based upon the fact that the heroine's mother, when expecting her, had hoped for a baby boy"" (57). Flanner recognizes that the novel was nevertheless a landmark work of LGBTQ literature, as ""this rather innocent and confused book was the first of the Sapphic interpretations in modern life"" (57)."
338,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,56-57,Janet Flanner,Allusion,,Radclyffe Hall,,,,1973-01-01,1973-12-31,"Flanner describes Hall's appearance as ""strange but impressive-looking"" and her clothes as ""beautifully tailored English suits, tight-fitting across the bosom and shoulders"" (56)."
340,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,66,Janet Flanner,Allusion,,Gertrude Stein,,,,1929-05-01,1929-05-31,"Flanner comments on the final issue of Little Review being published in France, which included work by Gertrude Stein, among others."
341,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,82,Janet Flanner,Allusion,,"Oscar Wilde,Dolly Wilde",,,,1930-06-01,1930-06-30,Flanner mentions that Dolly Wilde appears in Oscar Wilde's clothes at a summer party in Paris.
342,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,85,Janet Flanner,Allusion,The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall _ 1928-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1930-11-03,1930-12-31,"Flanner reports on the theatrical production of The Well of Loneliness in Paris at the Theatre de La Potiniere. She calls the production a ""riot"" (85). Miss Wilette Kershaw starred in the adaptation as part of a ""banned plays"" (85) series."
343,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,92,Janet Flanner,Allusion,,André Gide,,,,1931-01-01,1931-12-31,Flanner briefly alludes to the Nouvelle Revue Francaise publishing fare such as essays by Andre Gide.
344,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,106-7,Janet Flanner,Reading,The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1932-11-30T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1933-01-01,1933-02-01,"Flanner discusses the global excitement around the forthcoming publication of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. She playfully discusses the contested authorship of the work, as the memoir ""is written simply -- not in the manner of The Making of Americans, but, rather, completely in Miss St -- that is to say, Miss Toklas's first, or easiest, literary manner"" (107)."
345,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,107,Janet Flanner,Reading,The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein _ 1925-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1911-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1933-01-01,1933-02-01,Flanner briefly comments on the complexity of Stein's style in The Making of Americans.
346,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,154,Janet Flanner,Allusion,,Sylvia Beach,,,,1935-01-01,1935-12-31,"Flanner comments on Beach's sale of a number of important modern manuscripts, including a first edition of Ulysses, to raise funds."
347,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,191,Janet Flanner,Allusion,The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind by Gertrude Stein _ 1936-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1936-01-01,1936-12-31,"Flanner comments on the forthcoming Stein volume that engages with politics and combines different types of writing, including ""a small play about identity which was written for the marionettes of Donald Vestal of Chicago"" (191)."
348,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,204-5,Janet Flanner,Allusion,Retour de l'U.R.S.S. by André Gide _ 1936-11-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1936-10-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1937-01-01,1937-12-31,"Flanner comments that Gide's book about his ""major disappointments in Russia"" has caused a ""stir"" in Paris (204)."
349,Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner _ 1972-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1940-12-31T00:00:00.000Z,210-16,Janet Flanner,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1937-08-12,1937-12-31,"Flanner comments on the friendship between Edith Wharton and Henry James after the former's death. Flanner identifies James's strong influence over Wharton, when ""As if preparing herself for her own future expatriation, she first fell under his distant tutelage, then under the personal spell of her country's greatest prose exile""(211)."
327,The Way it Was With Me by Gerald Hamilton _ 1969-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,35,Gerald Hamilton,Allusion,Retour de l'U.R.S.S. by André Gide _ 1936-11-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1936-10-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1933-01-01,1933-12-31,Hamilton met Gide in Moscow just before he wrote Retour de l'U.R.S.S. criticizing the Soviet Union.
37,The Way it Was With Me by Gerald Hamilton _ 1969-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,40-44,Gerald Hamilton,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,,,1955-11-04,1955-11-04,"Hamilton fakes a letter to Christopher Isherwood posing as Arthur Norris that he publishes in The Spectator.  As Norris, he wishes to draw attention to the ""amusing discrepancies between fact and fiction"" (40). It mainly describes the movements of the spy Guy Burgess. Hamilton signs the letter ""Your ancient, and indeed, I might say, almost indestructible friend, Arthur Norris"" (44)."
