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MS. Opie 349

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MS. Opie 349

Summary

Folder 1: 'SH-SW', including Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw (including five letters and postcards by Shaw to the Opies about nursery rhymes, 1950); Mary Shelley; E.H. Shepherd ('Winnie-the-Pooh'); Mary Martha Sherwood (two letters by Sherwood 1824 and 1836); Signal [Journal]; Christopher Smart; W.T. Stead (list of 'Books for the Bairns'); Robert Louis Stevenson; Wilbur Macey Stone (including manuscript draft of article on Roscoe's 'The Butterfly's Ball', 1940); Story Museum Oxford; Harriet Beecher Stowe ('Uncle Tom's Cabin'); Elizabeth Strickland (one letter by Strickland, c.1945); Sunday Times 99 Best Books for Children; Rosemary Sutcliffe (including one letter by Sutcliffe to the Opies, 1970; Jonathan Swift ('Gulliver's Travels').

Folder 2: 'T', including Tarvart & Co.; Ann Taylor (later Gilbert, including a letter by Taylor, 1866, two autograph poems and a photograph); Television; Theatre; Dylan Thomas; J.R.R. Tolkien ('The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings'); Tommy Tumb's Pretty Song Book; Toys; Travel; Pamela L. Travers ('Mary Poppins'); Sarah Trimmer; Mark Twain.

Folder 3: 'U-Z' including Florence Upton ('The Golliwogs'); Damien Webb; Kaye Webb; D'Alte A. Welch (including three letters and cards by Welch to the Opies, 1955, 1960 and 1965); T.H. White; Garth Williams; Harriette Wilson (later Rochfort, including one letter by Wilson, n.d.); Charlotte Mary Yonge; Zoological Gardens.

Date

n.d. [c. early-19th to mid-20th century]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (3 folders)

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Archive of Iona and Peter Opie

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