A. E. Housman letters, 1922-1958.

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A. E. Housman letters, 1922-1958.

Correspondence by and relating to Housman and to his brother, Laurence Housman. Nearly all of the letters were written to Cyril Clemens, who was working on a proposed biography of A.E. Housman. The collection includes six letters from A.E. Housman and an important group of 94 letters from Laurence Housman, which contain comments on his brother's life and activities, religious beliefs, reading, and manuscripts. There are 45 letters from relatives and persons closely related to A.E. Housman, among them his sisters, Clemence Housman and Katharine E. Symons, his publisher, Grant Richards, and his associates at Oxford University, James T. Nance and Alfred W. Pollard. Also included in the collection are twelve manuscripts, the most noteworthy of which are two signed poems by Laurence Housman and a 4-line verse in Lord Dunsany's holograph entitled "A. E. Housman."

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University of Oxford

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Clemens, Cyril, 1902-1999

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Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959

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Housman, Clemence

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Symons, Katharine Elizabeth, 1886-....

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Housman, A.E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936

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Nance, James B.

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Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944

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