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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
Letters from Walter de la Mare
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-352
Identifier: Coll-1836
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a total of 23 Walter De la Mare letters dating from 1926 to 1953 including: 14 letters to Mrs. Verity (7 autograph letters signed and 7 typed letters signed); 3 autograph letters signed
to Marie Lamigeon; 6 typed letters signed to various other people. More perspective on Walter De la Mare's thinking can be understood regarding this important and
accomplished English poet and novelist.
Dates:
1926-1953
Letters from Walter de la Mare to Charles Jasper Sisson and Rosemary Sisson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2101
Content Description
This collection consists of three typed letters from Walter de la Mare to academic and author Charles Jasper Sisson (1885-1966), dated 6, 23, and 27 November 1933, and two typed letters to Sisson's nine-year-old daughter Rosemary Anne Sisson (1923-2017), a future novelist and television dramatist, dated 24 August and 27 September 1933.In his letters to Rosemary, de la Mare is mostly talking about his poems and answering her comments and stories about her own occupations; and in his letters...
Dates:
24 August - 27 November 1933
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
Original manuscript for 'Love, Freedom and Society', by John Middleton Murry, published 1957
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1681
Scope and Contents
The manuscript of Love, Freedom and Society spans 345pp, in closely written handwriting, covering the entire text of the work.As well as sections on D. H. Lawrence and Albert Schweitzer, the ms also includes a set of politically based conclusions entitled 'A political epilogue' which was omitted from the final publication. These conclusions were replaced with the chapter 'Christianity and tragedy' which is also present in the ms.Letter of provenance is also...
Dates:
1955-1957
Papers of Dr. Geoffrey D. Carnall
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-552
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of lectures on rhetoric, 1960-1964, and, transcript and correspondence on a teach-in on chemical and biological warfare, 24 January 1969, tape transcripts.The bulk of his papers were donated in 2015 (accession code E2015.91). They include correspondence with his colleagues and fellow activists as well as a few personal letters, lectures notes, proofs of publications, and pamphlets, newspaper cuttings, and correspondence relating to political causes he was...
Dates:
1950s-1990s
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 George Saintsbury
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-79
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Professor George Saintsbury include articles, introductions, addresses, lectures, obituaries, reviews, letters and postcards, and notes. The collection consists of holographs, typescripts, galley proofs, page proofs, and corrections. There is an autograph manuscript ofA last scrap book, and others of miscellaneous articles.
Dates:
circa 1886-1930
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- Cape, Herbert Jonathan, 1879-1960 (Founder of Jonathan Cape Publishers) 1
- Carnall, Geoffrey D., 1927-2015 (Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University) 1
- Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891-1974 (Professor of English Literature, University of Leeds) 1
- Durcan, Paul, b. 1944, Literary critic 1
- 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
- Koteliansky, Samuel Solomonovich, 1880-1955, Translator 1
- Lawrence, David Herbert, 1885-1930 (poet novelist and essayist) 1
- Lawrence, David Herbert, Poet Novelist and Essayist (1885-1930) 1
- Lindsay, John Maurice, 1918-2009 (Scottish poet) 1
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 1
- Malloch, James, fl. 1878-1879 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
- Sisson, Charles Jasper, 1885-1966 (British academic and writer) 1
- Sisson, Rosemary Anne, 1923-2017 (English television dramatist and novelist) 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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