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SMIJ/1/27
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Letter from Marius Bewley to James Smith
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- [Sept. x Nov. 1949] (Creation)
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(1904-1972)
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3 Salisbury Villas, Station Road, Cambridge.—Has heard that Smith’s Browne lecture went well. Though little changed outwardly, Cambridge seems to have lost much of its elegance and intellectual excitement. Is seeing a lot of the Leavises and has overcome his initial irritation at ‘Queenie’s hard distinctions between the “respectable poor” and the factory workers’, but is shocked by their high opinion of Mason [the new Assistant Director of Studies in English at Downing College]. Has received a letter from Cox, critical of Scrutiny. Downing ‘lacks a dimension’ without Smith there. His room is not as bad as it first seemed.
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- Bewley, Eugene Augustine Marius (1916–1973), American literary critic (Subject)
- Leavis, Queenie Dorothy (1906-1981), literary scholar (Subject)
- Leavis, Frank Raymond (1895-1978), literary critic (Subject)
- Cox, Reginald Gordon (1914–1981), literary scholar (Subject)
- Mason, Harold Andrew (1911–1993), literary critic (Subject)