Monsarrat's archive

The Nicholas Monsarrat Archive is being donated by the writer’s third wife and widow, Malta-based Ann, who wanted it to be located in the novelist’s home city, Liverpool. From the Liverpool Daily Post:

..Max Monsarrat, who was born in Heswall, gave his blessing to his stepmother Ann’s gift and endorsed it by donating his father’s hand-written manuscripts, bequeathed to him by his mother (the novelist’s first wife). These include The Visitor, the novelist’s only play, his Corvette story series, wartime Royal Naval patrol and night order logbooks, plus his work in progress rough books.

Until the writer’s death in 1979, Nicholas and Ann Monsarrat lived on the Maltese island of Gozo. When Ann Monsarrat moved to a smaller home on Malta last year, she offered the archive ex-gratis to Liverpool Athenaeum...Ann Monsarrat said: “I wanted the archive to come to Liverpool, as it’s what Nicholas would have wanted. He retained deep affection for his home city and Liverpool Athenaeum is ideal as his father was a proprietor there.”...