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The card : a story of adventure in the Five Towns

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    Calling card, bank cheque, hotel bill, Kodak photograph/negative paper folders

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    This collection contains approximately 225 letters between Elizabeth von Arnim and Alexander Stuart Frere discussing their relationship, daily life, her writing process, and the rise of Hitler. There are also letters from Patricia Wallace Frere to her husband concerning the last illness and death of Elizabeth and a series of letters from Karen Usborne, who wrote the first biography of Elizabeth published in 1986. Also included are two novel drafts, a novel in letters, poems, a book review, and personal notebooks. The collection also includes a large number of photographs in which Alexander Stuart Frere was either the photographer or the subject; some of the photographs were identified by Frere, but the majority are unidentified. The ephemera in the collection includes printed material, a book given to Frere by Elizabeth von Arnim, book reviews, a bank cheque for five pounds from von Arnim made out to Frere, and newspaper clippings.

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    Little Friend: cast list and story of the film

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    A mimeographed copy of the credits, cast list and lengthy story for the film "Little Friend," based on the novel by Ernst Lothar; produced by the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Ltd., and directed by Berthold Viertel. The scenario and dialogue were written by Margaret Kennedy and Christopher Isherwood and the 1934 film depicts a young girl at the center of her parents' deteriorating marriage. The copy is stained and creased with slight tears on the bottom of the pages; with light foxing on all pages.

    mssHM 83794