Various letters received. The letters include: four letters (1972) from Alan Clodd; four letters (1972) from Peter Meares with nine poems by Meares; and a letter (1973) from David Lambourne regarding an interview.
School exercise book (30 ff.) containing lectures notes on 'modern poetry'. Together with, as loose sheets: General Knowledge examination paper (autograph), Lent Term 1942 (4 sheets); printed information [1945] announcing the People's Press Printing Society Ltd, 'set up to take over and launch ...
Edward Upward: Correspondence (Katherine Bucknell)
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Various letters from Katherine Bucknell, including some letters from Upward in autograph draft. The correspondence begins with a letter from Bucknell (1986) soliciting Upward's support for the founding of the W. H. Auden Society, and thereafter traces Bucknell's growing interest in Upward's work.
Edward Upward: Two stories from The Scenic Railway
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Two stories published in the collection The Scenic Railway (Enitharmon, 1997): 1. 'The World Revolution' (word-processed fair copy, 14 sheets); 2. 'Emily and Oswin' (word-processed fair copy, 17 sheets).
Edward Upward: 'The Autobiography of a Nonagenarian'
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The title page refers to an autobiography 'in 4 parts'. However, the autobiography is continued with 'Part 5', an outline the life of Allen Upward (a second cousin), and includes some personal memories of him. An indication of the date of composition of 'Part 5' (beginning p. 59) is the referenc...
Edward Upward: Resignation from the Communist Party of Great Britain
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Relevant left wing publications, documentary evidence, and fictional passages in draft, deliberately retained in a single folder by Upward, that, taken together, provide both the substance and the context of his resignation - and the resignation of his wife, Hilda Upward - from the Communist Par...
Letters and cards from Peter Parker (author of the entry for Upward in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and biographer of Christopher Isherwood).
Edward Upward: Correspondence (Publisher: Enitharmon)
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Letters from Stephen Stuart-Smith, with a few letters from Upward either as ts copies or in autograph draft. Includes a first-hand note (30 July 1999) by Stuart-Smith on the fire that destroyed the home in Provence of Natasha (and Stephen) Spender.
Edward Upward: Collection of stories submitted to the publishers Serif
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A collection of stories submitted to the publishers Serif, under the title 'The Scenic Railway and Other Selected Stories 1933-1993'. With a letter (26 January 1994) from Stephen Hayward, Serif, expressing the view that 'we just can't afford to take the risk of publishing ... in the current clim...
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...