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Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist
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Papers of Lyn Newman

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Correspondence with Bloomsbury Group, family and friends; journal and diaries; miscellaneous family papers; original work; papers relating to 'The Monologue' and Monologue Books.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

ALS to Geoffrey Marks and Yda [incomplete]

Details a "money-making" idea to write a traveller's companion book for a particular railway, and asks Geoffrey's opinion. Mentions the Gaussen book. Refers to Poppetts [Ida], dinner with Horsey, seeing Father Hugh, and the arrival of Evelyn and Angela. Reports on her mother's health.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard Woolf

Expresses pleasure over Leonard's letter on Animals at Cambridge. Apologises for not writing sooner due to working hard on the Monologue. Disagrees with his description of what a Christian knows and thinks. Argues that most Christians would hesitate to say that animals do not have souls. Mentions not being able to get a piano up the stairs of her lodgings in Cambridge.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Copies of the Monologue edited by Lyn Irvine, nos. 1-24

Includes reviews of contemporary books, articles on current affairs particularly those of a literary nature or relating to Nazi Germany and the rise of fascism in Europe. Letters from M.H.A. Newman and Odette Keun [no. 22], and Ezra Pound and Leonard Woolf [no. 23]. Cover design and illustration by Monica Marks. Some issues include a list of subscribers.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard Woolf

Written from Austria. Thanks Leonard and Virginia for their good wishes and present. Describes her holiday with Max.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard Woolf

Mentions that she and Max are making their wills. Asks Leonard to be her literary executor and look after her journal. Thinks it impossible to let Max or Yda see it even after her death, but believes that it might be a document of "psychological interest" and therefore does not want it destroyed.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Autograph draft of Lyn's final wishes

Bequeaths her entire estate to Geoffrey Marks and directs him to make sure she is cremated without unneccessary expense.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Draft ALS to Mr Huntington

Thanks him for proposing her as the author of his book about the Prince Imperial but explains that she is working on a book about Fanny Kemble.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

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