Papers relating to Goronwy Rees
MS. Grant Duff 49
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Papers relating to Goronwy Rees
Shelfmark
MS. Grant Duff 49
Summary
Includes
Obituaries, memoirs and order of service for memorial service for Gorowny, 1979-1980; synopsis for proposed biography of Goronwy by Shiela, with related notes and letters, 1978-c.1980; letters from Jenny Rees regarding her book about her father, Looking for Mr Nobody, 1992-1994
Press cuttings about the controversy surrounding Goronwy's alleged role as a Soviet agent in the 1950s, including an unsent letter written by Shiela to Professor Anthony Blunt asking him to exonerate Goronwy, 1980-1987
Date
1978-1994
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Archive of Shiela Grant Duff, with Grant Duff and Lubbock family papers
Papers of Shiela Grant Duff, later Shiela Newsome, afterwards Shiela Sokolov Grant
Shiela's correspondence with close friends, with related papers
Papers relating to Goronwy Rees
