Documento 551 - Letters from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

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Código de referência

Add. MS a/551

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Letters from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

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  • 1926-1936 (Produção)

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59 items

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História do arquivo

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 hisread more

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Âmbito e conteúdo

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.

Sistema de arranjo

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, whichread more

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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 Societyread more

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