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BRITISH POETRY COLLECTIONS
This list gives the collection name, date range and number of items in a collection followed by a very brief description of the contents of the collection. All of these collections are related to British poetry.
ABERCROMBIE MSS.- DATE RANGE: 1909-1938
- ITEM COUNT: 48 items
- Letters and writings of poet Lascelles Abercrombie.
- DATE RANGE: 1941-1968
- ITEM COUNT: 448 items
- Primarily correspondence, articles, photographs, and miscellaneous material collected by Father Brocard Sewell during the years he edited The Aylesford Review, a literary quarterly sponsored by the British Carmelites, 1955-1968.
- DATE RANGE: 1953-1954
- ITEM COUNT: 6 items
- Four notebooks of author George Barker and an undated letter from him to author David John Wright.
- DATE RANGE: 1916-1943
- ITEM COUNT: 14 items
- Correspondence and writings of Sir Laurence Binyon, keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum and Lady Cicely Margaret (Powell) Binyon, translator, compiler and author.
- DATE RANGE: 1958-1959
- ITEM COUNT: 3 items
- Drafts of "An Attempt at Exorcism" by poet Edwin Brock.
- DATE RANGE: 1827-1872
- ITEM COUNT: 51 items
- Letters of author Edward George Earle Lytton, Lord Bulwer- Lytton. Topics discussed in Bulwer-Lytton's letters include his writings, theories of poetry and poetry criticism, and various social matters. Included also are a few letters by other people relating to Bulwer-Lytton or his family.
- DATE RANGE: 1946-1967
- ITEM COUNT: 100 items
- Letters and postcards from author William Charles Franklyn Plomer to writer Daniel George Bunting. Bunting, who published under the pseudonym Daniel George, was a reader for publisher Jonathan Cape, and Plomer frequently served as an "outside reader" for that same firm. The letters thus discuss many of the day-to-day activities and publishing projects of Jonathan Cape, Ltd., as well as a variety of literary figures. Also present is an eleven page biographical piece on Plomer, purportedly written by Bunting but in Plomer's hand. Also included are letters and postcards of author Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn (Charteris) Asquith to author Daniel George Bunting. The letters are mostly of a social nature with numerous dining invitations from Asquith.
- DATE RANGE: 1816-1858
- ITEM COUNT: 62 items
- Letters, documents, drawings and prints of and related to the poet Lord George Gordon Noel Byron.
- DATE RANGE: 1937-1980
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 250,000 items
- Files of the British publishing firm of Calder and Boyars and the personal papers of John Calder.
- DATE RANGE: 1931-1936
- ITEM COUNT: 150 items
- Correspondence and writings of poet Roy Campbell.
- DATE RANGE: 1812-1871
- ITEM COUNT: 15 items
- Letters by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author Hartley Coleridge, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, judge; and Sir John Duke Coleridge, 1st baron Coleridge, lord chief justice of England.
- DATE RANGE: 1962-1968
- ITEM COUNT: 62 items
- Letters of poet Ian Hamilton Finlay and his wife, Susan Finlay to Helen Burness Cruickshank, poet of Edinburgh, Scotland.
- DATE RANGE: 1954-1959
- ITEM COUNT: 2 items
- Early drafts of the poem, The Forests of Lithuania written by poet Donald Alfred Davie.
- DATE RANGE: 1728-1760
- ITEM COUNT: 3 items
- The collection consists of an anthology of poems, a volume of original drawings, and the manuscript of Marianna by author Mary (Granville) Delany. Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1941-1965
- ITEM COUNT: 25 items
- Writings of poet Patric Dickinson. Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1849-1947
- ITEM COUNT: 39 items
- Personal letters written by poet Sydney Thompson Dobell. A few letters by friends about Dobell are also included. The collection also contains the manuscript "An Autumn Wood," by Dobell, photographs of Dobell and his wife and family.
- DATE RANGE: 1912-1920
- ITEM COUNT: 41 items
- Letters, 1912-1917, and writings, 1917-1920, of poet and dramatist John Drinkwater.
- DATE RANGE: 1920-1949
- ITEM COUNT: 3 items
- Letters from poet Thomas Stearns Eliot to Clifton Fadiman, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson and Sir Algernon Methuen Marshall, bart. Methuen.
- DATE RANGE: 1960-1961
- ITEM COUNT: 7 items
- Drafts of poems by Royston Ellis.
- DATE RANGE: 1630-1971
- ITEM COUNT: 523 items
- Individual items pertaining to English literature which have been acquired at various times. Of interest are items by Robert Burns, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth. Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1953-1973
- ITEM COUNT: 5,091 items
- Correspondence and writings of Ian Hamilton Finlay, poet of Stonypath, Dunsyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland, where he published works from The Wild Hawthorn Press. The collection also contains material sent to Finlay for inclusion in issues of Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. Letters are exchanged with other poets, artists, architects, designers in glass and photographers, all in pursuit of the construction of his poetry in concrete form.
