Edmund Blunden, autograph manuscript poems
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Edmund Blunden, autograph manuscript poems
Classmark: BC MS 20c Blunden
Creator(s): Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)()
Date(s): c.1930-1958
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 envelopes held in 1 folder (14 ff.); manuscript.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8517
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Comprises ten autograph manuscript poems by Edmund Blunden, partly dated between ca. 1930 and 1958. All but one bear the author's signature. Most of them are working copies with many revisions to the text. They comprise the following titles: 'Recollections of Christ's Hospital' (ca. 1930), 'Poem for Lamb Commemoration, 1935', 'A river in Japan', 'Interrupted reading, Chung-Chau', 'In the beginning', 'St John's Review (Hong Kong Cathedral)', 'Timber', 'Morning, 1943', 'A day' (1955), and 'A word to sadness' (Feb. 1958).
Additional items added October 2017:
Five autograph manuscript poems by Edmund Blunden, with the following titles: 'A Medical Inspection, 1841 (John Clare)', 'The Season Reopens', 'The Sussex Downs', 'To Spring', 'Picardy in Autumn'.
Three letters and one postcard from Blunden to 'Mr Lindley', discussing poetry, cricket, and the death of Siegfried Sassoon [dated 11 Jul 1965 - 1 Nov 1967].
Ten letters and two postcards from Blunden to E. Clayton Jones Esq, M.D. [30 Apr 1952 - 8 Apr 1962], discussing poetry, Hong Kong, and an article Blunden is writing about the death of Leigh Hunt's son [in the correspondence Blunden refers to a collection of letters written by Leigh Hunt to Dr. George Bird in 1851/52: these letters partly form the collection BC MS 19c Hunt]. With a manuscript draft of Blunden's article about Hunt's son, titled 'A Case of Consumption, 1852', annotated in pencil by Clayton Jones.
Also press cuttings relating to Blunden.
Biography or history
Edmund Charles Blunden (1896-1974), the poet, teacher, critic, and biographer. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography.
Provenance
Correspondence to Dr Edward Clayton Jones, ms copy of 'A Case of Consumption' and five ms poems purchased from Quaritch/Sotheby in July 1995, lot no. 247.
Accession Register no. B247829 - B247842
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