Harold Monro papers, circa 1910-1935

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Summary

Creators:
Monro, Harold
Abstract:
Harold Edward Monro (1879-1932) founded Samurai Press, founded and edited the Poetry Review (1912), Poetry and Drama (1913-14) and the Monthly Chapbook (1919), and founded the Poetry Bookshop (1913). Although he is better known as an editor than a poet, he wrote and published poetry as well. The collection contains correspondence relating to the Poetry Bookshop and literary circles in London with which Harold Monro was associated as well as manuscripts by Monro and a few manuscripts of other authors.
Extent:
4.0 Linear Feet (8 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English and French.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Harold Monro Papers (Collection 745). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains correspondence relating to the Poetry Bookshop and literary circles in London with which Harold Monro was associated. Correspondents include T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forester, John Galsworthy, A.E. Houseman, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, and Ezra Pound. Collection also includes manuscripts by Monro as well as a few manuscripts of other authors. Contains a poem in French by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti titled, Bombardement d'Andrinople.

This is a collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera of Harold Monro, London author, editor, publisher and bookseller. The correspondence, ca. 1910-1935, is addressed variously to Harold Monro or to his wife, Alida Klamantaski, and pertains to matters touching the Poetry Bookshop, poetry readings there, contributions to the periodicals published by Monro, as well as serious literary criticism, and aesthetics.

Monro's activities during those early years of the 20th Century were devoted to the support of modern literary movements, and the list of correspondents includes such recognized names as Walter De La Mare, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Edward Morgan Forster, John Galsworthy, Gordon Craig, Alfred Edward Housman, D.H. Iawrence, Amy Lowell, Wyndham Lewis, John Masefield, Alfred Noyes, Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell, Alec Waugh, Virginia Woolf, and William Butler Yeats, and Ezra Pound.

The correspondence ranges alphabetically through the first three boxes, and totals ca. 1500 items.

Biographical / historical:

Harold Edward Monro was born on March 14, 1879, St. Gilles, Belgium; educated at Radley, 1892-96, and Cambridge, 1898-1901; married Dorothy Elizabeth Browne, 1903; founded Samurai Press and published first book, Proposals for a Voluntary Nobility (1907); moved to London, 1911; founded and edited the Poetry Review, 1912; founded the Poetry Bookshop, 1913, where he met Alida Klementaski, who later became his second wife after his first marriage was dissolved in 1916; began poetry readings at Poetry Bookshop which continued up through the time of Monro's death; founded and edited Poetry and Drama (1913-14) and the Monthly Chapbook (1919); although better known as an editor than a poet, he continued to write and publish poetry, and The Collected Poems of Harold Monro was published in 1933; died after an extended illness, 1932.

Acquisition information:
G.F. Sims, purchase, 1961. Beryl Sims, purchase, 1961. Alida Monro, purchase, 1961.
Processing information:

Processed by Manuscripts Division staff.

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Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

  1. Correspondence (Boxes 1-3).
  2. Manuscripts (Boxes 4-8).

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Letters by T.S. Eliot may not be copied without the permission of Mrs. T.S. Eliot.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Harold Monro Papers (Collection 745). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
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Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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