Finding Aid for the Harold Monro Papers LSC.0745
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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
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English and French.
Restrictions on Access
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Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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.
- G.F. Sims, purchase, 1961.
- Beryl Sims, purchase, 1961.
- Alida Monro, purchase, 1961.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
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.
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.
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.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Correspondence (Boxes 1-3).
- Manuscripts (Boxes 4-8).
Online Items Available
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Archives.
Marinetti, F.T.
Monro, Harold -- Archives
Poetry Bookshop
box 1
Abercrombie, Lascelles, 1881-1938.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 12 items.
box 1
Acton, Harold Mario Mitchell, 1904- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889- .
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 1
Ainslie, Douglas, 1865-1948.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Aldington, Mrs. Hilda Doolittle, 1886- .
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
General note
6 letters from H.D.; 2 letters to H.D.
box 1
Aldington, Richard, 1892- .
General Physical Description note: (4 folders) 134 items.
box 1
Alford, Edward John Gregory, 1890- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 18 items.
box 1
Anderson, John Redwood, 1883- .
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 1
Anrep, Boris.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 15 items.
box 1
Archer, William, 1856-1924.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Armstrong, Martin Donisthorpe, 1882- .
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 1
Austin, Alfred, 1835-1913.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Bard, Josef.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Barnett, Harry Villiers, 1858-1928.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Barry, Iris, 1895- .
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 1
Batterham, Eric N., 1898-1936.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Bax, Clifford, 1886- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 34 items.
box 1
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Birch, Frank, 1889- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Bithell, Jethro, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Bosanquet, Theodora, B.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Bosschére, Jean de, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Brown, Alec, 1900- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 16 items.
box 1
Bruno, Guido, 1884- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Bullen, Arthur Henry, 1857-1920.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Bullett, Gerald William, 1894- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items; and 1 photograph of Bynner inscribed to Monro.
box 1
Cammaerts, Émile.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Campbell, Archibald Young, 1885- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Campbell, Joseph, 1879- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
General note
Also, 1 from his wife, Nancy Campbell.
box 1
Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Carter, Huntley, d. 1942.
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 1
Chalmers, Patrick Reginald, 1872- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Chase, Lewis Nathaniel, 1873-1937.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Childe, Wilfrid Rowland, 1890- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Church, Richard, 1893- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Clarke, Amy Key.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 1
Cole, George Douglas Howard, 1889- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Cook, Harold Lewis.
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 1
Cook, Henry Caldwell, 1886-1939.
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 1
Coppard, Alfred Edgar, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Cowdroy, Joan Agnes, d. 1946.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Crow, Gerald H.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Cullis, Michael Fowler, 1914- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Cunnard, Nancy, 1896-1965.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Davidson, Edward.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 16 items.
box 1
Davies, Oliver.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Davies, William Henry, 1871-1940.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
de Bary, Mrs. Anna.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
De La Mare, Walter, 1873- .
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 1
Dent, Edward Joseph, 1876- .
General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 1
Deutsch, Babette, 1895- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Dobreé, Bonamy, 1891- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 21 items.
box 1
Dogdson, Campbell, 1867- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Doyle, Camilla.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 18 items.
box 1
Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937.
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 1
Dukes, Ashley, 1885- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Earle, Ferdinand.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 10 items.
box 1
Eden, Mrs. Helen (Parry) 1885- .
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 1
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 12 items.
box 1
Ellis, Vivian Locke.
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 1
Elton, Godfrey Elton, baron, 1892- .
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 1
Epstein, Margaret Gilmour Dunlop (Mrs. Jacob Epstein) d. 1947.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881- .
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 1
Flecker, Hellé (Mrs. James Elfroy).
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 1
Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1951.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 33 items.
box 1
Flint, Frank Stewart, 1885- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 17 items.
box 1
Ford, Madox Ford, 1873-1939. Also: Esther Ford.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 23 items.
box 1
Forster, Edward Morgan, 1879- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
General note
Abinger (n.d.).
box 1
Fox-Strangways, Arthur Henry, 1859- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890-1921.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Fraser, Ronald, 1888- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Freeman, John, 1880-1929.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Gale, Norman Rowland, 1862- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Gertler, Mark, 1892-1939.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 1
Gibbons, Stella, 1902- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 1
Gill, Eric, 1882-1940.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 1
Ginner, Charles, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Gollancz, Sir Israel, 1864-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Gosse, Sir Edmund William, 1849-1928.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 17 items.
