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Auden, Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973 (poet and writer)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1907 - 1973

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

 Series

Correspondence from W.H. Auden, 1940-1970

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8985/4-25
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Letters from many American and English poets and scholars, 1940-80; occasional manuscripts and typescripts of poetry; 18 letters on The Sandpipers; and a collection of letters of poets and writers, 1856-c.1950.

Dates: 1940-1970
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 W. H. Auden; Oxford, 30 May 1959 (year supplied conjecturally by Gömöri)

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9716/1/2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Letters to Gömöri, with related items.

Dates: 30 May 1959 (year supplied conjecturally by Gömöri)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to access.
 Series

Letter from W(ystan) H. Auden (1907-73) to Frederick Sternfield, 1944 - 1960

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/31
Scope and Contents

Accepting an invitation to dine

Dates: 1944 - 1960
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).
 Fonds

Prokosch (Frederic): Copies of poems by himself and others

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8071
Scope and Contents Hand-illustrated pamphlet copies, made by Frederic Prokosch, of poems by various authors. On the inside cover of each pamphlet is the bookplate of Prokosch's library. Each pamphlet includes a handwritten note by the author recording that it was made by him at Fountain Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 1932-1933. However, owing to the scandal surrounding the 1972 sale of his pamphlets, the provenance of the pamphlets in this collection must be uncertain. The poems are accompanied by photocopies...
Dates: 1932-1933
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-73): Poems, `O the valley in the summer' (published, with a few variations; set to music by Benjamin Britten (`Johnny')); `I am a jam tart' (unpublished)

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8959/35
Scope and Contents

On a single sheet

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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