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Alfred Edward Housman: Letters to Sir Sydney Castle Roberts (1887-1966) publisher, literary scholar, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1948-1958

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7735

Scope and Contents

23 letters from Housman to S.C. Roberts, 22 Jan. 1926 - 17 Aug. 1933. There are also letters from Housman to R.S. Parry, no. 1, 17 Jan. 1926; from Mrs. Mildred B. Platt to S.C. Roberts, no.11, 17 June 1927; from A.F. Scholfield to Housman, no.13, 6 Aug. 1929; from Housman to G.R. Barnes, no. 23, 30 Aug. 1931, and a note by Housman, no. 20, 15 Dec. 1930. The letters of 1926-1927 concern the publication of J.A. Platt's Nine Plays, to which Housman wrote a preface. The other letters relate to Housman's own publications.

Dates

  • Creation: 1926-1933

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

1 envelope(s) (1 envelope)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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