Richard March: Correspondence with The New English Weekly
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(1) Six autograph letters from Philip Mairet (editor, The New English Weekly) to March, all on The New English Weekly letterhead: Mairet to March (London, 3 December, 1941), proposing to publish his article (not identified) in two edited excerpts in 1942 ('you have condensed an astonishingly com...
Richard March: Contractual Correspondence with Publishers
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Correspondence with several publishers concerning The Darkening Meridian, The Silver Net and The Mountain of the Upas Tree. In respect of the latter work, the file includes a Memorandum of Agreement between March and Editions Poetry London Ltd, dated 1 April, 1948, signed by T Tambimuttu, togethe...
Richard March: Correspondence Concerning a Study of William MacTaggart
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Correspondence with the Glasgow Art Gallery, Sir James Caw, and the National Gallery of Scotland concerning obtaining photographs of paintings by William MacTaggart and information regarding his life, for 'a short study'.
Two letters (manuscript and typescript) from Barker to March, both without date, from Hearne Farm, Haslemere, Surrey, referring to a loan of £10, and to Barker, Eros in Dogma (1944) and News of the World (1950) being sent as Christmas presents.
Richard March: Correspondence with Belgion, Montgomery
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Two letters: March to Belgion (carbon typescript, 5 June, 1947), commenting favourably on Belgion, Epitaph on Nuremburg and offering personal corroboration ('I was with an advance unit that broke into Germany in March 1945, and I stayed there until the end of that year. I can only say that what ...
Richard March: Correspondence with Bottrall, Ronald
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Bottrall to March (manuscript, British Embassy, Rome, 30 December, 1945); Bottrall to March (manuscript, Rome, 19 February, 1947); Bottrall to March (typescript, British Council, London, 1 January, 1952), enclosing names and addresses of British Council Officers in East Africa; Bottrall to March ...
Long letter from Dean, addressing March as 'Harry' (typescript, Christchurch, 3 June, 1949) concerning March, The Mountain of the Upas Tree (Editions Poetry London, 1948).
Heller to March (typescript with manuscript addition, University of Wales, Swansea, [1951]), inviting March to contribute a study of Heinrich von Kleist to the series Studies in Modern European Literature (ed. Heller), to be published by Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge; Heller to March (typescript, ...
Ten autograph letters from Leavis to March: Leavis to March (Scrutiny letterhead, Cambridge, 25 April, 1936), sorry not to have thought of offering a book by [Herbert] Read to March for review ('it was so very bad'); Leavis to March (Scrutiny letterhead, Cambridge, 4 January, 1938): 'Yes, pleas...
O'Brien to March (typescript, London, 6 February, 1944), further to her review of March, The Darkening Meridian (The Fortune Press, 1943): 'forgive me if my opinion of 'On the Beach of Bonanza' hurt you'.