Search

Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 89048

1. Add MS 89048

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89048
Title:
Papers relating to Alida Monro
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers collected by Ruth Tomalin relating to Alida Monro and Tomalin's attempts to write a memoir of Alida and Harold Monro.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-2001
Extent:
9 files

2. Add MS 89048/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89048/1
Title:
Correspondence of Ruth Tomalin relating to the death of Alida Monro
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1969-1976
Extent:
1 folder

3. Add MS 89048/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89048/2
Title:
General correspondence of Ruth Tomalin
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1968-2001
Extent:
1 folder

4. Add MS 89048/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89048/3
Title:
Typescript of a memoir of Alida Monro
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1969
Extent:
1 folder

5. Add MS 89048/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89048/4
Title:
Papers relating to Ruth Tomalin’s Leverhulme Research Award 1971
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1970-1972
Extent:
1 folder

6. Add MS 89048/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89048/5
Title:
Correspondence of Ruth Tomalin and Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965-1975
Extent:
1 folder

7. Add MS 89048/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89048/6
Title:
Notes and drafts for Ruth Tomalin’s preface for the Collected Poems of Harold Monro
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1970s
Extent:
1 folder

8. Add MS 89048/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89048/7
Title:
Reporters notebooks of Ruth Tomalin
Scope & Content:
Containing notes (some in shorthand) on Harold and Alida Monro.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1970s
Extent:

3 notebooks

9. Add MS 89048/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89048/8
Title:
Correspondence of Ruth Tomalin and Sarah Holmes Anne Holmes
Scope & Content:
The correspondence relates to Holmes’s thesis on Alida Monro, a copy of which is included.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1995-1996
Extent:

1 folder

10. Add MS 89048/9

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89048/9
Title:
Books belonging to Ruth Tomalin
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1921
Extent:

4 printed books