Letters and photographs of Louis MacNeice

Letters and photographs of Louis MacNeice including:

• letters from Louis MacNeice to his family, 1911-40, n.d.
• two inscriptions to Mary Beazley (later MacNeice), apparently torn from an unidentified printed book
• a copy of the inscription in A.T. Quiller-Couch early English Lyrics (Arch. H e. 144)
• a list compiled by MacNeice's father, J.F. MacNeice, of schools and colleges attended by his children, and childhood illnesses and vaccinations, n.d. (but no entries later than 1938)
• a photographic triptych of Louis and Elizabeth MacNeice, [1910], with a studio portrait by Glaman of MacNeice, probably taken when he was an undergraduate, c. 1926-9.

Louis MacNeice (1907-63) was a poet and dramatist.

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Bought with Arch. H e. 144, from Didi Hopkins, and given to the Library by the Friends of the Bodleian in 1997.

Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.