328,The Way it Was With Me by Gerald Hamilton _ 1969-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,42,Gerald Hamilton,Allusion,,André Gide,,,,1934-01-01,1934-12-31,"In the wake of Gide's published criticisms of the Soviet Union, Hamilton says that the Soviet regime wouldn't have tolerated homosexuals such as Gide. "
5,The Way it Was With Me by Gerald Hamilton _ 1969-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,45,Gerald Hamilton,Reading,A Passage to India by E. M. Forster _ 1924-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1924-06-04,1933-05-13,Hamilton calls Forster a genius on the basis of having read A Passage to India.
326,The Way it Was With Me by Gerald Hamilton _ 1969-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,51,Gerald Hamilton,Allusion,,Frederick William Rolfe,,,,1920-01-01,1929-12-31,"Hamilton describes his friendship with Maundy Gregory who possessed ""most of the Corvo manuscripts in existence"" (51)."
329,The Way it Was With Me by Gerald Hamilton _ 1969-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,92,Gerald Hamilton,Allusion,L'Exile a Capri by Roger Peyrefitte _ 1959-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1959-01-01,1959-12-31,Hamilton describes how Count Fersen became the main character of the Peyrefitte novel.
237,The Way it Was With Me by Gerald Hamilton _ 1969-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,137,Gerald Hamilton,Allusion,,"Lord Alfred Douglas,Oscar Wilde",,,,1890-01-01,1900-01-01,"Hamilton recalls meeting friends of Oscar Wilde in a Soho restaurant called ""Treviglio,"" but he says that Douglas wasn't present due to ongoing lawsuits between him and Robbie Ross."
276,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,117,John Lehmann,Reading,The Happy Prince and Ohter Tales by Oscar Wilde _ 1888-05-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1923-01-01,1925-12-31,"Lehmann describes the reaction of the boys at Eton when the headmaster, Cyril Alington, read Oscar Wilde's story ""The Happy Prince"": ""When the name of the prisoner of Reading Gaol boomed forth in those hallowed surroundings one could immediately sense the change in the atmosphere. Scarcely any boy dared to look at the opposite pews except in a glazed, rigid way; jaws were clenched, and blushes mounted involuntarily to innumerable cheeks."" (117)"
312,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,127,John Lehmann,Allusion,Vienna by Stephen Spender _ 1934-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1934-01-01,1935-12-31,Lehmann alludes to Spender's poem Vienna.
252,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,139,John Lehmann,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1936-01-01,1936-12-31,"Lehmann discusses the reception of New Writing and quotes a critic in The Criterion who says ""Mr. Auden's fable was probably thown off over a meal or in his bath, but bears traces of his genial sadism"" (239)."
282,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,154,John Lehmann,Allusion,,E. M. Forster,,,,1920-01-01,1925-12-31,"Lehmann mentions that E. M. Forster had been added to his reading pleasures at Eton: ""E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf were entirely unknown, and excited me by their ingenuities of approach and artistry to a whole new series of ambitious dreams of revolutionary novel-writing"" (154). "
286,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,167,John Lehmann,Reading,Pharos and Pharillon by E. M. Forster _ 1923-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1931-01-01,1931-12-31,Lhemann mentions that Forster's Pharos and Pharillon is one of the the books that was precious to him.
238,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,173-174,John Lehmann,Allusion,New Signatures by Michael Roberts _ 1932-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1930-01-01,1933-12-31,"Lehmann mentions that ""the poets of New Signatures have so often been assumed to have started off as a 'school'"" (174)."
239,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,175,John Lehmann,Allusion,Poems by W. H.  Auden _ 1930-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1930-01-01,1931-12-31,"Lehmann alludes to Auden's Poems which ""focused the growing restlessness and dissatisfaction of his generation coming to manhood in a world erupting with economic crisis after crisis and heading for another war"" and ""touched the nerve that no one had touched before, it had an overwhelming effect"" (175)."
246,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,177,Stephen Spender,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Berlin City,England Country,1932-01-01,1932-01-31,"Spender informs Lehmann that he and Isherwood ""had sent Auden a joint letter urging him to contribute"" (177) to the anthology (New Signatures)."
247,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,177,Stephen Spender,Letter,,,W. H.  Auden,Berlin City,,1932-01-01,1932-01-31,"Spender sends Auden ""a joint letter urging him to contribute"" (177) to the anthology (New Signatures)."
