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Levi--Miles

MS. Spender 56

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Title

Levi--Miles

Shelfmark

MS. Spender 56

Summary

Comprises correspondence with:

LEVI, Peter and Deirdre. Includes letter from Levi to Mrs. WALMSLEY. Includes manuscript Peter Levi poems Yevtushenko at the graves of the partisans, Fragments from Stantsiya Zima, Letter to Ned Sherrin, 1958, c. 1956-1960, 1962, 1964, c. 1964-1965, 1967, 1973, 1985-1986, 1990-2000, n.d.

LEWIS, Wyndham. One original letter from Lewis but mainly photocopy Spender letters to Lewis. Includes a copy manuscript Spender poem opening "They went off six in the car [...]" and a copy typescript of Somnambule Ballad, 1939, n.d.

LOMBARDY, Anthony. Includes typescripts of Lombardy's poems (some signed, some corrected) February 28th, 1977, Madam Heurot, The Date Palm Tree, Heroes of the Desert, The Swans, The Traveler, A Reef of Waves, The Man of Property, On Astrology, The Mansions of Atlanta, If You Would Walk With Me, Storm, The Flaw of Peace, For The I.R.A., March 7th, 1977, March 9th 1977, The Nursing Home At Noon, After The Freeze, Nervousness, It Could Be Any Dumb Mistake, A Hazard of Leisure Aboard A Pleasure Yacht, All Things Are Vested Force, Ode to Failure, The Amateur, Letter To A Scholar, The Poet In His Own Land, The Hurricane, Archilochus, Prayer To Diana, The Arch, as well as The Veteran, A Play In One Act, 1976-1979, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1994 [2 items=RES]

LOWELL, Robert. Includes transcripts of Lowell letters to Elizabeth BISHOP, Peter TAYLOR, Allen TATE, Elizabeth HARDWICK, Blair CLARK and Robie MACAULEY (1950, 1952, 1954, 1959-1961, 1963-1964, 1966, 1970, 1974), 1950, 1956, 1959-1961, 1963-1964, 1966, 1969

LUKE, David. Includes signed typescript poems and translations In memoriam Starfang Svartalfa Khan, In Memoriam Kubla, Shotover, The Presences, In Nocte Veritas, 6 January 1977, Since You Will Leave, "Because I love you, what is there to say", Another Game Of Chess, To J.H.-L. And K.L., Because, Seclusion, Verbongenheit, Divine Remembrance (Göttliche Reminiszenz), To A Christmas Rose (Auf eine Christblume), On A Winter Morning Before Sunrise (An einem Wintermorgan vor Sonnenaufgang), At Midnight (Um Mitternacht), Peregrina, The Beautiful Beech-Tree, Die Schöne Buche, The Song Of Weyla, Gesang Weylas, Faust (waking), Mountain Gorges, Forest, Rocks, Wilderness, 1978, 1987-1988, 1990-1991, 1993-1994, n.d.

McALISTER, Sarah, 1991

MACAULAY, Rose, n.d.

MacCARTHY, Charles, n.d.

MacCARTHY, Desmond, n.d.

McCARTHY, Eugene (Senator), 1968

McCARTY, William, 1985-1986, 1988

MacDONALD, Irene, 1975

McGRATH, Earl, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1983

McGRATH, Camilla, 1994

McGUIRE, Bill, 1987

McILHENNY, Henry, 1957, 1983, 1986

MacINNES, Colin, 1956

MACINTYRE, Angus, 1973

McKAIN, David, 1972

McKANE, Richard. Includes poems opening "There are words there's a saz", and For Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca The Master and W.H. Auden For Stephen Spender, 1973, 1989

MACKILLOP, Ian, 1994

McLACHLAN, [-] (Political Intelligence Dept.) 1945

McMILLAN, Peter, 1981-1983, 1985 [2 items=RES]

MacNEICE, Louis, n.d.

MACRAE, John (British Council), 1989

McSHANE, Frank, 1975

MADGE, Charles, 1978

MAHONEY, Ernest, 1936

MAHONEY, Michael, 1988

MAILER, Norman, 1960

MALKAS, Mark, 1965

MALRAUX, Andre, 1946, 1950, 1966-1967, 1971

MANENT, Maria, 1936, 1938, n.d.

MANN, Golo, 1974

MANN, Klaus, 1934

MARSH, Edward, 1940, n.d.

MARTIN, John, 1981, 1985-1986

MARTIN, Kingsley, 1951

MASEFIELD, John, n.d.

MASON, Raymond, 1970

MASON, W.M. (Gully). Includes a letter addressed to Cyril CONNOLLY, n.d.

MASSON, Andre, n.d.

MASTERS, Brian, 1978

MATTHEWS, Herbert L., n.d.

MATTHIAS, John E. Includes a poem XXII opening "This is the", 1977, n.d.

MATTIGNAN, Louis, 1946

MAUD, John, 1973-1975

MAUGHAM, W. Somerset, 1954, n.d.

MEDLEY, Robert, 1973, n.d.

MENASHE, Samuel. Includes manuscript poems Awakening From Dreams, Awakening, Old As The Hills, Manna and Dreams, "Using the window ledge", "Eaves at dusk", Full Fathom Five, 1964, 1970, 1972, 1988, 1994

MENOTTI, Gian Carlo, n.d.

MENUHIN, Yehudi, 1971-1972

MEREDITH, William, 1973

MERRILL, James, 1964, 1978, 1989, n.d.

MERWIN, William, 1978

MEYNELL, Francis, 1961

MICHIE, James, n.d.

MIDDLETON, Christopher. Includes poems A Road That Is One In Many, "Bugs, but you can moo to the ghosts", 1978-1979

MIDGLEY, Robin, n.d.

MIKES, George, 1967

MILES, Hobart, 1965, n.d.

Date

1936-1994, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (6 folders)

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Collection contents

Papers of Stephen Spender

Correspondence and papers

Named correspondence and papers

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