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Collection of Correspondence, Alfred Edward Thiselton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-626
Scope and Contents
The correspondence is that between a number of persons and Thiselton on his Shakespearean publications. The correspondents, of some 40 in number, include W. Salt Brassington, F. J. Furnivall, and Israel Gollancz.
Dates:
[circa 1895]-1916
Collection of James O. Halliwell-Phillipps
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-103
Scope and Contents
The Halliwell-Phillipps Collection includes 16th-century works by Italian, French and Spanish authors. Its strength lies in English books however, especially English drama of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Collection also includes more than 600 plays including works by Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, and William Wycherley. Several are playhouse copies with contemporary stage directions added in manuscript. There...
Dates:
16th century-19th century
Correspondence between George Mackay Brown and Hugo Brunner
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1294
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection spans a period of 22 years from 1974 to 1996, and consists of several dozens of pages. The content tells of George Mackay Brown's annual cycle and his daily life, and particularly of visits of muses and other friends, as well as referring to publishing and contract matters. Included among the many individuals mentioned or referred to in the letters are: Ernest Marwick, Edwin Muir, Andrew Motion, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Hermann Palsson, Simon Fraser, Esther...
Dates:
1974-1996
Correspondence of Rev. Canon Andrew John Young
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-702
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of letters and postcards to close friends John Freeman and John Arlott, as well as analyses of religious questions in poetry. There are circa 20 autograph letters and 10 signed letters to Freeman, 1922-1927, and circa 100 autograph letters to Arlott from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection also includes BBC typescript broadcasts on The search for flowers, Some rare flowers of the west, ...
Dates:
1920-1971
Correspondence of Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-625
Scope and Contents
The correspondence consists of autographed letters from Koteliansky to Sir Sidney Philip Waterlow referring to much in the literature of the period including reference to D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, and Aldous Huxley.
Dates:
1929-1933
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
John Wain Archive
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-29
Scope and Contents
Includes essays; drafts of, and corrections to The contenders, The take-over bid, and The smaller sky; revised text, and corrected typescript of The young visitors; publisher's copy of, and notebooks relating to A winter in the hills; revision to, and radio adaptation of A winter in the hills; drafts...
Dates:
1947-1994
Lecture Notes, Rhetoric and English Literature, 1878-1879
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1125
Scope and Contents
On a title page of one of the two volumes the contents are stated as being notes of Edinburgh University, Rhetoric and English Literature 1878-1879, Historical Course, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The name of James Malloch appears there too. Similar information appears on a title page of the second volume. These contents are stated as being notes of Edinburgh University, Rhetoric and English Literature 1878-1879, Theoretical Course, Mondays and Tuesdays. This volume shows the name, James Malloch....
Dates:
1878-1879
Lecture notes taken down by David H. Stam
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1028
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of Lecture notes on English Literature and Divinity taken down during 1955-1956, with the English Literature notes including:
- Dr. Johnson
- Critical Theory, given by A. M. Clarke
- The seventeenth century, also given by A. M. Clarke
There are also Supplementary notes on: Wordsworth; Shelley; Matthew Arnold; and,...
Dates:
1955-1956
Letters from Professor George Saintsbury to Rev. William Hunt
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1692
Identifier: Coll-2020
Content Description
This collection consists of typescript letters sent by Professor George Saintsbury to Rev. William Hunt D Litt., arranged in chronological order, dating from 1895 to 1932. The subjects of these letters are diverse, from family and personal matters, to literature and political discussions.
First lot: "Letters Christmas Eve 1895 to Dec. 1917. Autograph letters and typescript copies of these letters have been sent...
Dates:
1895-1932
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- Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891-1974 (Professor of English Literature, University of Leeds) 1
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- Green, Martin, fl. 1969-1970, Literary critic 1
- Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 1
- Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889 (antiquarian and scholar) 1
- Hunt, William, 1842-1931 (Church historian) 1
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- Lawrence, David Herbert, 1885-1930 (poet novelist and essayist) 1
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- Lindsay, John Maurice, 1918-2009 (Scottish poet) 1
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 1
- Malloch, James, fl. 1878-1879 1
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 1
- Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 1
- Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 1
- Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625-1695 1
- Nye, Robert, 1939-2016 (poet, writer, critic) 1
- Philip, Robert George, fl. 1900 1
- Renwick, William Lindsay, 1889-1970 (professor) 1
- Rice, David Talbot, 1903-1972 (art historian) 1
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 1
- Stam, Dr., David H., b. 1935 (University Librarian Emeritus) 1
- Thiselton, Alfred Edward, 1857-1904, Writer on Shakespeare 1
- Two Rivers (Literary Journal) 1
- Urquhart, Frederick Burrows, 1912-1995 1
- Wain, John Barrington, CBE, 1925-1994 (English poet) 1
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