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Bernard--Browning

MS. Spender 42

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Title

Bernard--Browning

Shelfmark

MS. Spender 42

Summary

Comprises correspondence with:

BERNARD, Oliver. Includes a copy of Bernard's Five Peace Poems and The Finger Points at the Moon, 1956-1957, 1961-1962, 1965, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989-1990, 1992

BETJEMAN, John. Includes a corrected typescript memorial of W.H. Auden and a typescript poem opening 'Here on the Southern slope of Highgate Hill' and a manuscript poem Mortality, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963-1965, 1972-1979, 1981, 1983

BINDING, Paul, c. 1978, 1980, c. 1984-1985, c. 1987-1989, n.d. [1 item = RES]

BLUNDEN, Edmund. Includes a manuscript copy of the poem Reflections of Japanese Poems and O.W. on reading a Magazine edited by him and Flowers and Clouds) 1928, ?1929, 1940, 1944, 1953, 1962-1963

BOTTRALL, Ronald. Includes a 1939 letter from Bottrall to Mr. MORTIMER regarding a Spender review, 1939, 1945, 1972, n.d.

BOWEN, Elizabeth, ?1934, 1936, ?1937, 1950, 1953, 1970-1971, n.d.

BRITTEN, Benjamin. Includes a letter from Peter PEARS on Britten's behalf. Copy replies include letters from Encounter and publishers Rainbird, McLean Ltd. sent to Britten on Spender's behalf, 1938, 1951, 1958, 1961, 1966-1967, c. 1973, 1974-1975, n.d.

BRODSKY, Joseph. Includes a signed typescript poem Elegy to W.H. Auden and a galley of The Fly and a typescript draft of the essay Ninety Years Later, 1972-1976, 1983, 1988-1989, 1994

BROWN, Samuel Ashley. Includes a typescript copy of Spender's poem Auden's Funeral, 1981-1994, 1997

BROWNING, Robert Pack. Includes typescript poems: An Exit From Utah and A Neon Sign, 1959-1960, 1963-1964, 1967, 1977-1981, 1984, 1986 [1 item=RES]

Date

1928-1997, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (10 folders)

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Collection contents

Papers of Stephen Spender

Correspondence and papers

Named correspondence and papers

Bernard--Browning

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