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Add MS 88907/1/4
- Record Id:
- 040-000001614
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000001608
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000128.0x0002b2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88907/1/4
- Title:
- M J T Tambimuttu: General Personal Correspondence R-W
- Scope & Content:
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(1) Letter (typescript, 30 August, 1944) from Private Pauline Rawdon-Smith, requesting clothing coupons.
(2) Correspondence (1948) with John Russell, St Edmunds Hall, Oxford referring to arrangements for a talk to the Oxford University Poetry Society, and to increasing the Poetry London subscription list.
(3) Letter (typescript, 5 September, 1944, BBC letter-head) from Edward Sackville West, thanking Tambimuttu for poems submitted for consideration for broadcast.
(4) Three letters from Stewart Scott, dated: 14 February, 1946 (typescript), 15 March, 1946 (typescript), and 9 June, 1946 (manuscript). With a printed information sheet about a new publication called Eurasia (ed Scott and Alan Ross).
(5) Letter (typescript, 8 December, 1942) from Joan M Simpson.
(6) Copy letter (17 December, 1946) from Tambimuttu to Nora and Bernard [Spencer], supplying personal and Poetry London news.
(7) Correspondence (five letters, 1945-1946) with M Srinivasan, of Cambridge, concerning the translation of a biography of Tambimuttu's grandfather, S Tambimuttu (founder of S Tambimuttu & Sons, printers and publishers, Atchuvely, near Jaffna, Sri Lanka).
(8) Short personal note (small manuscript sheet, with envelope, without date) from Jacqueline Stanley to Tambimuttu, together with two letters to her from Evelien (manuscript, 4 June, 1941) and from Connie (manuscript, 10 June, 1941).
(9) Two copy letters (7 September and 25 October, 1945) from Tambimuttu to Mrs Stormouth-Darling, concerning his rented accommodation.
(10) Copy letter (8 January, 1948) from Tambimuttu to The Hon Mrs Tollemache, apologising for cancelling a lunch invitation, which clashes with a meeting with Henry Moore.
(11) Letter (typescript, 19 July, 1948) from Richard J Walsh (United Nations World) referring to a letter Tambimuttu had submitted (entitled 'Crisis in the Book Trade') for publication in Asia and the Americas, which is no longer published.
(12) Correspondence with John Wells: Tambimuttu to Wells (16 January, 1945); Tambimuttu to Wells (26 June, 1945); Wells to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 1 July, [1945]); Wells to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 30 August, [1945]); Tambimuttu to Wells (20 February, 1946); and Tambimuttu to Wells (11 March, 1946).
(13) Postcard from Robin Waterfield (franked 5 October, 1945), and a letter (manuscript, 6 February, 1946) from S Waterfield, both communications referring to a ring left behind at a party.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000001608
033-000001609
036-000001610
040-000001614 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88907 : The Papers of Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu
Add MS 88907/1-6 : M J T Tambimuttu: Personal Papers
Add MS 88907/1 : M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondence
Add MS 88907/1/4 : M J T Tambimuttu: General Personal Correspondence R-W - Hierarchy:
- 032-000001608[0001]/033-000001609[0001]/036-000001610[0004]/040-000001614
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88907
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1941
- End Date:
- 1948
- Date Range:
- 1941-1948
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 36 sheets, postcard, and envelope.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Sackville-West, Edward Charles, 5th Baron Sackville, music critic, author, 1901-1965