Letters to Rupert Brooke from a variety of correspondents, 1909 - 1914
Scope and Contents
A composite album with the sheets arranged as follows:
[ff. 1-3] 1 autograph postcard, signed, from Lascelles Abercrombie with congratulations on Fellowship, 31 Mar. 1913 and 2 autograph letters, signed, on Mme. Strindberg and her projected production of 'Lysistrata', 30 Sept. and 5 Oct.
[ff. 4-5] Letters from Harley Granville Barker, including: 1 letter written by his secretary and signed by him declining an invitation to lunch, 8 Nov. 1909 and 1 typed letter, signed by his secretary saying that he will read Rupert Brooke's play, 22 Feb. 1913.
[ff. 6-7] 1 autograph postcard, signed, from A.C. Benson with an invitation to dine, 5 Nov. 1910, and
1 autograph letter, signed, with congratulations on Fellowship, 13 Mar. 1913.
[f. 8] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Max Beerbohm, 'Sunday' - regrets inability to read a paper or open a discussion at Cambridge.
[f. 9] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Justin Brooke about Marlowe Society and the marriages of friends, 20 Mar. 1911.
[ff. 10-11] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Gilbert Cannan with an invitation to tea, 16 Jan. 1913, and
1 autograph letter, signed, on 'Lithuania', 24 Feb. 1913.
[f. 12] 1 autograph letter, signed, from William Crooks about his fee [? for addressing a meeting], 13 June 1910.
[ff. 13-14] 1 autograph letter, signed, from John Drinkwater acknowledging gift of Rupert Brooke's book of poems, 26 Sept. 1912 and 1 autograph letter, signed, on action at Antwerp, poetry and the war, 1 Jan. 1915.
[ff. 15-17] 3 autograph letters, signed, from St. John Greer Ervine with invitations to dine, 15- 22 Jan. 1913.
[ff. 18-20] 1 autograph postcard, signed, from James Elroy Flecker concerning a dinner engagement, 5 May 1910; 1 autograph postcard, signed, assuming review of his poetry in 'Gownsman' is by Rupert Brooke, 15 Nov. 1910 and 1 autograph letter, signed, 'Sunday' - inviting himself to stay at the Orchard, Grantchester.
[ff. 21-3] 2 autograph letters, signed, from E.M. Forster on reading a paper to the Apostles in Cambridge, 29 Sept. and 15 Oct. 1910 and 1 autograph letter, signed, saying that he will incorporate Rupert Brooke's paper on art into a novel, 24 Nov. 1911.
[f. 24] Fry, Roger 1 autograph letter, signed, from Roger Fry expressing his wish to see Rupert Brooke before he leaves for America, 25 Sept. 1912.
[ff. 25-7] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Wilfrid Wilson Gibson planning a 'New Shilling Garland' series of poetry books, 20 Mar. 1913 and 1 autograph postcard, signed, acknowledging that he has received Rupert Brooke's poems, 13 Jan. 1915.
[f. 28] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Eric Gill concerning the purchase by Brooke of a sculpture by Gill, 17 Feb. 1913.
[f. 29] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Edmund Gosse with an invitation to dine, 13 Feb. 1915.
[f. 30] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Jane Ellen Harrison with the note 'Friday' - invitation to tea to meet Dennis Robertson
[ff. 31-2] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman on the history of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 7 May 1910, and 1 autograph letter, signed, rejecting 'Lithuania' for production at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 16 Mar. 1913.
[ff. 33-4] 1 letter written by the secretary of Ford Madox Heuffer [later Ford] , signed by Heuffer as editor of English Review, likes Rupert Brooke's poetry and cautiously suggests reviewing, 21 Oct. 1909 .
[f. 35] 1 autograph letter, signed, from M.R. James with congratulations on Fellowship, 11 Mar. 1913.
[f. 36] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Neville Stephen Lytton [3rd Earl Lytton] asking Rupert Brooke to promote the National Food Reform Association, 6 Dec. 1909.
