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Add MS 89103
- Record Id:
- 032-002782604
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002782604
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023372328.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89103
- Title:
- Material relating to Robert Fraser’s biography of David Gascoyne
- Scope & Content:
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Contains:
- Photograph of David Gascoyne and his mother, Winifred Isobel, Bournemouth; 1920
- Cards from David and Judy Gascoyne to Fraser, with a letter from Fraser requesting permission to quote from Gascoyne’s poem ‘The Sacred Hearth’; 1994-2008
- Letter from Robert Gascoyne Mares, David Gascoyne’s cousin, to Fraser commending Fraser on The Chameleon Poet, his book about George Barker, and suggesting he take on the task of writing a biography of Gascoyne; 2002
- Letter from the artist, Mary Fedden, to Fraser concerning the relationship between Fedden’s husband, Julian [Trevelyan], and David Gascoyne; 2008
- Annotated, typewritten text of ‘The Poet-Translator and His Problems’, the 2nd Claude Guillot Memorial Lecture, given by David Gascoyne at the Sorbonne, 21 May 1980
- Papers relating to the estate of Winifred Isobel Gascoyne; 1972-1976
- Letters from Brian Keeble, Director of Golgonooza Press and literary executor of the estate of Kathleen Raine, to Fraser discussing the relationship between Raine and Gascoyne; 2008-2011
- Correspondence of the journalist and editor, Christine Jordis and Fraser discussing Jordis’s connection with, and memories of, Gascoyne; 2008-2012
- Letters from the artist, Bettina Shaw-Lawrence to Fraser discussing her relationship with, and memories of, Gascoyne. Also includes a print out of an article on Gascoyne by Fraser and a copy of a cutting asbout Shaw-Lawrence; 2008-2012
- Letters from the artist, Meraud Guevara to Gascoyne; 1958-1985
Fraser's biography was published as Night Thoughts: the Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne (Oxford: OUP, 2012).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002782604
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002782604
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1920
- End Date:
- 2012
- Date Range:
- 1920-2012
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former Internal References:
- Dep. 10807
- Source of Acquisition:
- Gift of Prof. Robert Fraser, August 2014.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Fedden, Mary, artist, 1915-2012
Fraser, Robert, writer and biographer, b 1947
Gascoyne, David Emery, poet, 1916-2001
Gascoyne, Winifred Isabel, mother of David Gascoyne, 1890-1972
Guevara, Meraud, née Guinness, painter, writer and poet, 1904-1993
Jordis, Christine, writer and editor, b 1942
Keeble, Brian, writer and editor, fl 2008
Lawrence, Bettina, artist, b 1921
Mares, Robert Gascoyne, cousin of David Gascoyne, b 1918
Raine, Kathleen Jessie, poet, 1908-2003
Trevelyan, Julian Otto, painter and printmaker, 1910-1988