box 1
Granville-Barker, Harley Granville, 1877-1946.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1
Graves, Alfred Perceval, 1846-1931.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1
Guthrie, James Joshua, 1874- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 10 items.
box 2
Halliday, Frank Wade, 1876- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Hare, Kenneth, 1888- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Harris, Frank, 1855-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Hart, Mabel.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 2
Haward, Lawrence, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2
Helston, John, 1877- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 15 items.
box 2
Heinemann, William, 1863-1920.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Herbert, Alan Patrick, 1890- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Herron, George Davis, 1862-1925.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2
Heseltine, Philip, 1894-1930.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2
Hewlett, Maurice Henry, 1861-1923.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Hinkson, Mrs. Katherine (Tynan) 1861-1931.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2
Hodgson, Ralph.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Holley, Horace, 1887- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item
box 2
Housman, Alfred Edward, 1859-1936.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren, 1900- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Hussey, Dyneley, 1893- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Gooden, Stephen, 1892-1955.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
General note
Letter to H.M., February 9, 1930. This letter is addressed to Dear Munro. Ex libris: W.O. Schneider, who describes it in his
list of prints as a letter to H. Munro.
box 2
Ingram, Kenneth, 1882- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Johnston, Edward, 1872- . Also: Gunnar Johnston.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 12 items.
box 2
Jones, David Michael, 1895- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Kauffer, Edward McKnight, 1891- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Knox, Edmund George Valpy, 1881- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 28 items.
box 2
Langdon-Davies, John, 1897- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Lawrence, David Herbert, 1885-1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Leslie, Shane, 1885- .
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 2
Levine, Isaac Don, 1892- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 16 items.
box 2
Lewis, Wyndham, 1886-1957.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 28 items.
General note
24 from W.L.; 4 H.M. carbons.
box 2
Lindsay, Jack, 1900- .
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 2
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 10 items.
box 2
Lysaght, Sydney Royse, d. 1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Macaulay, Rose.
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 2
MacDonagh, Thomas, 1878-1915.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
MacDougall, Allan Ross, 1893- .
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 2
Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
MacGill, Patrick, 1890- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Malleson, Miles, 1888- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Mallock, William Hurrell, 1849-1923.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Manning, Frederic.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 1876-.
Bombardement d'Andrinople
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 15 items.
box 2
Masefield, Mrs. Constance (Mrs. John Masefield).
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Masefield, John, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 2
Maynard, Theodore, 1890-1956.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Methuen, Sir Algernon Methuen Marshall, bart., 1856-1924.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 27 items.
box 2
Mew, Charlotte Mary, 1870-1928.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Meynell, Francis, 1891- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Meynell, Viola.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Milton, Ernest, 1892- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Moncreiff, Frederick Charles, 1847-1929.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Monkhouse, Allan, 1887- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 2
Moore, Marianne, 1887- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Moore, Thomas Sturge, 1870- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 50 items.
box 2
Nash, Paul, 1889-1946.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2
Nevinson, Christopher Richard Wynne, 1889- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Newbolt, Sir Henry John, 1862-1928.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 38 items.
box 2
Michols, Robert Malise Bowyer, 1893- .
General Physical Description note: 12 items.
box 2
Nicolson, Hon. Harold George, 1886.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Noyes, Alfred, 1880- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 1890-1941.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2
Odgen, Charles Kay, 1889-1957.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Osborn, Edward Bolland, 1867- .
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 2
Ould, Hermon, 1886- .
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 2
Palmer, Herbert Edward, 1880- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 18 items.
box 2
Pearce, C Maresco, 1874- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Pepler, Hilary Douglas C.
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 2
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862- .
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 2
Plarr, Victor Gustave, 1863-1929.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Playfair, Sir Nigel Ross, 1874-1934.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2
Plowman, Max, 1883- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2
Poel, William, 1852-1934.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 2
Poortenaar, Jan, 1886- .
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 2
Pound, Ezra Loomis, 1885- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 69 items.
box 2
Pryce, Richard, 1864- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 2
Quennell, Peter, 1905- .
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 3
Randall, Sir Alec Walter George, 1892- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Rawlence, Guy, 1888- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Read, Herbert Edward, 1893- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 9 items.
box 3
Rhodes, Raymond Crompton.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3
Rhys, Ernes, 1859- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Richard, Grant, 1872- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Richardson, Anthony, 1899- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3
Roberts, Mrs. Mary (Fanton) 1871- .
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 3
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935.
