Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907–1973, W.H. Auden letter to Simon Nowell-Smith, 1939 January 3
- Call Number:
- MSS 59
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907–1973
- Title(s):
- W.H. Auden letter to Simon Nowell-Smith
- Date:
- 1939 January 3
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 11
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939, Gallup's collecting of Edward Lear material is described in: Gallup, Donald C. "Collecting Edward Lear." The Yale University Library Gazette 61, no. 3/4 (1987): 125-42. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40858913. And in: Wilcox, Scott. Edward Lear and the art of travel. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2000.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Auden thanks Nowell-Smith for the proofs of Auden's poem, “Edward Lear,” for publication in the March 25, 1939, issue of the <title>Times Literary Supplement</title> (Spring Books supplement). Auden requests that the line “his welcome was prodigious: a flower took his hat” be changed to read “How prodigious the welcome was: flowers took his hat.” The correction was not made.
- Additional Notes:
- Written in blue ink. No watermark. Addressed from: Hotel George Washington, 23rd Street & Lexington Ave, N.Y.C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 page) : autograph letter, signed ; 26 x 21 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence , Pen and ink drawings, and Lists
- Subject Terms:
- Description and travelMoore, Thomas, 1779-1852. By that lake, whose gloomy shore
- Associated Places:
- Mediterranean Region
- Associated People/Groups:
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973Nowell-Smith, Simon, 1909-1996
- Finding Aid Title:
- Edward Lear archive
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11283.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896667
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896667?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1