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Letters from F R Leavis to L. C. Knights, David Holbrook, Frank Bradbrook, C B Winder, R O C Winkler, A I Doyle, John Tasker, Geoffrey Walton, Canon Frank Telfer, Ronald Hayman, Robert Tudor Jones, Peter Coveney, Michael Yudkin and others (mainly Downing alumni). Also includes reading list suggestions, newspaper articles and photos, memoirs by former students and correspondence concerning donation.

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The collection consists of an extensive series of letters from F. R. Leavis, 1935-63, before and after his time working with Mason at Downing College; letters from Q. D. Leavis to Mason, 1943-7; lecture notes from Mason's period at Exeter University and as F. R. Leavis Lecturer at the English Faculty in Cambridge, 1965-78; and other academic papers such as drafts for articles etc. Annotations on lecture notes and draft essays are thought to be Mason's own.

Scope and Contents Letters mainly cover the earlier period, up to the mid-1950s, when Cox was a regular contributor ('virtually an editor', Sept. 1951) to Scrutiny and acting as a fellow-examiner with Leavis for the Downing scholarship examination. Letters continued throughout the war, when Cox worked for the Friends' Ambulance Unit in the Middle East and Italy (see no. 137-8). With annotated lists at rear, presumed to be by Marjorie Cox, summarising subject matter and estimating dates of undated letters. (One...

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Includes a draft of a review, possibly by Cox, entitled 'Left-wing Allegories: 'The Wild Goose Chase' by Rex Warner and 'Journey to the Border' by Edward Upward', c.1938.