Best known for the Forsyte Saga (1906–21), novelist and playwright John Galsworthy was the first President of PEN International and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. The archive acquired by the British Library consists of 62 boxes and folders of correspondence and papers containing handwritten literary drafts and annotated copies of his printed works.
Our funding of £150,000 supports the acquisition of the archive, enhancing material already cared for at the British Library and it will also be made available for research . A selection of the archive will be digitised and made freely available online with the opportunity to see highlights in future exhibitions and displays.
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