Letters from writers to the Misses Mary and Evelyn Stanley-Smith
Single Item
MS. Eng. lett. c. 548, fols. 1-59
Held at the Weston Library
Letters from writers to the Misses Mary and Evelyn Stanley-Smith, 1934-1971. The letters are mostly brief notes, sometimes no more than a sentence. The writers comprise:
- (fol. 1) Brian Aldiss, 1957
- (fol. 2) Violet Alford, 1950
- (fol. 3) Edward A. Armstrong, 1958
- (fol. 4) Gillian Avery, n.d.
- (fol. 5) Sir John Betjeman, 1962
- (fol. 6) Ursula Bloom, n.d.
- (fols. 7-11) Joyce Cary (4), 1952, 1955, 1957, n.d.
- (fol. 12) Barbara Cartland, 1960
- (fol. 13) David Cecil, n.d.
- (fols. 14-15) Richard Church, 1949, with (fol. 15) copy letter from [Mary] Stanley-Smith, 1949
- (fol. 16) Elizabeth Coxhead, 1955
- (fol. 17) [?], 1968
- (fol. 18) [?], 1957
- (fol. 19) T.S. Eliot, 1939
- (fol. 20) John Fothergill, 1949
- (fol. 21) [Carl Giles?], 1961
- (fol. 22) Kathleen Hale, 1962
- (fols. 23-24) Cynthia Harnett, 1971
- (fol. 25) Christina Hole, 1951
- (fol. 26) [Dorothy Jacob?], [1960]
- (fol. 27) E.O. James, 1956
- (fol. 28) Elizabeth Jennings, n.d.
- (fol. 29) Rosamond Lehmann, 1950
- (fol. 30) Kathleen Lines, 1961
- (fol. 31) Emily Lutyens, 1957
- (fol. 32) Jan Macdonald, 1959
- (fol. 33) Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, 1966
- (fols. 34-35) Sir Compton Mackenzie (2), 1967, 1972
- (fol. 36) Raymond Mortimer, 1960
- (fols. 37-38) Iris Murdoch (2), 1960, n.d.
- (fols. 39-45) H.F.M. Prescott (4), [1943], [1970], n.d., with (fol. 40) copy letter from [Mary] Stanley-Smith, 1943, and (fol. 43) telephone message asking for news of Hilda Prescott, 1969
- (fol. 46) Austin Priestman, 1935
- (fol. 47) Dora Saint ("Miss Read"), 1971
- (fol. 48) Robert Sencourt, 1964
- (fol. 49) Sacheverell Sitwell (2), [1962?], [1966?]
- (fol. 51) J.I.M. Stewart, 1967
- (fol. 52) Dame Sybil Thorndike, Lady Casson, 1973
- (fol. 53) Ernst Toller, 1934
- (fols. 54-56) Lady Susan Tweedsmuir (2), 1962, [1976]
- (fols. 57-59) Alison Uttley (3), 1962, [1964]
Dates
- Creation: 1934-1971
Extent
59 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. lett. c. 548, fols. 1-2].
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Shelfmark:
MS. Eng. lett. c. 548, fols. 1-59
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 22399
Abstract
Letters from writers to the Misses Mary and Evelyn Stanley-Smith
Biographical / Historical
No biographical information is known.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given by Mary Stanley-Smith, 1980 and 1982.
- Title
- Letters from writers to the Misses Mary and Evelyn Stanley-Smith
- Status
- Published
- Author
- EAD version 2023 by Marion Lowman
- Date
- EAD version 2023
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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