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MS. 6681 Photogr. 1

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Title

Photographs

Shelfmark

MS. 6681 Photogr. 1

Summary

Comprises black and white photographic prints of:

C. Day-Lewis as a young man ['Oxford?'], c.1920s. Photographer Mark E. Mitchell, Harrogate. Annotated 'Rev F C Day-Lewis, Edwinstowe'.

Rex Warner, c.1920s. Photographer Gillman's Ltd, Oxford.

W.H. Auden [signed], 1926. Photographer James Soame, Oxford.

W.H. Auden [signed], 1927. Photographer not given.

C. Day-Lewis, c.1930s. Photograph montage by Studio Lisa, Welwyn Garden City.

Portrait of C. Day-Lewis [1936] by F.E. Halliday [original oil on canvas, now at National Portrait Gallery. Photograph taken c.1972].

Empty envelope/mount 'A Royalty Enlargement', Will R. Rose Ltd, Chester, n.d.

C. Day-Lewis [wearing CBE neck decoration] and Jill Balcon at formal event, 'with compliments from M. [?] Pocock', n.d. [post 1950].

C. Day-Lewis [holding a copy of The Colloquial Element in English Poetry at a public debate/lecture?], 1951. Photographer Erich Auerbach.

C. Day-Lewis [at a public debate/lecture], 1951. Photographer Eric Auerbach. [2 photographs]

Apollo Society (C. Day-Lewis, Osian Ellis and Jill Balcon), c.1950s-1960s. Photographer Gordon Hull, Southwell, Notts.

Bronte Society Annual Meeting at Haworth Secondary School (Sir Linton Andrews, Jill Balcon, Donald Hopwell, C. Day-Lewis, Dr Phyllis Bentley and Robert Fowlds), 31 May 1957. Photographer Cousins, Bradford.

C. Day-Lewis and Jill Balcon at 6 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, May 1965. Photographer John Massey Stewart, London, with accompanying letter.

C. Day-Lewis at 6 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, 3 Jun 1965. Two sets of rough proofs by Mark Gerson, Mayfair, London.

C. Day-Lewis [at 6 Crooms Hill, Greenwich], Sep 1965. Photographer [Derek Parker] Parkers, London. [2 photographs]

C. Day-Lewis, 1968. Photographer Godfrey Argent, London. [2 photographs, 1 mounted and signed]

C. Day-Lewis with Jill Balcon, Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis, at 6 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, upon appointment as Poet Laureate, Jan 1968. Photographer: Arthur Sidey, Daily Mirror. [5 photographs]

C. Day-Lewis with Jill Balcon, Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis, at 6 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, upon appointment as Poet Laureate, Jan 1968. Photographer Terry Gibson, Daily Telegraph. [3 photographs]

C. Day-Lewis with Jill Balcon, Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis, walking near Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Jan 1968. Photographer Terry Gibson, Daily Telegraph. [2 photographs]

Date

1920s-c.1972

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box

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Collection contents

Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon

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