| Description | File labelled “Ackerley”. Contains correspondence and notes relating to letters and works of J R Ackerley. Including:
Lists of Ackerley’s publications and lists of his letters to Sonia and others (written on the back of notes by Angus about Orwell’s publications). 1970s.
Photocopy of a typescript of “The Dome of the Rock: Jerusalem (1970)”.
Correspondence between Ian Angus and Neville Braybrooke regarding Braybrooke’s edition of Ackerley’s letters [“The Ackerley Letters” (1975), edited by Neville Braybrooke]. 1973-1974.
Copies (and originals?) of letters between Ackerley and others, including copies of his poems. One undated letter to Roger (?) from Ackerley includes a manuscript copy of ‘Ghosts’. Two typescript copies of a letter from E M Forster to Ackerley praising his work (26 April 1922).
Letters and postcards from Ackerley to Sonia Orwell (1969-1963 and undated), and a letter from Neville Braybrooke to Sonia thanking her for lending him the letters (1969). These relate to the list at the start of this file.
Photocopies of letters from Ackerley to Alex Comfort. 1941-1942.
Letters between Angus, Peter Parker and others regarding Ackerley’s works. 1987.
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