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Cunard, Nancy Clara, 1896 - 1965 (poet and political activist)

 Person

Dates and places

1896-1965

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Correspondence about Spanish and Austrian refugees in a camp at Gurs, Basses-Pyrenees.

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9369/A7/17-34
Scope and Contents

Letters from Nancy Cunard, Hermann Langbein, Otto Langbein, L. Cambillard, Charles Cadier, and the British Committee for Refugees from Spain, reports of the `People's High School' run by the Austrians, and woodcuts made by them.

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).
 File

Letter from E.M. Forster to Nancy Cunard, 1937-08-04

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF/18/138
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of 1 autograph letter, signed, from E.M. Forster.
To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 18/Cunard

Dates: 1937-08-04
 Item

Letter from Nancy Cunard to Clive Bell, 1937-07-24

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA/1/156
Scope and Contents

1 typed letter signed.

Dates: 1937-07-24
 File

Letters from Nancy Cunard to JDH, 1964 - 1965

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JDH/26/22
Scope and Contents

2 autograph letters signed and 3 typed letters signed, with 2 envelopes. The file also contains typescripts of an untitled poem, 1945, and a poem entitled 'Eliot', 1965, with a news cutting on Eliot's cremation and the interring of his ashes in East Coker, Somerset, 1965.

Dates: 1964 - 1965
 Item

'Madrid', 1937

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GRB/1/5/1
Scope and Contents

Pamphlet of the poem 'Madrid' by W. H. Auden (in English) and Raul Gonzalez Tunon (in Spanish), printed by Nancy Cunard and Pablo Neruda to raise funds for the Spanish republican cause.

Dates: 1937
 File

The Hours Press: retrospect, catalogue, commentary (Winter 1964), 1963-1965

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9984/C1/65
Scope and Contents

Typescripts and correspondence with John Hayward.

Dates: 1963-1965
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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