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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8c252jh No online items Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, Papers: Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Sara S. Hodson and Gayle M. Richardson, August 8, 2005. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2129 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © 2005 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, mssKIN 1-6443 1 Papers: Finding Aid Overview of the Collection Title: Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, Papers Dates (inclusive): 1922-1976 Collection Number: mssKIN 1-6443 Creator: Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904-1976. Extent: 6,550 items in 178 boxes Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2129 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: This collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera of Scottish historian and writer Patrick Balfour (1904-1976), Lord Kinross, from his earliest columns as a journalist to his final major work, The Ottoman Centuries. Language: English. Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Publication Rights The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item]. Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Provenance Purchased from Bertram Rota Ltd., Booksellers, February 21, 1980. Cataloging Decisions 1. The cataloging of this collection was begun by Sara S. Hodson in the early 1980s and completed by Gayle M. Richardson in 2005. Consequently, the collection contains both blue and buff colored folders and names rendered in the correct Huntington form for 1980 (blue folders) as well as the standard authorized form currently used (buff folders). However, the names have been rendered consistently in this finding aid according to current standard authorized forms. 2. In 1965, Kinross suffered a devastating fire in his home which heavily damaged his study and library; several paintings were lost, as well as books, letters and manuscript material. The surviving letters and manuscripts suffered varying degrees of fire, smoke and water damage, with some loss of text. Smoke-damaged letters were tested for acidity on Dec. 8, 1981, and it was determined the pH levels did not warrant de-acidification. But, it was also decided that during cataloging, folders of damaged pieces would be marked for “fire,” “smoke,” “water;” also noted on the folders was any loss of text. 3. There are references to homosexuality throughout the entire collection; it was decided that, unless it was a substantive reference, it would not be noted as a subject on the folders. The same decision was made for references to the Middle East and Turkey. 4. Some of the earliest letters to Kinross are addressed to “Pete” or “Peter,” evidently, a very early nickname; also, some of the letters from the 1930s are addressed to “Mr. Gossip,” Kinross’ nom de plume while he was writing a society gossip column. In both instances, his authorized name is used on the folders and in this finding aid. 5. Kinross retained all of his research notes and files for his major works ( Atatürk and The Ottoman Centuries ), it was decided to retain his original order rather than rearrange the many files alphabetically or by subject; thus, there is some repetition of file titles and subjects. • Kingsley Amis Papers -- includes various people as author, addressee or subject who are in the Kinross Papers; for example: A.D. Peters & Co., John Betjeman, Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Evelyn Waugh. • Don Bachardy Papers -- includes portraits of individuals in the Kinross Papers; for example: W.H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Lincoln Kerstein, Julie Harris and Ivan Moffat. Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, mssKIN 1-6443 2 Papers: Finding Aid • Elizabeth Jane Howard Papers -- includes various people as author, addressee or subject who are in the Kinross Papers; for example: A.D. Peters & Co., Cecil Beaton, John Betjeman, Diana Cooper, Lawrence Durrell, Wayland Kennet and Feliks Topolski. • Christopher Isherwood Papers -- includes various people as author, addressee or subject who are in the Kinross Papers; for example: W.H. Auden, Truman Capote, Julie Harris, Chester Kallman and Lincoln Kirstein. Especially see the video “A Question of Class,” many of the people in the collection are either discussed or interviewed in the video. Please contact the Curator of Literary manuscripts for further information and viewing availability. • RB 613039 Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Earl of Elgin’s Collection of Sculptured Marbles. Report from the Select Committee on the Earl of Elgin’s Collection of Sculptured Marbles, &c. / communicated by the Commons to the Lords. London: 1816. Transferred from the Manuscripts Department to Rare Books on Nov. 17, 2004, originally part of the Kinross Papers. • RB 482897 Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904-. Between Two Seas. London: 1968. Inscribed by Kinross. • RB 482898 Grafftey-Smith, Lawrence, Sir, 1892-. Hands to Play. London: 1975. Kinross’ copy. • RB 482899 Waterfield, Gordon, 1903-. Professional Diplomat: Sir Percy Loraine of Kirkharle Bt. 1880-1961 . [London: 1973]. Kinross’ copy. • RB 482900 Knightley, Phillip. The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia. By … and Colin Simpson. London: 1969. Kinross’ copy. • RB 482901 Brook-Shepherd, Gordon, 1918-. Between Two Flags . London: [1972]. Kinross’ copy. • RB 482902 Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904-. Atatürk, the Birth of a Nation. London: [1964]. Inscribed by Kinross. • RB 482903 Mattar, Ahmed Hassan. Sinbad of the Sudan . Ed. by Philip Oliver. [Khartoum]: 1968. Kinross’ copy. Biographical Note John Patrick Douglas Balfour, Baron Kinross, was born June 25, 1904, in Edinburgh, Scotland; he inherited the title of 3rd Baron Kinross of Glasclune in 1939 upon the death of his father. He was educated at Winchester and Balliol Coll. Oxford (B.A. History 1925), and while at Oxford he became one of the “Bright Young People” along with Harold Acton, Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly, Brian Howard and John Betjeman. Kinross began his writing career as a journalist on the editorial staffs of various newspapers and as the society gossip columnist, “Mr. Gossip.” He married Angela Mary Culme-Seymour in 1938 but the marriage ended in divorce in 1942. At the start of the war, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a squadron leader and worked in Intelligence, 1940-1944, he then served as Director, Publicity Section, British Embassy, Cairo, with rank of 1st Sec. H.M. Diplomatic Service 1944-47. It was while traveling and serving during the war Kinross began a life-long interest in the Middle East and, especially, Turkey. After the war, he traveled widely and worked as a free-lance journalist, writer, and broadcaster on radio and, later, television. His many works of social commentary, history, travel and biography include Society Racket (1933), Grand Tour (1934), Lords of the Equator (1937), The Ruthless Innocent (1949), The Orphaned Realm (1951), Within the Taurus (1954), Europa Minor (1956), Portrait of Greece (1956), The Kindred Spirit: A History of Gin and the House of Booth (1959), The Innocents at Home (1959), Atatürk, the Rebirth of a Nation (1964), Portrait of Egypt (1966), The Windsor Years (1967), Between Two Seas (1968), Morocco (1971), Hagia Sophia (1972), The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (published posthumously in 1977). Kinross was also a frequent contributor to various periodicals including, Queen, Vogue, The New Yorker, and Punch. Kinross lived his entire adult life at 4 Warwick Avenue, London, where he died of cancer on June 5, 1976. Bibliography Amory, Mark (Ed). The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980). Contemporary Authors. Vol. 6 ed. Ann Evory (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1982), pp. 44-45. Green, Martin. Children of the Sun (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1976). Pryce-Jones, David. Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1984). Sykes, Christopher. Evelyn Waugh: A Biography (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975). Who Was Who. Vol. 7 eds. Adam and Charles Black (London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1981), p. 438. Scope and Content The manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera cover a wide span of Lord Kinross' literary career, from his earliest columns as a journalist to his final major work, The ottoman centuries. The photographs include many images used by Kinross for his biography of Kemal Atatürk. Other notable persons in the collection are Mario Amaya, David Balfour, Cecil Beaton, Elizabeth Freda Berkeley, John Betjeman, Duncan Black, C.M. Bowra, Robert Byron, Penelope Chetwode, Randolph Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, mssKIN 1-6443 3 Papers: Finding Aid Churchill, Cyril Connolly, Diana Cooper, Henry D'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Andrew Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Kenward Elmslie, Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Fleming, Elinor Glyn, Howard Griffin, Kay Halle, Roy Harrod, Peter Howard,