Other literary manuscripts and poetry, 1917-1972
File
MS. 17028/4
Held in our offsite storage facility
Four folders comprising:
- 'Talapha or The Tendency', unpublished novel, carbon copy typescript, with some manuscript pages (pp. 71a-73b, 139a) and manuscript corrections, n.d.
- 'Unposted Letters', unpublished manuscript consisting of individual letters to a newspaper editor on current affairs and topical matters, carbon copy typescript, with manuscript contents page, 1972
- Poetry, manuscript, comprising: 'Lachrymae Seniorum', 1935; 'Parks I', exercise book containing 'Prelude to the Park', 20 Feb 1938, 'St James's Park in Spring', 25 Nov 1939 and 'Blenheim Park in Winter', n.d.; 'Parks II', exercise book containing final part of 'Blenheim Park in Winter', n.d. and 'Stowe in Summer', Aug 1942; 'The Liberation of Peter from Prison / A Sacred Poem for a Prize', n.d.; collection of poems, typescript, with manuscript contents page, 1917-1967; miscellaneous manuscript poems, comprising 'Cheriton Forest', 1930; 'December', 1940; 'Gray Eyes', n.d.; 'Evening Chapel', n.d. and poem beginning 'My colleague MacFarlane...'
- Poetry, published, comprising: Ten Poems (Lancing, 1918); 'Babylon: a sacred satire', English Poem on a Sacred Subject, University of Oxford (OUP, 1929); Five Things collected for a Christmas Greeting (Oxford, 1930); 'Free Speech', Oxford Magazine, 16 Nov 1933; 'Sinaitica', Oxford Magazine, 25 Jan 1934; 'The Recantation: a semi-sacred poem', Oxford Magazine, 28 Jan 1937; 'Christmas Night', sheet music (London, 1955); 'Copernicus', written Aug 1939; 'An Experiment in Sacred Verse', n.d.; 'School Hymn', written for All Saints School, Jesselton, North Borneo, n.d.
Dates
- Creation: 1917-1972
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 17028/4
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk