Head, Ruth, d 1939 (née Mayhew)
Person
Dates
- Existence: d 1939
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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Poems and 'Autobiographical Notes: mainly in connection with Gosse and Hardy', 1920-1939 (circa; largely 1930s)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/6/4
Scope and Contents
This notebook containing poetical drafts and autobiographical notes on Edmund Gosse, Ralph Hodgson, and Thomas Hardy. It also includes further prose and transcript-type diary entries. The notebook was used from both ends; after folio 22 entries continue from the back. The title page is illustrated with a heart emblem above the words, 'My heart ever faithful'. Contents:Notes and prose drafts on Gosse: /1v-6v. These include:
- 'Outline for chapter 6', which was to contain sections...
Dates:
1920-1939 (circa; largely 1930s)
Conditions Governing Access:
Fragile - please handle with care.
Item
Typed transcript of a diary entry on Gosse, 1931 (date is inferred)
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/6/4/2
Scope and Contents
Part of a typed transcript of a diary entry, dated 15 April 1931, describing a letter Sassoon received from Ruth Head concerning Edmund Gosse. The entry is repeated in full in the notebook MS Add.9852/6/4, folio 4v. Originally enclosed with MS Add.9852/6/4, inside front cover.
Dates:
1931 (date is inferred)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Fragile - please handle with care.