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 3
Rodker, John, 1894- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 25 items.
box 3
Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Ross, Sir Ronald, 1857-1932.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Rothenstein, Sir William, 1872- .
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 3
Royde-Smith, Naomi Gwladys.
General Physical Description note: 11 items.
box 3
Russell, George William, 1867-1935.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Rutherston, Albert Daniel, 1881- .
General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 3
Rutland, Violet, duchess of, d. 1937.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Sabin, Arthur Knowles, 1879- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 17 items.
box 3
Sackville, Lady Margaret, 1881- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3
Sargant, Ethel, 1863-1918.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Sarojin Nyadu, 1879- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Sassoon, Siegried, 1886- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Scott, Dixon, 1881-1915.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 13 items.
box 3
Scott, Harold.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3
Shanks, Edward, 1892- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 25 items.
box 3
Seaman, Sir Owen, 1861-1936.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Shove, Mrs. Fredegond.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Sinclair, May, d. 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Sitwell, Edith, 1887- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897- .
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 3
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Spare, Austin Osman.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 3
Spencer, Stanley, 1891- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3
Squire, John Collings, 1884- .
General Physical Description note: 8 items.
box 3
Stephens, James, 1882-1950.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3
Strong, Leonard Alfred George, 1896-1958.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 20 items.
box 3
Swingler, Randall.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Tagore, Rabindeanath, 1861-1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Talbot, Ethel.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3
Thorly, Wilfrid Charles, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Thorold, Algar Labouchére, 1866-1936.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Torrence, Frederic Ridgely, 1875- .
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 3
Trench, Herbert, 1865-1923.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 15 items.
box 3
Turner, Walter James, 1889- .
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 3
Underwood, Leon, 1890- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 18 items.
box 3
Upward, Allen, 1863-1926.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Verhaeren, Émile, 1855-1916.
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 3
Vildrac, Charles, 1882- .
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3
Vinal, Harold, 1891- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Vines, Sherard, 1890- .
General Physical Description note: 6 items.
box 3
Wadsworth, Edward Alexander, d. 1949.
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Waley, Arthur David, 1889- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore, 1832-1914.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3
Waugh, Alec, 1898- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Waugh, Arthur, 1866-1943.
General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 3
Webster, Mary Morison.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 15 items.
box 3
Wells, Geoffrey Harry, 1900- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
General note
Wells, H.G. see (Box 6, folder R).
box 3
White, Ethelbert.
General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 3
White, Mrs. Betty.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Whitworth, Geoffrey Arundel, 1854- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 14 items.
box 3
Wickham, Mrs. Anna (Hepburn).
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Williams, Alfred, 1885(?)-1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Williams, Geoffrey Sydney, 1871- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Williams, Iolo Aneurin, 1890- .
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 3
Williams-Ellis, Mrs. Amabel, 1894- .
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 10 items.
box 3
Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940.
General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 3
Woods, Margaret Louisa (Bradley) 1856-1945.
General Physical Description note: (1 folder) 13 items.
box 3
Woolf, Virginia, (Stephen) 1882-1941.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 3
Yeats, Jack Butler, 1871- .
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939.
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 3
Correspondence--Unidentified.
General Physical Description note: 13 items.
General note
Contains an unaddressed from letter, unsigned, from Mrs. Monro, June 22, 1935, giving notice of the closing down of the Poetry
Bookshop.
box 3
Ephemera--Press cuttings, brochures, leaflets regarding Monro's correspondents.
General Physical Description note: 15 items.
General note
Contains: Letters to my Father-in-Law, no.1 by Lord Alfred Douglas. 19 Royal Avenue, Sloane Square, S.W., March 20, 1914.
Typeset.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Sent to Monro By His Correspondents
General Physical Description note: (23 items)
box 3
Begbie, Harold, 1871-1929. The Builder. Cornwall.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: Holograph. 3 leaves.
box 3
Coats, Victoria, Electric Light. n.p.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: Holograph. 4 leaves.
box 3
Lindsay, Jack, 1900- . The Cheat, and A Mirror. n.p.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
box 3
Moncrieff, Frederick Charles, 1847-1929. Lines Wrote on the London and North Western Railway. Edinburgh, April 22, 1914.
General Physical Description note: Holograph.
box 3
Pease, Maude Grace. A Outrance. London.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
box 3
Pepler, Hilary Douglas C. Three Pennyworth. n.p.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: Holograph. 3 leaves.
box 3
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897- . Two Odes in Praise of Popular Music. n.p.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: Holograph. 3 leaves.
box 3
Slessor, Kenneth. The Ghost. n.p.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: Typescript.
box 3
Ould, Hermon, 1886- . My Spirit Walks Alone. n.p.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: Holograph.
