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Dorothy Craigie papers, 1960-1966
0.5 linear feetCorrespondence, notes, and proofs relating to the publication of VICTORIAN DETECTIVE FICTION compiled by Graham Greene, Eric Osborne, and Dorothy Craigie under the name of Dorothy Glover. Of primary interest is the correspondence from Graham Greene to Eric A. Osborne regarding the bibliography; also in Greene's hand are several notes and corrected galleys for the publication. There are also correspondence and notes by Osborne and Glover, and Greene's secretary Josephine Reid.
Edmund Blunden papers, 1922-1986
8 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed material of the English poet and critic, Edmund Blunden, documenting his personal and professional activity. Blunden's letters to his second wife, Sylva Norman, and his secretary, Aki Hayashi, are particularly well represented. Also included are many letters addressed to Blunden by eminent literary figures such as John Betjeman, George Orwell, Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Spender, and Henry Williamson. Other literary correspondents are Adrian Bell, Joyce Cary, Richard Church, C. Day Lewis, Walter de la Mare, Graham Greene, H.D., William Plomer, Kathleen Raine, and Leonard Woolf. A substantial portion of the cataloged correspondence contains drawings, verse fragments and poems by Blunden which have been analyzed. Also present are eleven of Blunden's diaries, 1936-1967, which contain drafts of a number of poems. In addition, the collection contains a small number of autograph manuscripts of Edmund Blunden's literary works.