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Add MS 88908/7/2/5
- Record Id:
- 041-000001519
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000001471
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000144.0x000116
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88908/7/2/5
- Title:
- Richard March and Tambimuttu: Correspondence 1955
- Scope & Content:
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Four airletters (with letterhead for Poetry London - New York):
(1) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, 338 East 87 Street, New York, 12 April, 1955): has just sold 'book of short stories to Houghton Mifflin for an advance of 1,500 dollars' and plans to launch 'PL-NY'.
(2) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, 338 East 87 Street, New York, 15 April, 1955): wishes to obtain 'PL contracts which have lain fallow', particularly 'the Lorca contract', and proposing co-operation with March ('let us cancel the past').
(3) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, 338 East 87 Street, New York, 22 May, 1955), having received from March copies of Poetry London and an address book, and still requesting copies of old contracts with poets, with news of the progress of the first issue of 'PL-NY': 'I hear there was something about me in Punch of April 13 by J Maclaren Ross'.
(4) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, 338 East 87 Street, New York, 13 July, 1955), thanking March 'for all the information in your letter of 14 June', and expecting to bring out the first issue of 'PL-NY' in October.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000001471
033-000001495
036-000001496
040-000001514
041-000001519 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88908 : The Papers of Richard March
Add MS 88908/7-12 : Richard March: Poetry London and Editions Poetry London Ltd
Add MS 88908/7 : Richard March: Editorial Correspondence
Add MS 88908/7/2 : Richard March Editorial Correspondence: Tambimuttu, M J T
Add MS 88908/7/2/5 : Richard March and Tambimuttu: Correspondence 1955 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000001471[0002]/033-000001495[0001]/036-000001496[0002]/040-000001514[0005]/041-000001519
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88908
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1955
- End Date:
- 1955
- Date Range:
- 1955
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- 4 sheets.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Tambimuttu, Meary James Thurairajah, writer and journal editor, 1915-1983