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Arthur Ransome Archive

Archive Collection: BC MS 20c Ransome

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Arthur Ransome Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: BC MS 20c Ransome

Creator(s): Ransome, Arthur (1884-1967)()

Date(s): 1847-2000

Language: English; Russian

Size and medium: 50+ boxes (and 6 shelves of loose items: notebooks, books, magazines); manuscript, typescript, printed and photographs (over 3,000 prints and nearly 3,000 negatives, mainly monochrome)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8723

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Comprises: 1) literary manuscripts and typescripts, including Ransome's original illustrations for his children's books, fishing essays, sailing notes, drafts for his autobiography, diaries, notebooks, sketchbooks, and personal papers; 2) printed works and press-cuttings of articles, by Ransome and about him (catalogued seperately); 3) political manuscripts and typescripts relating to Ransome's work in Russia as a journalist, 1916-1926, in English and Russian, and including documents signed by Lenin; 4) printed books that once belonged to Ransome, mainly about Russia and the Bolshevik revolution; 5) material related to Ransome's second wife, Yevgeniya Petrovna Shelepina (1894-1975), his father, Cyril Ransome (1851-1897), including his MS autobiography, articles and notebooks, and other members and ancestors of the Ransome family; 6) photographs of the Ransome family, sailing, fishing, Russian and the Baltic shores and islands, China, Egypt, scenes enacted for his children's books, the
Norfolk Broads, and other topics; 7) correspondence of Ransome and his family; and 8) miscellaneous items, including various travel permits and entry passes related to Ransome's work in Russia as a political journalist, mainly in Russian.

Biography or history

Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), the journalist and writer. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Arthur Ransome

Profile: Arthur Ransome (1884-1967)

Writer, journalist, spy. Famous author of Swallows and Amazons. He was born in Headingley, attended the Yorkshire College, received an honorary degree from the University in 1952, and his archive was presented to the University of Leeds in the 1970s.

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