General note
Also in this folder: a manuscript of Harold Monro's, and 9 party lists, ca. 1925-1930.
Boxes 4-8: Harold Monro's Manuscripts
box 4, folder A
Complete Manuscript of Evolution of the Soul.
box 4, folder B
Complete Manuscript of Chronicle of a Pilgrimage.
box 4, folder C
Goldoni Books.
General Physical Description note: 4 items (143pp.).
box 4, folder D
Poems written.
1918-19.
General Physical Description note: (139pp.).
box 4, folder D
Poems written.
1921.
General Physical Description note: (126pp.).
box 4, folder E
Poems written.
1922.
General Physical Description note: (71pp.).
box 4, folder E
Poems written.
1923.
General Physical Description note: (72pp.).
box 4, folder F
Poems written.
1929.
General Physical Description note: (21pp.).
box 5, folder A
To A God I Once Knew.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
General note
(Poetry & Notes).
box 5, folder A
Dream Exhibition of A Final World.
General Physical Description note: (31pp.).
box 5, folder A
Journey to Reclaim a Ghost.
General Physical Description note: (4pp.).
box 5, folder A
Manuscript.
General Physical Description note: (26pp.).
box 5, folder A
Labour Song.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder A
Notes on The Use of Poetry.
General Physical Description note: (30pp.).
box 5, folder A
Miscellaneous Manuscript Fragments.
General Physical Description note: (5pp.).
box 5, folder B
Any Man's Daughter.
General Physical Description note: (16pp.).
General note
Poetry & Notes.
box 5, folder B
Seed-Time Outside Eden.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder B
Return.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
box 5, folder B
A Bomb Ballad.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder B
Bitter Sanctuary.
General Physical Description note: (4pp.).
box 5, folder B
Solomon in the Forest.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
box 5, folder B
Country Rhymes.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder B
A Man Still Alive.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder B
Zeppelins Over London.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
box 5, folder B
Barrel Organ Love.
General Physical Description note: (4pp.).
box 5, folder B
Sentry.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder B
Notes on Elementary Instruction in the Use of Modern Contrivances.
General Physical Description note: (3pp.).
box 5, folder B
Change of House [becomes The Empty House].
General Physical Description note: (4pp.).
box 5, folder B
Fateful Insomnia.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder B
The Staircase.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
box 5, folder B
The Hall.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder B
Dreams.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
box 5, folder B
The Party.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
box 5, folder B
Falling Leaves.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder B
Miscellaneous Fragments.
General Physical Description note: (16pp.).
box 5, folder C
The Understudy. Rough notes for projected play.
General Physical Description note: (29pp.).
box 5, folder D
The Silent Pool.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (6pp.).
box 5, folder D
Barrel Organ Love.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Change of Mind.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Strange Meeting. [fragment].
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Earthiness.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (4pp.).
box 5, folder D
While We Sleep.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Unknown Country.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (5pp.).
box 5, folder D
Outside Eden.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (5pp.).
box 5, folder D
This Our Life.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Winter Ocean.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Too Near the Sea.
General Physical Description note: Autographed (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Street Fight.
General Physical Description note: Autographed (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Natural History.
General Physical Description note: Autographed (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Youth in Arms.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Annunciation. with corrections.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
The Pale Voice [becomes Fragments]. with corrections.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (8pp.).
box 5, folder D
Underworld.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Fate.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (4pp.).
box 5, folder D
The Garden.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (4pp.).
box 5, folder D
Spring.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Introspection.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Tell Me About That Harvest Field.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
From An Old House.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Dog.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Goldfish.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Thistledown.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
City-Storm.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Men Carrying Bale.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Blurred Etching.
General Physical Description note: Autographed. Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
On the Destruction of the Foundling Hospital.
General Physical Description note: Autographed. Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Love in the Autumn Forest.
General Physical Description note: Autographed. Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Lovers in a London Shadow.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Living.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
The Ocean in London.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
From Dark to Dark.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Where she Lives.
General Physical Description note: Autographed. Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Holy Matrimony. With corrections.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (3pp.).
box 5, folder D
The Earth for Sale.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
Great Distance.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Romantic Fool Who Cannot Speak.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
One Moment Only.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Real Property.
