Hard covered notebook ('Vol 72') containing entries from August 1990 to September 1991. With the following loose material: letter (typescript, no date) from Upward to Cecil Woolf and Jean Moorcroft Wilson in which Upward, at their request, outlines his views on the Gulf War (1 sheet); letter (1...
Hard covered notebook ('Vol 74') containing entries from September 1992 to August 1995. With two sheets (typescript) outlining the immediate family and forbears of Hilda Upward (nee Percival), wife, who died in March 1995 (see entry for 18 March).
Hard covered notebook ('Vol 75') containing entries from August 1995 to August 1997. With two photographs mounted on card including Upward as a young boy. Annotated on the verso: 'Kingswood Lodge / Summer 1910'. Black and white, each photograph 65 x 90 mm. Also, outline biography of 'M[argaret...
Edward Upward: Correspondence (Letters to Shirley Munro)
Scope & Content:
46 personal letters to Shirley Munro, addressed as 'Jane'. 'Jane' is identified as Shirley Munro by Alan Walker, 'Edward Upward in the Nineteen-Thirties' (2003), a copy of which is in Add MS 89002/5/5. The file comprises: 5 dated letters (31 October 1932; 2 May 1933; 21 January 1934; 3 Septemb...
Letters from: Peter Grant; A J Jenkinson; John Cooper; Ronald E Walker; Barry Craig, with a short story ('Black-Out', typescript) by Craig; and an undated letter in pencil from 'A.R.' concerning Upward, Journey to the Border (1938).
Various letters received, including letters from: Stephen Spender (2), incompletely dated (but including a reference to Spender serving as a fireman); Vernon Watkins, seeking advice on writing poetry; Hubert Hoskins; Michael Barad (2), Focus magazine, with a draft letter to Barad from Upward; A ...
The file contains: A poem (typescript) from Donald Davie, 'Remembering the 'Thirties' [1953]; two short notes (1958) from Gwenda David; letter (1959) from M Kyle, trying to obtain Journey to the Border; 2 letters (1959) from Fred W Cook; 2 letters (1959) from Tony Spearing; letter (1961) from Jo...