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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Harold Monro papers
Creator:
Monro, Harold
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0745
Physical Description:
4.0 Linear Feet
(8 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1910-1935
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.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English and French.
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Letters by T.S. Eliot may not be copied without the permission of Mrs. T.S. Eliot.
[Identification of item], Harold Monro Papers (Collection 745). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- G.F. Sims, purchase, 1961.
- Beryl Sims, purchase, 1961.
- Alida Monro, purchase, 1961.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9924702573606533
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.
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.
Expanded Scope and Content Note
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.
Arranged in the following series:
- Correspondence (Boxes 1-3).
- Manuscripts (Boxes 4-8).
Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online:
Harold Monro Papers (1 item) .
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Archives.
Marinetti, F.T.
Monro, Harold -- Archives
Poetry Bookshop