Malcolm Elwin Literary Papers The archive contains material deriving from Elwin's life as biographer, editor, novelist, publisher's reader, essayist, lecturer, cricketer and friend/advisor of writers and as such it has a rich seam of research interest. The most significant and relevant of his activities, recorded in this archive, were: 1) his period as editor of the West Country Magazine, of which the anthology he edited as The Pleasure Ground (1947) was an outcrop. 2) his 20-year spell as chief reader for Macdonalds. 3) his work, under commission from Lord Lytton, on the Byron-related material in the Lovelace Papers. 4) his work as selector, general editor and editor of volumes in the idiosyncratic Macdonalds Classics series. The Elwin archive also contains papers directly related to important writers of the 1930s to 1970s. These include letters to and from publishers over four decades from 1931 and with literary figures like Hugh Walpole, Edmund Blunden, Charles Causley, Graham Greene, Compton Mackenzie, Daphne du Maurier, Wilson Knight, Ernest Martin, Father Brocard Sewell, and Henry Williamson. Many of these, including Charles Causley, Daphne du Maurier, Wilson Knight, Ernest Martin, Father Brocard Sewell and Henry Williamson are already represented in the University's collections. 20th century