Contains: Children of Love by Harold Monro (London: Poetry Bookshop, 1914). Inscribed 'Ruth Tomalin from Alida Monro 1 July 1969'. Ernest Dowson by Victor Plarr (London: Elkin Mathews, 1914). Inscribed 'Harold Monro from Elkin Mathews Dec 1914' and with an annotation 'Given to Ruth Tomalin by Mr...
Includes correspondence (partly copies) with Alida Monro, J. T. Hubbard (reporting Alida Monro’s death), Edward Luttrell (an executor of Alida Monro), the BBC, Eric Gillett, Clara Bowring, Joy Grant (author of Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop, 1967), The Cornhill Magazine, Myfanwy Thomas (Ed...
Dictated by Monro to Ruth Tomalin, 27 Jul 1969. With typewritten comments by, and a covering letter from, Mrs F. Luttrell, wife of one of Monro's executors.
Correspondence of Ruth Tomalin and Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd
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The correspondence covers matters such as Tomalin’s introduction to a reissue of William Henry Hudson’s South American Romances (published 1966), her editing of a new edition of Harold Monro’s collected poems (1970), and proposals for a memoir of Monro or an edition of his papers. Also included ...
Papers relating to Ruth Tomalin’s Leverhulme Research Award 1971
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Contains correspondence with the Leverhulme Trust, lists of awards granted, and a letter from Tomalin to Phyllis Hunt of Faber & Faber asking for a reference for her Leverhulme application. Tomalin was awarded a £60 grant to write her memoir of Harold and Alida Monro. Following a dispute wit...
Correspondence of Ruth Tomalin relating to the death of Alida Monro
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Contains correspondence (partly copies) with Hubbard & Co., solicitors, and Farmar, Miller & Turnesk, solicitors. Under the terms of Monro’s will, Tomalin was to write a memoir of Harold and Alida Monro, but a dispute with Alida Monro’s executors arose and the book was never written.