Keepsakes Presented to John Masefield

Keepsakes presented to John Masefield, consisting of:

• Illuminated address from the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, Australia, 1924
• Album of photographs of the headquarters of the National Book League, and of events organised by the League, 1945-9

John Edward Masefield (1878-1967) was a poet. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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The collection was given to the Library by Sir Basil Blackwell in 1972.

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 44146-7.

See also Papers of John Masefield (MSS. Eng. poet. d. 194-5, e. 116-21; Eng. lett. c. 255; Eng. misc. d. 657-8, e. 602, f. 398) and Papers of John Masefield Relating to the Battle of the Somme (MSS. Eng. misc. e. 670, g. 77).