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Correspondence and Memorandum of Agreement relating to John Middleton Murry
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2100
Content Description
This fonds consists of three letters by John Middleton Murry, and a Memorandum of Agreement between him and Jonathan Cape, publishers. These documents are seemingly unrelated but were part of one single donation by the same person.
Two signed autograph letters from John Middleton Murry in his capacity as editor of The Adelphi. In the first, dated 13 June 1923, Murry writes to an...
Dates:
13 June and 5 December 1923; 17 March 1939; 5 October 1950
Five signed letters from Bonamy Dobrée to Sir Herbert Grierson relating to a planned Oxford History of English Literature
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-373
Identifier: Coll-1873
Scope and Contents
Three autograph and two typed letters signed, nine pages in total, written in Leeds from 25 December 1937 to 14 May 1939. Sent from Bonamy Dobrée to Sir Herbert Grierson, suggesting a commission for a collaboration with Edmund Blunden to produce a volume on the late 18th century for a planned Oxford History of English Literature and subsequently discussing aspects of its progress.
Dates:
25 December 1937-14 May 1939
Maurice Lindsay Papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-56
Scope and Contents
The Maurice Lindsay Papers contain poetry notebooks; drafts, manuscripts and typescripts; radio scripts; incoming correspondence and some carbon replies; articles by Lindsay; C.M. Grieve manuscripts; and, outgoing correspondence. Within the Maurice Lindsay Papers are up to three boxes containing private and personal letters (dated 1943-46) between Lindsay and his future wife and which are not available for general study until after the deaths of the writer and recipient without their express...
Dates:
1943-1977
Papers of Fred Urquhart
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-49
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Fred Urquhart contain drawings, diplomas, essays, stories, poems and early manuscripts; and, various notes, and typescripts. There are reports and correspondence from periods with Cassell, and J.M. Dent, and relating to work with other publishers and MGM and Walt Disney. The collection includes diaries and notebooks on H.E. Bates from the 1930s; and, address books and diaries covering several decades. There is correspondence with his parents between 1936-1965, and a great deal of...
Dates:
1930-1994
Papers of John Middleton Murry
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-62
Scope and Contents
The collection includes critical reviews, including typescripts and proof sheets of some of these; poems, possibly by Katherine Mansfield; typescript notes of work; typescripts of articles; galley proofs; manuscript notebooks; bundles of notes on Keats; lectures and speeches; and , essays. There are also albums of press cuttings between 1939-47, and letters, letterbooks, diary, and contracts. Some material unidentified or undated.Click ...
Dates:
1912-1959
Papers of Professor David Talbot Rice
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-85
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Professor David Talbot Rice are mainly notes for Fine Art lectures in the 20th century.
Dates:
circa 1938-1972
Papers of Professor William Lindsay Renwick
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-80
Scope and Contents
The papers of Professor Renwick consist largely of material on Edmund Spenser. More specifically there are notes on sources forA view of the present state of Ireland, and forThe Shepheards calendar, as well as collations of textual and bibliographical variants ofThe Faerie Queen. There is a draft essay onThe Faerie Queen; a typescript of a lecture; short notes mostly relating to Spenser; and, miscellaneous correspondence and papers mostly on Scholartis Press editions.
Dates:
1930s-1959
Robert Nye papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-54
Scope and Contents
The collection includes, largely: working notes; drafts; typescripts; correspondence; source material; and, publishing house material. The collection, received at various points since the 1990s, is formed by the following components: MSS 2881-2916 (35 archive boxes), containing material relating to:
Merlin - working notes, drafts, typescript, copies of source...
Dates:
1969-2005
Three notebooks and two letters of John Middleton Murry
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2097
Content Description
This fonds consists of three notebooks and two letters written by John Middleton Murray.The first notebook contains texts written between 1915 and 1917, including an autobiographical essay and the first part of John Middleton Murry's verse drama 'Cinnamon and Angelica'. The second notebook contains the remainder of 'Cinnamon and Angelica', dated 3-24 December 1917. The third notebook contains notes on French and English literature and two journal entries, dated 19 April 1921 and 3 March...
Dates:
1915-1923; 1938-1939
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