Edmund Blunden: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974 Title: Edmund Blunden Papers Dates: 1909-1970, undated Extent: 95 boxes (39.90 linear feet), 10 galley folders (gf), 7 oversize folders (osf) Abstract: World War I British poet and English professor Edmund Blunden’s papers consist almost entirely of materials acquired from him during his lifetime. Nearly all of Blunden’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction is represented in the Works series. Among the most extensive correspondences are those of fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon, publisher Rupert Hart-Davis, second wife Sylva Norman, and literary agent A. D. Peters. Four indexes (for Works, Letters, Recipients, and Miscellaneous) follow the Container List and provide more detailed access to the contents of these papers. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-0426 Language: The bulk of the collection is in English , with some materials in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Welsh. Access: Open for research. Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to the Materials Use Policy before using archival materials. Use Policies: Ransom Center collections may contain material with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. 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For more information please see the Ransom Centers' Open Access and Use Policies. Administrative Information Preferred Edmund Blunden Papers (Manusscript Collection MS-0426). Harry Citation Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Processed by: Joan Sibley and Richard Workman, 2018 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, 2 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Blunden, Edmund, Manuscript Collection MS-0426 1896-1974 Separated Material Sound Recordings were transferred to the Ransom Center's Sound Recording collection and are described individually in a list at the end of this finding aid and in a searchable database 3 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Blunden, Edmund, Manuscript Collection MS-0426 1896-1974 Series I. Works, 1914-1964, undated Unidentified: A-M Container 1.1 N-Z Container 1.2 Unpublished poems, 1921-1926, undated Container 1.3 Untitled: A-O Container 1.4 Articles: A-N Container 1.5 O-R Container 1.6 On English literature, for Encyclopedia Britannica, 1950 Container 1.7 S-Z Container 1.8 Biography of Coleridge, undated Container 1.9 P-R Container 1.10 Poems: A-L Container 1.11 M-S Container 1.12 T-Z Container 1.13 S Container 1.14 Story, undated Container 2.1 T-Z Container 2.2 Work on Keats, undated Container 2.3 A-Ak Container 2.4 Addresses: 4 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Blunden, Edmund, Manuscript Collection MS-0426 1896-1974 A-R Container 2.5 S-Z Container 2.6 The after-fame of Keats, undated Container 2.7 Al-Ap Container 2.8 Anthologies, undated Container 2.9-10 Ar-Az Container 2.11 Aspects of Elizabethan drama, 1933 Container 2.12 Ba-Be Container 2.13 A battalion history, undated Container 3.1 Beliefs and speculations, undated Container 3.2 Bf-Bz Container 3.3 Container Biographical articles for Chambers’s Encyclopaedia, undated 3.4 The Bonaventure: Trefusis journal, 1922 Container 3.5 Ams with emendations, 1922 Container 3.6-7 Proof copy, 1922 Container 3.8 Container Brief notes on Taylor and Hessey’s London Magazine, undated 3.9 The British people, Ams with revisions, 1945 Container 3.10 The British people, Tccms, 1945 Container 4.1 Broadcasts: A-O Container 4.2 Calling all students series, 1942 Container 4.3 P-Z Container 4.4 Ca-Chd Container 4.5 5 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Blunden, Edmund, Manuscript Collection MS-0426 1896-1974 Charles Lamb, 1954 Container 4.6 Charles Lamb and his contemporaries, 1932 Container 4.7 Charles Lamb: Milton annotations, undated Container 4.8 Charles Lamb’s School, undated Container 4.9 Che-Cl Container 4.10 Choice or chance / Small poems, signed Ams / incomplete with emendations, in Container notebook, undated 4.11 Choice or chance, signed composite A and Tms and printed / incomplete with Container