Louis MacNeice letters to Nancy Coldstream. Includes:
- (fols. 41-70) 'London Letter', 30 Dec 1940 comprising (fols. 41-8) a fair copy manuscript, (fols. 49-60) an unamended top copy typescript, and (fols. 61-70) an unamended carbon copy typescript.
- (fols. 75-8) an incomplete holograph manuscript draft (with additional notes) of a review, probably of Hugh MacDiarmid's The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry [1940] for The New Statesman. The draft begins: ‘In a period when the main approaches to poetry have been puritanically ulterior...’.
Dates
- 1939-1943, n.d.
Extent
78 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Eng. c. 7381
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Shelfmark:
MS. Eng. c. 7381
Former reference
MS. Res. c. 1441
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 6159
Abstract
Letters from Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) to Nancy Coldstream (1909-2001).
Biographical / Historical
Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE (1907-1963) was a British poet and playwright who was part of the 'Auden Group'. Nancy Coldstream (1909-2001), who took the married name Spender in 1942, was a British painter. MacNeice and Coldstream had an affair in the late 1930s.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Philip Spender, 28 February 2007.
- Title
- Louis MacNeice letters to Nancy Coldstream
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Original catalogue by Judith Priestman. EAD version by Rachael Gardner
- Date
- 2016
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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