248,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,178,John Lehmann,Reading,New Signatures by Michael Roberts _ 1932-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1932-01-01,1932-12-31,Lehmann is deeply impressed and moved by the poems Spender contributed to New Signatures.
16,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,179,John Lehmann,Reading,The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood _ 1932-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1931-10-27,1931-12-31,"Stephen Spender talks about Christopher Isherwood's manuscript of The Memorial with John Lehmann. Spender arranges for Lehmann to see the manuscript, is ""completely won over by it"" (180), and recommends it for publication to the Hogarth Press."
319,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,179,John Lehmann,Allusion,All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood _ 1928-05-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1930-12-20,1930-12-31,"Lehmann alludes to All the Conspirators and Isherwood's ""disappointment about the way [. . .] the novel was received"" (179)."
274,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,189,John Lehmann,Allusion,,Paul Bowles,,,,1931-01-01,1932-12-31,"In Lehmann's opinion, there are similarities between William Plomer and Paul Bowles's work in their use of exoticism, namely ""a capacity, a need in his temperament to go outside the traditions and assumptions of his own race and class and enter imaginatively into the minds of people living by an entirely other, less sophisticated pattern of impulse and belief"" (189). "
283,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,191,John Lehmann,Allusion,,E. M. Forster,,,,1930-01-01,1935-12-31,"While talking about William Plomer, Lehmann alludes to Forster: ""As with other writers who owe a great debt to E, M. Forster, he takes seriously the poet’s and novelist’s role of philosopher and interpreter of life, and it came to be of increasing importance to him after the early books"" (191)."
275,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,200,John Lehmann,Allusion,,"Gerald Hamilton,Stephen Spender",,,,1932-05-01,1932-09-30,Lehmann mentions that Spender used to make remarks about Gerald Hamilton during their holiday on Ruegen Island in summer1932.
280,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,217,John Lehmann,Allusion,The Dance of Death by W. H.  Auden _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1933-01-01,1934-12-31,"Lehmann alludes to ""the climate of Auden's The Dance of Death"" (217)."
249,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,233,John Lehmann,Reading,Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1935-01-01,1935-12-31,"Lehmann mentions that Isherwood describes ""some of the 'Mortmere' fantasies"" (233) in Lions and Shadows."
250,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,234,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,London City,,1935-07-01,1935-10-31,Lehmann informs Isherwood about the details concerning the contributions to New Writing.  Lehmann suggests a Advisory Committee.
251,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,234,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,,England Country,1935-07-15,1935-09-30,Isherwood questions the need for an Advisory Committee.
284,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,243,John Lehmann,Allusion,,E. M. Forster,,,,1940-01-01,1941-12-31,"Lehmann remembers what Forster said about André Chamson's My Enemy: ""when the French do remember their boyhood it can be quite extraordinary"" (243)."
272,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,253,John Lehmann,Allusion,New Writing by John Lehmann _ 1936-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1936-01-01,1927-12-31,"Lehmann alludes to Auden's ""cabaret sketch"" ""Alfred,"" which appears in the second volume of New Writing."
273,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,253-254,John Lehmann,Allusion,New Writing by John Lehmann _ 1936-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1938-01-01,1939-12-31,"Lehmann mentions several poems by Auden, which all appear in New Writing."
279,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,254,John Lehmann,Allusion,Paid on Both Sides: A Charade by W. H.  Auden _ 1930-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1932-01-01,1934-12-31,"Lehmann writes that ""by the time Auden started contributing to New Writing he had outgrown the arcane doom-laden telegraphese of his first book and Paid on Both Sides"" (254)"
253,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,257,John Lehmann,Allusion,,"Christopher Isherwood,Stephen Spender,W. H.  Auden",,,,1936-01-01,1940-12-31,"Lehmann divides the contributors of New Writing into two teams: ""those who, like Christopher, Stephen, Wystan, George Orwell and James Stern, had a background of middle-class education [. . .] and already moved to some extent in metropolitan intellectual circles; and those [. . .] who started without any of these advantages"" (257)."
254,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,266,John Lehmann,Allusion,,"Christopher Isherwood,Stephen Spender,W. H.  Auden",,,,1935-01-01,1940-12-31,"Lehmann thinks that Auden, Isherwood, and Spender ""made excellent opportunities for me to intensify my search for contributors to New Writing"" (266). He adds that ""Wystan and Christopher managed to keep away from most of these orgies [trying to find new contributors], but Stephen was an ardent and popular figure"" (266). "
313,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,273-274,John Lehmann,Reading,"""Poems for Spain by Stephen Spender, John Lehmann _ 1939-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1939-01-01,1939-12-31,Lehmann quotes a passage from the introduction written by Spender.
