Identificatie
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Titel
Datum(s)
- 1926-1936 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Omvang en medium
59 items
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
A. E. Housman, a Fellow of Trinity from 1910, was a renowned classical scholar and poet, best-known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad, published in 1896. Gerald Christopher Arden Jackson (1900–1978), Housman’s godson, was the youngest son of his… read more
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
The collection contains fifty-three letters and postcards from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson, with a contemporary transcript of one of them, photographs of four others, and some related verses.
Ordeningstelsel
The items are arranged in a single chronological sequence. Photocopies of letters are arranged under the dates of the originals. 59, which contains verses written by Housman at an unknown date, is arranged under the date of the accompanying note, which… read more
Verwante materialen
Notitie Publicaties
Bibliography
David Butterfield, ‘“Your affectionate but inefficient godfather”: the letters of A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson’, Housman Society Journal, xlii (2016), 89–101
Linda Hart, ‘A. E. Housman’s letters to Gerald Jackson’, Housman Society… read more