Archive relating to Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) and Alexander Stuart Frere (1892-1984), including unpublished correspondence recording their close relationship over twenty years, with two draft novels and personal photographs, comprising:
i) Extensive correspondence of around 225 autograph letters, including 170 from Elizabeth von Arnim to Frere and 37 from Alexander Frere to von Arnim (the remainder from other correspondents), variously signed ("Elizabeth", "E.A.", "L.G.", "Leiber Gott", "Tuppence", "Tup", "2d"), the majority dating from the height of their relationship c.1921-1922, beginning with her offer of employment in March 1920 ("...Would you like to arrange & catalogue books, stick in bookplates and be generally obliging & useful in a chalet up in the Swiss mountains... I feel already as if you are my right hand..."), Frere replying "...I only hope to be able to repay your trust, confidence and kindness...", continuing with a wide-ranging and intimate correspondence, revealing their feelings for each other, but also her struggles with writing ("...I am sticking to Vera, with the result that blackest dejection sits clutching on my soul... say prayers for the safe delivery of this book..."), Frere sending a verse by Alice Meynell ("... 'I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart'...") to which she replies ("...I wish the last line could come true! But it will someday..."), on Katherine Mansfield ("...when I think of her I am ashamed that I have too much happiness & light & warmth & love in my life...") and John Middleton Murry ("...He is by nature a sad man..."), with many amusing anecdotes ("...off I go, clutching my m.s. in one hand & my best bonnet in the other..."), on walking in the mountains ("...I start out... with a skirt on... I take it off directly I'm out of sight & stride about breeched..."), on depression and loneliness ("...I love to be pictured in someone's mind..."), much on her numerous dogs, her garden and her routine, mutual friends, travel, excursions, etc.; letters after 1936 mainly on publishing matters, on her fears of Hitler's rise to power ("...Incredible what a man can do in five years if he is entirely ruthless & has the gift of the gab...") and her plan if he invades ("...taking the five dogs to the vet to be put to sleep... putting myself to sleep in a full bath with a chloroform pad over my face... there'll be no real peace in the world until Franco's widow tells Stalin on his deathbed that Hitler was murdered at Mussolini's funeral..."), on her novel Mr Skeffington ("...I'm really distressed that you didn't like Mr Skeff... not a line of it has anything to do with me, or with you, or with anyone else... It is a good subject. And only a woman could treat it really thoroughly & truthfully..."), the last group including a telegram from Patricia Frere notifying Frere of Elizabeth's death ('Elizabeth died this morning in her quiet sleep'), some 440 pages, dust-staining, small tears, 4to and 8vo, Chateau Soleil, Whitehall Court, Cambridge, Portofino, Mas des Roses, USA and elsewhere, 17 March 1920 to July 1947
ii) Manuscript draft of her novel Christopher & Columbus, incomplete, written in ink with many deletions, additions and corrections, leaves 4-30 and 102-197 present, plus 2 extra leaves at end, dust-staining, tears, some leaves loose, disbound, lower cover missing, 4to (219 x 142mm.), [c.1919]; with additional manuscript draft for the same novel, ink and pencil, 66 leaves, dust-staining, tears, some leaves loose, in a 'Glendower Bond' notebook, 220 x 164mm., [c.1919]; manuscript drafts of the beginning of a 'Novel in Letters', a correspondence between 'David Fellowes' and 'Anne Doughty' written by von Arnim and Frere, 19 leaves, 4to; further three typescript leaves of 'correspondence' between 'Mrs Denison' and 'William Brayton', [1922-1923]; manuscript draft of Elizabeth von Arnim's review of A Passage to India ("...Plot. A wretched one. The man Forster is a lover of men. He is also shy, fastidious, & therefore frightened of his public... the form of this wretched plot is good. Like a good tune..."), 3 pages, 337 x 215mm., [n.d.]
