Record

RepositorySpecial Collections Archives (GB 0029)
Ref NoEUL MS 43/PERS/1/G/GORE-ALLEN
Date1952-1959
LevelFile
Extent36 letters
TitleLetters from Walter Gore-Allen to Henry Williamson
Creator NameAllen; Walter Gore (b 1911); writer and journalist
Description36 letters from Walter Gore-Allen to Henry Williamson, 1952-1959, including some literary discussion and references to 'Donkey Boy', 'Dark Lantern', 'A Hero of the Sands', 'Goodbye My Bluebell', 'Young Philip Maddison', 'How Dear is Life', 'A Fox under My Cloak', 'Love and the Loveless', 'The Golden Virgin'. Also mentioning the experience of being a child during the First World War; broadcasts for BBC and for Radio Eireann; Nancy Mitford, Malcolm Elwin, Ernest Martin, Robert Graves and Ronald Duncan.
Including a script of talk about 'A Fox Under My Cloak' written for the BBC programme 'Window on the West'.
AdminHistoryWalter Gore-Allen was a broadcaster, a writer and a journalist who lived in Tiverton, Devon; he owned and edited Devon County Journal, early 1950s.
LanguageEnglish
AccessStatusOpen
Add to My Items