Alyse Gregory papers 1888-1982 1939-1967

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Alyse Gregory papers 1888-1982 1939-1967

The collection consists chiefly ofcorrespondence, with smaller amounts of diaries, writings, notebooks, artworks,photographs, and other personal papers. Also present are papers of othersclosely associated with Gregory, including papers of Llewelyn Powys; writingsof John Cowper Powys and Edna St. Vincent Millay; and diaries of GertrudePowys. Accompanying these is a small amount of correspondence and notes ofRosemary Manning, concerning Gregory's papers.

Total Boxes: 78 (incl. 1 oversize box); Other Storage Formats: 1 portfolio, cold storage; Linear Feet: 33.41

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Casey, Mary, 1940-

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British novelist and poet. From the description of Papers. (Colgate University). WorldCat record id: 31626938 ...

Penny, Lucy Powys.

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Powys, William.

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Gregory, Jean L. Pinneo.

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Elwin, Eve.

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Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894-1982

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In 1919, Scofield Thayer (1890?-1982) and James Sibley Watson, Jr. (1894-1982) bought The Dial, an incarnation of the magazine founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller in 1840. An advocate of modernist writers, The Dial proved to be one of the most influential journals of the 20th century. Between 1920 and 1929, it published work by writers such as Gertrude Stein, Paul Valéry, Thomas Mann and Marcel Proust. Its famous November 1922 issue featured T. S. Eliot's...

Powys, Marian, 1882-1972

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Rôze, Marie Hippolyte Ponsin.

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Brooks, Gladys Harding, 1892-1959

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Gladys Harding Brooks (1892-1959) was an Abilene, Kansas, native and a highschool friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower. From the description of Brooks, Gladys Harding, 1892-1959 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10610145 Gladys Brooks was Charlie Brooks's stepmother, the second wife of Van Wyck Brooks. From the description of Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1947-1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 19173223...

Wilkinson, Oliver Marlow, 1915-

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Pinneo family.

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Wilkinson, Joan Lambert.

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Brenan, Gerald

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Gregory family.

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Wilkinson, Joan Lambert.

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Rôze, Marie Hippolyte Ponsin.

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Powys family.

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Powys family.

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Gregory family.

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Maxwell, William Q.

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Holmes, Vincent

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English author. From the description of The girl who died, 1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122645299 ...

Pinneo family.

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Gregory, Jean L. Pinneo.

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Powys, William.

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Elwin, Eve.

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Penny, Lucy Powys.

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Hahn, Reynaldo, 1875-1947

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Composed originally for clarinet and piano, 1903.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Sarabande et thème varié : pour clarinette basse et piano / Reynaldo Hahn ; orchestrated by Lucien Cailliet. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 49980832 Hahn was a French composer. Madeleine-Jeanne Coll Lemaire (1845-1928 ) was a French painter and illustrator of Marcel Proust’s Les plaisirs et les jours . From the guide to the Reynald...

Powys, Philippa

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English novelist and poet, sister of John Cowper Powys. From the description of Letters, 1924 Feb. 24, Apr. 1, and July 2, New York and East Chaldon, Dorchester, Dorset [England], to Ada McVickar, New York. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364820 Catharine Edith Philippa Powys, known as "Katie," was one of the eleven siblings of the literary Powys family. She was the author of a novel, The Blackthorn Winter (1930) and a volume of poetr...

Brooks, Gladys

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0001c6 ...

Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939

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Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) came from a family of distinguished British writers, and wrote a wide variety of works, including essays, a biography, a novel, travel books, works of popular philosophy and propaganda, autobiographical memoirs, and "an imaginary autobiography." Married in 1924 to Alyse Gregory, managing editor of the Dial magazine, and a well-known and well-connected New York novelist and essayist, Powys generally divided his active career between the U.S. and his beloved Dorset. He d...

Anderson, John Redwood, 1883-1964

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English poet. From the description of The queue : autograph manuscript of the poem signed : place not specified, 1920 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132670 ...

Nordlinger, Marie, 1876-1961

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Gregory, Alyse, 1884-1967

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Alyse Gregory was a British political campaigner, editor of THE DIAL, suffragette, novelist, and wife of novelist and essayist Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939). From the description of Alyse Gregory correspondence, 1944-1967. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 83953354 Alyse Gregory, 1884-1967, social reformer and writer; managing editor of the literary magazine The Dial, 1924-1926; married to English author Llewelyn Powys and close associate of the P...

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978

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Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), the British writer, was the author of novels, short stories, poetry, a biography of T.H. White, and other writings. From the description of Sylvia Townsend Warner letters, 1937-1977. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122687134 Sylvia Townsend Warner was an English novelist, poet, biographer, and translator. From the description of Sylvia Townsend Warner collection of papers, 1922-1978. (New York Public Library). Wo...

