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040-001999845

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032-001999773

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POETRY BOOKSHOP PAPERS. Vol. XIX (ff. 285). General correspondence including letters of condolence upon the death of Harold Monro in 1932 and relating to the closure of The Poetry Bookshop in 1935; 1914-1969. Partly signed.

Robert Laurence Binyon, CH; poet: Correspondence with Alida Monro: 1934-1935: Partly typewritten.

Christopher Vernon Hassall, author: Correspondence with Alida Monro: 1954-1958: Partly typewritten.

Thomas Sturge Moore, author and engraver: Letters to Alida Monro from Thomas Sturge Moore: circa 1916-1935.

Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet; poet and writer: Letters to Alida Monro from Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell: 1924, 1925, n.d.

Humbert Wolfe, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Labour; writer: Letters to Alida Monro from Humbert Wolfe: 1927-1935: Partly signed.

Walter John De La Mare, poet: Letters to Alida Monro from Walter John De La Mare: 1929-1934: Signed.

Hellé Flecker, wife of James Elroy Flecker: Letters to Alida Monro from Hellé Flecker: 1932-1935.

Ernest de Selincourt, scholar and literary critic: Letters to Alida Monro from Ernest de Selincourt: 1932-1934.

Sir Henry John Newbolt, poet: Letters to Alida Monro from Sir Henry John Newbolt: 1914-1935.

includes:

f. 12 Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: Letter to Alida Monro from Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell: 1926.
f. 24 John Edward Masefield, OM; Poet Laureate: Letter to Alida Monro from John Edward Masefield: bef. 1932.
f. 37 Frank Sidgwick, of Sidgwick and Jackson: Letter to Alida Monro from Frank Sidgwick: 1932.
f. 47 Harold Raymond, of Chatto and Windus: Letter to Alida Monro from Harold Raymond: 1932.
f. 53 Edith Louisa Sitwell, DBE; poet: Letter to Alida Monro from Edith Louisa Sitwell: 1932.
f. 55 John Drinkwater, playwright and theatre manager: Letter to Alida Monro from John Drinkwater: 1932: Signed.
f. 77 Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet: Letter to Alida Monro from Thomas Stearns Eliot: 1933: Signed.
f. 90 Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, author: Letter to Alida Monro from Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole: 1933.
f. 102 Lieutenant-Colonel Bonamy Dobrée, Professor of English Literature, Leeds University: Letter to Alida Monro from Lt.-Col. Bonamy Dobrée: 1934.
f. 118 Conrad Aiken, writer: Letter to Alida Monro from Conrad Aiken: 1934: Signed.
f. 119 Hermon Ould, General Secretary, PEN: Letter to Alida Monro from Hermon Ould: 1934.
f. 123 Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE; author: Letter to Alida Monro from Emilie Rose Macaulay: 1934.
f. 124 Sir Herbert Edward Read, author and art critic: Letter to Alida Monro from Sir Herbert Edward Read: 1934.
f. 125 Clare Leighton, artist: Letter to Alida Monro from Clare Leighton: 1934.
f. 129 Violet Hunt, afterwards Hueffer: Letter to Alida Monro from Violet Hunt: 1934.
f. 156 Francis MacDonald Cornford, classical scholar: Letter to Alida Monro from Francis MacDonald Cornford: 1935.
f. 161 Sir Ambrose Heal, designer and maker of furniture: Letter to Alida Monro from Sir Ambrose Heal: 1935: Signed.
f. 165 Sir William Rothenstein, Principal, Royal College of Art: Letter to Alida Monro from Sir William Rothenstein: 1935.
ff. 173-174 William Butler Yeats, poet: Letter, etc., to Alida Monro from William Butler Yeats: 1935: Typewritten and signed.
ff. 175-176v William Edward Roberts, alias Michael; author: Letters to Alida Monro from Michael Roberts: 1935.
f. 193 Hilda Doolittle, afterwards Aldington; alias 'H D'; poet: Letter to Alida Monro from Hilda Doolittle: n.d.: Signed.
f. 230 Valerie Eliot, née Fletcher; 2nd wife of T S Eliot: Letter to Alida Monro from Valerie Eliot: 1965: Signed.

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Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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032-001999773
036-001999825
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Add MS 57734-57768 : POETRY BOOKSHOP PAPERS. Papers of Harold Monro (b.1879, d.1932), Alida Monro neé Klementaski (b. 1892, d. 1969), and of…
Add MS 57745-57753 : POETRY BOOKSHOP PAPERS. Vols. XII-XX. Personal and business papers of Alida Monro; circa 1906-1969, n.d. Partly autograph,…

Add MS 57752 : POETRY BOOKSHOP PAPERS. Vol. XIX (ff. 285). General correspondence including letters of condolence upon the death of Harold Monro…

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English

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Latin

Start Date:

1914

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1969

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1914-1969

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Names:

Aiken, Conrad Potter, poet and author, 1889-1973
Binyon, Robert Laurence, poet and art historian, 1869-1943
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Knight, museum director and book collector, 1867-1962
Cornford, Francis MacDonald, classical scholar
Dobrée, Bonamy, literary scholar, 1891-1974
Doolittle, Hilda, alias 'H D', poet and writer, 1886-1961
Drinkwater, John, poet and playwright, 1882-1937
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, poet and dramatist, 1888-1965
Eliot, Valerie, née Fletcher, 2nd wife of T S Eliot, 1926-2012
Flecker, Hellé, wife of James Elroy Flecker, fl 1911
Hassall, Christopher Vernon, author, 1912-1963,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109291105
Heal, Ambrose, Knight, furniture designer and businessman, 1872-1959
Hunt, Violet, afterwards Hueffer
Leighton, Clare, artist
Macaulay, Emilie Rose, DBE, author, 1881-1958
Mare, Walter John, poet, 1873-1956
Masefield, John Edward, Poet Laureate, 1878-1967,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110288253
Moore, Thomas Sturge, writer and designer, 1870-1944
Newbolt, Henry John, Knight, poet and writer, 1862-1938
Ould, Hermon, General Secretary PEN, 1885-1951
Raymond, Harold, of Chatto and Windus, 1887-1975
Read, Herbert Edward, Knight, author and art critic, 1893-1968
Roberts, William Edward, poet and author alias Michael Roberts, 1902-1948
Rothenstein, William, Knight, artist and art administrator, 1872-1945
Selincourt, Ernest de, scholar and literary critic, 1870-1943
Sidgwick, Frank, of Sidgwick and Jackson
Sitwell, Edith Louisa, poet and biographer, 1887-1964
Sitwell, Francis Osbert Sacheverell, 5th Baronet, poet and writer, 1892-1969
Walpole, Hugh Seymour, Knight, novelist, 1884-1941,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76523409
Wolfe, Humbert, Deputy Sec Ministry of Labour, writer, 1885-1940
Yeats, William Butler, poet, 1865-1939,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120960541