- DATE RANGE: 1934-1976
- ITEM COUNT: 1,477 items
- Correspondence of librarian Kenneth Charles Gay with author Robert Graves. Present also are letters from Gay's wife, Edith Irene Gay to Robert and Beryl Graves and from Beryl Graves to the Gays.
- DATE RANGE: 1955-1957
- ITEM COUNT: 6 items
- Letters from writer Christopher Vernon Hassall to the writer Ronald Fuller and three drafts of poems by Hassall.
- DATE RANGE: 1952-1967
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 39 items
- Correspondence and writings of poet John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs with other poets concerning his books, matters of common interest among friends, and his writings. The collection also includes manuscripts of Heath-Stubbs' writings.
- DATE RANGE: 1951-1964
- ITEM COUNT: 54 items
- Correspondence and writings of poet Brian Higgins. Included are his poems and the letters of Roy Campbell to Higgins.
- DATE RANGE: 1959-1967
- ITEM COUNT: 6 items
- Letters to poet Brian Merrikin Hill from Rowland Watson.
- DATE RANGE: 1861-1970
- ITEM COUNT: 658 items
- Correspondence and writings of poet Alfred Edward Housman and correspondence of Geoffrey Bernard Abbott Fletcher and Grant Richards. Also included is correspondence of bibliographer John Waynflete Carter about Housman. The collection also includes copies of Housman correspondence and writings, photographs of Housman and relatives, and manuscripts of articles and memoirs about Housman, including one by Edith Sitwell. Also present is a copy of the first proof of A.E. Housman's Collected Poems, annotated and corrected by John W. Carter.
- DATE RANGE: 1957-1962
- ITEM COUNT: 16 items
- Drafts, notes, and corrected page proof of The Hawk in the Rain and Lupercal by poet Ted Hughes. Also included are letters from Hughes and his wife, Sylvia Plath to Hughes' brother and sister-in-law, Joan and Gerald Hughes in Australia.
- DATE RANGE: 1891-1900
- ITEM COUNT: 14 items
- Cards and letters written to book collector Thomas Hutchinson by various authors and removed from volumes formerly owned by Hutchinson. Many of the letters are written by poets.
- DATE RANGE: 1950-1983
- ITEM COUNT: 334 items
- Correspondence and writings of poet and dramatist Bernard Kops. The writings present include plays, novels, broadcast talks, a television drama, a film treatment, poems (both published and unpublished), notebooks dating from 1950 to 1980, and his autobiography, "The World is a Wedding."
- DATE RANGE: 1959-1960
- ITEM COUNT: 189 items
- Writings of poet and song writer Christopher Logue. Included also is some correspondence concerned with his writings.
- DATE RANGE: 1912-1971
- ITEM COUNT: 251 items
- Correspondence and essays of author Sir Compton Mackenzie. The letters are to and from poets, novelists, publishers, and journalists.
- DATE RANGE: 1916-1922
- ITEM COUNT: 12 items
- Letters to poet and wood engraver Thomas Sturge Moore from author Richard Aldington and author Wyndham Lewis.
- DATE RANGE: 1807-1825
- ITEM COUNT: 7 items
- Poems by Thomas Moore, one undated letter to Mrs. Smith of Fitzwilliam Street, and a poem by Felicia Dorothea (Browne) Hemans in the hand of Thomas Moore.
- DATE RANGE: 1925-1935
- ITEM COUNT: 6 items
- Letters from novelist Ralph Hale Mottram to poet and critic John Freeman and his wife, Gertrude Ferrin Freeman.
- DATE RANGE: 1957-1967
- ITEM COUNT: 139 items
- Literary papers of author Frank Norman. These consist of manuscripts of his writings, correspondence, and other papers. Most of the correspondence is with composers, novelists, poets, dramatists, editors, journalists, lawyers, theatrical managers, literary agents, and publishers.
- DATE RANGE: 1967-1971
- ITEM COUNT: 4 items
- Letters from author Nathaniel Tarn to poet and novelist Robert Nye.
- DATE RANGE: 1931-1957
- ITEM COUNT: 15 items
- Letters and inscriptions of English poet Herbert Edward Palmer.
- DATE RANGE: 1928-1935
- ITEM COUNT: 7 items
- Letters written by poet Thomas Stearns Eliot to publisher Ian Macnaghten Parsons.
- DATE RANGE: 1960-1966
- ITEM COUNT: 141 items
- Four notebooks of poetry and other loose leaf sheets of poetry by Peter Porter. The collection also includes a letter to Porter from composer Nicolas Maw and a copy of a BBC script of the Living Poet Programme, "Poems by Peter Porter," recorded Nov. 2, 1960.
- DATE RANGE: 1967-1972
- ITEM COUNT: 13 items
- Letters and postcards from poet Thomas Moore Raworth to poet William C. Berkson. They discuss mostly personal matters, especially Raworth's impoverishment, and occasional activities of mutual friends.
