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- 1959-2014 (Creation)
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20 items: letters and copy letters, all typescript; 2 colour photographs.
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Letters to Gerald Symons from: A. St. G. Bulleid, on illness of Laurence Housman, Feb. 1959; Joseph Hunt of the Housman Society, 1986, with parody of A. E. Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' about the Manstree vineyard owned by Gerald Symons; Peter Tomlin, 2002 (with copies of replies); Chris Edwards, headmaster of Bromsgrove School, re Gerald Symons' offer of A. E. Housman's turtle shell (bearing Trinity crest) to the school, 2006, with two photographs and copy of Symons' letter offering the shell; invitation from P. St. J. Bowen, deputy headmaster of Bromsgrove School, inviting Gerald Symons and his wife to the official opening of Housman Hall, 2006; Elizabeth Oakley, re Housman Society publication on Clemence and Laurence Housman, found with typed note by Gerald Symons on his memories of Clemence; Julian Hunt of the Housman Society, 2013-2014.