Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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Contents generally include: biographical information and drafts (often in multiple versions) of Ellmann's bio-commentary on each poet; selected poems by each author, photocopied from published sources; press cuttings of articles; rights and permissions to reprint poems; lists of corrections; and fragments of page proofs.

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Typed transcription; press cutting.

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Includes Ellmann's notes on Auden regarding Yeats and Joyce; Ellmann's notes on The Sea and the Mirror; photocopy of Auden's "The Public and the late Mr. W.B. Yeats"; press cuttings and photocopies of articles by Auden; "Service at the Unveiling and Dedication of a Memorial to Wystan Hugh Auden", Westminster Abbey.

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Request for permission to credit Ellmann for a suggestion regarding a reference to "Musee des Beaux Arts" for their article on Auden.

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Ellmann writes, in part: "Many thanks for your helpful changes. I think we probably have enough symbolist works without Gide...."

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Research copies of Auden letters; handwritten letter from Auden to [Leonard Woolf], undated; handwritten letters from Auden to Ellmann; 6 black and white photo-reproductions of an event featuring Auden; Faber and Faber illustrated specimen copy of Auden's poem, "Mountains" with envelope.

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"...Mr. Paul Auster's review of two books of mine in your issue of August 7th: Communicated views of it of friends, communicated to me., impressed on me the need of comment. One thought it 'rather nice'."

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"I pause over one of Mr. Auster's historical touches, reference to Robert Graves telling of Auden for his imitations of me. That is retrospective self-preening. Auden's takings from me were Gargantuan, rather comically assiduous."

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"I am extremely troubled by the long paragraph on page 10 (ms.)...."

Scope and Contents Primarily concerned with Mason's works: The Early Joyce: The Book Reviews, 1902-1903 (Colorado Springs: The Mamalujo Press, 1955), edited with Stanislaus Joyce, and The Critical Writings of James Joyce (New York: Viking, London: Faber and Faber, 1959), edited with Richard Ellmann. The papers also include correspondence with Joyce's colleagues and friends; Nelly Joyce (wife of Stanislaus Joyce); Richard Ellmann (including carbon copies of Mason's letter to Ellmann); and microfilm and...

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Galley proofs with corrections and editorial marks.