Correspondence between P.A. Spalding and E.A. Preyre (writing from Paris and Tangier), arranged in one sequence, 1956-89 (no letters 1963-6), with unpublished transcript entries by Preyre for his work La doute librateur.
Correspondence between P.A. Spalding and E.A. Preyre
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. c. 5379-80
- Dates of Creation
- 1956-89
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 2 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Philip Anthony Spalding (1911-89) was at Balliol College, Oxford, 1930-3; lived in London, 1933-8, and moved to Churt (in Surrey) in 1938, the year of his marriage to Edna Brown, ne Young. Of independent means, Spalding devoted much of his life to reading and writing, and considered his diary to be his most important written work. His published work includes A Reader's Handbook to Proust (London, 1952), some volumes of verse and prose, and Self-Harvest, a study of diaries and the diarist (London, 1949).
mile Alexis Preyre (fl 1956-89) was the author of Le doute librateur: exprience sceptique, exprience mystique (1971).
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Given to the Library, 1992-3.
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