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- 1892-1978 (Creation)
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42 items
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Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
This collection was presented to the Library by the Housman Society on 15 October 2019. It seems likely that most, if not all, of the papers in the first group (1) came to the Society via N. V. H. Symons, who is recorded as having shown a ‘Pandora’s Box’ of family papers to John Pugh and Joe Hunt, the joint-founders of the Society, in 1972 (Housman Society Newsletter, Sept. 2013, p. 7); but it is unclear when they came into the Society’s possession. The printed items relating to the Milton tercentenary banquet (2), which appear to have formerly belonged to A. E. Housman, were given to the Society by Jim Page in 2009. The three letters in 3 were sent to Joe Hunt as the Society’s Secretary.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection comprises letters, cuttings, and other printed and manuscript material of or relating to members of the Housman family (1–2), and three letters received by Joseph Hunt, the founding Secretary of the Housman Society (3).
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The items in each group are arranged in chronological order, so far as this can be determined, copies of documents being placed under the dates of the originals.
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The addresses of some institutions have been given in a shortened form.
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2023.