Collection ID: LMC 2103
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Summary

Abstract:
The X mss., 1928-1961, (principally 1959-1961), consist of the office files of X: A Quarterly Review, edited by David John Wright and Patrick Swift and published by Barrie and Rockliff, London, England, vol. I, no. 1, November 1959 to vol. II, no. 2, August 1961, inclusive.
Extent:
2 Boxes (2 standard)
Language:
Materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], X mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

X, A Quarterly Review, also called X Magazine, was a British literature and arts review journal that ran from 1959 to 1962.

Scope and Content:

The correspondence, 1957-1963, consists in the main of letters to the editors of X, David John Wright and Patrick Swift from contributors, translators and would-be contributors, and letters from Wright to Swift in regard to X. The letters from contributors and translators relate principally to their contributions to X, their writings, translation of articles, and comments on X and on other writers. The editorial make-ups and proofs are arranged in the order of the volumes and numbers of the magazine. Writings consists of the manuscripts of articles and poems submitted for publication, 1928-1960, (principally 1959- 1960).

Correspondents represented in the collection include Dannie Abse, Craigie Aitchison, John C. Ashby, Frank Auerbach, George Barker, Barrie and Rockliff, publishers, Marjorie Battock, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Mrs. Lilian Bomberg, Yves Bonnefoy, Patrick Bowles, James Brockway, J. S. Bussy, William Clarke, Jenny Joseph Coles, William Cookson, Anthony Cronin, Vera Daumal-Page, John Davenport, George Duthuit, Alexander Eliot, Andrew Forge, Charles Wrey Gardiner, David Gascoyne, Diego Giacometti, Denis Goacher, Nigel Gosling, Ken Gransden, Robert Graves, Helga Greene, Christopher Murray Grieve, Michael Grieve, Geoffrey Grigson, Donald Hall, Michael Hastings, Aidan Higgins, Brian Higgins, Derek Hill, Mary Hutchinson, Elizabeth Jennings, Maria Jolas, Patrick Joseph Gregory Kavanagh, Monique Lange, John Lehmann, Karl Leschke, Helen Lessore, Pierre Leyris, Claire McAllister, John McGahern, Charles Marowitz, Philip Martin, Andre Masson, Michael Leverson Meyer, Robert Nye, Ezra Loomis Pound, Gabriel Pustel, Henry Rago, George Reavey, Marie (Nordlinger) Riefstahl, W.R. Rodgers, John Russell, Michel Saint-Denis, Charles Hubert Sisson, Albert Skira, Florence Margaret Smith, Stephen Spender, Quentin Stevenson, Noel Stock, Patrick Swift, Richard Wadleigh, Nevile Arthur Douglas Wallis, John Walter, Vernon Phillips Watkins, W. P. Watt, Evelyn Waugh, Dobson Wayland, Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, John Weightman, Huw Wheldon, Oscar Williams, and David John Wright.

Acquisition information:
Purchase: 1973
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into the following series: I. Correspondence, II. Writings, and III. Editorial Make-ups and Proofs.

Physical location:
Lilly - Stacks

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], X mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu