I still hope to be there, though I am not so sanguine as I should like to be.
Housman declines to copy out verses for Rubin, but has sent a "reproduction of a recent drawing of me. Housman declines to send in a contribution to Rubin's magazine. I do not remember that any of them suffered in consequence, and I do not suppose that yours will either. Housman grants permission to set one of his poems to music. Housman agrees to sign books for her if she sends them "in a way which will make it easy Thanks Secker for a book he has sent, but refuses to autograph copies of a lecture, "and also of a more recent one which you may have heard of [The Name and Nature of Poetry], because I do not think well enough of them.
Gives Shafer permission to print selected poems from Last poems but "on the condition that you do not print more than five poems from A Shropshire Lad.
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To his colleague and former pupil, Housman sends thanks for a book of verses. Housman discusses mutual acquaintances from Bromsgrove School and mentions finishing an edition of Manilius. Encloses an application for membership in the Society of Authors. Housman refuses to grant the British Broadcasting Company permission to broadcast readings from his poems. Agrees to a time to sit for his photographic portrait by Spicer-Simson, Jul Housman says he refuses permission to publish his poems in anthologies, however, "they are not copyright in America, so that I have no power over them and no right to object if they are printed there.
Regarding Stevens's Twelve poems, Housman writes: Gives Taylor permission to publish 3 poems from A Shropshire Lad. Regarding Warren's lecture on Virgil and his candidacy for chair of the Greek department. Tells Wheelock "I am obliged by your kind letter, but it is very unlikely that I shall ever publish another book. Responds to a query: It was published in The Cambridge Review some years before.
In the seventeen letters in this folder and the next, Housman replies to the collector's questions on A Shropshire Lad "Any attempt to dramatize [it] will be prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law" and Last Poems, refuses requests for signatures and speaking engagements, thanks Wilson for various gifts, and discusses matters of health. To an old family friend, Housman writes: I shall go there permanently at the end of September.
Also contains a typed copy and explanation of the "cold" poem in this letter, "Sunday". Though he is reluctant to refuse her request, Housman declines to sign Woods's copy of A Shropshire Lad. Housman proposes a Latin inscription, probably for a tombstone: He also responds to requests for his signature and for permission to reprint verses in anthologies. In responding to an invitation to lecture, Housman declines but answers biographical questions and states that a second edition of his Juvenal is forthcoming Folder also contains typed carbon copy of the ALS from Cambridge.
This series is divided into three subseries: Contains letter from Clemens on front. Folder contains 13 letters by writers and others involved in the literary world. Letters appear to be responses to inquiries made by Martin regarding each writer's personal knowledge or impression of Housman. Writers of note include W. AMs, Fragments and drafts. Housman, Trinity College Cambridge". Typescript with notes, "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy" With note at top: AMs, "Verses for Mrs. Woolbright" Verses accompanied by signed note card to Mrs.
Woolbright with a birthday greeting. Title page includes note "John Sparrow, Oxford, " as if publisher. Opposite title page there is a signed note from John Sparrow to Houston Martin. See also Houston Martin Correspondence. Ms "Felan's Flowers" Manuscript with note: Poetry not in Housman's hand and unidentified verses. Includes typescript of letter in verse to his sister, Katherine Symons see Katherine Symons Correspondence , an unidentified work possibly in the hand of Lucy Agnes Housman, a copy of a work from The Name and Nature of Poetry, and a typescript fragment.
Robert Louis Stevenson tribute. One pamphlet and one clipping from The Academy of R. One printed by The Peter Pauper Press. Housman in a dream. One pamphlet contain signed dedication by John Carter to Seymour Adelman from Jubilee Address to King George V. Notes from auction catalog state that AEH's authorship was never officially acknowledged. Poems Set to Music.
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Red case stamped "Housman Folder also contains photograph copy of book and copy of entry in auction catalog on 25 July Contains extensive notes on, and quotations from, classical texts. Also contains notes and drafts towards the preface and text of Housman's edition of Manilius V, as well as for his lecture "The Name and Nature of Poetry" delivered in Notes, possibly in Housman's hand, noting differences between manuscripts and printed text.
Folder also includes letter to Adelman from producer. Note by John Carter regarding the original recipient of Seymour Adelman's autograph presentation copy of the first edition of A Shropshire Lad. Folder includes 5 poetic parodies of Housman's works. Poems are by [R. Folder includes various press releases and essays with information on Housman and the collection, and materials regarding a lecture by Cleanth Brooks on Housman.
Miscellaneous clippings, advertisements, auction notices, and notes. Includes report about a book that may have belonged to Housman that is now in the Bryn Mawr library. Contract with Grant Richards to publish Last Poems includes typescript and manuscript draft , Sept Contains poem "For My Funeral. Poetry by Witter Bynner, "H. Newspaper clipping, possibly from Evening Standard, on suicide of Henry Clarkson Maclean, rumored to be Housman's lover. Also contains similar list by secretary to publisher Grant Richards. Letter and list of students with photograph of tankard.