255,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,274-275,John Lehmann,Reading,Another Time by W. H.  Auden _ 1940-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1936-06-01,1940-12-31,"Lehmann quotes a passage from Auden's poem ""Spain."""
314,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,280,John Lehmann,Reading,"""Poems for Spain by Stephen Spender, John Lehmann _ 1939-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1939-01-01,1939-12-31,Lehmann quotes a passage from Spender's introduction. 
315,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,282,John Lehmann,Reading,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1955-01-01,1955-01-01,"Lehmann gives an insight into Spender's memoir: ""In his autobiography Stephen has told the story of how he became involved in the human realities behind the rhetoric through the misfortunes of a friend"" (282)."
316,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,282,John Lehmann,Allusion,Poems by Stephen Spender _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1955-01-01,1955-01-01,"Lehmann alludes to ""O young men, O young comrades,"" a poem by Spender, which appears in his 1933 collection Poems."
277,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,291,John Lehmann,Allusion,Corydon by André Gide _ 1924-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1935-01-01,1937-12-31,"Lehmann remembers that he was told of an episode in which a celebration was held in honor of André Gide. ""When it was all over and Gide had departed, someone casually mentioned Corydon [. . .] on being told what it contained and what Gide’s frankly avowed sexual preferences were, they were utterly appalled."" (291) "
285,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,292,John Lehmann,Reading,The Penguin New Writing by John Lehmann _  _ ,,,,,1944-01-01,1944-12-31,"Lehmann quotes a passage E. M. Forster wrote ""in the sad and witty description of the Exhibition he contributed to the number of New Writing"" (292)."
278,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,293,John Lehmann,Allusion,Retour de l'U.R.S.S. by André Gide _ 1936-11-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1936-10-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1936-01-01,1937-12-31,"Lehmann alludes to André Gide's Retour de l'U.R.S.S. and that there were ""waves of rage and indignation lashing round his famous little book"" (293)."
256,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,303,John Lehmann,Allusion,"""The Dog Beneath the Skin by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1935-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1935-01-01,1935-12-31,Lehmann misses the play because he is abroad.
257,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,303,John Lehmann,Viewing,"""The Ascent of F6 by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1936-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1936-01-01,1936-12-31,"Lehmann sees the play, ""the next child of the famous and all-too-brief collaboration"" (303)."
258,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,303,John Lehmann,Viewing,Trial Of A Judge by Stephen Spender _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1938-01-01,1939-12-31,Lehmann sees the play by Spender.
259,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,304,John Lehmann,Viewing,"""On the Frontier by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1938-01-01,1938-12-31,Lehmann sees the play by Isherwood and Auden.
260,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,304,John Lehmann,Allusion,,"Christopher Isherwood,W. H.  Auden",,,,1955-01-01,1955-12-31,"Lehmann mentions that Isherwood ""had always been interested in the theatre, and it was inevitable that his close association with Auden should lead to the theatre"" (304)."
317,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,304,John Lehmann,Allusion,Trial Of A Judge by Stephen Spender _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1938-01-01,1939-12-31,"Lehmann writes that ""by the time Stephen's Trial of a Judge was put on, the fame of the Group Theatre had spread far beyond the original circle of enthusiasts. Even Cabinet Ministers, it was reported, had been observed in the audience, had looked shaken as they went back to their desks and the Munich Agreement"" (304)."
261,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,307,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Hong Kong City,,1938-02-24,1938-02-24,"Isherwood describes his and Auden's ""plans for making their way by slow river-boat to Canton"" (307)."
318,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,308,John Lehmann,Allusion,Sally Bowles by Christopher Isherwood _ 1937-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1938-02-01,1938-12-31,"Lehmann alludes to ""Sally Bowles"" by Isherwood."
281,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,326,John Lehmann,Allusion,New Writing by John Lehmann _ 1936-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1939-01-01,1939-06-30,"Lehmann alludes to Auden's poem ""Palais des Beaux Arts."""
