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Frank Kendon: Correspondence

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9251

Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists of c.1100 letters, 1926-61, with the letters after 1959 addressed to Kendon's widow. The correspondents include Lascelles Abercrombie (1 letter, 1931); Ernest Altounyan (surgeon, Aleppo) (17, 1936-51); John Arlott (3, 1944); John Armitage (4, 1940-51); Henry Baerlein (3, 1945-56); Sir Ernest Barker (2, 1948-55); H.E. Bates (1, 1941); Clifford Bax (1, 1948); Adrian H. Bell (11, 1940-47); Ernest A. Benians (8, 1948); Anthony Bertram (2, 1948); Edmund Blunden (16, 1930-46); E.F. Bozman (15, 1936-49); George E. Briggs (3, 1948); N.L. Bright (22, 1944-46); Jacob Bronowski (4, 1941-59); Gerald Bullett (195, 1926-57); Olwen W. Campbell (2, 1946-51); George G. Coulton (11, 1938-46); Walter de la Mare (30, 1930-53); Charles H. Dodd (2, 1944-55); John Drinkwater (1, 1926); Eleanor Farjeon (1, 1951); Mansfield Forbes (1, 1921); Sir Frank Fraser Darling (9, 1939-48); H. Rolf Gardiner (1, 1942); Stephen Haggard (8, 1940-42); Sir George R. Hamilton (16, 1944-51); Maud M. Hart (110, c.1942-53); Christopher V. Hassall (2, 1944); Joan Hassall (3, 1950-54); Philip P. Henderson (5, 1945-49); Geoffrey Johnson (14, 1940-49); Franklin Kidd (2, 1950-56); David Kindersley (1, 1954); Reginald J.L. Kingsford (7, 1937-56); Sir Walter Langdon-Brown (2, 1942); Sir Edward Marsh (1, 1940); John Masefield (3, 1935); Harold J. Massingham (3, 1939-43); Wilson Midgley (John O'London's weekly) (7, 1943-50); Naomi Mitchison (2, 1942); Stanley Morison (1, 1942); Sir John Murray (1, 1943); Ross Nichols (11, 1942-44); C. Denis Pegge (16, 1939-56); Ruth Pitter (1, 1940); J.B. Priestley (2, 1937-47); Sir Sydney C. Roberts (3, 1935-49); Naomi Royde Smith (1, 1935); Siegfried Sassoon (1, 1955); Ronald Searle (3, 1946-52); George Shackle (4, 1948-54); Sir Charles Sherrington (2, 1945-49); Dame Edith Sitwell (2, 1947); Olaf Stapledon (1, 1941); Reynolds Stone (6, 1948); Sir Arthur Tansley (3, 1943); R.S. Thomas (1, 1951); Charles F. Tunnicliffe (2, 1941); James Turner (15, 1942-55); Edmund Vale (2, 1951-52); Laurence Whistler (3, 1948-50); Frank Whitaker (Country Life) (36, 1938-57); Christopher Whitfield (3, 1935); and John Dover Wilson (14, 1945-55).

Dates

  • Creation: 1921-1961 (Circa)

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

2 archive box(es) (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased 1994.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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