Correspondence

Title

Correspondence

Shelfmark

MS. 10641/5

Summary

Folder 1: Personal correspondence, 1941-1949. Correspondents include Mary Katzman, Hedli MacNeice, John Frederick MacNeice and Georgina Beatrice MacNeice ('Madre'), E.R. Dodds and A.E. Dodds (including letters from Diana Clements), George McCann, Edith Sitwell, Littleton Powys, Benjamin [?Britten], W.H. Auden, Anna Shepard (and letters from, and about Graham Shepard), Selden Rodman ( Common Sense), Fred Dupee ( Partisan Review), Diana Clements, H. Walde, Eleanor Phelps Clark, Eileen Phillips, Laurence [?Gilliam] (BBC), Ruth [Jones] (BBC), Reidar Kvaal, Stephen [?Murray]. Also includes one carbon copy letter by Louis MacNeice sent to 'Lawrence' [Laurence Gilliam?] from India, Sep 1947.

Folder 2: 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, 1941-1949. Correspondents include Anne K. Lawrence, John Fitchen, Thomas Moult (Savage Club), Australian Broadcasting Commission, Youth Service League, Iona Gordon-Forbes ( The Geographical Magazine), M. Stuart-Fergusson, Stella Hillier (BBC), Janet Hills, Geoffrey Whitworth (The British Drama League), Joan Ganong, Barbara Iliff, E. Shearman, Morley College, Kenneth Hardacre, Charles Fletcher, ?Cooke, Hanna Ben Dor, S. Leigh (British Medical Students Association), Sir Kenneth R. Barnes (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), John Holgate (Poetry and Plays in Pubs), Faber and Faber Ltd., Anne Gibson, Ian R. Ferguson (Rhodes University College Dramatic Society), Joan Hyde, Arthur Oldham, Ruth Speirs. Also includes correspondence with John Lehman regarding a [book] project 'Orpheus', 1948.

Date

1941-1949

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (2 folders)