Record

Repository	Special Collections Archives (GB 0029)
Ref No	EUL MS 397/2/10/2
Alt Ref No	Unlisted Box 2
	EUL MS 397/299
	EUL MS 397/309
	EUL MS 397/346
	EUL MS 397/351
	EUL MS 397/1023
	EUL MS 397/1024
	EUL MS 397/1165
	EUL MS 397/1169
	EUL MS 397/1173
	EUL MS 397/1175
Date	1936-1978
Level	File
Extent	3 folders
Title	Published manuscripts
Creator Name	Duncan, Ronald Frederick Henry (1914-1982); author, poet and librettist
Description	A miscellaneous collection of manuscripts of published poems arranged in order of first line. Many of the poems are signed and dated, and include some illustrated poems and some written on unusual mediums. Includes 'Do not cling to me thus' a cantata dedicated to Virginia [Maskell] with a personal note to her on the front page signed 'Arab' [Ronald Duncan]. Also includes a manuscript poem 'The earths excited with leaf and labour..' in an envelope marked 'Ms. of Britten for Peace Pledge March' and 'Ms. of poem for Britten'. Some items are outsize.
Format	Manuscript
AdminHistory	Some items were previously deposited with Kings College London by Ronald Duncan in September 1980
Language	English
AccessStatus	Open
Access Conditions	Some items are closed.
Copyright	Literary Executor

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates
DS/UK/283	Duncan; Ronald Frederick Henry (1914-1982); author, poet and librettist	1914-1982

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