MS 447 02
Reference code
MS 447 02
Title
L. H. Myers papers: Writings
Level
Series
Administrative / Biographical history
L. H. Myers wrote The Orissers (1922), The Clio (1925), and a sequence of novels set in India, collected in Britain under the title The Near and the Far and in the United States as The Root and the Flower.
Date
1920-1940
Extent & medium
2 boxes
Content description
Writings contains works by L. H. Myers and others. A typescript poem by Myers, 'Arthur and Percy, or Thoughts in a College Garden' about Arthur Christopher Benson and Percy Lubbock is accompanied by a letter to Peter [Harrison] from Myers dated 'Xmas day 1918'. A typescript short children's story possibly by Myers, corrected in Myers's hand, is entitled 'Story of Timmy (or, The Rat's Sixth Revenge)'. There are two typescript playscripts of "The Orissers": one a corrected typescript, the other a later typescript and autograph draft, as well as a typescript and autograph summary of Act III. There are also two typescript lectures about L. H. Myers by G. H. Bantock and corrected typescripts of parts III-V of Human Living by Olaf Stapledon.
Provenance
Acquired by purchase.
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