Housman, Alfred Edward, (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar

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Surname:	Housman
Forenames:	Alfred Edward
Gender:	Male
Date:	1859-1936
Biography:	ODNB link for Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P129541 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P14592 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Alfred Edward Housman

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	MSS and letters	University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
2	MSS and letters	Indiana University: Lilly Library	Housman mss
3	1888-91: diaries	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 45861, 54349
4	lecture notes	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add 6874-6902
5	1906-39: poetical notebooks and papers	Library of Congress, Manuscript Division		See NUC MS 82-1183
6	1922-58: corresp and literary MSS (157 items)	Columbia University Libraries: Rare Book and Manuscript Library		See NUC MS 65-1195
7	1920-22: ms poems and misc corresp	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum		See HMC visit, JRS 1992
8	1870-1936: corresp, diaries and misc papers	Bryn Mawr College Library	M57	See NUC MS 92-407
9	1935-47: Proof copies of Three poems, with related correspondence from Housman to R W Chambers and Geoffrey Tillotson, 1935; draft of Tillotson's 'The public of Housman's comic poems'; covering letters from Tillotson to Charles Sisson (Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL, 1928-1951) and from Charles Sisson to Sir David Pye, 1947	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	MS ADD 164
10	1922-60: Manuscript poem (photocopy) 'Nonae novembres' by Housman, with related correspondence from General Sir Henry Jackson to Otto Skutsch (1960); letter from Housman to Sir Henry Jackson, Vice-Master of Trinity College Cambridge, 1921, with the manuscript poem 'Loveliest of	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	MS ADD 167
11	literary executor's papers	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	MS ADD 200
12	1875-1901: letters (16) to his stepmother	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	MS ADD 126	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
13	1911-36: letters (48) to his sister, Katherine Symons	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library		See Friends of the National Libraries Annual Report 1961
14	1930-35: corresp (10 items), mainly with EH Blakeney; literary MSS	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 48980
15	1918-29: corresp with Robert Bridges	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Dep Bridges	NRA 25413
16	1903-35: letters (30) to Witter Bynner	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See NUC MS 81-555
17	1911-34: letters to FM Cornford	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 58427
18	1910-35: letters to Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson	University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, University Collections and Museums Directorate		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
19	1900-22: letters to Gilbert Murray	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Gilbert Murray
20	1900-30: letters (11) to Mildred Platt	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	MS ADD 165	See Manuscript collections 1978
21	1927-36: corresp with the Richards Press	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 44923-4
22	1898-1930: letters (15) to the Richards and Ashburner families	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections		See Accessions to Repositories 1975
23	1926-33: letters to Sir Sydney Roberts (19)	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Add.9784	NRA 44770
24	1926-33: letters (25) to Sir Sydney Roberts	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Add.7735	NRA 44020
25	letters to Sir William Rothenstein	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See NUC MS 82-665
26	1934-35: corresp with Society for Protection of Science and Learning	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	SPSL	NRA 31126
27	1919-35: letters to Percy Withers and family	Oxford University: Somerville College		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
28	letters (120)	University of Illinois Library, Urbana		See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
29	typescript biography by RP Graves	Oxford University: St John's College Library		See HMC Housman corresp file, 10.7.1979
30	c1903-15: (copy) notebook 'Characteristic Objurgations saved up for future use'	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 1662
31	1927-1936: ms poem and letters (58) to Gerald Jackson	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	Acc. No. 2016/4	See Annual Return 2016
32	1925-36: letters to William Hugh Semple	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library	Add.ms.a.614	See Annual Return 2020