262,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,327,John Lehmann,Allusion,,"Christopher Isherwood,W. H.  Auden,Stephen Spender",,,,1938-01-01,1939-12-31,"Lehmann, occupied with New Writing, wished Isherwood, Auden. and Spender were his fellow-directors and literary advisers. But the idea had to be dropped because Lehmann couldn't count on Isherwood who was hardly ever in London."
263,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,328,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,London City,Brussels City,1938-08-01,1939-12-31,"Lehmann tells Isherwood about his ""starting troubles and the burden of work in Mecklenburgh Square"" (328)."
264,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,328,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,Brussels City,London City,1938-08-01,1939-12-31,"Isherwood suggests for Lehmann to ""throw the weight of more decisions on the shoulders of the advisory board"" (328)."
265,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,328-329,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,London City,Brussels City,1938-08-01,1939-12-31,Lehmann complains that Isherwood is abroad and explains that the Hogarth Press cannot afford to reward others such as Isherwood and Auden for reading work.
266,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,329,John Lehmann,Letter,,,W. H.  Auden,London City,,1938-08-01,1939-12-31,Lehmann sends Auden some poems to read and comment on.
267,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,329,W. H.  Auden,Letter,,,John Lehmann,,London City,1938-10-01,1939-12-31,Auden gives feedback on the poems Lehmann sent him as potential contributions to New Writing. 
268,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,329,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,,,1938-10-01,1939-12-31,"Lehmann sends Isherwood ""a really first-class novel"" (329) he wants Isherwood to read."
269,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,329,John Lehmann,Allusion,The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood _ 1932-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1938-01-01,1939-12-31,"Lehmann hopes that Party Going by Henry Green will be published and believes that ""the story of Christopher and The Memorial was repeating itself"" (329)."
270,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,329,John Lehmann,Letter,,,Christopher Isherwood,,,1938-10-01,1939-12-31,"Lehmann writes Isherwood that he is ""longing to hear what you have to say about Henry Green's MS"" (329)."
271,The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I by John Lehmann _ 1955-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,330,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,John Lehmann,New York City,,1939-05-01,1939-05-31,Isherwood tells Lehmann about his plans to go to Hollywood and confesses that he is a pacifist.
41,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,48-64,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1928-01-01,1928-12-31,"Spender writes about his friendship with W. H. Auden at Oxford, Auden's personality, and their early poems."
74,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,51,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,Christopher Isherwood,,,,1928-01-01,1928-12-31,"Spender talks about Auden and how he refereed to members of his 'Gang': ""His friend Isherwood was to be The Novelist"" (51)."
49,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,56-57,Stephen Spender,Reading,"""Oxford Poetry 1927 by W. H.  Auden, Cecil Day-Lewis _ 1927-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1927-01-01,1928-12-31,Spender quotes parts of an introduction of Oxford Poetry from 1927 written by Auden to give an insight into how conversations with Auden used to be. 
42,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,70,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1928-01-01,1928-12-31,Spender mentions that Auden left Oxford a year before Spender did.
86,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,71,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1928-01-01,1929-12-31,"Spender is reminded of ""Henry James‘s many branched speculations over the characters in his novels"" (71)."
87,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,75-76,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1926-01-01,1926-12-31,Spender mentions that his uncle was friends with Henry James and Ocar Wilde.
43,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,77,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1930-01-01,1932-01-01,"Spender talks about his uncle (J. A. Spender) who was not impressed when Spender tells him that he knows W. H. Auden, ""a poet of brilliant promise"" (77)."
88,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,84,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,"Henry James,Oscar Wilde",,,,1926-03-01,1927-12-31,"Spender mentions his Aunt May who ""hated any tender emotion with a thoroughly English intensity, only understood by novelists like Trollope and Henry James, who have portrayed such women""."
75,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,101,W. H.  Auden,Allusion,,Christopher Isherwood,,,,1928-01-01,1928-12-31,"Spender talks about how Auden described Isherwood. Isherwood was interested in people because he ""regarded them as material for his Work."" Also, Isherwood ""was the Critic in whom Auden had absolute trust"" (101). "
47,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,116,Stephen Spender,Allusion,Poems 1928 by W. H.  Auden _ 1928-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1929-07-01,1929-09-30,"Spender spends some time of a long vacation printing ""a little volume of the Poems of W. H. Auden"" (116)."
76,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,121,Stephen Spender,Allusion,All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood _ 1928-05-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1929-09-01,1931-01-31,"Spender mentions Isherwood's first publication, which has been remaindered at the time Spender visited Isherwood in Berlin."