Published as frontispiece to Mayor's Twelve Cambridge Sermons. Copy of a letter by an Indian train passenger. Letter copied by Housman from Indian newspaper.
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Folder contains handwritten copy and typescript. AMs, pickled herring recipe. Folder also contains notes, clippings, brochures, and correspondence related to exhibition of the manuscript at the Grollier Club in Folder includes bookmarks, exhibition and lecture programs, and a typescript of an anonymous letter to the editor of the Journal of Education with a note by Housman. Housman thanks his brother for his comments on his own works, including Green Arras and Angels and Ministers.
AEH critiques LH's poetry and offers suggestions for improving meter etc. ALS fragment initials only n.
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I have not thanked you for the proofs of your play. It interested me, but I should not have thought it would interest most people, nor be effective on the stage. However, everyone who heard you was loud in praise of your reading It says a great deal for your conversational ascendancy that the incident took place, for in any other company those two boys would do the talking and not the listening.
AEH offers his criticism of a trilogy LH has sent him and wishes him a prosperous trip to America, adding "If they pay you in dollars you ought to come back rich. I have just flown to Paris and back, and I am never going by any other route, until they build the Channel Tunnel AEH describes the political situation, discussing the actions of Churchill, Chamberlain, and Balfour opining, "To represent Chamberlain as an injured man, and Balfour as a man who injured him, is like saying that Christ crucified Pontius Pilate.
AEH thanks LH for his Christmas present and adds "At our last feast I had the new Dean of Westminster next me, and he said he had long been wishing to thank me for the amusement he had derived from my writings, especially about Queen Victoria and her Ministers. So if I bring you money, you bring me fame.
AEH writes, "I rejoice that you have made a fortune. Do not squander it as you did the proceeds of the Englishwoman. Basil Housman letter to unidentified family member regarding a memorial service for GH. Letter written to his sister in the form of a humorous poem. Also includes a small cartoon by Housman. Housman thanks his sister "for your efforts to console me for being seventy" and for a portrait of their father, and discusses family news. Sarah Jane Housman signed drawings: Use checkboxes to select any of the filters that apply to this item. Personal and Family Materials. Powered by the DLA.
Bryn Mawr College Creator: Alfred Edward , Title: Housman papers Date [inclusive]: Housman soon began writing the series of poems which was eventually published as "A Shropshire Lad" in and later in ,"Last Poems" was published. In , he became the professor of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge where he taught for more than 30 years. Housman passed away from heart disease in April of This collection includes family related materials, notes on his famous lecture "The Name and Nature of Poetry", photographs, general correspondence and writings.
Use Restrictions The A. General note Writers organized alphabetically by last name. De La Mare, Walter, Drinkwater, John, , TLS, London photocopy , Oct ALS, London fragment, photocopy , n. Mackail - ALS, London, , TLS, Cambridge photocopy , n. General note Folder also includes empty envelope in Grant Richard's hand: General note Recipients organized alphabetically by last name.
Folder Photocopy of above, Dec The edition of I will not touch with a pair of tongs. Declines an invitation to lecture. Accepts invitation to dine, Jan Accepts invitation to dine, Nov 2. Clemens, Cyril see also Third Party Correspondence , Housman has returned proofs with corrections. Thanks Fleet for 2 volumes he has sent to Housman.
Custodial History note gift of Mrs. Gaselee, Sir Stephen, , Apologizes for being unable to pay a visit due to recent ill health, June. Quotations I do not write for anyone, even if they have been christened Alfred Housman. Thanks Mackail for a copy of Mackail's edition of a volume of Greek poetry.
What they produce is Large empty envelope, Oct Thanks Martin for her letter, Apr Housman is "pleased to serve as a reference. Housman, Professor of Latin. Owlett, Frederick Charles, Writes to say he must decline a dinner invitation. Telegram, Mar 4. Rubin, Arnold, , Housman critiques a poem that Rubin has sent him. Secker, Martin, , Slater, David, , Society of Authors, Wishes Squire well on his "enterprise" The London Mercury but declines to submit poems for publication therein, Aug Warren, Thomas Herbert, ALS, Bromsgrove, Apr 8. ALS, Oxford, Feb ALS, Oxford, Nov Provide feedback about this page.
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East Dane Designer Men's Fashion. Whether this is to justify his past career choices to Jackson by emphasising his poetic success, notwithstanding his 'trade' of professor of Latin or not, the letter is a fascinating document, particularly when combined with Housman's account to Pollard I. Yet this is certainly not the place to assess the content and consequences of Housman's letters as a whole.
The great diversity of the collection should nevertheless be noted. His correspondents range from the expected family members and close friends, men of letters and Classical academics British and international, although many epistles to the latter must have been lost through to publishers, composers and fanatical bibliophiles and bibliographers, of which Housman has enjoyed his fair share. It is true that much of the surviving correspondence reflects matters of trifling importance for learning more of the man.
Yet since the collection aims to document Housman's life as fully as possible, and since he had to wade through a quagmire of such tedious bureaucracy on almost a daily basis, that must needs be evidenced. The letters display a whole array of emotions--not least affection, generosity, sorrow and humility--and quickly dispel the commonly held monochrome image of Housman. I should of course advert to what we, as Classical scholars, learn for the first time from this collection.
