Letters and miscellaneous papers, 1937-1966, n.d.
File
Dep. c. 332
Held in our offsite storage facility
Includes:
- Various papers (bills, contracts, receipts, greeting cards), photographs of Masefield, and correspondence from the period 1939-1966 (mainly 1966).
- Plans and revised typescript and autograph drafts for new selected and collected editions of poems, n.d.
- Letters received by Masefield with their drafted replies, errata lists for book reprints, and some scraps of autograph manuscript (Reynard the Fox, unpublished poems on 'Music' and Winston Churchill), 1953-1966.
- Programmes for the 'Oxford Summer Diversions', 1937-1939.
- Photographs and programmes relating to the Verse Speaking Festival at Bruford Training College of Speech and Drama, 1964.
- Photographs and correspondence regarding ships, mainly 1950s-1960s.
- Correspondence regarding employment of a housekeeper, 1960-1961 (= closed).
- Draft contract for the sale of film rights for Masefield's Sard Harker to playwright and Hollywood producer Edward Chodorov, 1949.
Dates
- Creation: 1937-1966, n.d.
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Conditions Governing Access
One folder is closed.
Shelfmark
Dep. c. 332
Creator
- From the Collection: Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk