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Edmund Blunden manuscript material

Title
Edmund Blunden manuscript material, 1923-circa 1955
Author
Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974.

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Mixed materialPermit needed Pforz MSSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957
Description
9 items
Summary
  • · Typescript poem, "Shelley's Last Days" : [no date] : (S'ANA 0936) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, "Shelley is dead, and most that knew him, dead." With two holograph alterations. A second typescript of the poem (2 pages, 2 single sheets) incorporates the changes made to the first.
  • · Holograph essay, "On a Portrait by Mrs. Leigh Hunt" : [circa 1955?] : (H'ANA 0056) : 7 pages (7 single sheets) : [no place] : begins, "Among the lost opportunities of biography, of literary biography at least, none is more vexing than that which the name of Mrs Leigh Hunt suggests." Written on paper with a watermark of "1814," apparently ripped out of a bound volume; an extra (eighth) leaf is present, which is blank. The essay was published in The Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin, 1955.
  • · Transcript of poetical lines by Shelley : [no date] : (S'ANA 1064) : 2 pages (2 single sheets) : [no place] : begins, "Ye devils black & spectres white . . . ." With a note explaining the source of the lines on page 2, signed "E. B." The lines were subsequently titled "Hearne's Feast," and their original source is the Huntington Shelley Notebook HM 2111.
  • · To William Archer at The Univerity of Tennessee : 4 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Jan 1947 : (S'ANA 0231a) : 1 page (single sheet) : from The Times Publishing Company, Ltd., Printing House Square, London (printed stationery) : begins, "Thank you for your letter on Shelley." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Feb 1947 : (S'ANA 0231b) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (single sheet) : from The Times Publishing Company, Ltd., Printing House Square, London (printed stationery) : begins, "From a frozen office (and we are really held up -- no issues till further notice) I reply to your letter . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Mar 1947 : (S'ANA 0231c) : ³/₄ page (single sheet) : from The Times Publishing Company, Ltd., Printing House Square, London (printed stationery) : begins, "If there is a modern biography of Byron's which ranks with Tom Moore's I don't know it . . . ." -- 1 autograph post card signed : 26 Mar 1947 : (S'ANA 0231d) : from The Times Publishing Company, Ltd., Printing House Square, London (printed post card) : begins, "On the book about Severn which you mentioned . . . ."
  • · To Carl H. Pforzheimer, investment banker, philanthropist and collector : 2 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Aug 1923 : (MISC 4313) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Stansfield nr. Clare, Suffolk, England : begins, "Your letter concerning John Clare, which reached me this morning, gives me much pleasure." Laid in Pforzheimer copy 3 of Clare's Village Minstrel, along with the enveope. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Dec 1953 : (S'ANA 0129) : 2 pages (double sheet) : [from Hong Kong] : begins, "Most of those who were your guests in London in July will have written long ago to tell you what a great day you gave us, in remembrance of Shelley." Written on Star Air Letter Form.
Subjects
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Biography (note)
  • Edmund Blunden, English poet and university teacher.
Call Number
Pforz MS
OCLC
76945001
Author
Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974.
Title
Edmund Blunden manuscript material, 1923-circa 1955
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Biography
Edmund Blunden, English poet and university teacher.
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Added Author
Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, addressee.
Research Call Number
Pforz MS
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