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English literature | 20th century

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Original Manuscripts of Rudyard Kipling's "A Diversity of Creatures" and "The Eyes of Asia"

 Fonds — Volume Dk.2.8
Identifier: Coll-2143
Scope and Contents

Original Manuscripts of Rudyard Kipling's "A Diversity of Creatures" (foirst edition), together with a portion of "The Eyes of Asia". c 1916-1917.

Dates: c 1916-1917
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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...
Dates: 1950s-1990s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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...
Dates: 1930-1994
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections