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PATRICK BALFOUR, BARON KINROSS, PAPERS
1922 - 1976
FINDING AID
The Huntington Library
Gayle M. Richardson
Sara S. Hodson
August 8, 2005
©The Huntington Library
Object Description
| Title | Finding aid for Papers of Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, 1922-1976. |
| Creator | Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904-1976. |
| Extent | 6,550 items. |
| 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 the rank of 1st Sec. H.M. Diplomatic Service, 1944-1947. 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 (1959), The innocents at home (1959), Atatürk (1964), Portrait of egypt (1966), The windsor years (1967), Between two seas (1968), Morocco (1971), Hagia sophia (1972), The ottoman centuries (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. |
| 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 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, J.C. Hurewitz, Wilfred Kirkpatrick, James Lees-Milne, Tilly Losch, Malcolm Muggeridge, Beverley Nichols, Harold Nicolson, Frances Phillips, Alan Pryce-Jones, Freya Stark, Christopher Sykes, Violet Keppel Trefusis, Alec Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Edward, Duke of Windsor, etc. |
| Notes | All inquiries about this collection should be directed to the Curator, Literary Manuscripts. |
| Date | 1922-1976. |
| Provenance | Purchased from Bertram Rota Ltd., Booksellers, February 21, 1980. |
| Subject |
Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938. Betjeman, John, 1906-1984. Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974. Harrod, Roy, 1900-1978. Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904-1976 -- Archives. Stark, Freya. Trefusis, Violet Keppel, 1894-1972. Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972. Authors, English -- 20th century -- Archives. Male homosexuality. World War, 1939-1945. Middle East -- Description and travel. Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, Western. Middle East -- History -- 20th century -- Sources. |
| Form/Genre |
Diaries Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Drawings Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Ephemera Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Letters (correspondence) Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Manuscripts Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Notebooks Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Photographs Great Britain 20th century. (aat) Poems Great Britain 20th century. (aat) |
| Contributors |
Amaya, Mario. Balfour, David, 1903-. Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980. Berkeley, Elizabeth Freda, Lady. Betjeman, John, 1906-1984. Black, Duncan. Bowra, C. M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971. Byron, Robert, 1905-1941. Chetwode, Penelope. Churchill, Randolph S. (Randolph Spencer), 1911-1968. Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974. Cooper, Diana, 1892-1986. D'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Henry Joseph, Sir, 1909-1976. Elgin and Kincardine, Andrew Douglas Alexander Thomas Bruce, Earl of, 1924-. Elmslie, Kenward. Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Fleming, John, 1919-2001. Glyn, Elinor, 1864-1943. Griffin, Howard, 1915-1975. Halle, Kay. Harrod, Roy, 1900-1978. Howard, Peter, 1908-1965. Hurewitz, J. C., 1914-2008. Kirkpatrick, Wilfred. Lees-Milne, James. Losch, Tilly, 1904-1975. Muggeridge, Malcolm, 1903-1990. Nichols, Beverley, 1898-1983. Nicolson, Harold, 1886-1968. Phillips, Frances Lucas, 1896-1986. Pryce-Jones, Alan, 1908-2000. Stark, Freya. Sykes, Christopher, 1907-1986. Trefusis, Violet Keppel, 1894-1972. Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981. Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. A.D. Peters & Co., Literary Agents. André Deutsch (Firm) John Murray (Firm) Midland Bank Trust Co., Ltd. Newman Neame, Ltd. Newsweek, inc. Book Division. Weidenfeld and Nicolson (Firm) William Morrow and Company. |
| Department | Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscripts Department. |
| Call Number | mssKIN 1-6443 |
| Accession Number | mss 00750, mss 02277 and mss 02288. |
| Physical Collection | Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, Papers |
| Digital Collection | Finding Aids, Huntington Digital Library |
| Physical Description | 213 p. |
| Digitization Specifications | Original finding aid converted into PDF document by B. Black, 2011-11-17. |
| Date Digital | 2011-11-17. |
| DCMI Type | text |
| Digital Format | |
| Original Finding Aid | Finding aid prepared by Sara S. Hodson and Gayle M. Richardson, August 8, 2005. |
| Citation Information | Finding aid for Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, Papers Huntington Digital Library, San Marino, California. |
| Restrictions | Images in this collection are for scholarly research; please review the Huntington Library's copyright information: http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/about. For purchasing images for publication please review our permission to publish policy: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=590. |
| Cataloging Notes | Organized in the following series: Manuscripts (Boxes 1-63), Correspondence (Boxes 64-155), Photographs (Boxes 156-158), Ephemera (Boxes 159-177), Oversize Ephemera (Box 178). Arranged alphabetically. |