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Language English Name Plomer, William Charles Franklyn, author, 1903-1973

1. Add MS 53733

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Add MS 53733
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WILLIAM PLOMER: poems, 'The Last Train' and 'The Shortest Day'; circa 1963-1965. Autograph drafts. These poems were collected in Taste and Remember (1966). For a detailed description see Stratford, Mod. Lit. MSS., no. 25. Purchased from the Arts Council, 16 April 1966. Paper; ff. 37. British Library arrangement.
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Poetry ENGLISH: William Charles Franklyn Plomer, author: Poems by William Charles Franklyn Plomer: circa 1963-1965: Drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1963-1965
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 60612-60613

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Benjamin Britten: 'Curlew River', op. 71
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A short score and a partly autograph full score. Libretto: William Plomer, from the medieval Japanese Nō play Sumidagawa by Jūrō Motomasa. First performance: 12 June 1964, Orford Church, Aldeburgh Festival. First broadcast: 21 June 1964 (BBC Third Programme).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
2 volumes

3. Add MS 60618

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Benjamin Britten: Canticle V 'The Death of Saint Narcissus', op. 89
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An autograph score, in pencil, for tenor and harp, dated 'Horham July 1974' (f. 9). The text is taken from the poem 'The Death of Saint Narcissus' by T. S. Eliot, and the work is dedicated to William Plomer. The volume comprises: the text (typescript) of 'The Death of Saint Narcissus' [by T. S...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1974
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

4. Add MS 61893

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JACQUES BRUNIUS: correspondence of Jacques B. Brunius (d. 1967) and others, with various authors, the literary agency of John Farquharson Ltd., the Hogarth Press and the Pilot Press; 1944-1946. Partly French. Relating to proposals by Editions de la Revue Fontaine, (of which review Brunius was 'correspondent général pour l'Angleterre'), regarding the proposed translation and publication in France of novels, biographies, etc., by Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, V. S. Pritchett, Virginia Woolf ...
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Literary History: Jacques B. Brunius, English correspondent of the 'Revue Fontaine': Publishing: Correspondence of Jacques B. Brunius: 1944-1946: Partly Fr. includes: ff. 1-9v John Davys Beresford, author: Letters to J. Brunius from John Davys Beresford: 1945, 1946: Partly signed.f. 10 Pau...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1944-1946
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 70723

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A. W. RUSSELL AND RUTH PITTER CORRESPONDENCE. Vol. III (ff. 183). Correspondence of A. W. Russell; 1967-1969, n.d. The names of the writers and recipients are given in the index to the present catalogue. includes: ff. 1-11 John Leslie Thomas Arlott, writer: Correspondence, etc., with A. W. Rus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1967-1969
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 71603

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MARGARET GARDINER PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 163). Correspondence and papers; 1962-1965. 1. ff. 1-17. Nuclear disarmament; 1962-1964. 2. ff. 18-82v. British writers' protest on Vietnam; 1965. 3. ff. 83-163. West European artists' protest on Vietnam; 1965. includes: f. 3 Cyrus Stephen Eaton, i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1962-1965
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 71604

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MARGARET GARDINER PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 204). Correspondence and papers; 1966. 1. ff. 1-106. Labour voters' protest on Vietnam; April 1966. 2. ff. 107-204. Protest meeting at Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre; July 1966. includes: ff. 2, 198 Sir Alfred Jules Ayer, philosopher: Letters to Margaret...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1966
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 71608

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MARGARET GARDINER PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 168+160*). General correspondence; 1939-1987, n.d. includes: f. 1 Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood: Letter to Margaret Gardiner from Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil: 1939: Signed.f. 2 Sara Margery Fry, Principal of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1939-1987
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 71839

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HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. cxix. 1929-1956. ff. 265. includes: ff. 1, 54-58 Lady Mathilde Schlich, née Marsily; second wife of Sir William Schlich; grandmother of Humphrey Searle: Letters to Humphrey Searle: [1929?], 1937. f. 2 Humphrey Searle, CBE; composer: Reginald Montague Wright, o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1929-1956
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 81990

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Add MS 81990
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Strachey/Holroyd Papers. Vol. xviii (ff.134). Loose leaves containing various transcriptions of letters, notes on sources and transcriptions of Lytton Strachey’s poems ‘The Haschish’, ‘The two triumphs’, ‘Happiness’, and ‘Ely: an ode’, the radio script of ‘Portraits from memory: 2. J. M. Keyne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1952-1972
Extent:
1 item