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Kenneth Hopkins ephemera
Item
Identifier: 1981-025-1
Content Description
A small memory book with 12 bound-in poetry and drawings. A photocopy of the original index sheet is laid in.
Spine title: "Album."
Dates:
1882-1900s
Kenneth Hopkins library of 19th century poetry
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1981-025
Content Description
For almost 40 years the British poet, novelist, and scholar Kenneth Hopkins (1914-1988) collected eighteenth and nineteenth century English poetry, often searching rural bookshops with such bookish companions as Edmund Blunden and Sir Rupert Hart-Davis. The result of his dedication is found in the collection of 5,000 volumes of English poetry from the past two centuries. The collection was formed not so much with an eye towards rarity as with attention to the more obscure figures as well as...
Dates:
1587 - 1980