General Physical Description note: (3pp.).
box 5, folder D
Gravity.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (2pp.).
box 5, folder D
The Nightingale Near the House.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (1p.).
box 5, folder D
Living; From Dark to Dark; The Ocean in London. Galleys from poems published in The New Criterion.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs.
box 5, folder D
Real Property. With corrections.
General Physical Description note: Includes galley proofs (10pp.).
box 5, folder E
The Circus. Projected play in four acts.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript.
box 5, folder F
The Great Joke.
General Physical Description note: (6pp.).
General note
Prose Essays & Lectures.
box 5, folder F
Thinking of People.
General Physical Description note: (4pp.).
box 5, folder F
Poetry of the Future.
General Physical Description note: (3pp.).
box 5, folder F
Unnecessary Books.
General Physical Description note: (12pp.).
box 5, folder G
The Sober Man. Dialogue for projected play.
General Physical Description note: (15pp.).
box 5, folder G
Miscellaneous prose notes.
General Physical Description note: (4pp.).
box 5, folder H
The Amphibians.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (16pp.).
General note
Short Stories.
box 5, folder H
Warlock.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (38pp.).
box 5, folder H
Paul Amouré.
General Physical Description note: Typescript. Autographed (24pp.).
box 5, folder I
Notes on poems of Roy Campbell.
General Physical Description note: (5pp.).
General note
Prose Notes.
box 5, folder I
Notes on meetings with D.H. Lawrence.
General Physical Description note: (9pp.).
box 5, folder I
Notes and news from England.
General Physical Description note: (45pp.).
box 5, folder I
Notes for lecture on Poetry of Today and Tomorrow.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (17pp.).
box 5, folder J
The Baron of Grogswill. Projected puppet play.
General Physical Description note: (39pp.).
box 5, folder K
Correspondence with the editors of The Rising Generation, Japanese periodical.
box 5, folder L
Copies of issues of The Rising Generation containing articles by Harold Monro.
General Physical Description note: (20 items).
box 5, folder M
Dream Exhibition of a Final World. Working drafts.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript with holograph corrections (47pp.).
box 5, folder N
Poetry fragments, some with notes by Ezra Pound; and notes for poems.
General Physical Description note: (90pp.).
box 5, folder O
Prose fragments.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (60pp.).
box 5, folder P
Selections for readings. Rough notes.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (24pp.).
box 6, folder A
Arthurian Legend.
General Physical Description note: (91pp.).
box 6, folder B
Articles and notes for articles.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (56pp.).
box 6, folder C
Essay on poetry.
General Physical Description note: (6pp.).
box 6, folder D
Essay on the poet.
General Physical Description note: (14pp.).
box 6, folder E
Goethe's connection with women. Lecture.
General Physical Description note: (16pp.).
box 6, folder F
Golden Temple. Projected play.
General Physical Description note: (19pp.).
box 6, folder G
Griffino. Story.
General Physical Description note: Rough and corrected typescript and typescript carbon.
box 6, folder H
Lecture notes on poetry--Georgian to modern.
General Physical Description note: (33pp.).
box 6, folder I
Lecture to the Heretics Society, Cambridge.
General Physical Description note: (12pp.).
box 6, folder J
Leviathan. Projected play.
General Physical Description note: (19pp.).
box 6, folder K
Miscellaneous fragments of poetry and prose.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (60pp.).
box 6, folder L
One Day Awake, a Morality Play.
General Physical Description note: (34pp.).
box 6, folder M
Paper on Swinburne. Lecture before Caius Science and Art Society.
General Physical Description note: (36pp.).
box 6, folder N
Paper to the Heretics.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (14pp.).
box 6, folder O
Poems.
General Physical Description note: 93 poems. In notebook.
box 6, folder P
Prose fragments.
General Physical Description note: (45pp.).
box 6, folder Q
Samurai Press. Papers. Proposals for a voluntary nobility.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript. 20 items.
box 6, folder R
Samurai Press. Creeds and correspondence (Maurice Browne, A.R. Greene, Harold Murray, J. Skilton, H.G. Wells).
General Physical Description note: 27 items.
box 6, folder S
Essay on Wagner and Emerson.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (5pp.).
box 6, folder T
Wordsworth Revisited.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (25pp.).
box 6, folder U
The Younger Poets. Article.
General Physical Description note: (7pp.).
box 6, folder V
Jehovah. Projected epic. Three versions.
General Physical Description note: (150pp.).
box 7, folder A
Biographic Notes On Being A socialist.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (2pp.).
box 7, folder B
Can Any Religion Meet the Conditions of Modern Civilization? Lecture.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (17pp.).
box 7, folder C
Cophetua. Projected play in verse.