- DATE RANGE: 1958-1961
- ITEM COUNT: 621 items
- Notebooks of poet Peter William Redgrove.
- DATE RANGE: 1910-1966
- ITEM COUNT: 51 items
- Correspondence of art critic Robert Baldwin Ross and poet Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon. Among the correspondence to Ross are typescripts of letters from Sassoon, poet Robert Graves, and novelist George Moore.
- DATE RANGE: 1817-1893
- ITEM COUNT: 67 items
- Correspondence of poet Christina Georgina Rossetti and her two brothers, painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and author and critic William Michael Rossetti.
- DATE RANGE: 1889-1933
- ITEM COUNT: 234 items
- Correspondence and writings of poet George William Russell (A.E.) and of author Frederic Prokosch.
- DATE RANGE: 1925-1950
- ITEM COUNT: 15 items
- Letters from poet Lady Margaret Sackville to poet Lorna Keeling (Collard) Horstmann. The letters relate mostly to poetry readings.
- DATE RANGE: 1888-1962
- ITEM COUNT: 10,529 items
- Letters of author Victoria Mary Sackville-West and her husband Sir Harold George Nicolson, author. Also present are diaries and engagement books of Victoria Sackville- West for the years 1907 to 1929 and diaries of her mother, Lady Sackville (Victoria Josephine Sackville-West), for the years 1888 to 1935.
- DATE RANGE: 1928-1959
- ITEM COUNT: 23 items
- Letters of author Robert Gathorne-Hardy to poet Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon and materials concerning Common Chords written by Sassoon and issued by The Mill House Press in 1951.
- DATE RANGE: 1950-1952
- ITEM COUNT: 8 items
- Writings by poet Burns Singer.
- DATE RANGE: 1799-1831
- ITEM COUNT: 6 items
- Letters to and from poet Robert Southey.
- DATE RANGE: ca. 1945-1969
- ITEM COUNT: 96 items
- Letters from poet Ian Hamilton Finlay to poet Derek Stanford.
- DATE RANGE: 1891-1956
- ITEM COUNT: 94 items
- Letters and papers of James Sullivan Starkey (Seumas O'Sullivan, pseudonym), as editor of the Dublin Magazine.
- DATE RANGE: 1841-1954
- ITEM COUNT: 73 items
- The collection consists chiefly of correspondence of poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
- DATE RANGE: 1841-1922
- ITEM COUNT: 1,209 items
- Papers of poet Frederick Tennyson and his family. They consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, business papers, coat of arms, and Frederick Tennyson's death mask. The letters relate to personal affairs, poets, publishing activities, and legal matters. Included are also a diary of 1875 and a letter copybook of 1876 of Alfred Tennyson, son of Frederick Tennyson, and an undated memorandum book of Frederick Tennyson.
- DATE RANGE: 1895-1945
- ITEM COUNT: 38 items
- Writings by poet Francis Thompson and letters from author Wilfrid Meynell and others.
- DATE RANGE: 1936-1949
- ITEM COUNT: 47 items
- Letters from artist Sir William Rothenstein, poet John Redwood Anderson and author Richard Church to Tom Turner, employee of the Bradford Post Office, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, and book collector.
- DATE RANGE: 1955-1959
- ITEM COUNT: 20 items
- Letters and writings of poet and author John Barrington Wain.
- DATE RANGE: 1924-1952
- ITEM COUNT: 19 items
- Letters to author Orlo Williams from poet Thomas Stearns Eliot.
- DATE RANGE: 1956-1964
- ITEM COUNT: 7 items
- Writings of author Colin Henry Wilson. The collection includes a manuscript of his poem, "The biologist and the bee."
- DATE RANGE: 1805-1956
- ITEM COUNT: 96 items
- Correspondence of poet William Wordsworth and of Dorothy (Wordsworth) Dickson. The collection also contains letters from members of Wordsworth's family, letters from friends, poems as tributes to Wordsworth, and a photograph of Wordsworth's home, Grasmere. The letters are concerned chiefly with family matters, financial accounts, and the welfare of Dora Wordsworth, Wordsworth's granddaughter, after the death of her mother. The collection also includes a photograph of a chalk drawing of Wordsworth and a photograph of Dorothy (Wordsworth) Dickson.
- DATE RANGE: 1955-1967
- ITEM COUNT: 59 items
- Literary papers and letters of author David John Wright. Included are also some letters to poet Martin Seymour- Smith. The manuscripts of writings of David John Wright include drafts of various poems.
- DATE RANGE: 1928-1961
- ITEM COUNT: 334 items
- Office files of X: A Quarterly Review, edited by David John Wright and Patrick Swift and published by Barrie and Rockliff, London, England, for Vol. 1, no. 1 (November 1959) to Vol. II, no. 2 (August 1961), inclusive.
- DATE RANGE: 1889-1954
- ITEM COUNT: 109 items
- Letters and writings of poet William Butler Yeats and materials about him, collected by Allan Wade, compiler of A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats and editor of The Letters of W. B. Yeats.