iii) Around 100 photographs from Frere's collection, including von Arnim, Frere and guests at Chateau Soleil, skiing, landscapes, also of student life in Cambridge (punting, picnics), many annotated by Frere on reverse, 140 x 84mm. and smaller, [c.1920's]; and other material including printed pamphlet, 'Note on a Passage in Shelley's Ode to Liberty', The Doves Press, 1914, with accompanying letter of presentation from The Doves Press; Shelley's Poems, Canterbury Poets edition, with von Arnim's bookplate and presentation inscription to Frere, dated 29 September 1921; various notebooks, two in Frere's hand; correspondence between Frere and von Arnim's biographer, Karen Usborne, c.1978-1979, and much else
Archive relating to Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) and Alexander Stuart Frere (1892-1984), including unpublished correspondence recording their close relationship over twenty years, with two draft novels and personal photographs, comprising:
i) Extensive correspondence of around 225 autograph letters, including 170 from Elizabeth von Arnim to Frere and 37 from Alexander Frere to von Arnim (the remainder from other correspondents), variously signed ("Elizabeth", "E.A.", "L.G.", "Leiber Gott", "Tuppence", "Tup", "2d"), the majority dating from the height of their relationship c.1921-1922, beginning with her offer of employment in March 1920 ("...Would you like to arrange & catalogue books, stick in bookplates and be generally obliging & useful in a chalet up in the Swiss mountains... I feel already as if you are my right hand..."), Frere replying "...I only hope to be able to repay your trust, confidence and kindness...", continuing with a wide-ranging and intimate correspondence, revealing their feelings for each other, but also her struggles with writing ("...I am sticking to Vera, with the result that blackest dejection sits clutching on my soul... say prayers for the safe delivery of this book..."), Frere sending a verse by Alice Meynell ("... 'I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart'...") to which she replies ("...I wish the last line could come true! But it will someday..."), on Katherine Mansfield ("...when I think of her I am ashamed that I have too much happiness & light & warmth & love in my life...") and John Middleton Murry ("...He is by nature a sad man..."), with many amusing anecdotes ("...off I go, clutching my m.s. in one hand & my best bonnet in the other..."), on walking in the mountains ("...I start out... with a skirt on... I take it off directly I'm out of sight & stride about breeched..."), on depression and loneliness ("...I love to be pictured in someone's mind..."), much on her numerous dogs, her garden and her routine, mutual friends, travel, excursions, etc.; letters after 1936 mainly on publishing matters, on her fears of Hitler's rise to power ("...Incredible what a man can do in five years if he is entirely ruthless & has the gift of the gab...") and her plan if he invades ("...taking the five dogs to the vet to be put to sleep... putting myself to sleep in a full bath with a chloroform pad over my face... there'll be no real peace in the world until Franco's widow tells Stalin on his deathbed that Hitler was murdered at Mussolini's funeral..."), on her novel Mr Skeffington ("...I'm really distressed that you didn't like Mr Skeff... not a line of it has anything to do with me, or with you, or with anyone else... It is a good subject. And only a woman could treat it really thoroughly & truthfully..."), the last group including a telegram from Patricia Frere notifying Frere of Elizabeth's death ('Elizabeth died this morning in her quiet sleep'), some 440 pages, dust-staining, small tears, 4to and 8vo, Chateau Soleil, Whitehall Court, Cambridge, Portofino, Mas des Roses, USA and elsewhere, 17 March 1920 to July 1947
ii) Manuscript draft of her novel Christopher & Columbus, incomplete, written in ink with many deletions, additions and corrections, leaves 4-30 and 102-197 present, plus 2 extra leaves at end, dust-staining, tears, some leaves loose, disbound, lower cover missing, 4to (219 x 142mm.), [c.1919]; with additional manuscript draft for the same novel, ink and pencil, 66 leaves, dust-staining, tears, some leaves loose, in a 'Glendower Bond' notebook, 220 x 164mm., [c.1919]; manuscript drafts of the beginning of a 'Novel in Letters', a correspondence between 'David Fellowes' and 'Anne Doughty' written by von Arnim and Frere, 19 leaves, 4to; further three typescript leaves of 'correspondence' between 'Mrs Denison' and 'William Brayton', [1922-1923]; manuscript draft of Elizabeth von Arnim's review of A Passage to India ("...Plot. A wretched one. The man Forster is a lover of men. He is also shy, fastidious, & therefore frightened of his public... the form of this wretched plot is good. Like a good tune..."), 3 pages, 337 x 215mm., [n.d.]
iii) Around 100 photographs from Frere's collection, including von Arnim, Frere and guests at Chateau Soleil, skiing, landscapes, also of student life in Cambridge (punting, picnics), many annotated by Frere on reverse, 140 x 84mm. and smaller, [c.1920's]; and other material including printed pamphlet, 'Note on a Passage in Shelley's Ode to Liberty', The Doves Press, 1914, with accompanying letter of presentation from The Doves Press; Shelley's Poems, Canterbury Poets edition, with von Arnim's bookplate and presentation inscription to Frere, dated 29 September 1921; various notebooks, two in Frere's hand; correspondence between Frere and von Arnim's biographer, Karen Usborne, c.1978-1979, and much else
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