| Title |
Scrapbook, titled 'Letters: Etc:' |
| Reference |
MS Add.9856/1 |
| Covering Dates |
1945–1947 |
| Extent and Medium |
1 volume |
|
| Content and context |
Contains letters to Douglas Grant, mainly from Edmund Blunden, some verses by Edmund Blunden and Joan Grant, rejection slips from various publications and other correspondence. |
| Manuscripts/MS Add.9856/1 contains: |
|
p.1
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Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas and Joan Grant, London.
1p. |
1 Sept. 1945 |
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p.3
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Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
2p. |
20 Oct. 1945 |
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p.4 - MS Add.9856/1/p.5
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Memorandum from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
2 folios. |
13 Feb. 1946 |
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p.6
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Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
2p. |
20 March 1946 |
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p.7
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Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
2p. |
30 March 1946 |
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p.8
|
Memorandum from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
1p. |
1946 |
|
p.9
|
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Joan Grant; Virginia Water.
1p. |
7 May 1946 |
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p.10
|
Memorandum from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
1p. |
8 May 1946 |
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p.11
|
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
1p. |
4 June 1946 |
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p.12
|
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
2p. |
18 June 1946 |
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p.13
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Postcard from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London 9 July 1946.
1p. |
9 July 1946 |
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p.14
|
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
1p. |
31 July 1946 |
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p.15
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Corrected proofs of a letter from Douglas Grant to the editor of the Times Literary Supplement [published in issue 2325, page 403].
3 folios.. |
24 Sept. 1946 |
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p.16
|
Postcard from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London. |
8 Aug. 1946 |
|
p.17
|
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
1p. |
20 Aug. 1946 |
|
p.18
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Postcard from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; Virginia Water. Postmarked Ascot.
1p. |
24 Aug. 1946 |
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p.19
|
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; Virginia Water. Written on the reverse of a letter from Dorothy E. Marshall of the Lutterworth Press to Blunden, Redhill, 4 Sept. 1946.
1p. |
7 Sept. 1946 |
|
p.20
|
Postcard from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London. Postmarked Ascot.
1p. |
15 Sept. 1946 |
|
p.21
|
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
2p. |
19 Sept. 1946 |
|
p.22
|
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London. With an envelope postmarked [inter alia] London, 30 Sept. 1946.
1p. |
29 Sept. 1946 |
|
p.23a
|
Letter from William Lindsay Renwick to Douglas Grant; Edinburgh.
2p. |
27 May 1946 |
|
p.23b
|
Letter from David Nichol Smith to Douglas Grant.
1p. |
2 June 1946 |
|
p.24
|
Edmund Blunden, Verses to H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, Oxford: printed at the Alden Press, 1936, bearing an inscription by Edmund Blunden to Douglas and Joan Grant, 30 June 1946.
8p. |
1936–30 June 1946 |
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p.25a
|
Rejection slip from the editors of Horizon, bearing a note on the reverse by Douglas Grant.
2p. |
27 Sept. 1946 |
|
p.25b
|
Rejection slip from the literary editor of The Spectator, bearing a note on the reverse by Douglas Grant, London.
2p. |
25 Sept. 1946 |
|
p.26
|
Rejection slip from the editor of the Cornhill Magazine, bearing a note on the reverse by Douglas Grant. London.
2p. |
25 Sept. 1946 |
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p.27a
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Rejection slip from the editor of the Sunday Times, bearing a note on the reverse by Douglas Grant. London.
2p. |
27 Sept. 1946 |
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p.27b
|
'So hardly won is this lucidity', verse by Joan Grant, with a note by Douglas Grant concerning the occasion of the composition. Written on the reverse of an envelope addressed to Joan Grant by E. C. Gunn, postmarked Edinburgh, 8 Aug. 1946.
1p. |
22 Sept. 1946 |
|
p.28
|
Print of a photograph showing Joan Grant, taken at Porthcurno. With a note on the album leaf by Douglas Grant.
1 photograph. |
Aug. 1945 |
|
p.29
|
Letter from J. E. Morpurgo of Penguin Books Limited to Douglas Grant; Harmondsworth.
1p. |
12 Sept. 1946 |
|
p.30
|
Letter from Philip Tomlinson of the Times Literary Supplement to Douglas Grant; London.
1p. |
12 July 1946 |
|
p.31
|
'Syllabus of a Course of Six Lectures on Some Nineteenth Century Novelists' given by Douglas Grant under the auspices of the University of Oxford Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies University Extension Lectures Committee; Oxford.
2 folios. |
1946 |
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p.32
|
Fragment of manuscript leaf. Probably from a set of canticles extracted from a breviary, mounted with verso uppermost, containing (recto) part of the Benedicte Omnia Opera (song of the three Holy Children) and the Benedictus (song of Zachariah) and (verso) part of the Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum and Quicumque vult (Athanasian Creed).
1 fragment. |
1250 |
|
p.33
|
Letter from Sara Coleridge to Charles Whittingham; London. Postmarked 24 Apr. 1847. Note on album leaf by Douglas Grant 'bought with a copy of 'Aids to Reflection.''.
3 folios. |
23 Apr. 1847 |
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p.34
|
Postcard from Edmund Blunden to E. R. Appleton; Oxford.
1p. |
10 Feb. 1940 |
|
p.35
|
Letter from a member of staff of the University Registry, Oxford, to Douglas Grant; Oxford.
1p. |
24 June 1946 |
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p.36
|
Rejection slip from the editors of Orion, bearing a note on the reverse by Douglas Grant, London.
1p. |
7 Oct. 1946 |
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p.37a
|
Rejection slip from the editor of The Listener, bearing a note on the reverse by Douglas Grant, London.
1p. |
8 Oct. 1946 |
|
p.37b
|
Acknowledgement slip from the editorial department of The New Statesman & Nation, bearing a note by Douglas Grant, London.
1p. |
11 Oct. 1946 |
|
p.38
|
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
1p. |
8 Oct. 1946 |
|
p.39
|
Letter from Edmund Blunden to Douglas Grant; London.
1p. |
29 Oct. 1946 |
|
p.40
|
Cutting (obituary of Idris Deane Jones) from The Times.
1p. |
28 March 1947 |
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