General Physical Description note: (44pp.).
box 7, folder D
The Cricket Girl. One-act farce. Juvenilia.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (16pp.).
box 7, folder E
The Doctrine of Individual Immortality. Essay.
General Physical Description note: (3pp.).
box 7, folder G
Epic of the Age. Prose notes.
General Physical Description note: (9pp.).
box 7, folder H
Fate. Prose. Juvenilia.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 7, folder I
Fate and The Garden. Poems.
General Physical Description note: (10pp.).
box 7, folder J
Florentine Evening.
General Physical Description note: (4pp.).
box 7, folder K
The God Myth in Modern Poetry. Lecture notes.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (25pp.).
box 7, folder L
Jean-Marie. [translated from the French by Harold Monro] Play. Juvenilia.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (34pp.).
box 7, folder M
John Davidson. Article.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (24pp.).
box 7, folder N
Lyrics. Juvenilia.
General Physical Description note: Autographed manuscript and typescript (34pp.).
box 7, folder O
Nature and Functions of Poetry. Lecture.
General Physical Description note: (22pp.).
box 7, folder P
Field Excursion.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 7, folder P
From An Old House.
General Physical Description note: (1p.).
General note
Poetry.
box 7, folder P
Street Fight.
General Physical Description note: (3pp.).
box 7, folder P
Any Man's Daughter.
General Physical Description note: Autographed (2pp.).
box 7, folder P
Silence Between.
General Physical Description note: Autographed (1p.).
box 7, folder P
Unknown Country.
General Physical Description note: Autographed (2pp.).
box 7, folder P
The Earth for Sale.
General Physical Description note: Autographed (2pp.).
box 7, folder P
Moonlit Beach.
General Physical Description note: Autographed (2pp.).
box 7, folder P
The Trees.
General Physical Description note: (5pp.).
box 7, folder P
Elegy.
General Physical Description note: Autographed (2pp.).
box 7, folder P
Miscellaneous fragments.
General Physical Description note: (3pp.).
box 7, folder Q
The Man of Wisdom and His Treasure. Fantasy. Juvenilia.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (5pp.).
box 7, folder Q
Jacques and I. Sketch. Juvenilia.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (4pp.).
General note
Prose Sketches.
box 7, folder Q
The Ideal Air-bath. Article. Juvenilia.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (4pp.).
box 7, folder Q
A Modern Hermit. Juvenilia.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (11pp.).
box 7, folder Q
The Fishermen. Sketch. Juvenilia.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (6pp.).
box 7, folder Q
Concerning Steam-rollers. Juvenilia.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (4pp.).
box 7, folder R
The Real Competence. Article.
General Physical Description note: (5pp.).
box 7, folder R
The Real God. Essay.
General Physical Description note: (2pp.).
box 7, folder R
Rex Vitae. Poem.
General Physical Description note: (3pp.).
box 7, folder R
Socialism and the Simplication of Life. Essay.
General Physical Description note: (39pp.).
box 7, folder R
Stories: Jane Plover.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (27pp.).
box 7, folder R
Oswald.
General Physical Description note: (9pp.).
box 7, folder R
Stories: A True Adventure at Dawn.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (8pp.).
box 7, folder R
Recollections of A Walk Through France.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (6pp.).
box 7, folder R
The Story of A Spirit.
General Physical Description note: Typescript carbon (14pp.).
box 7, folder R
The True Tale of Mr. Boggs.
General Physical Description note: (4pp.).
box 8, folder A
Ephemera. News clippings.
General Physical Description note: (3 items).
box 8, folder B
Manuscript fragments: prose, poetry, indices.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript and typescript (60pp.).
box 8, folder C
Photographs of Harold Monro.
General Physical Description note: (7 items).
box 8, folder D
Poems. Miscellaneous.
General Physical Description note: Typescript with corrections (17pp.).
box 8, folder E
Poems, miscellaneous.
General Physical Description note: In notebooks (2 items).
box 8, folder F
Poems, articles, notes.
General Physical Description note: In notebook (1 item).
box 8, folder G
Before Dawn and A Book of Portraits. Poems in exercise book.
General Physical Description note: (47pp.).
box 8, folder H
Poems, unpublished.
General Physical Description note: Typescript and manuscript (30pp.).
box 8, folder I
Strange Meetings. Poems.
General Physical Description note: (150pp.).
General note
Some duplicate and early versions.
