Humphrey Moore Archive, assembled by John Bridgen
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Humphrey Moore Archive, assembled by John Bridgen
Classmark: MS 1753
Creator(s): Bridgen, John William()
Date(s): 1927-2002
Size and medium: 15 boxes, manuscripts, typescript, printed and photographs; 6 printed books (catalogued individually).
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8719
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Literary archive of Humphrey Moore and associated materials on twentieth-century poetry, assembled by John Bridgen.
Comprises: correspondence to and from Bridgen, including with (and relating to) H.J. Moore, Frank McEachran, W.H. Auden, Anthony Dickins, Francis King, and others; correspondence to and from Moore; poems by Bridgen in MS; poems by Moore in MS; Moore's TS notes about poetry; pamphlets and leaflets that belonged to Moore, mainly about Clayesmore School; Moore's notebooks, 1932-1968; TS essays on Christian topics by J.M. Murry; MS collection of 'Poems by Diana' by Diana Finch (with a dedication to Dickins); Bridgen's MS notes about McEachran, ca. 150 ff.; Bridgen's MS notes about his meeting with John Auden in 1982; Rupert Brooke Society newsletters and related material; photographs, mainly taken by Moore of his pupils, 1950s-1960s; presentation copies of McEachran's books; and miscellaneous journals with articles by McEachran.
Biography or history
Humphrey Moore (1913-1968) was a poet, schoolmaster and biologist. After studying biology at Corpus Christi Cambridge, he first became a public school teacher at Dauntsey's, then worked in Shrewsbury, and later moved to Clayesmore School in Dorset where he taught for the rest of his life, until his early death in 1968. His poetry was inspired by W.H. Auden, Rupert Brooke, A.E. Housman and Matthew Arnold. John Bridgen, who later studied at King's College Cambridge, was a pupil of Moore at Clayesmore School, and he was left Moore's literary archive (with instructions to publish his poetry if possible) and Moore's W.H. Auden and 1930s poetry collection.
System of arrangement
The material has been listed but not sorted. The MS 1753 catalogue is based on an historic inventory. The arrangement of material does not necessarily represent the original order of the archive and it is considered partly processed by an archivist. When making requests to consult, please be aware that there may be discrepancies between description and physical arrangement. The retrievable unit for this collection is file level.
Access and usage
Access
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