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Letters to Jean MacVean

Archive File: MS 2211

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Letters to Jean MacVean

Level: File

Classmark: MS 2211

Creator(s): Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977); Merchant, W Moelwyn

Date(s): 9 Dec 1989 - 25 Aug 1990

Size and medium: 1 file

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/633993

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Four letters to Jean MacVean:

A typed letter from Keith Critchlow discussing volume 11 of 'Temenos' (25 Aug 1990).

Two manuscript letters from William Moelwyn Merchant discussing the poetry journal 'Agenda', and his book 'Fire from the Heights' (9 Dec 1988 - 23 Jun 1989).

A manuscript letter from Thomas Blackburn commenting on MacVean's poetry, and other matters (nd).

Biography or history

Jean MacVean (25 November 1916 - 3 May 1996) was a poet, playwright and novelist. She is well-known for editing 'The Adjacent Kingdom' (1988), a posthumous collection of Thomas Blackburn's poems.

Provenance

Letters purchased from Quaritch and Neate 2 July 1991.

Accessions Register no. B23287 - B23290

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