Item 52 - Letter from F. R. Leavis to James Smith

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SMIJ/1/52

Title

Letter from F. R. Leavis to James Smith

Date(s)

  • 7 July 1961 (Creation)

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2 single sheets

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Downing College, Cambridge.—Apologises for keeping his essay for so long without writing. It arrived as he was preparing for the Tripos. He did read the essay through and re-read the play (which made him ‘ashamed for Shakespeare’), but then ‘theread more

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