Algernon Islay de Courcy Lyons

• Gate to the Sea - Bryher (Pantheon Books, New York, 1958) Photographic illustrations by Algernon Islay de Courcy Lyons. • A Visit to Morin - Graham Greene. (London, Heinemann, 1959) Photographer Algernon Islay de Courcy Lyons • Gandharan Art In Pakistan - New York (1957) Photography by Algernon Islay de Courcy Lyons • Catherine Walston/Graham Greene Papers – Various Works (Georgetown Library) • Nancy Cunard: An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center • Norman Douglas Collection (2008 Addition) (GEN MSS 614)j • Islay Lyons - Photographs. Introduced by William Warren Privately Printed: Éditions Didier Millet (1996). (Photographs of Graham Greene, Harold Acton, Bryher, Noël Coward, Janet Flanner, Peggy Guggenheim, Sybille Bedford, Margot Fonteyn, Kenneth Macpherson and many others. Also included are landscapes and Italian cityscapes). • Omnes Eodem Cogimur: Some Notes Following the Death of Norman Douglas. (Kenneth Macpherson) Privately Printed: [Turin] (1953). A memorial album with twenty-five photographs by Islay Lyons of Douglas and his friends, including Nancy Cunard, Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham and many others.

Part of Lyons’s bequest to his fostered Thai son, Manop Charoensuk, was a large quantity of photos, books, and letters related to the life of Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, the novelist and poet. It is believed that Fersen bequeathed his collection to Norman Douglas, who bequeathed it to Kenneth Macpherson. On Macpherson’s death, Lyons inherited the estate. Charoensuk sold it to an American millionaire. In 2002, the complete collection was offered by Sotheby’s in London to the American antiquarian bookseller David Deiss, but it was eventually bought by an unknown British dealer. It is probable, although unconfirmed, that most, if not all of this memorabilia is what the Beinecke acquired in 2008 and forms part of their Norman Douglas Collection. Some of de Courcy Lyons’s work is held in the United States, including the Catherine Walston/Graham Greene Papers at Georgetown Library, the Nancy Cunard Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and the Norman Douglas Collection (2008 Addition) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.