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Frances Cornford letters and poems

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Call Number:
F0810
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
8 item (13 pages)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0099, F0810, Frances Cornford letters and poems, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1959-1960, undated (inclusive)
Creator:
Cornford, Frances Darwin, 1886-1960
Form:
Letters (correspondence) and Poems
Abstract:
Autograph letters and manuscript poems written by English poet Frances Cornford.

British poet Frances Cornford (1886-1960) was descended from a number of Cambridge intellectuals, including Charles Darwin and William Wordsworth. Her work was influenced by both the Georgian and modernist forms of poetry. She experimented with a variety of forms including the triolet and the villanelle and also translated a number of works from Russian and French.

"Frances Cornford." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 240: Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British Women Poets(reproduced in Literature Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC (accessed August 17, 2007).

Four autograph letters signed from Frances Cornford to Alan Clodd. Cornford thanks Clodd for his praise of her work and answers questions about her poems. She also mentions her ill health. The collections also includes four undated manuscript poems in Cornfeld's hand.

Box 53, F0810: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, July 2007.

Processed and encoded by Jaime Margalotti, August 2007. Further encoded by George Apodaca, October 2015.

This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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Publisher
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2007 August 15
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, http://library.udel.edu/spec/askspec/

Collection Inventory

Physical Description

4 items

Autograph letter signed, 1959 September 7.
Box 53 Folder F0810
Autograph letter signed, 1960 April 2.
Box 53 Folder F0810
Scope and Contents

Letter partially in the hand of Cornfeld's grandson.

Autograph letter signed, [1960 April 6].
Box 53 Folder F0810
Physical Description

With envelope.

Autograph card signed, 1960 April 28.
Box 53 Folder F0810

Physical Description

4 items

"Invocation for a Modern Marriage", undated.
Box 53 Folder F0810
"LF", undated.
Box 53 Folder F0810
"Mother to Father", undated.
Box 53 Folder F0810
"The Girl in the Blue-bell Wood", undated.
Box 53 Folder F0810

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