Comprises 164 letters from Edmund Blunden, mainly to Archibald Hector Buck, 1917-1967.
Also includes a xerox of a manuscript copy by Buck of the letters and cards of Blunden, with annotations.
Dates
- Creation: 1917-1967
Extent
2 boxes (0.22 linear metres.)
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. lett. c. 410, fols. 1-2.)
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Eng. lett. c. 410; MS. Facs. b. 83.
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 13578
Abstract
Letters from Edmund Blunden to A.H. Buck, with annotated Xerox manuscript copies.
Biographical / Historical
Edmund Charles Blunden (1896-1974) was a poet, teacher, critic, and biographer. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Blunden and Buck had been schoolmates at Christ's Hospital in Horsham, Sussex.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased by the Library in 1976.
Bibliography
- Carol Z. Rothkopf and Barry Webb (eds.) More than a brother: correspondence between Edmund Blunden and Hector Buck, 1917-1967 (London, 1996).
Topical
Subject
- Title
- Letters from Edmund Blunden to A.H. Buck
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Collection Level Description by Susan Thomas. EAD version 2022 by Simon Mackley.
- Date
- EAD version 2022
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
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