Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS c/50
Title
Letters from A. E. Housman to Kate Symons
Date(s)
- 1911-1936 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
(1862-1945)
Biographical history
Sister of Alfred Edward, Laurence, and Clemence Housman. Her given name was 'Katherine', but she preferred 'Katharine'.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented by the Friends of National Libraries, March 1961.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
48 letters, 2 postcards, 1 fragment, and two empty envelopes
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Related units of description
Housman material appears under a variety of shelfmarks in Additional Mansucripts a, b, and c and appear in the papers of Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler (BUTJ) and Sir James George Frazer (FRAZ).
Publication note
Published in The Letters of A. E. Housman edited by Archie Burnett. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007.