Box 1
Container
Contains 112 Results:
Outgoing Correspondence , 1876-1936
Series — Multiple Containers
Dates:
1876-1936
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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A.E. Housman papers
"Thank you for your letter; but A Shropshire Lad is not copyright in The United States and you need no permission from me.", 1927 Apr 25
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
1927 Apr 25
Housman lists Greek translations he has published and where they have been published with page numbers., 1927 Dec 15
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
1927 Dec 15
Housman thanks Adelman for his gift of a map of Shropshire "as it was in 1811" There is a penciled notation on the back of this letter, not in AEH's hand, "Housman wrote this letter the day after he served as a pall-bearer at Thomas Hardy's funeral in Westminster Abbey, together with Shaw, Barrie, Kipling and Galsworthy.", 1928 Jan 17
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
1928 Jan 17
"I can no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat; but he knows a rat when he comes across one", 1928 May 6
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
1928 May 6
"A Shropshire Lad was published while Mr. Wilde was in prison, and when he came out I sent him a copy myself. Robert Ross told me that when he visited his friend in jail he learnt some of the poems by heart and recited them to him...", 1928 Jun 21
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
1928 Jun 21
Housman discourages Adelman from publishing a limited edition of his Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, saying he would "do everything in my power to thwart." and notes that he suspects the autograph version Adelman has purchased is not genuine and encourages him to compare his handwriting on the letter to that of the other., 1929 Mar 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
1929 Mar 16
"The supposed autograph is not mine. It is a copy, not quite accurate, from The Bromsgrovian; and the date is wrong.", 1929 Apr 7
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
1929 Apr 7
"Thank you for sending me the Fragment, which I have put in the fire, though I don't think it was meant for a forgery. I must have written the Fragment three or four times for the various magazines in which it was printed, but I do not know that any of the MSs survives.", 1929 Apr 28
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
1929 Apr 28
