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  <dc:title>Correspondence between Margot Wall, née Renshaw, and Henry Williamson</dc:title>
  <dc:description>1 Correspondence

1/1 About 65 letters from Margot Wall, née Renshaw to Henry Williamson 1939-1975

1/2 About 199 letters from Henry Williamson to Margot Wall, née Renshaw, 1932-1970s including drafts and references to some of his books: 'The Story of a Norfolk Farm', 'Salar the Salmon', 'Sun in the Sands', 'A Fox Under My Cloak', 'How Dear is Life', 'Starborn', 'The Dark Lantern', 'The Golden Virgin', 'Love and Loveless', 'The Phasian Bird', 'A Test to Destruction', 'The Innocent Moon', 'The Power of the Dead', 'Phoenix Generation', 'It was the Nightingale', 'A Solitary War'; one letter mentions a film adaptation. Some postcards featuring North Devon scenes, Ilfracombe, Woolacombe, Lynmouth, Saunton Sands, a humorous greetings card from Devon written in Devon dialect, Shaftesbury [Dorset];

- 1932-1940s: 50 letters, including a postcard featuring young Henry Williamson in front of Skirr Cottage, letters from Germany and a letter written on the back of a galley sheet of 'The Children of Shallowford'. Letters also mentioning everyday life in Devon and Norfolk.
-1950s: 18 letters, including a news-cutting about Henry Williamson, 'The Story of a Norfolk Farm', 'Tarka the Otter' and 'Salar the Salmon' by Denys Val Baker in 'John O'London's Weekly' 20 Aug 1954 with ms annotations; Also including mentions to TE Lawrence, Malcolm Elwin, Middleton Murry, Richard Aldington, Ann Thomas, Ruth Tomalin, Charles Causley, Rolf Gardiner, TS Eliot, several mentions of 'A Fox under My Cloak', a postcard featuring a portrait of Dylan Thomas' widow.
-1962-1967: 107 letters including selected annotated proofs of 'Lucifer before Sunrise'; a newspaper cutting about rejection of play about Churchill by Laurence Olivier and K Tynan; several newspaper cuttings about Henry Williamson and his books 1940s-1960s including amongst others 'Soldier into Nature Writer' by L A G Strong in 'John O'London's Weekly' 20 April 1945; a newspaper cutting about Henry Williamson and Kenneth Allsop, featuring an image of Henry Williamson walking by the Devon shore, from the Listener 8 Feb 1968; a review of the 'Phasian Bird'], several references to books of 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'. There are small sketches by Williamson on some of the envelopes. Also including mentions to Ronald Duncan, Arnold Bennett and Malcolm Elwin.
-1970s: 24 letters 

1/3 Letters from other people, including a letter from Father Brocard Sewell to Henry Williamson 22 Jul 1967 in an envelope addressed to Margot Wall
		
1/4 RESTRICTED ACCESS - Anne Williamson's papers about the correspondence between HW and Margot Wall, 1996-2002 including 2 letters from Margot Wall.
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  <dc:date>1930s-1970s</dc:date>
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