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English literature | 20th century

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and Memorandum of Agreement relating to John Middleton Murry

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-480
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...
Dates: 13 June and 5 December 1923; 17 March 1939; 5 October 1950

Original manuscript for 'Love, Freedom and Society', by John Middleton Murry, published 1957

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1323
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...
Dates: 1955-1957

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

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