77,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,121,Stephen Spender,Allusion,The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood _ 1932-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1929-09-01,1930-12-31,Spender mentions that Isherwood was working on his second novel when Spender visited Isherwood in Berlin.
234,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,127,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,Stephen Spender,Berlin City,England Country,1930-12-15,1931-01-31,"In the spirit of writing letters as a Polar explorer, Isherwood writes ""the position is absurdly terrible. The ice is cracking on the capitalist Wannsee like pistol shots and the doomed skaters in tights and Hessian boots are at least a kilometre from the beer house on the shore"" (127)."
235,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,127,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,Stephen Spender,Berlin City,London City,1930-12-15,1931-02-28,"In the letter, Isherwood informs Spender that ""Sally goes into the clinic tomorrow. Last night I was drunk"" (127)."
236,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,127,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,Stephen Spender,Berlin City,London City,1930-12-15,1931-03-31,"Isherwood thinks of London as a kind of province on which he and Spender depended. He writes: ""I am praying to God to soften the heart of Virginia Woolf"" and ""An appropriate greeting to Mr. Lehmann if he is still with you"" (127)."
50,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,138,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1933-01-01,1933-12-31,"Spender describes Auden as ""a highly intellectual poet, an arranger of his world into intellectual patterns, illustrated with the brilliant imagery of his experience and observation"" (138)."
52,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,138,Stephen Spender,Allusion,Poems by W. H.  Auden _ 1930-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1933-01-01,1933-12-31,Spender mentions Auden and Day-Lewis' publication als well as his own because their names were linked together by the critics.
78,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,138,Stephen Spender,Allusion,New Country by Michael Roberts _ 1933-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1933-01-01,1933-12-31,"Spender writes that the contributors to this anthology ""wrote with a near unanimity, surprising when one considers that most of them were strangers to one another, of a society coming to an end and of revolutionary change."" (138)"
79,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,138,Stephen Spender,Allusion,New Signatures by Michael Roberts _ 1932-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1932-01-01,1932-12-31,"Spender writes that the writers of this anthology ""wrote with a near unanimity, surprising when one considers that most of them were strangers to one another, of a society coming to an end and of revolutionary change."" (138)"
65,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,140-141,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,E. M. Forster,,,,1930-01-01,1933-12-31,"Spender mentions that Forster is associated with Bloomsbury. However, in his opinion Forster did not quite fit in because he was ""too impish, too mystical, too moralizing"" (140)."
89,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,142,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1936-01-01,1936-12-31,Spender sees similarities between Henry James' work and his own book The Destructive Element in which he analyzed the deep consciousness of destructive forces threatening the civilization.
92,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,155,Stephen Spender,Allusion,Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham _ 1930-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1930-01-01,1930-12-31,"Spender remembers a ""story of how Hugh Walpole sat up all of one night reading an advance copy of Somerset Maugham‘s Cakes and Ale, to recognize himself in the cruel analysis of the career of the best-selling novelist"" (155)."
53,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,158,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,"W. H.  Auden,John Lehmann",,,,1932-01-01,1932-12-31,"Spender talks about Virginia Woolf who critizised W. H. Auden, Cecil Day-Lewis, John Lehmann, and Spender himself.  "
66,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,167,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,E. M. Forster,,,,1930-01-01,1936-12-31,"Spender praises Forster as ""the best English novelist of this century"" and describes Forster's ""strange mixture of qualities"" (167)."
56,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,174,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1932-01-01,1933-12-31,"Spender mentions a quarrel with Isherwood where the latter ""expressed his views in the accents of ironic correctitude with which Auden, Chalmers and he could sometimes be insulting"" (174)."
85,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,174,Christopher Isherwood,Letter,,,Stephen Spender,London City,London City,1932-12-01,1932-12-31,"Spender receives a letter from Isherwood the day after Spender visited Isherwood at his mother's house. Isherwood writes that if Spender returned to Berlin he would not do so, that Spender's life was poison to him, and that Spender lived on publicity and was intolerably indiscreet. "
55,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,175,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1932-11-01,1933-03-31,Spender talks about Jimmy Younger (Tony Hyndman) who even understood passages in Auden which Spender found difficult.