emendations, undated 4.12 Christ’s Hospital, 1923 Container 4.13 Christ’s Hospital: A retrospect, undated Container 5.1-5 Christ’s Hospital celebrations, 1953 Container osf 1 Circe penitent, undated Container 5.6 Co-Col Container 5.7 Coleridge, 1914 or 1915 Container 5.8 Com-Cz Container 5.9 Country childhood, 1964 Container 5.10 Cricket country: Early version, 1943 Container 6.1 First full draft, 1943 Container 6.2-5 Container Signed composite A, T, and Tccms with emendations, 1943 6.6-7 Container gf Galley proofs with A emendations and corrections, 1944 3 Critics and criticism, approximately 1933 Container 6.8-9 Da-Dd Container 7.1 6 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Blunden, Edmund, Manuscript Collection MS-0426 1896-1974 De-Dn Container 7.2 The dede of pittie, 1953 Container 7.3 Diaries: 1917 Container 7.4 1924 Container 7.5 'Hawstead Place,' 1930 Container 7.6 1930 Container 7.7 1931 Container 7.8 1933 Container 7.9 1934, 1936 Container 7.10 1935 Container 7.11 1937-1938 (Oxford University pocket diary) Container 8.1 1937-1938 ('Conto-Buch') Container 8.2 1938-1939 Container 8.3 1939-1940 Container 8.4 1940 Container 8.5 1940-1942 Container 8.6 Unbound leaves, undated (World War II) Container 8.7 Do-Dz Container 8.8 Ea-Eh Container 9.1 Early Victorian poets, 1938 Container 9.2 Ei-Em Container 9.3 Eighteenth-century poetry: Lectures, 1924 Container 9.4 An Elegy and other poems, 1937 Container 9.5 Elia and Christ’s Hospital, undated Container 9.6 7 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Blunden, Edmund, Manuscript Collection MS-0426 1896-1974 En-Er Container 9.7 Container 9.8, English letter writers: Lectures, undated 10.1-3 English poems, 1924-1925 Container 10.4 English villages, 1941 Container 10.5 Es-Ew Container 10.6 Ex-Ez Container 10.7 Fa-Fd Container 10.8 The face of England, approximately 1932 Container 10.9-10 Fe-Fn Container 10.11 Fo-Fz Container 10.12 Container Fragments of reviews, articles, and lectures, undated 10.13 Ga-Gn Container 11.1 Go-Gz Container 11.2 Ha-Hh Container 11.3 Halfway house, 1930 Container 11.4 Hi-Hz Container 11.5 Container History of Hong Kong University: Contributions, undated 11.6 A Hong Kong house, 1961 Container 11.7 Ia-Im Container 11.8 In-Iz Container 11.9 Indications of Keats, 1958-1959 Container 11.10 Introductions: A-M Container 11.11 8 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Blunden, Edmund, Manuscript Collection MS-0426 1896-1974 Container And epilogue to the autobiography of B. R. Haydon, 1928, undated 11.12 And notes and appendix for Poetry Bookshelf Selected poems of Alfred Lord Container Tennyson, 1958 12.1 Container Methuen edition of Thomson’s City of dreadful night, 1932 12.2 N-Z Container 12.3 Smart’s Hymns, undated Container 12.4 J Container 12.5 Ka-Kh Container 12.6 Keats, school edition, undated Container 12.7 Keats’s letters, undated Container 12.8 Container Keats’s publisher: A memoir of John Taylor, approximately 1940 12.9-10, 13.1-2 Ki-Kz Container 13.3 La-Len Container 13.4 The landscape, undated Container 13.5 Lecture: A-F Container 13.6 And miscellaneous notes and questions on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Container undated 13.7 Container Composition, inspiration and a few words on revision, undated 13.8 G-L Container 13.9 John Milton: Areopagitica (1644), undated Container 13.10 M-N Container 13.11 O Container 14.1-3 9 , Family Name OR a Corporate Name REMOVE UNUSED TAGS--> Blunden, Edmund, Manuscript Collection MS-0426 1896-1974 On balloons, 1941 Container 14.4 On Tennyson’s In memoriam, undated Container 14.5 P-R Container 14.6 S Container 14.7 T Container 14.8 The figurative art in the English poets, undated Container 14.9 The poem and the dream, undated Container 14.10 The poets of the English church, 1932 Container 14.11 Container The poet’s universe exemplified in Shakespeare, Shelley and Hardy, 1948 14.12 U-Z Container 14.13 War perjury, undated Container 14.14 Lectures: A-N Container 14.15 In English literature, 1924-1926 Container 15.1 In Tokyo Imperial University, 1924-1927 Container 15.2-3 O-R Container 15.4 On criticism, 1954-1957 Container 15.5 On eighteenth