IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4462/Q
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SALKEY, ANDREW (DONATED PAPERS)
Date(s): 1968-1994
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.33 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Salkey | (Felix) Andrew Alexander | 1928-1995 | writer and broadcaster
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
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.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
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.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
These records are arranged into one series: LMA/4462/Q/01: Correspondence.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositors.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
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.
Immediate source of acquisition:
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.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
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]
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010