Bostanzi helped to provide Fermor with new ideas for his writing in a similar way his friend and writing advisor Rudolf 'Rudi' Fischer (17 September 1923 - 18 February 2016) did. The 500 letters written between him and Mairi Bostanzi from 1988 to 2010 can also be found in this section. This series is mostly made up of correspondence between Patrick Fermor and his wife, Joan Leigh Fermor (5 February 1912 - 4 June 2003), though there are also several personal letters to and from Fermor. Cataloguing the collection took over a year and it has been arranged into nine categories by its curators. Correspondence between Fermor and his publisher John Murray VI is also included within the archive, as is the only surviving notebook from his trek across Europe in 1933. It consists of various papers relating to his life and travels, including letters between him and poet Sir John Betjeman. The Patrick Leigh Fermor Archive contains materials dating back to 1934, the year Fermor purchased his first passport, to 2011 when he died. He played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during World War II and it was widely regarded as Britain's greatest living travel writer during his lifetime, based on books such as The Broken Road (2013) and A Time of Gifts (1977).Ĭomposition of the Papers of Patrick Leigh Fermor Leigh Fermor had many careers and interests over the course of his life, and left behind a vast collection of papers, many of which are now held within the Archive. It was made available to the general public in November 2014.
Murray Charitable Trust, and is housed at the Library's main building on George IV Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland. The bulk of the collection, the Papers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, was purchased by the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in 2012 from Fermor's estate, using funds donated by the John R. The Patrick Leigh Fermor Archive is a collection of over 10,000 items of correspondence, literary manuscripts, articles and research papers, diaries, passports, sketches and photographs relating to Sir Patrick 'Paddy' Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011), a British author, scholar, veteran, and adventurer. Collection of items relating to Patrick Leigh Fermor
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