Add MS 52599

MODERN LITERARY MSS. Vol. IX (ff. 127). Poems, etc.; circa 1955-1964. Partly typewritten. Four of the poems on ff. 1-7b were first collected in A Way of Looking, 1955; four, on ff. 8-13b, in A Sense of the World, 1958; two, on ff. 14-16, in Song for a Birth or a Death, 1961; forty-nine, on ff. 18-70, with the 'Translator's Note' on

f. 17, in The Sonnets of Michaelangelo, 1961; three, on ff. 71-82b, in Recoveries, 1964; twelve, on ff. 84-95, in The Mind has Mountains, 1966. Followed (ff. 108-127) by related letters, mostly of poets and literary figures, to Miss Jennings, 1955-1957.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Professor of English at Oxford University: Letters to Elizabeth Jennings: 1955.

Elizabeth Joan Jennings, poet: Poems, etc.,: circa 1955-1964: Partly transl: Partly typewritten drafts: Partly autogr.

Poetry ENGLISH: Elizabeth Jennings: poems: circa 1955-1964: Autogr. and typewritten drafts.

includes:

• ff. 17-70 Michel Angelo Buonarroti, artist: Sonnets, translated by Elizabeth Jennings: circa 1961.
• ff. 113-114 William Stanley Merwin, American poet: Letter to Elizabeth Jennings: 1956.
• ff. 115-124 Kathleen Jessie Raine, poet: Letters to Elizabeth Jennings: 1956.
• f. 119 Philip Arthur Larkin, poet: Letter to Elizabeth Jennings: 1956.
• f. 122 Hon Victoria Mary al. Vita Sackville-West, afterwards Nicolson; writer; wife of Sir H Nicolson: Letter to Elizabeth Jennings: 1956.
• f. 126 William Somerset Maugham, novelist and dramatist: Letter to Elizabeth Jennings: 1957.