[f. 37] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Desmond MacCarthy with information that he is unable to accept Rupert Brooke's invitation to visit, 10 Aug. 1909.
[f. 38] 1 autograph postcard, signed, from John Ellis McTaggart with congratulations on Fellowship, 13 Mar. 1913.
[ff. 39-53] 12 autograph letters, signed, from John Masefield and 3 autograph postcards, signed, 1912-15.
[f. 54] 1 autograph letter, signed, from H.W. Massingham rejecting seven poems submitted to Nation by Rupert Brooke, but retaining 'The Goddess in the wood' for publishing soon, 24 May 1910.
[f. 55] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Harold Monro concerning publication of Rupert Brooke's poems, 9 Feb. 1913.
[f. 56] 1 autograph letter, signed, from J.H. Morrison with an invitation to lunch, 27 Jan. 1909.
[ff. 57-8] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Rosalind Murray about Rupert Brooke's poetry and life in Barrow, 18 Nov. 1912.
[ff. 59-63] 2 autograph letters, signed, from T[hyra] M[acdonald] on behalf of Mary Neal to Sydney Cockerell, on a concert to be given by the Association for the Revival and Practice of Folk Music, 11 and 17 Dec. 1908. Includes two sheets of notes by Rupert Brooke.
[ff. 64-5] 1 autograph letter, signed, Harry T.J. Norton with an invitation to attend first meeting of the Memoir Club, 6 Mar. 1913 and 1 autograph letter, signed, assuming Rupert Brooke will not join Memoir Club, 13 Mar. 1913.
[f. 66] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Bertrand Russell with 'Monday' - invitation to tea.
[ff. 67-9] 1 autograph postcard, signed, from John Tresidder Sheppard with congratulations on the Austen Leigh Studentship and on piece in Basileon, 19 June 1912; 1 autograph letter, signed, with the date of Sheppard's arrival at Clevedon, 27 July [1909] and a note from 30 June 1909 that Sheppard is coming up to King's College.
[ff. 70-3] 4 autograph letters, signed, from Edward Thomas making arrangements to visit, 15 Sep. 1912-25 Jan. 1913 .
[f. 74] 1 autograph letter, signed, from G.M. Trevelyan with congratulations on Fellowship.
[f. 75] 1 autograph letter, signed, from Alwyn Faber Scholfield with an invitation to lunch.
[ff. 76-7] 1 typed letter, signed, from Frank Sidgwick concerning the publication of Rupert Brooke's poems, 13 July 1911 and 1 autograph letter, signed, concerning publication of a German work 'Simplicissimus', 24 Oct. 1914.
[f. 78] 1 autograph letter, signed, from W.B. Yeats with an invitation to dine with himself and Ezra Pound, 21 Jan. 1913.
[f. 79] 1 autograph postcard, signed, from an unknown correspondent with a joke, 26 Jan. 1909.
Dates
- Creation: 1909 - 1914
Creator
- MacCarthy, Charles Otto Desmond, 1877 - 1952 (literary journalist) (Person)
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876 - 1962 (historian) (Person)
- Beerbohm, Henry Maximilian, Sir, 1872 - 1956 (Knight, author and cartoonist) (Person)
- Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862 - 1925 (author) (Person)
- Forster, Edward Morgan, 1879 - 1970 (novelist) (Person)
- Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866 - 1934 (painter and art critic) (Person)
- James, Montague Rhodes, 1862-1936 (biblical scholar, antiquary and palaeographer) (Person)
- Sheppard, John Tresidder, Sir, 1881 - 1968 (Knight, Provost of King's College Cambridge) (Person)
Extent
1 collection (79 sheets held in modern volume) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Items are arranged in alphabetical order by last name of the correspondent.
Finding aid date
1999-07-24 14:02:24+00:00
Subject
Repository Details
Part of the Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge Repository
Archivist
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