Manuscripts of poetic and dramatic
works, a large number of notebooks, and some correspondence document the life
and
work of British writer Louis MacNeice.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection
MS-02632
Language:
English
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Processed by:
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Note:
This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a
card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for
information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the
abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
Manuscripts of poetic and dramatic works, a large number of notebooks, and some
correspondence document the life and work of British writer Louis MacNeice. All
periods of MacNeice's life and work are represented, but most of his outgoing
correspondence is from his school years at Sherborne Preparatory School, Marlborough
College, and Merton College, Oxford.
Most of the papers were purchased by the Ransom Center from collector T. E. Hanley,
primarily in 1964, but also in 1958 and in a later acquisition; other material
was
subsequently acquired from MacNeice family members.
Two boxes of materials that were acquired in 2013 (Acquisition 13-11-002-P) included
material that had previously been on loan at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. These
materials have been arranged in this finding aid according to the Ransom Center's
usual procedures, but the folders have also been marked with their previous box
and
folder numbers in parentheses on the right edge, for the convenience of users
who
may have worked with them at the Bodleian.
Researchers interested in the correspondence may find especially useful a letter from
MacNeice's sister, Elizabeth Nicholson, in which she supplies identifications
for
many of his correspondents.
