Correspondence

Title

Correspondence

Shelfmark

MS. 10641/4

Summary

Correspondence mainly addressed to MacNeice in the USA (Jan-Oct 1940):

Folder 1: Personal correspondence, 1940. Correspondents include John Frederick MacNeice and Georgina Beatrice MacNeice ('Madre); Elizabeth Nicholson, née MacNeice; E.R. and A.E. Dodds; Sophie Popper (Daniel MacNeice's nurse), Eunice [Jessup], Martin Philipson, Robert, Jack, Edouard Roditi, Bill Spalding, Ruth Berrien, Muriel [Spark], Oxford University Press New York, Tim Henderson, Shirley Richmond.

Folder 2: Letters from Mary Katzman, 1940 and n.d. [1939/1940].

Folder 3: General correspondence from publishers, editors, readers and listeners, societies etc., also including invitations and requests to lecture, contribute to magazines, or give an opinion on poems,1940. Correspondents include Paul Engle ( American Prefaces), Cyril Connolly ( Horizon), Peter Watson ( Horizon), Herry H. Mayer, Theodore van Norden, John Murray Gibbon, Georgina Sime (P.E.N. Montreal), Bennett Cerf (Random House Inc.), Lois H. Bayliss, Edgar Fisher (Institute of International Education), John S. Mayfield, James Angleton, Frances Phillips (William Morrow & Company Inc.), T. Rowland Hughes (BBC), Robert E. Macdonald, W. Colston Leigh, Philip Vaudrin (Oxford University Press, New York), Horace A. Eaton (Syracuse University), British Committee for Refugees from Spain, G. Gebb (Bedford College for Women), John Berryman ( The Nation), Robert L. Simpson, Cleanth Brooks ( The Southern Review), F.W. Dupee ( Partisan Review), C.F. MacIntyre, Helen McAfee ( The Yale Review), Evelyn ?Pennegar (The Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art), Dorothea B. Hendricks (Bennington College), Anthony Bosman ( Centaur), M.V. D'Arcy (Fordham University), T.S. Eliot (Faber & Faber), Russell Potter (Columbia University), Shirley Richmond, Florence Dickinson Stearns (The Poetry Society of Virginia), R.M. Ogden (Cornell University), Charles A. Pearce ( The New Yorker), Malcolm Cowley ( The New Republic), Cunard White Star Ltd., E.M. Johnson (Telluride Association), Derry Hudson, Oscar Williams ( The Living Age), ?Fanny Rogers, R. Heymann, Greta Lamb.

Date

1940

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (3 folders)