Identity area
Reference code
SMIJ/1/52
Title
Letter from F. R. Leavis to James Smith
Date(s)
- 7 July 1961 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2 single sheets
Context area
Name of creator
(1904-1972)
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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 ‘the… read more