Preferred Citation:	Edward Lucie-Smith Collection (Manuscript Collection MS-02570). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
	Acquisition:	Purchases, 1964-1973 (R1452, R2793, unnumbered 1968 accession, R4074, R4973, R5411, unnumbered 1973 accession)
	Processed by:	Ada McClure and Joan Sibley, 2024. 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.

Repository:

Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

	The Edward Lucie Smith Collection contains manuscript works and notebooks, correspondence, and some personal papers of the Jamaican-born English poet and writer, art critic/historian, curator, and editor Edward Lucie-Smith, who was also a member of the London-centered poets known collectively as The Group. In addition to poetry, anthologies, and art criticism/history, the works also contain broadcasts, interviews, reviews, and translations.
	This collection was previously accessible only through a card catalog but has now been re-cataloged as part of a retrospective conversion project. The material remains as originally organized into four series: I. Works, 1949-1971 (boxes 1-11); II. Letters (Outgoing Correspondence), 1966-1969 (box 11); III. Recipients (Incoming Correspondence), 1957-1969 (boxes 12-21); and IV. Miscellaneous, 1965-1969 (boxes 21-23), with materials arranged alphabetically by title or author. See the Indexes for Works, Letters, Recipients, and Miscellaneous in this finding aid to identify additional titles of works and correspondent names present in this collection.
	The Works series documents Lucie-Smith’s career represented by his published output from 1964 to 1971, but also includes a notebook of early poems (1949-1951) and a scrapbook of published poems (1950-1957). The major manuscripts include his own poetry (Confessions and Histories and Egyptian Ode); anthologies edited (The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, A Choice of Browning’s Verse, The Liverpool Scene, The Penguin Book of Satirical Verse, and Primer of Experimental Poetry); art criticism/history (What Is a Painting?, Thinking about Art: Critical Essays, and Movements in Art Since 1945); and two translations (Jonah, by Paul de Dadelsen and Five Great Odes, by Paul Claudel). There are an additional 31 notebooks (1965-1967, most undated) as well as four poetry notebooks (1967-1969, one undated), and one prose notebook (1967).
	The majority of the Lucie-Smith Collection is his correspondence with a network of other poets and writers, artists, broadcasters, critics, colleges and universities, editors, little magazines and publishers, and other organizations. Best represented among the correspondents are the Arts Council of Great Britain, British Broadcasting Corporation, Doubleday and Company, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Adrian Henry, Philip Hobsbaum, George MacBeth, Oxford University Press, Pall Mall Press Ltd., Penguin Books Ltd., Rapp & Whiting Ltd., Peter Redgrove, Bernard Stone, Simon Watson Taylor, Anthony Thwaite, and Harry Weinberger. Also present are a few letters from Lucie-Smith’s mother Mary Frances Lushington Lucie-Smith.
	The Miscellaneous series contains personal and work-related items by Lucie-Smith, in addition to works by and correspondence between others. Present for Lucie-Smith are address and date/appointment books, lists, and notebooks as well as materials associated with three works (Movements in Art Since 1945, Holding Your Eight Hands: An Anthology of Science Fiction Verse, and The Penguin Book of Satirical Verse) plus one notebook on World War I which may be associated with the Edward Lucie-Smith War Poetry Collection held in the Ransom Center Library. Other persons represented by writings and/or correspondence in this series include Gaston Bart-Williams (born in Sierra Leone, but lived in Germany), Jacques Brunius, Philip Hobsbaum, George MacBeth, Peter Porter, Derek Prouse, Georg Rapp, John Russell Taylor, Anthony Thwaite, and Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, among others.

	See also additional Edward Lucie-Smith items in these collections at the Harry Ransom Center:
	Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records
	Zulfikar Ghose Collection
	James Gibson Let the Poet Choose Correspondence
	Gotham Book Mart Records
	Philip Hobsbaum Collection of Correspondence and Manuscripts of The Group
	John Lehmann Collection
	Derek Parker Collection
	PEN (Organization) Records
	Iain Sinclair Papers
	Charles Tomlinson Papers
	Eric Walter White Papers
	Louis Zukofsky Collection
	See also additional Edward Lucie-Smith holdings at The University of Maryland:
	Edward Lucie-Smith Papers
	Turret Books Records

	Book Collection: Edward Lucie-Smith War Poetry Collection (50 items).
	Photography Collection: Photo reproductions of art works (11 items).
	Sound Recordings Collection: Reel-to-reel audiotapes (6 items) of interviews with Henry Geldzahler, Howard Moss, Frank O’Hara, Harold Rosenberg, and Michael Tyzack.
	Vertical File Collection: Printed ephemera removed from books and manuscript holdings (60 folders).

Garfitt, Roger. "Edward Lucie-Smith." The Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 40, 1985.

	Subjects
		Art & Art History
		Literature: British and Irish