68,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,240,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,André Gide,,,,1937-06-01,1937-09-30,"Spender talks about a hidden theme that was constantly discussed in private at the Writers Congress in 1937: ""the Stalinists versus André Gide"" (240)."
69,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,240,Stephen Spender,Allusion,Retour de l'U.R.S.S. by André Gide _ 1936-11-01T00:00:00.000Z _ 1936-10-31T00:00:00.000Z,,,,,1937-06-01,1937-09-30,"Talking about the Writers' Congress in Spain, Spender mentions Gide's text. Spender writes: ""Far more sensational than the book itself was the fury with which it was received by Communists."" (240)"
67,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,241,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,E. M. Forster,,,,1937-06-01,1937-12-31,"Spender mentions Spanish writers he met at the Writers' Congress in 1937. One of those writers is José Bergamin, who had a ""mind at once whimsical and definite, a little like that of E. M. Forster"" (241)."
58,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,247,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1937-06-01,1937-09-30,Spender discusses Auden's opinions on Communism.
70,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,247,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,André Gide,,,,1937-06-01,1937-09-30,"Auden visits Spender and they talk about the Writer's ""Congress and the Gide case"" (247)."
81,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,249,Stephen Spender,Allusion,"""The Dog Beneath the Skin by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1935-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1932-01-01,1939-12-31,"Spender mentions that he was one of the directors of ""the Group Theatre, whose able producer, Rupert Doone, brought on to the London stage the verse plays of Auden and Isherwood"" (249)."
82,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,249,Stephen Spender,Allusion,"""The Ascent of F6 by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1936-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1932-01-01,1939-12-31,"Spender mentions that he was one of the directors of ""the Group Theatre, whose able producer, Rupert Doone, brought on to the London stage the verse plays of Auden and Isherwood"" (249)."
83,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,249,Stephen Spender,Allusion,"""On the Frontier by W. H.  Auden, Christopher Isherwood _ 1938-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ """,,,,,1932-01-01,1939-12-31,"Spender mentions that he was one of the directors of ""the Group Theatre, whose able producer, Rupert Doone, brought on to the London stage the verse plays of Auden and Isherwood"" (249)."
90,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,249,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1937-10-01,1939-12-31,"Spender mentions that ""there had always been in Henry James‘s novels a sense of the social decay of Europe"" (249)."
72,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,265,Stephen Spender,Allusion,The God that Failed by Richard Crossman _ 1949-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1949-01-01,1949-12-31,Spender mentions the essay collection and all the writers featured in it.
80,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,265,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,André Gide,,,,1949-01-01,1949-12-31,Spender mentions the collection of essays The God that Failed and André Gide as one of the writers.
61,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,296,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1940-02-01,1940-01-31,"Spender qoutes the editorial comment by Cyril Connolly in the second edition of Horizon magazine in which Connolly writes about the reception of the magazine by the critics: ""the poetry [is] out of date (except Auden, which is obscure)"" (296). Connolly also mentions that Auden left for the USA a year ago."
71,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,296,Stephen Spender,Allusion,Journal 1889-1939 by André Gide _ 1939-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,,,,,1939-10-01,1939-10-31,"Spender remembers that in search of a name for his and Connolly's review he took a copy of Gide‘s Journal from the bookshelf, and his eye fell on the word ""horizon."""
62,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,297-301,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1947-01-01,1949-12-31,Spender describes the impression Auden left on his sudents in the United States and Auden's role as an English writer in America.
91,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,300,W. H.  Auden,Allusion,,Henry James,,,,1939-01-01,1942-12-31,"Spender talks about Auden who has left for America and has published an essay in which he is ""implying that the literary pilgrimage of Henry James to Europe was now reversed"" (300)."
84,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,301,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,Christopher Isherwood,,,,1939-01-01,1949-01-01,Spender mentions Isherwood's interest in the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta.
63,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,311,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1945-01-01,1949-12-31,"Spender has a feeling of being ""‘on the side of history‘ and not ‘rejected‘ by it, like one of the disused mines in Auden‘s early poems"" (311)."
38,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,ix,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,W. H.  Auden,,,,1951-01-01,1951-12-31,Spender mentions W. H. Auden in the acknowledgements.
73,World Within World by Stephen Spender _ 1951-01-01T00:00:00.000Z _ ,ix,Stephen Spender,Allusion,,Christopher Isherwood,,,,1951-01-01,1951-12-31,Spender mentions Isherwood in the acknowledgements.