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Dallyn, Viola Meynell, 1885-1956 (author)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1885 - 1956

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

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Alice Meynell: prose and poetry; centenary volume (Jonathan Cape 1947), 1944-1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B20
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Francis Meynell, his sisters Olivia and Viola, and Frederick Page.

Dates: 1944-1947
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1960-1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B46/2
Scope and Contents

Chiefly letters of appreciation from listeners, including Jane Bacon, Viola Dallyn, Vita Sackville-West, and Olivia Sowerby. Other correspondence is with the producer Douglas Cleverdon (including an audience research report), and Queen's Gate School (Margaret See).

Dates: 1960-1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence, 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B17/4
Scope and Contents

Meynell's correspondents are Viola Dallyn and the B.B.C. (Stephen Potter).

Dates: 1947
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence after publication, 1955-1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/D14/6
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence between Meynell and the Readers' Union (O. Caldecott) about their edition (1957), with their newsletter containing a blurb by Meynell Other correspondents include J. L. Beddington, Nicolas Bentley, Denis Hatfield Bullough, Philip Burgoyne, Viola Dallyn, Colin D. B. Ellis, Uffa Fox, Time & Tide (Viscountess Rhondda) and Andrew Young.

Dates: 1955-1957
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence relating to the 1942 broadcast, 1941-1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B3/2
Scope and Contents

Meynell's correspondents are the BBC and listeners. These include Sydney Cockerell, Viola Dallyn, Elinor M. Darwin, Robert Delaney, T. Watts Eden, L. C. Jervis, Shane Leslie, Rosemary Marchant, W. J. M. McMaster, Augustus Ralli, William Rothenstein, E. F. M. Smith, and Catherine Street. With the letters is a Listener Research Report.

Dates: 1941-1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence relating to The wares of Autolycus: selected literary essays of Alice Meynell (Oxford World's Classics 1965), 1964-1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/A3/5
Scope and Contents

The correspondence is chiefly among Meynell, Viola Meynell, Colin Hardie, and the editor Peter Fraser. With this are clippings of reviews.

Dates: 1964-1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Family papers, 1842-1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/A
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection includes Meynell's archive of papers in his various occupations, including his years at the Pelican Press (1916-23) and Nonesuch Press (1923-36 and 1952-68, although the papers of what he called 'pre-war Nonesuch' are mostly lost). Further papers related to typographical and other design come from Meynell's work for the Limited Editions Club, the advertising firm Mather and Crowther, the Board of Trade, H. M. Stationery Office, the Post Office, and others. Besides these, the...
Dates: 1842-1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Francis Thompson and Wilfrid Meynell, by Viola Meynell (1953), 1951-1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/A3/2
Scope and Contents

Folder 1 = miscellaneous draft pages of the book, mostly typescript (carbon copies), with annotations by Francis Meynell and others Folder 2 = various notes by Francis Meynell Folder 3 = correspondence. Most of this is letters between Francis and Viola Meynell. Also included is a letter from Terence Connolly Folder 4 = Clippings of reviews.

Dates: 1951-1953
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mankind, 1951-1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B61/28
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts and typescripts, so captioned, variously dated. Some are marked 'As sent to Time & Tide Dec. 1955'. The poem is the same as 'Time is our sculptor' in the 1961 volume. With these are letters to Meynell from Benedict Meynell, Viola Meynell, and John Hayward.

Dates: 1951-1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Obituary of Edward Johnston, 1943-1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B58/22
Scope and Contents

Typescript (carbon copy) dated 28 Nov. 1944. With this are a letter from Meynell to Viola Dallyn and a letter from Macdonald Gill to Meynell, both about a subscription to help Johnston in 1943.

Dates: 1943-1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Return journey, 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B14
Scope and Contents

A talk by Francis Meynell and Viola Dallyn, broadcast on 14 July 1946.

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Speech on Alice Meynell to the Society of Women Journalists (1948), 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/B59/18
Scope and Contents

Autograph ms. draft; typescript (original and carbon copy) of 5 pages. With these are letters to Meynell from the Society (Theodora Roscoe) and from Viola Dallyn The speech was given at Stationers Hall on 11 Mar. 1948.

Dates: 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).