Spender, Sir Stephen Harold, (1909-1995), Knight, poet

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Surname:	Spender
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	Stephen Harold
Gender:	Male
Date:	1909-1995
Title:	Knight
History:	Poet and critic. Professor of English. Fighter in the Spanish Civil War. Knighted 1983.
Biography:	ODNB link for Spender, Sir Stephen Harold (1909-1995) Knight, poet
References:	Who Was Who; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P275844 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P155537 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Stephen Harold Spender

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1945-1949: Professor J T Randall: 1947 tour to Switzerland, 1948 tour to Norway, lecturing on...	The National Archives, Kew	BW 83/6
2	literary papers	State University of New York: Buffalo State College		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
3	papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections		See Annual Return 2010
4	literary papers	University of California Library, Berkeley		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
5	1928-63: letters (138) from TS Eliot	Northwestern University Archives	TS Eliot Correspondence Collection
6	1926: MS of poem 'The Self-Unfeigning'	Oxford University: University College Archives	UC:P 197	NRA 30229 Univ Coll Oxford
7	notebooks (5)	University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library		See Creative Century exhibition catalogue, 1964
8	account by Spender of errors and misreadings in Hugh David's "Stephen Spender: a portrait with background" (1992)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 71250	See Annual Return 1994
9	1938: literary MSS	Wichita State University Library		See NUC MS 92-3167
10	1934-70: corresp, literary MSS and papers (20 items)	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See NUC MS 83-987
11	1950-63: corresp and literary MSS	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University		See NUC MS 92-2776
12	additional papers incl material rel to Natasha Spender and Ray Litvin	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	6647	See Annual Return 2011
13	1951: address on European unity	London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections	Rhys Williams Papers/6/7/1	NRA 41138
14	1928-73: letters, etc to WH Auden	New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Division	Berg Coll MSS Auden
15	1939-76: corresp with Lord Clark	Tate Gallery Archive	TGA 8812	NRA 32463 Clark
16	1956-62: corresp with Victor Gollancz	Warwick University: Modern Records Centre	MS 157	NRA 40639
17	1941-75: corresp (56 items) with Sir Julian Huxley	Rice University: Woodson Research Center	Julian S Huxley papers	NRA 27261
18	corresp with Christopher Isherwood	Huntington Library		See The Times 11/5/99
19	letters to Elizabeth Jennings	Georgetown University: Special Collections, Lauinger Library		See Descriptive Catalog 1996 p84
20	1967-1984: letters to Jack W Lambert	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS. Eng. c. 2330	NRA 41271
21	1972-80: letters (24) to the London Magazine	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
22	1930-88: letters (11) to GHW Rylands, incl some draft poems	Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre	Rylands Papers/3/398	NRA 42463 Rylands
23	1954-58: corresp (12 items) with JB Singer	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc 5083 5145 5510	NRA 29127 Singer
24	c1940-69: corresp (28 items) with Leonard Woolf	Sussex University Library Special Collections	SxMs 13/Pt III	NRA 42924
25	c1930-39: corresp (12 items) with Virginia and Leonard Woolf	Sussex University Library Special Collections	SxMs 18/Letters II-III	NRA 19479 Woolf
26	1960: correp and statements rel to trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover	Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections	DM 1679	NRA 39438
27	1924-1995: collected journalism	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89233	See Annual Return 2017