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Malcolm Lowry Manuscripts Collection Series
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Correspondence Re Lowry

Series consists of three years of correspondence between Birney and a variety of magazines, journals, and publishers, mostly concerning Birney’s efforts to have some of Lowry’s works published posthumously. The majority of the correspondence was posted between 1961 and 1963.

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence between the Lowrys and the Burts, mostly from the 1950s and early 1970s. The series also contains poems by Lowry, two of which were written for Dorothy Templeton Burt’s birthday in 1957.

Correspondence

Series consists of letters from R.N. Linscott, Klaus Mann, and James Stern. Contents include quotes from reviewers of Under the Volcano related to its rejection in 1940 (R.N. Linscott worked at Houghton Mifflin Co., which rejected Under the Volcano). Includes also a fragment of a letter from Lowry, undated, and a telegram sent from Mexico to the Daily Herald. The telegram is the same as that sent by one of the characters in Chapter IV of Under the Volcano.

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence between William McConnell and various friends, family, and Lowry scholars. The majority of the incoming correspondence is from Margerie Lowry and the Crawleys. Outgoing letters are addressed frequently to the Crawleys (Alen, Jean, and Mike), Margerie Lowry, Harvey Breit, and Basil Stuart-Stubbs of UBC Library RBSC. An additional collection of correspondence between McConnell and Earle Birney dating from 1943 to 1947 was added to the William McConnell Papers and is included in this series.

Correspondence

Series consists of letters and poems written by Lowry to Atwater (Carol Phillips), mostly sent while Lowry was living in Los Angeles in 1939. Some of the envelopes from these letters are also contained in the series.

Correspondence

Series consists of incoming and outgoing letters between the Lowry family (brothers Russell, Stuart, Wilfrid, and Malcolm, and parents Arthur and Evelyn Lowry) and between Russell Lowry and the heads of various Malcolm Lowry-related books and films. These projects include Muriel C. Bradbrook’s Malcolm Lowry – His art and early life and Gordon Bowker’s Malcolm Lowry, Pursued by Furies. Correspondence between the Lowrys is largely from between 1911 and 1957.

Clippings

Series consists of several articles about Lowry published by George Woodcock, Alexander Ross, and Harvey Breit in Vancouver area newspapers, an article on the posthumous awarding to Lowry of the Governor General’s literary award in 1961, and a clipping concerning the renaming of a North Vancouver street from Park Lane to Lowry Lane.

Book Review

Series consists of a copy of a review of Edward Hoagland’s book Notes From the Century Before: A Journal From British Columbia. Some of the notes in question are Margerie’s from the notebooks in the Malcolm Lowry Papers.

Audio-visual Materials

Series consists of footage and audio of an interviews with friends of the Lowrys, including Burt, footage of a 1994 concert at the Deep Cove Shaw Theatre celebrating Lowry’s life, and a variety of sound and video recordings of CBC programming about Lowry and his works.

Anne Smith's Closer Look

Series consists of correspondence about and a typescript of Russell Lowry’s preface to Anne Smith’s 1978 book, The Art of Malcolm Lowry. The book is a collection of essays by various Lowry scholars on Lowry’s works. Russell Lowry’s preface is entitled Malcolm – A Closer Look.

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