Record

RepositorySpecial Collections Archives (GB 0029)
Ref NoEUL MS 113/2/1/2
Alt Ref NoMS 113/2/1/2
Date10 Feb 1923-Jun 1923
LevelItem
Extent1 volume
TitleDiary in blue exercise book, volume xvi, renumbered 2, 10 Feb 1923-Jun 1923
Creator NameRowse; Alfred Leslie; 1903-1997; historian, poet, diarist, biographer and critic
DescriptionDiary in blue exercise book, volume xvi, renumbered 2. Described by Rowse as 'Oxford activities - accounts of Lloyd George and Ramsay Macdonald speaking. Undergraduate friends, some of whom became well known Richard Pares, historian; Graham Pollard, bibliographer; Ralph Fox, Communist (killed in Spain). Emotional relationship with H J Wadleigh (afterwards a figure in the Hiss Case).' 'Transition from English Literature to the History School a strain. A feature is the continued concern with writing poetry; many prentice poems appear.' [Typescript available: see EUL MS 113/2/2/2]
FormatManuscript
LanguageEnglish
AccessStatusOpen
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