Box: 5 Fold: 23 Violet Powell to John Monagan Box: 5 Fold: 24 Anthony Powell to John Monagan Box: 5 Fold: 25 Violet Powell to John & Rosemary Monagan Box: 5 Fold: 26 Violet Powell to John Monagan Box: 5 Fold: 27 Violet Powell to John Monagan Box: 5 Fold: 28 Derry Moore - Correspondence re Anthony Powell Box: 5 Fold: 29 Lewis F. Powell, Jr. - Correspondence from John Monagan Box: 5 Fold: 30 William H. Pritchard to John Monagan Box: 5 Fold: 31 John Saumarez Smith to John Monagan Box: 5 Fold: 32 Arthur Schlesinger - Correspondence from John Monagan Box: 5 Fold: 33 Miscellaneous Correspondence re Anthony Powell
@ William Heinemann, Ltd. - carbon copy of typed letter from John Monagan requesting a copy of the first edition of "Books Do Furnish a Room" (3/30/1971).
@ Diana Edkins, House and Garden magazine (New York) - carbon copy of typed letter from John Monagan requesting a copy of a photograph of Powell and the Chantry, taken for the magazine (12/8/1988).
@ George Gardner Herrick - autograph card signed to John Monagan with reference to Auberon Waugh (7/25/1990).
@ Nicholas Scheetz - autograph card signed to John Monagan with reference to a visit to Somerset, Powell's home county (2/7/1993).
Box: 6 Fold: 1 Photographs - Anthony Powell and Friends at the Chantry Box: 6 Fold: 2 Photographs - Anthony Powell & Friends at the Chantry Box: 6 Fold: 3 Photographs - Anthony Powell & Friends at the Chantry Box: 6 Fold: 4 Photographs - Anthony & Violet Powell Box: 6 Fold: 5 Aide-memoire of Visit to Anthony Powell by John Monagan Box: 6 Fold: 6 Musical Scores/Libretti re Anthony Powell & John Monagan Box: 6 Fold: 7 Article on Anthony Powell: "Episodes in Time" Box: 6 Fold: 8 Article on Anthony Powell: "A Guide to A Dance..." Box: 6 Fold: 9 Article on Anthony Powell: "Time and the Music" Box: 6 Fold: 10 Article on Anthony Powell: "Books Do Furnish a Room" Box: 6 Fold: 11 Article on Anthony Powell re Ingersoll Prize 1984 Box: 6 Fold: 12 Article on Anthony Powell (Newsclippings) Box: 6 Fold: 13 Article by Anthony Powell: "Literature and the Real Person" Box: 6 Fold: 14 Article on Anthony Powell: "In Perfect Harmony" Box: 6 Fold: 15 Article on Anthony Powell: "You Say Tomato" Box: 7 Fold: 1 Photograph: Anthony & Violet Powell (Framed)
Letter dated: May 21, 1993
DESCRIPTION: Contains typed letter signed from Violet Powell to John Monagan.
Letter dated: June 22, 1993
DESCRIPTION: Contains autograph postcard signed from Anthony Powell to John Monagan .
c. New Year 1994
DESCRIPTION: Contains autograph card signed by Violet Powell to John and Rosemary Monagan. Includes envelope (postmark obscured).
Letter dated: March 4, 1994
DESCRIPTION: Contains autograph letter signed from Violet Powell to John Monagan.
Letter dated: March 27, 1994
DESCRIPTION: Contains autograph signed letter from Violet Powell to John and Rosemary Monagan.
1984-1985
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence between John Monagan and photographer Derry Moore re photographs of Anthony Powell.
1987
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon copies of two typed letters from John Monagan to Lewis F. Powell inquiring about a possible genealogical tie between the latter's family and that of the author Anthony Powell.
September 1990
DESCRIPTION: Contains typed letter signed (9/17/1990) from William H. Pritchard to John Monagan with thanks for forwarding an article on "From a View to a Death" by Anthony Powell. A copy of the article (Bostonia, September/October 1990) is included (originally sent to Monagan by John Gleeby with note attached). Includes copy of typed letter from Monagan to Pritchard (9/11/90).
