Research files relating to writers kept by Geoffrey Grigson: 'John Clare', 1929-1980 and n.d. [c.1920-1970]

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Shelfmark: MS. 23802/103

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'John Clare 1793-1864, Bibliography, Blunden - Tibble - Billingham', volume of notes in various hands relating to Clare's published works, some possibly by Edmund Blunden and other Clare scholars, n.d. [c.1920-1950]
'Vol. XIII', notebook containing 'Cont[inuation] of Cl[are]'s Diary (from Vol. XII)', and other transcripts including 'Catalogue of the Library of John Clare removed from his Cottage at Northborough on Monday Feb 5 1866', notes by Clare concerning correspondents, letters and poems, n.d. [c.1930]
articles concerning John Clare by Grigson and others, including 'Poet in Bondage, A Picture of John Clare', by J.E. Callister, published in the Times Literary Supplement, 27 Dec 1941; 'John Clare and Northamptonshire Plant Records', by F.H. Perring, published in Proceedings of the Botanical Society of the British Isles Vol. 1, Part 4, Oct 1955; and 'An Epitaph for John Clare' by Grigson, published in The Observer, 17 May 1964, [1931]-1980 and n.d. [c.1950]
correspondence concerning John Clare, and related papers, 1942-1980 and n.d. [c.1970]
papers concerning John Clare, including photographs of and relating to him, and transcripts by Grigson from manuscripts of unpublished poems by him, 1929-1966 and n.d. [c.1930-1944]

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MS. 23802/103

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