Peter Scupham: correspondence and papers

[Boxes 1-4]: Correspondence between Peter Scupham and Carola Braunholtz; school reports of Peter Scupham; unpublished poems by Peter Scupham; letters and poems sent to Peter Scupham by John Hadwen; letters from Peter Scupham to John Hadwen; settings by John Hopkins of poems by Peter Scupham; interviews and comments on poems by Scupham, by Anthony Glover; other early (1950s) letters to Peter Scupham from National Servicemen; correspondence respecting Scupham's poems 'A masculine pastoral'; correspondence from Glen Cavaliero, Robert Nye, Robert Wells, Margi Blunden , John Fuller, U. A. Fanthorpe, Michael Cullup, John Cotton, D. J. Enright, Lawrence Sail, John Press, Anne Stevenson and P. J. Kavanagh. [Boxes 5-9]: material donated August 2012: poetry notebooks; correspondence relating to publishers (OUP, Anvil, Carcanet, et al., and in particular relating to the discontinuation of the OUP poetry list); correspondence relating to Giles Scupham; cuttings book; general correspondnce, including postcards, the correspondents including Anne Stevenson, Ann Thwaite, Anthony Thwaite, Peter Davidson, Robert Wells, P. J. Kavanagh, Clive Wilmer, and many others; two TSS of collections of poems by Glen Cavaliero; speeches delivered in Emmanuel College debates, c. 1955.

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Donated by Peter Scupham and Carola Braunholtz, July 2011; further donations by Peter Scupham, August 2011; and October 2011 (letters from Scupham to John Hadwen); and November 2011 (two poetical notebooks of Peter Scupham); and August 2012 (two poetry notebooks; correspondence relating to publishers (OUP, Anvil, Carcanet, et al.); correspondence relating to Giles Scupham; cuttings book; general correspondnce, including postcards; two TSS of collections of poems by Glen Cavaliero; speeches in Emmanuael College debates, c. 1955);

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

A diary of Hermann Justus Braunholtz is held as CUL MS Add.9845. Literary papers of Peter Scupham and records of the Mandeville Press are held in the British Library, London, as Add. MSS Add 70787-70826.