Letters to David Hammond

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Letters to David Hammond

1968-2005

https://archives.libraries.emory.edu/repositories/7/resources/2843

The collection primarily consists of letters from Seamus Heaney to David and Eileen Hammond from 1968-2005. There are approximately 50 letters and 250 postcards (a favorite form of correspondence for Heaney) from Heaney during his affiliations with the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University, and while traveling in England and abroad. The collection also includes photographs, printed material, and literary manuscripts. The literary manuscripts include holograph drafts, corrected typescripts, and faxes or photocopies of early typescripts of published and unpublished poems, prose writings, and radio and film scripts. The draft scripts include "Something to Write Home About" and a subsequent draft text intended for publication.

1.75 linear ft. (4 boxes)

eng, Latn

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8331261

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

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Seamus Heaney, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in April 1939, the eldest of nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm in County Derry in Northern Ireland. At the age of twelve he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in the city of Derry, From 1957 he lived in Belfast, moving in 1972 to the Irish Republic, where he now lives. His poems first came to public attention in the mid-1960s when he was active as one of a gro...

Hammond, David, 1928-2008

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