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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

Papers of Professor John Everett Butt

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-76
Scope and Contents

The Papers of Professor John Everett Butt consist of notes for lectures on English literature at the Universities of Leeds, London, Newcastle and Edinburgh.

Dates: 1929-1965

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

Papers of Robert George Philip

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-453
Scope and Contents

The papers are composed of: notes and correspondence about translation of the Anglo-SaxonHeliand; manuscript of the introduction to the translation; sermons; diary; photos; and, diplomas, degrees etc.

Dates: 1888-1951

Papers relating to the Literary Journal 'Two Rivers'

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1082
Scope and Contents

The collections is composed of: autograph manuscripts; typed manuscripts; signed autograph letters and signed typed letters; and autograph post cards. There are also contents lists and corrected galley proofs. The collection includes letters of congratulation on the publication of the journal, and letters from Christopher Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid).

Dates: 1969-1970

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 — Box: CLX-A-480
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...
Dates: 1915-1923; 1938-1939

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English literature | 20th century 22
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Names
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 4
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 (New Zealand writer and critic) 2
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 2
Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman, 1845-1933 (literary critic and historian) 2
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 2
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University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 2
Asquith, Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn, 1887-1960 (English writer and socialite) 1
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974 (English poet, author and critic) 1
British Broadcasting Corporation (1922-:) (radio and television broadcasters) 1
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 1
Brunner, Hugo, b. 1935 (publisher) 1
Butt, John, 1906-1965 1
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
Waterlow, Sydney Philip, 1878-1944, Sir (Knight Diplomat) 1
Young, Andrew John, 1885-1971 (Canon of Chichester Cathedral, Poet) 1
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