Louis MacNeice books and pocket diaries, 1929-1962
File
MS. Eng. d. 4007
Two books and two pocket diaries:
- Blind Fireworks (Gollancz, 1929). First edition, with dust jacket. Inscribed by MacNeice to his parents, ‘To Daddie & Madre, with my Love: “as a dream doth flatter,/ In sleep a king, but waking no such matter”. Louis MacNeice.’
- The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, translated by MacNeice. Proof copy (Faber, 1936). Two letters to MacNeice from Peter du Sautoy are at MS. Eng. c. 7881, fols. 8-9.
- Two pocket diaries, ‘Knightsbridge’ 1961 and 'Guinness' 1962, with a few entries by MacNeice in both
Dates
- 1929-1962
Extent
4 items
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. d. 4007
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