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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1927 - 1987

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Young 2/1

Scope and Contents

File contains the following:
W A Craigie to Jean Young, 15 August 1927, acknowledging safe receipt of her manuscript and his intention to hand it on to the Clarendon Press;
‘A Sonnet for Saturnians, March 1952 (Thought provoked by the Chapman Symposium’, typescript;
Letter to Jean Young from William A Craigie in which he enclosed cards of introduction for her to ‘Snæbjörn and Finnur’, 8 July 1952;
Letter written by JY? - recipient unknown 20 September 1952;
Correspondence with W Z D Allen concerning sources for the Cordovan poet al-Ghazal and the Vikings in 845, 1958;
Photocopy of the title page of a 1967 facsimile of the 1756 edition of 9 Icelandic sagas, together with notes in JY’s hand headed ‘Rounding up sheep to Vik by a roundsman’.
Letter to Jean Young, in Icelandic, from Reykyavik 10 October 1970.;
Letter to ‘AJ’ from Ann Waddicor, from Norway, 1987, in which she talks of Jean Young, of articles written, of research on Norwegian sagas etc, with envelope addressed to Jean Young and a cutting from a Norwegian newspaper;
Three letters to ‘My dear Jean’ from Johanne Kastor Hansen, from Copenhagen, parts in English but mostly in Danish, 15 December 1971, 28 October 1972 and 16 December 1973, together with two death announcements for JKH from Danish newspapers, 1974.








Dates

  • Creation: 1927 - 1987

Creator

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Young, Jean

Finding aid date

2014-03-25 10:13:20+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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