Collection of Majl Ewing, devoted to Matthew Prior [manuscript] 1687-1721 and 1938-1962.

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Collection of Majl Ewing, devoted to Matthew Prior [manuscript] 1687-1721 and 1938-1962.

The collection contains 4 holograph letters from Prior to unidentified recipients; about 200 photocopies of Prior letters and correspondence of Majl Ewing with dealers and librarians on the acquisition of his collection.

250 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7926640

University of Virginia. Library

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Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hague, to William Blathwayt, "16th or 17th in the Morning." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619084 From the description of Receipt for his pension (incomplete) signed : Whitehall, 1696 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619097 From the description of Autograph letters signed (11) : Westminster, to Sir Thomas Hanmer, 1706 Aug. 8-1716 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619089 Fr...

Ewing, Majl

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Ewing was born May 24, 1903 in Rochester, KY; BA, Univ. of the South, 1923; MA, Harvard, 1924; Ph. D, Univ. of Virginia, 1929; instructor, Univ. of Minnesota (1924-26); instructor (1926-29) and acting asst. professor (1929-30), Univ. of Virginia; instructor in English (1930-31), asst. professor (1931-45), assoc. professor (1945-52), and professor (1953-67), Dept. of English, UCLA; chair of dept., 1948-55; member, Modern Language Assoc.; helped found and served as president of Friends of the UCLA...