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British and Commonwealth Literary Studies
Graham Greene Correspondence
The Correspondence
Stanford has 28 letters from Greene as part of a larger collection of
the papers of Edith Gombos [Edith Sorel, pseudonym], a French journalist
for the Cuban paper, Revolution.
Location: Department of Special Collections, Green Library
Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department of Special Collections
are non-circulating and must be used in the Special Collections' Reading Room
in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading Room is open 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday
through Friday. Photocopies, photographs, and microfilm can be made of some
materials in the collections. For more information about the collections and
access policies, please contact Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022,
by electronic mail at speccollref@stanford.edu or by regular mail at the Department
of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California
94305-6004.
Career of Graham Greene (1904-1991): Graham Henry Greene was prolific
in his career as a novelist, short-story writer, playwright, critic and
journalist. He attended Berkhamsted School, where his father was headmaster,
before entering Bailliol College, Oxford. In 1926 Greene converted to Catholicism,
the religion of Vivien Dayrell Browning, whom he married in 1927. His novels
include Brighton Rock (1938), The Power and the Glory (1940),
The Heart of the Matter (1948), The Quiet American (1956),
and Our Man in Havana (1958). Greene died of a blood disease in Vevey,
Switzerland on April 3, 1991.
Description of the correspondence: In these letters, written primarily
from his home on the French Riviera, Greene discusses his work on The
Comedians and The Honorary Consul. He also writes about his travels
and mentions meeting Fidel Castro in Cuba and Allende in Chile.
Graham Greene Correspondence
Size: 28 letters to Edith Sorel, 1966 - 1972
Call Number: M1175 (Edith Gombos Papers)
Content: Typed and handwritten personal correspondence
Last modified:
July 12, 2006
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