Letters dated: 1985-1992
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 typed letters signed to John Monagan from John Saumarez Smith, director of G. Heywood Hill Ltd., re Anthony Powell. Letter of 2/18/1992 includes color photograph of Powell and bust.
Letter dated: January 12, 1987
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon copy of a typed letter from John Monagan to Arthur Schlesinger re Anthony Powell.
Datespan: 1971-1993
DESCRIPTION: Contains miscellaneous letters to/from John Monagan with reference to Anthony Powell. Includes (in chronological order):
Dated: November 25, 1981
DESCRIPTION: Contains 24 black and white photographs of Anthony and Violet Powell entertaining visiting friends John and Rosemary Monagan, at the Chantry, Somerset, England. Includes shots of the Chantry (interior).
Dated: August 15, 1987
DESCRIPTION: Contains 14 color photographs of Anthony and Violet Powell entertaining visiting friends John and Rosemary Monagan, at the Chantry, Somerset, England. Other guests shown include Kenneth Bradshaw and Powell's son John. Includes photographs showing various interior views of the Chantry.
Dated: August 23, 1988
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 color photographs showing interior views of Anthony Powell's home at the Chantry, Somerset, England. Taken by John Monagan during a visit to the Powells. Includes photographs of Powell's bedroom/study.
1989
DESCRIPTION: Contains color reproduction of a framed photograph taken of Anthony and Violet Powell for "House and Garden" magazine. The framed portrait is shown with inscription by Powell to the Monagans.
Dated: November 9, 1987
DESCRIPTION: Contains aide-memoire typed by John Monagan to Nicholas Scheetz (friend and manuscripts librarian at the Special Collections Division, Georgetown University Library), recounting a visit made by Monagan and his wife, to the Powell residence at the Chantry in Somerset, England on August 15, 1987. 2 pages. (Photographs taken on this occasion are located in Folder 6:2).
1988
DESCRIPTION: Contains miscellaneous musical scores and handwritten (by John Monagan) songs. Original folder is labelled, "Powell-Monagan Family Tape 1988." Includes autograph note by Monagan, "Music from the Dance / Selections from A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell..."
Dated: June 1973
DESCRIPTION: Contains xerox copy of a printed article about Anthony Powell in "The Illustrated London News, June 1973, entitled, "Episodes in Time."
Dated: August 1975
DESCRIPTION: Contains volume 2, number 17 of "The New Review" (August 1975) featuring and article on Powell, entitled, "A Guide to A Dance to the Music of Time" by James Tucker. Described as a "who's who, or who's where, guide to the characters appearances and re-appearances."
April/May 1983
DESCRIPTION: Contains April/May 1983 issue of "Georgetown" magazine, featuring a review by D.G. Vanderbilt, Jr., of Powell's book, "The Strangers All Are Gone."
June 1984
DESCRIPTION: Contains June 1984 issue of "Vanity Fair" featuring an article on Powell by Duncan Fallowell, entitled, "Books Do Furnish a Room." Photographs by Derry Moore.
December 1984
DESCRIPTION: Contains December 1984 issue of "Chronicles of Culture" featuring an article on Anthony Powell and the award of the 1984 Ingersoll Prize.
1985
DESCRIPTION: Contains various newspaper article clippings about Anthony Powell.
January 1985
DESCRIPTION: Contains January 1985 issue of "Chronicles of Culture" featuring the text of Powell's address at the 1984 Ingersoll Prizes awards banquet. Entitled, "Literature and the Real Person." Includes (inset pp.20-21) an interview of Powell by the journal.
November 1988
DESCRIPTION: Contains November 1988 issue of "House and Garden" magazine featuring a pictorial on the home of Anthony and Violet Powell at the Chantry, Somerset, England. Article by John Russell with color photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes.
August 9, 1993
DESCRIPTION: Contains xerox copy of an article (New Yorker, 8/9/1993) with reference to the pronunciation of names, including that of Anthony Powell.
c.1985
DESCRIPTION: Contains framed color photograph of Anthony and Violet Powell in the library of their home at the Chantry, Somerset, England. Autograph note on reverse of frame by John Monagan dates the photograph c.1985.
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