Manuscripts
Dame Edith Sitwell papers
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Dame Edith Sitwell papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains a series of manuscript poems (both typewritten and handwritten items) by Edith Sitwell as well as some letters and miscellaneous items. Many of the manuscript poems in the collection are various drafts of poems, and several of them were published in Sitwell's first book, The Mother and Other Poems (1915). The letters in the collection are from Sitwell to her cousin, and fellow writer, Joan Wake, and chiefly address Sitwell's writing. The miscellaneous items include pieces written by Wake on modern poetry and on her cousin's poetic stylings.
mssHM 32068-32122
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Thompson, Dunstan, 1918-1975. To Dame Edith Sitwell, 1887-1964, 1 piece, (1948, May 4)
Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts by Dunstan Thompson, including book reviews, diaries, essays, plays, poems, and short stories, and correspondence (both to and from Thompson), photographs, drawings and ephemera. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Harry Brown, Cyril Connolly, Paul Dehn, T.S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Philip Trower, Howard R. Turner, and Oscar Williams. Business correspondents include: William Abrahams, Margot Johnson, John Lehmann, Simon and Schuster and William Morris Agency.
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Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964. To Dunstan Thompson, 1918-1975, 3 pieces, (1945- 1955). With envelopes
Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts by Dunstan Thompson, including book reviews, diaries, essays, plays, poems, and short stories, and correspondence (both to and from Thompson), photographs, drawings and ephemera. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Harry Brown, Cyril Connolly, Paul Dehn, T.S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Philip Trower, Howard R. Turner, and Oscar Williams. Business correspondents include: William Abrahams, Margot Johnson, John Lehmann, Simon and Schuster and William Morris Agency.
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Edith Shiffert correspondence
Manuscripts
This small group of correspondence is mainly between Edith Shiffert and her publisher, Alan Swallow, from 1960-1962 regarding the publication of her poems in "Poets in Swallow Paperbooks." There are also 7 items of ephemera, which consists of a newspaper clipping, a page from a periodical, and fliers.
mssShiffert correspondence
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Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964. 1 letter to Dear Sir, A.L.S. (2 p.), ([1924, Oct. 24]), London (Eng.)
Manuscripts
Archival and manuscript portion of the Sanford and Helen Berger collection. In addition to the papers of William Morris and his associates, the collection also includes materials on nineteenth and twentieth century British Pre-Raphaelites, fine Printing and private presses -- Kelmscott Press, (including the Kelmscott Chaucer), and the Doves Press, architects, illustrators, and the Arts & Crafts movement .
MOR 528