The answer is, unfortunately, less exciting than one might expect. Although dozens of letters touching upon Classical topics are published here for the first time, there is disappointingly little of great interest. Those letters of primary Classical importance particularly Housman's responses to J. Mackail's comments on the first three volumes of his Manilius and his response to the young Otto Skutsch had mostly seen publication by Maas in Duff, two interesting letters to J.
Postgate on metrical matters and one to U. Knoche concerning the text of Juvenal. Do any new emendations appear here afresh? Only one in a letter of February 3, , to B. Housman overrides his previous approval of Peerlkamp's responsi at Hor. I think this falls below his typical excellence. It also surprised me to learn that Housman 'probably' believes I. All considered, the volumes do not contain much new material for Latin scholarship. Since Housman lived in a day when all manner of correspondence among the learned and literary world readily found an eager readership in print, and since many of the letters of his two great Classical ancestors at Trinity Bentley and Porson had been published and edited, I cannot believe that Housman did not occasionally have in mind readers of his letters other than their addressees.
He knew full well, particularly in his later years, his significant standing in both scholarship and poetry, and on occasion a hint of that Ciceronian concern as to what posterity could think peeps through his correspondence. Yet Housman's guard was so rarely down--save for between certain family members and his very closest acquaintances--that it perhaps makes little difference whether he envisaged a third party's encountering his letters.
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Indeed, Housman seems to bear with little shock the news that some of his numerous and often outspoken letters to G. Richards could be sold, by an unscrupulous bookseller, to the public, simply stating 'I do not think any of my letters are very incriminating' I. We may now turn to B. Each letter attempts to represent the approximate layout of the manuscript, the location of which is also recorded, along with if appropriate its first place of publication and the page reference to Maas' edition.
Such references seem thorough, although a number of letters such as those to the Registrar of Trade Marks I. Henderson's chapter of Murray's unfinished autobiography London, I should here record what I regard as the most significant editorial shortcoming of the work which, though apparently minor, is sufficiently frustrating.
This is the decision not to number the letters consecutively, or indeed at all. It may have been the haphazard order in which the letters were inspected, or the late addition of some to the collection, that meant that such numbering would have been difficult. In the numerous places where more than one letter to the same addressee occurs on one page the date must also be supplied. Further, in extreme instances, one must talk of, e. For letters published on the same day, B. Indeed it is not, but on occasion good guesses can be made. For instance, it is most likely that of the two items sent to Grant Richards on February 22, II.
Not having ready access to the mss of Housman's letters that B. I have no reason to believe, however, that his diligence in this field does not match that exemplified in his celebrated edition of Housman's poetry Oxford, Certain mistaken transcriptions particularly of Latin and Greek are recorded in the corrections towards the end of this review. The standard of annotation is generally high throughout, with appropriate biographical information typically provided for individuals not mentioned in the initial index of recipients, and with suitable explanation of matters either recorded in letters to Housman or circumstantial at the time of writing.
The task of deciding when an annotation is appropriate is a difficult one, and an over-eager editor could have multiplied them to a wearying degree. It is only occasionally that one is left wanting an editorial note. For instance, Housman's loaded lament 'The caucus has gone wrong' at the close of a letter to S. Gaselee October 30, , I. To alert the reader to the possible force of this tart dismissal is part of an editor's brief. Similarly, in a postcard to Percy Simpson of March 2, I. It transpires that Simpson must have been asking Housman's opinion on his restorations to the fourth stanza of a Latin doggerel poem, preserved in a damaged ms pasted into the Jansson edition of Lucretius owned by Ben Jonson, whose works Simpson was editing.
At the close of a letter to J. Priestley of September 18, I. I have a great dislike and contempt' could be interested to learn that Manilius was a Stoic poet. Perhaps it would have been worth noting that the item was sold by Sotheby's on February 11 of that year and that the 'credulous lady' who sold it was Mrs Edith Hadley, wife of the then late master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Possibly the most significant editorial oversight, although it was easily made, is the attribution of the two stanzas of poetry in Housman's letter to E. Wise of Hilary Term I. Investigation proves that no one has yet realised the mistake. For it so happens that the former stanza 'White is the wold' and ff. Calverley's 'Dirge' first published and the latter 'Dever bore bedeath the bood' is from lines of H. Cholmondeley-Pennell's 'Lay of the Deserted Influenzed' first published The former Housman will have picked up from his general reading of Calverley referred to in the letter as simply 'the poet', which B.
Papillon's 'Manual of Comparative Philology' Oxford, etc. Housman's version is identical to Papillon's. I may also observe, as has not yet been recorded, that Housman was evidently familiar with this work of Papillon, since he parodies the latter's etymologising in verses of his satirical poem of , 'The Eleventh Eclogue' p. The notations concerning authorial cancellations and editorial supplements may be confusing to Classical scholars, since angle brackets denote Housman's deletions and square brackets editorial additions.
Epigraphers and papyrologists will, of course, be less misled.