Letters and miscellaneous papers
Dep. c. 332
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Letters and miscellaneous papers
Shelfmark
Dep. c. 332
Summary
Includes:
Various papers (bills, contracts, receipts, greeting cards), photographs of Masefield, and correspondence from the period 1939-1966 (mainly 1966).
Plans and revised typescript and autograph drafts for new selected and collected editions of poems, n.d.
Letters received by Masefield with their drafted replies, errata lists for book reprints, and some scraps of autograph manuscript (Reynard the Fox, unpublished poems on 'Music' and Winston Churchill), 1953-1966.
Programmes for the 'Oxford Summer Diversions', 1937-1939.
Photographs and programmes relating to the Verse Speaking Festival at Bruford Training College of Speech and Drama, 1964.
Photographs and correspondence regarding ships, mainly 1950s-1960s.
Correspondence regarding employment of a housekeeper, 1960-1961 (= closed).
Draft contract for the sale of film rights for Masefield's Sard Harker to playwright and Hollywood producer Edward Chodorov, 1949.
Date
1937-1966, n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Miscellaneous papers, correspondence and printed works
Letters and miscellaneous papers
