Collection GB 0074 LMA/4462/Q - SALKEY, ANDREW (DONATED PAPERS)

0.33 linear metres

These papers were gifted by Pat Salkey to Eric and Jessica Huntley as they related mainly to Bogle L'Ouverture and his friendship with the Huntleys. See 'Related Units' for details of where Salkey's remaining papers were deposited.

GB 0074 LMA/4462/Q 1968-1994 Collection 0.33 linear metres Salkey , (Felix) Andrew Alexander , 1928-1995 , writer and broadcaster

Andrew Salkey, writer, and radio interviewer at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), poet and essayist, was born as Felix Andrew Alexander Salkey in 1928 at Colón, Panama. He died in April 1995 at Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America.

See the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for a detailed biography.

These papers were gifted by Pat Salkey to Eric and Jessica Huntley as they related mainly to Bogle L'Ouverture and his friendship with the Huntleys. See 'Related Units' for details of where Salkey's remaining papers were deposited.

Their archive collections were the first deposit from the African-Caribbean community to be made to the London Metropolitan Archives, in 2005 with additional deposits since that time.

Correspondence with Andrew Salkey, writer and broadcaster. Letters date from prior to Andrew Salkey leaving England to take up a professorship at Amherst College in North America. His continued involvement in the development of Bogle L'Ouverture was achieved through regular correspondence with Eric, Accabre and Jessica Huntley. He helped to create and maintain links to literary organisations and individuals in the States, the Caribbean and South America. The letters offer, advice, encouragement and information.

The series includes five dated and numbered files. Many of the letters are informal and friendly. Personal and current political issues of the day are commented on as are management, marketing and strategic planning for the development of Bogle-L'Ouverture.

These records are arranged into one series: LMA/4462/Q/01: Correspondence.

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Copyright to these records rests with the depositors.

English

Fit

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

See LMA/4462/C/01/157 - 214 for Andrew Salkey's author files and personal correspondence sent to Eric and Jessica Huntley

For the main archives of Andrew Salkey please see British Library: Manuscript Collections (Deposit Number: 10310):

Summary: "the archives comprises of numerous working manuscripts and typescripts for many published and unpublished novels, short stories and volumes of poetry, along with numerous radio scripts and anthologies of Carribean writers edited by Salkey. There is also an extensive correspondence, including over 900 pages of letters from the Barbadian author Austin Clarke, and substantial correspondence from Barbadian poet Edward Kamau Braithwaite, Guyanese novelist Jan Carew, Trinidadian author Sam Selvon, Jamaican novelist John Hearne, Marcus Garvey's widow Amy Jacques, CLR James, and George Lamming. The collection also includes Salkey's diaries for the period 1972-1995, along with various ephemeral printed material (including magazines, posters and handbills for events).

This is a substantial archive in terms of volume, and is remarkably complete. It is a significant literary collection but is perhaps equally strong in the fields of political and social history, providing as it does a varied and articulate 'cross sectional' insight into the Black struggle for political, social, cultural and intellectual recognition in the latter half of the 20th century." [this summary was kindly provided by the Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts, British Library. January 2008]

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

November 2009 to February 2010 Communication skills Writing Letter writing Ethnic groups African peoples Communication personnel African-Caribbean peoples Publishing industry Publishers Publishing Authors Writers Information sources Records and correspondence Letters (documents) Communication process Black peoples Salkey , (Felix) Andrew Alexander , 1928-1995 , writer and broadcaster Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications Ltd , specialists in books from and about the Caribbean , Africa , Afro-America and Asia London England UK Western Europe Europe Personnel People by occupation People

Their archive collections were the first deposit from the African-Caribbean community to be made to the London Metropolitan Archives, in 2005 with additional deposits since that time.

Correspondence with Andrew Salkey, writer and broadcaster. Letters date from prior to Andrew Salkey leaving England to take up a professorship at Amherst College in North America. His continued involvement in the development of Bogle L'Ouverture was achieved through regular correspondence with Eric, Accabre and Jessica Huntley. He helped to create and maintain links to literary organisations and individuals in the States, the Caribbean and South America. The letters offer, advice, encouragement and information.

The series includes five dated and numbered files. Many of the letters are informal and friendly. Personal and current political issues of the day are commented on as are management, marketing and strategic planning for the development of Bogle-L'Ouverture.

These records are arranged into one series: LMA/4462/Q/01: Correspondence.

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Copyright to these records rests with the depositors.

• English

• Latin

English

See LMA/4462/C/01/157 - 214 for Andrew Salkey's author files and personal correspondence sent to Eric and Jessica Huntley

For the main archives of Andrew Salkey please see British Library: Manuscript Collections (Deposit Number: 10310):

Summary: "the archives comprises of numerous working manuscripts and typescripts for many published and unpublished novels, short stories and volumes of poetry, along with numerous radio scripts and anthologies of Carribean writers edited by Salkey. There is also an extensive correspondence, including over 900 pages of letters from the Barbadian author Austin Clarke, and substantial correspondence from Barbadian poet Edward Kamau Braithwaite, Guyanese novelist Jan Carew, Trinidadian author Sam Selvon, Jamaican novelist John Hearne, Marcus Garvey's widow Amy Jacques, CLR James, and George Lamming. The collection also includes Salkey's diaries for the period 1972-1995, along with various ephemeral printed material (including magazines, posters and handbills for events).

This is a substantial archive in terms of volume, and is remarkably complete. It is a significant literary collection but is perhaps equally strong in the fields of political and social history, providing as it does a varied and articulate 'cross sectional' insight into the Black struggle for political, social, cultural and intellectual recognition in the latter half of the 20th century." [this summary was kindly provided by the Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts, British Library. January 2008]

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English