Literary and other manuscripts associated with Lascelles Abercrombie. ca. 1896-1946.

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Literary and other manuscripts associated with Lascelles Abercrombie. ca. 1896-1946.

Comprises: (1) Drafts of many of Abercrombie's own publications held in box files individually-labelled; (2) Drafts of literary material in folders; (3) Lecture notes, including those of his own lectures and some notes taken from the lectures of others, held chiefly in small white files, some in green files, and others in notebooks; (4) A printed order of service for his Memorial Service in 1938.

2 bound v., 1 envelope, 16 box files containing chiefly loose-leaf material, 1 pamphlet, 15 other files, 2 notebooks, and 19 folders; manuscript, typescript, press cuttings, and printed material (some photocopy)

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Abercrombie, Lascelles, 1881-1938

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Lascelles Abercrombie M.A. was born in 1881, and was the sixth son of William Abercrombie of Cheshire. He was educated at Malvern College, and at the Victoria University, Manchester; his education was chiefly scientific. He soon became well-known as a poet and a man of letters; from 1919-22 he was Lecturer in Poetry at the University of Liverpool, leaving there to become the Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, where he stayed until 1929 when he left to take up a Professor...