MS 443 01
Reference code
MS 443 01
Title
Noel Blakiston papers: Papers relating to Cyril Connolly
Level
Series
Administrative / Biographical history
Noel Blakiston (1905-1984)
Noel Blakiston, author and archivist. He was a King's Scholar at Eton, where he met Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), author and literary reviewer. Their friendship flourished in the 1920s and continued throughout their lives. In 1975, Blakiston published A Romantic Friendship: the Letters of Cyril Connolly to Noel Blakiston.
Noel Blakiston, author and archivist. He was a King's Scholar at Eton, where he met Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), author and literary reviewer. Their friendship flourished in the 1920s and continued throughout their lives. In 1975, Blakiston published A Romantic Friendship: the Letters of Cyril Connolly to Noel Blakiston.
Date
1922-1976
Extent & medium
6 boxes
Content description
Letters, photographs, writings, and printed material documenting Noel Blakiston's relationship with Cyril Connolly.
Finding aids
A calendared list of Cyril Connolly's letters to Noel Blakiston is available on Eton College Library's online Autograph Catalogue.
Publication note
Cyril Connolly's letters published as: Connolly, Cyril. A romantic friendship: the letters of Cyril Connolly to Noel Blakiston. London: Constable, 1975.
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Beneath this record in the archive hierarchy
- Noel Blakiston papers: Correspondence relating to Cyril Connolly, MS 443 01 01, (1922-1976)
- Noel Blakiston papers: Writings by Cyril Connolly, MS 443 01 02, (1927-1929)
- Noel Blakiston papers: Photographs relating to Cyril Connolly, MS 443 01 03, (1923, undated)
- Noel Blakiston papers: Printed material and a document related to Cyril Connolly, MS 443 01 04, (1925-1974)
- Noel Blakiston papers: Papers relating to A Romantic Friendship, MS 443 01 05, (1975-1976)