Correspondence

This series comprises Feinstein's correspondence dating from the 1950s to the 2010s, with scores of individuals and organisations of national and international importance, including fellow poets, novelists, translators, artists, literary critics, editors, publishers and agents. The number of individuals represented is huge and includes: Brian Aldiss; Al Alvarez; Martin Amis; J.G. Ballard; Samuel Beckett; Dame Gillian Beer; Isaiah Berlin; Paul Blackburn; Malcolm Bradbury; William Burroughs; A.S. Byatt; Wendy Cope; Gregory Corso; Donald Davie; Margaret Drabble; Gavin Ewart; Ruth Fainlight; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Antonia Fraser; Allen Ginsberg; David Halliwell; Michael Hamburger; Maggi Hambling; Michael Hamburger; dom sylvester houédard; Michael Horovitz; Ted Hughes; Olwyn Hughes; Peter Jay; Frank Kermode; Denise Levertov; Eddie Linden; Michael McClure; Michael Morpurgo; Eric Mottram; Octavio Paz; Harold Pinter; Anthony Rudolf; Susan Fromberg Schaeffer; Michael Schmidt; Jon Silkin; Alan Sillitoe; Jon Stallworthy; George Steiner; Anne Stevenson; Charles Tomlinson; Gael Turnbull; Daniel Weissbort; Fay Weldon; and Sir Arnold Wesker.

The correspondence has been divided into two groupings reflecting the way EF arranged her own letters: most of them were stored in box files based on time periods, but a small number were filed by subject.