Francis Henry King Addition to His Papers 1938-2000

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Francis Henry King Addition to His Papers 1938-2000

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00210/00210-P.html

This addition to the Francis King collection contains his personal literary correspondence and writings including written notebooks from his school days at Shrewsbury; two handwritten journals kept during his stay in Japan in 1963; and published and unpublished short stories.

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King, Francis Henry, 1923-

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Francis Henry King, the only son of Eustace Arthur Cecil and Faith Mina Read King, was born on March 4, 1923, in Adelboden, Switzerland. King spent the early part of his childhood in India with his parents and three sisters. His father was a police officer, then deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau, and died at an early age from tuberculosis. King was sent to Shrewsbury boarding school in England. He declared himself a pacifist at the age of fourteen and became a c...