Personal Papers of Harry Kemp 1943-1963

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Personal Papers of Harry Kemp 1943-1963

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/3549488078

This collection contains publications, manuscripts, drafts, and miscellaneous materials.

3.25 linear ft (5 boxes)

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6353930

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Kemp, Harry

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Harry Vincent Kemp (1911-1994) was born the son of a self-educated engineer. He was educated at Stowe and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics. At Cambridge he became a Communist, but gave up on this as a teacher shortly afterwards, an intellectual development which he wrote about with his friend, Laura Riding, in the late thirties and published as The Left Heresy in Literature and Life (Methuen, 1939). During the War he was at first at conscientious objector, but on the fall o...