Works of Walter de la Mare

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Don. c. 61, e. 8
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1921-33
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Works of Walter de la Mare, consisting of:

  • Draft of 'The memoirs of a midget', published, London, 1921
  • Fair copies, June 1933, of two poems 'Speech' and 'Snowing', printed in Poems, 1919 to 1934 (London, 1935)

Administrative / Biographical History

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was an author and poet. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The papers were given to the Library by the author, through the Friends of the Bodleian, in 1933 and 1939.

Note

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

Other Finding Aids

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. 38851-2.