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Nicolsons--Owens

MS. Spender 59

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Title

Nicolsons--Owens

Shelfmark

MS. Spender 59

Summary

Comprises correspondence with:

NICOLSON, Harold and Vita. Mainly original Spender letters. Includes signed typescript Spender poems The Unemployed Crowds At Hamburgh, The Landscape Near An Aerodrome, "What I expected was", Souvenir De Londres, "Upon my solitary peak there is no light", "I think continually of those who were truly great", "My child came home", The Funeral, "After they have tired of the brilliance of cities", "Now you've no work, like a rich man", "Because I love you so", "The faces of living friends I see o water", "The faces of living friends I see on water", The Prisoners, 1930-1931, 1956, 1961

OAKELEY, Diana (sister of John Hayward) 1971

OAKMAN, Robert L., 1981

OBST, Bryan. Includes a draft Spender poem Peninsula and copies of Obst academic articles, 1976-1978, 1980-1990, 1992, n.d.

O'CONNOR, Philip. Includes a corrected typescript poem opening "weighing leaves", playscript The Divine Blight and multiple prose pieces, 1956, 1969, 1976-1977, 1983, 1985-1994

O'FAOLAIN, Sean, 1973, n.d.

ONASSIS, Jacqueline, n.d.

ORPHANOS, Stathis, 1979-1980, 1987

ORWELL, George. Photocopy Spender letters only, 1938

ORWELL, Sonia, 1963, 1967, 1970-1971, 1973, 1980

OSAKA, Osamu, 1978

OSBORN, Eliot, 1976

OSBORNE, Charles, including a copy letter from Osborne to Michael SCHMIDT, 1978-1980, 1985, 1991

OSBORNE, Christopher, 1989, 1993

OSBORNE, John, 1962, 1992

OSTROM, Hano, 1978

OWEN, Harold, 1963

OWEN, Ursula, 1993

OWENS, Mitchell, 1993, n.d.

Date

1930-1994, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (4 folders)

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Collection contents

Papers of Stephen Spender

Correspondence and papers

Named correspondence and papers

Nicolsons--Owens

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