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Add MS 89422/2/3

Record Id:
040-003475469
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003475101
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100097297122.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89422/2/3
Title:
Joseph Brearley: Letters Received from William J. Duff
Scope & Content:

Autograph letters, signed 'Bill' or 'B', some of which enclose or incorporate Duff's poems.

1976 (ff. 1-56):

  • ff. 1-4. 1 Jan 1976, Fetcham. Letter incomplete. 'I hope the Leavis [The Living Principle, 1975] has now arrived. I checked the position before Christmas with Dillons.'
  • ff. 5-6. 2 Mar 1976. Comments on Leavis on T. S. Eliot.
  • f. 7. 31 Mar 1976.
  • ff. 8-9. 27 Apr 1976.
  • f. 10. 3 May 1976.
  • f. 11. 4 May 1976.
  • f. 12. Notes from an unidentified source referring to Palestine and Egypt, beginning 'Part 13'.
  • ff. 13-15. 23 Jun 1976, reporting in some detail on Duff's lunch with Harold Pinter.
  • f. 16. 2 Jul 1976. 'I was somewhat overwhelmed by your Grecian Journal and then by the "Symposium" from Hackney' (i.e. referring to Add MS 89422/4/4 and Add MS 89422/3/2).
  • f. 17. 6 Jul 1976.
  • ff. 18-19. 11 Jul 1976. Letter refers to Duff's lunch with Pinter, and encloses poem: 'Prayers'.
  • f. 20. Typed poem 'Prayers'.
  • f. 21. 20 Jul 1976.
  • ff. 22-25. 6 Aug 1976.
  • f. 26. 1 Sep 1976.
  • f. 27. 11 Sep 1976. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • f. 28. 12 Sep 1976. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • f. 29. 15 Sep 1976. Letter to Mara Loytved-Hardegg. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • f. 30. 15 Sep 1976. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • f. 31. 16 Sep 1976. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • ff. 32-33. 18 Sep 1976. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • f. 34. 19 Sep 1976. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • f. 35. 11 Oct 1976.
  • ff. 36-37. 16 Oct 1976.
  • f. 38. 25 Oct 1976.
  • ff. 39-41. 1 Nov 1976. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • ff. 42-46. 5 Nov 1976. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • ff. 47-48. 6 Nov 1976. 'This morning when I came down, there was an envelope addressed to "Mr. Bill Duff" on the mat. A girlish backward slope. Who...? I opened it. It was a note (in his very different writing) from Harold Pinter, enclosing a paperback volume of his poems, which he had inscribed'.
  • ff. 49-51. 14 Nov 1976.
  • f. 52. 17 Nov 1976.
  • f. 53. Typed poem: 'Ghost' (1 sheet).
  • ff. 54-56. 11 Dec 1976. Letter incomplete.

1977 (ff. 57-111):

  • ff. 57-59. 6 Jan 1977. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • ff. 60-62. 7 Feb 1977.
  • f. 63. [?Feb 1977]. Undated letter fragment.
  • ff. 64-65. 2 Mar 1977.
  • ff. 66-68. 11 Mar 1977.
  • ff. 69-71. 22 Mar 1977. Letter begins with an anecdote from a former pupil at Hackney Downs School who remembers Joe Brearley as 'Radio Joe'.
  • ff. 72-74. 3 Apr 1977. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • f. 75. 8 May [1977].
  • f. 76. 29 May 1977.
  • f. 77. Typed poem: 'May 1977'.
  • ff. 78-80. 12 Jun 1977.
  • ff. 81-82. 19 Jun 1977.
  • ff. 83-85. 29 Jun 1977.
  • ff. 86-87. 6 Jul 1977.
  • f. 88. 13 Jul 1977.
  • ff. 89-93. 25-27 Jul 1977. Reserved until 31 December 2053.
  • ff. 94-95. 16 Aug 1977.
  • ff. 96-97. 22 Aug 1977, Corinth.
  • ff. 98-99. 11 Oct [1977].
  • ff. 100-101. 9 Oct 1977. 'I have been trying to get through to Mara [Loytved-Hardegg] to see how you are. She rang last evening to say you were in hospital [...].'
  • ff. 102-108. 15 Oct 1977.
  • ff. 109-111. 5 Nov 1977.

For Brearley's letters to Duff, see Add MS 89422/2/4.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003475101
036-003475433
040-003475469
Is part of:
Add MS 89422 : Joseph Brearley Papers
Add MS 89422/2 : Joseph Brearley Papers: Correspondence

 

Add MS 89422/2/3 : Joseph Brearley: Letters Received from William J. Duff
Hierarchy:
032-003475101[0002]/036-003475433[0003]/040-003475469
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89422
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 file (ff. 1-111)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1976
End Date:
1977
Date Range:
1976-1977
Era:
CE
Access:
Available for research unless otherwise stated

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