Powys, Littleton, 1874-1955

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Elwin, Eve.

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950

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Poet and author. From the description of Edna St. Vincent Millay papers, 1832-1992 (bulk 1900-1950). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066360 American poet. From the description of ALS : Camden, Maine, to Eleanor Morgan Patterson, 1916 June 15. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122442927 From the description of Photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay [manuscript], 1920 August. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812089 ...

Manning, Rosemary

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Created by Rosemary Manning during the course of her career as a writer. From the guide to the Rosemary Manning Collection, 1957-1987, (Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books) ...

Playter, Phyllis

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Woolsey, Gamel

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Watson, James Sibley Jr.

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Du Cann, C.G.L. (Charles Garfield Lott), 1889-

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Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963

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American author and critic. From the description of Typed letter signed : Westport, Ct., to Stark Young, 1937 Apr. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874884 Van Wyck Brooks was an author and educator, known for his study of, and influence on, American culture. After graduating from Harvard, he sought a literary career in New York and London, writing chiefly for magazines. While teaching at Stanford he developed his first books of criticism, leading up to his first signifi...

Hayman, Laure, Mme., 1851-

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Pinneo family.

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Scott-Maxwell, Florida, 1883-1979

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Penny, Lucy Powys.

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Marlow, Louis, 1881-1966

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Epithet: novelist, al 'Louis Marlow' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000349.0x0003af Louis Umfreville Wilkinson was born in 1881, the only son of a clergyman. He attended Radley School where he struck up a correspondence with Oscar Wilde, then imprisoned in Reading Goal. He attended Oxford for four semesters before being "sent down" for blasphemousness in 1901. He next went to St. John's College, C...

Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963

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English novelist, essayist, and lecturer. From the description of Letter, 1934 Dec. 12, Dorchester, England, to John P. Waters, Cambridge, Mass. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34365010 From the description of Correspondence, with Alan Dakers, 1948. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364799 From the description of Letter, 1944 July 18, Cae Coed, Corwen, Wales, to Ada McVickar, New York. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 3436480...

Gregory, James G., d. 1932.

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Abbott, Claude Colleer, 1889-1971

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Epithet: Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Durham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0000f3 Claude Colleer Abbott (1889-1971) was Professor of English at the University of Durham 1932-1954, and earlier lectured at the University of Aberdeen. His most distinguished scholarly work was as an editor. His principal published works included his editions of The life and let...

Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950

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American poet, novelist, and editor. From the description of Letter to a dealer [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806176 Editor of The Chimaera. From the description of ALS, [1915]-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500150 This may not really be Benét's writing. Although the verse appears to be signed by him the writer's intent may have been simply to ascribe the verse to him. Also, it is on letterhead engraved "MM...

Brenan, Gerald

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English writer. From the description of Gerald Brenan Collection, 1911-1978. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122602036 Edward Fitzgerald Brenan (1894-1987), was born in Malta, the son of an English army officer. He spent his earliest years in India and South Africa before being sent to England for his formal education. He studied first at Radley College and then at the Military Academy at Sandhu...

Hopkins, Kenneth

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Kenneth Hopkins (1914-1988), the poet, novelist, and creator of the Grasshopper Press, Derby. For fuller details of his life and achievements see The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English . From the guide to the Typed poems by Kenneth Hopkins, with some correspondence with James Guthrie, 1942-1943, (Leeds University Library) English author. From the guide to the The girl who died, 1955, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953

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Theodore Francis Powys was the brother of Lewelyn Powys (1884-1939). From the guide to the Papers of Theodore Francis Powys, 1928, 1928, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections) Theodore Francis Powys was a member of the literary Powys family. He left his farm in Suffolk at the age of twenty-six to retire to the small village of East Chaldon and write. Living like a hermit, he wrote novels, short stories, and fables. His works...

Ficke, Gladys Brown, 1890-1973.

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Wilkinson, Oliver Marlow

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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922

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French author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Fernand Gregh, [n.d.]"Jeudi." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270615671 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Georges [de Lauris], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270851761 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : [n.p.], to [Robert de Montesquiou], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270851766 Marcel Proust is generally regarded as one ...

De Lima, Agnes

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Agnes de Lima, educator and author, served as public relations director for the New School for Social Research, 1940-1960. She began a close friendship with Alyse Gregory in 1915, which continued until Gregory's death in 1967. Gregory was godmother to de Lima's daughter, author Sigrid de Lima (1921-1999). Agnes de Lima assisted in collecting letters of Gregory's husband Llewelyn Powys for publication by John Lane in 1943, and she acted as a literary agent in the United States for Powys's later w...

Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 1881-1965

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American writer who graduated from Bryn Mawr College (class of 1903). Among her published writings are Willa Cather: A Memoir and Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence. From the description of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant papers, 1949-1964. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 44712504 Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (1881-1965), author and journalist,wrote for The New Republic and other magazines and published six books,including Fire Under the Andes (1927), Willa Cather: A Mem...

Hardy, Evelyn, 1902-....

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Evelyn Hardy was born on February 13, 1902 Gregory, Alyse (married)- many letters are about her after her death. letters to Evelyn Hardy after Alyse Gregory's death and relating to Evelyn Hardy's article on her life and character. From the guide to the Evelyn Hardy papers, 1950-1974, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) ...

Powys family.

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Powys, Marian, 1882-

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Powys, William.

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Ulmann, Doris, 1882-1934

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Powys, Gertrude M. (Gertrude Mary)

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Epithet: artist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000213 ...

Gregory, Jean L. Pinneo.

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Maxwell, William Q.

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Watson, Hildegarde Lasell, -1976

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Wilkinson, Joan Lambert.

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Thayer, Scofield, 1889-1982

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Scofield Thayer (1889-1982) graduated from Harvard in 1913 and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. With J. Sibley Watson, he purchased Dial Magazine in 1919, and served as its editor until 1925, publishing works by many leading Modernists. During this time, Thayer also built his collection of modern art and oversaw the publication of the portfolio Living Art. He suffered a severe breakdown in 1925, from which he never recovered, and died in May 1982. He married Elaine Orr in 1916; they divorced i...

Rôze, Marie Hippolyte Ponsin.

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Metcalf, Henriette

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Powys, A. R. (Albert Reginald), 1881-1936

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Collins, Vere H. (Vere Henry), 1872-

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Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945

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Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945), American poet and collector of Japanese prints. His works include Sonnets of a Portrait Painter(1914), Chats on Japanese Prints (1915), Out of Silence and Other Poems (1924), and Mrs. Morton of Mexico, (1939), a novel. From the description of Arthur Davison Ficke Papers 1865-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702134010 Ficke (Harvard, A.B., 1904) served as Curator of Japanese Prints at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard. From the d...

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972

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Poet, acting editor of The Dial magazine, 1925-1929. Born Marianne Craig Moore. From the description of Book manuscripts, 1935-1967. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122417395 From the description of Albums, [ca. 1905-1936]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122524976 From the description of Family correspondence, 1848-1972, bulk 1905-1972. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122540617 From the desc...

Potocki de Montalk, Geoffrey,, Count

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Bourne, Randolph Silliman, 1886-1918

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Author and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letter, autograph note, and typed letter, all signed : various places, to Herbert J. Seligmann, 1916 June 10 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870388 Randolph Silliman Bourne was a radical leftist intellectual and essayist. He was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey in 1886. His difficult birth left him with facial scars from a forceps delivery whch, couples with a bout of spinal tuberculosis at th...

Casey, Mary

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Mary Casey was the niece of the author John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) and Kenya settler Will Powys. From the guide to the Transcript of the Diary of Mary Casey, 7 August 1950 - 6 April 1966, (The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House) Mary Casey (1915-1980) was the author of novels and poetry. From the guide to the Mary Casey: Novels, 20th century, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives) ...

Gregory family.

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Costigan, Giovanni, 1905-1990

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Giovanni Marie Denis George Costigan (1905-1990) was was an influential history professor at the University of Washington, as well as a popular public lecturer and a local leader in the peace movement and human rights campaigns. Born into an Irish family on February 15, 1905 in Kingston-on-Thames, England, Costigan attended Oxford University as both an undergraduate and as a graduate student. He also received a second Master's degree and a Ph. D. from the University of W...

Leon, Derrick, 1908-1944

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Derrick Lewis Leon was born in London, England in 1908 and was only 36 years old when he died in November 1944. Leon made his living as an interior decorator. By the time of his death, however, he had a reputation as a fine biographer with works on Tolstoy (Tolstoy: his life and Work) and Proust (Proust: His Life, His Circle, and His Work. Leon had also published three novels before his death. The first one, Livingstones: A Novel of Contemporary Life was published in 1933. Wilderness was publish...

De Lima, Sigrid

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Marlow, Louis, 1881-1966

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Epithet: novelist, al 'Louis Marlow' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000349.0x0003af Louis Umfreville Wilkinson was born in 1881, the only son of a clergyman. He attended Radley School where he struck up a correspondence with Oscar Wilde, then imprisoned in Reading Goal. He attended Oxford for four semesters before being "sent down" for blasphemousness in 1901. He next went to St. John's College, C...