Letters from Edmund Blunden to A.H. Buck

Collection Level Description: Letters from Edmund Blunden to A.H. Buck

Reference: MSS. Eng. lett. c. 410; MS. Facs. b. 83
Title: Letters from Edmund Blunden to A.H. Buck
Dates of Creation: 1917-67
Extent: 2 shelfmarks
Name of Creator: Edmund Blunden

Language of Material: English

Administrative/Biographical History

Edmund Charles Blunden (1896-1974) was a poet, teacher, critic, and biographer.

Scope and Content

164 letters from Edmund Blunden, mainly to Archibald Hector Buck, 1917-67. Blunden and Buck had been schoolmates at Christ's Hospital in Horsham, Sussex.

At fol. 43 is a letter to Buck from Mary, first wife of Blunden, 1918. At fols. 175 and 269 are Christmas cards, 1936, 1955, with poems by Blunden. Additionally there is a xerox of a manuscript copy by Buck of the letters and cards of Blunden, with annotations.

Administrative Information

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased by the Library in 1976.

Access Conditions

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

Further Information

Finding Aids

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.

Publication Note

See Carol Z. Rothkopf and Barry Webb (eds.) More than a brother: correspondence between Edmund Blunden and Hector Buck, 1917-1967 (London, 1996).

Access Points

Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet

Buck | Archibald Hector | 1900-1987

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