Guide to the John Masefield papers, 1911-1931
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Creator: |
Masefield, John,
1878-1967 |
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Title: |
John Masefield papers
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Dates: |
1911-1931 |
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Abstract: |
This collection is
comprised of 41 items, most of which are letters or cards from English poet,
playwright and novelist, John Masefield to Miss Mabel Cary Fogg. The recipient
of most of the pieces in this collection, Miss Fogg, remains unidentified. The
collection covers the years from 1911 to 1931, when the poet was in his most
productive and well regarded years. |
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Identification: |
MS 323 |
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Quantity: |
41 items (0.25 linear
ft.) |
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Language: |
Materials are in English. |
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Repository: |
Woodson Research
Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX |
The English poet, playwright and novelist, John Masefield was born in
1878 in Ledbury. After running away to sea early (when he was thirteen) he
settled in London from 1897 and devoted himself to writing. Later he moved to
Oxford which was where he lived when most of the following collection was
produced. Masefield became Poet Laureate in 1930 and was awarded the Order of
Merit in 1935. Among his more notable works are, some early reflections of his
maritime experiences in
Salt Water Ballads (1902) and
A Mainsail Haul (1905);
The Tragedy of Pompey the Great (1910);
The Widow in Bye Street (1912);
Dauber (1913);
Reynard the Fox (1919);
Sard Harker (1924);
Dead Ned (1938); and,
Live and Kicking Ned (1939). The
recipient of most of the pieces in this collection, Miss Mabel Cary Fogg,
remains unidentified. John Masefield died in 1967.
This collection is comprised of 41 items, most of which are letters or
cards from Masefield to Miss Fogg. Only two items do not fall under this
category; a newspaper clipping of a book review, and some notes made by
Masefield for himself. The collection covers the years from 1911 to 1931, when
the poet was in his most productive and well regarded years.
Items are
identified mainly as ALS (handwritten, signed letters) and ACS (handwritten,
signed cards).
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Arrangement |
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Materials are arranged in chronological order, in one folder. |
Access Restrctions
No access restrictions; this material is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from the John Masefield papers must be
obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Fogg, Mabel
Cary. |
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Masefield, John,
1878-1967 |
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Subjects |
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Poets - English - 20th
century - Correspondence. |
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Poets - English - 20th
century - Biography. |
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Formats |
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Correspondence. |
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Flyleaf
article, v. 9:3, p. 10 |
John Masefield papers, 1911-1931, MS 323, Woodson Research Center,
Fondren Library, Rice University
Purchase made possible by Whittington gift, 1953. Previously formed part
of MS 18.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Letters, 1911-1920, and undated |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Explaining
that he is not sure about the Unicornian, but
it may have appeared in the Academy in April,
May or June, 1903. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Thanking
her for some clippings. |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel
Cary Fogg Answering questions about `critical estimates' and about a portrait
called `The Explorer'. 6 October 1911 |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel
Cary Fogg Reiterating that personal details are unimportant when trying to
trace `whatever it may be that the man's mind groped for and got.' 7 October 1911 |
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ACS John Masefield to Mabel
Cary Fogg Asking her to tea at the Midland Hotel. 24 November 1919 |
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ACS John Masefield to Mabel
Cary Fogg Observations about hawthorns and their colours; poetic uses by
Arnold. 5 December 1919 |
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ACS John Masefield to Mabel
Cary Fogg Explaining why men have regarded hawthorns with superstition in the
past. 14 December 1919 |
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ACS John Masefield to Mabel
Cary Fogg Thanking her for a Rodin study and warning her not to get carried
away. 29 December 1919 |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary
Fogg Letter about getting tickets to see the `Locked Chest
production'. 24 April 1920 |
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? ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Sending
autographs for a bazzaar. |
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Letters, 1921-1931, and undated |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary
Fogg. Thanking her for some Naval books and saying how valuable they are. He
mentions meeting Edward Arlington Robinson and expresses his opinion that `the
Americans are best of all at short stories'. 8 May 1921 |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary
Fogg. Thanking her for sme books and sending one to her. 26 May 1921 |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. `One begins
to feel about Ireland what that man in the French Revolution felt about
Robespierre's new God, the Être Superiêre'. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Thanking
her for her congratulations, for some lines she sent and suggesting some
reading for her. |
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Undated ACS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Thanks for
the interesting press cuttings. |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary
Fogg. Thanks for a gift and sending a book and a photograph. 12 May ? |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. About
getting some tickets for her to attend a public award. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Thanking
her for some Manchester Guardians he had received - if she had sent
them. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Thanks for
sending a list of words for his perusal. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Asking her
to look up an article on Verdun which he had contributed to
Harper's Magazine sometime in
1917. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Thanking
her for some cuttings and saying never mind about the
Harper's business. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Thanking
her for some cuttings and saying that, according to him, both sides had the
story wrong. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Thanking
her for the Guardian and Professor Herford's lecture. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Sending her
a book and mentioning that he had just received a piece of a ship from the
Spanish Armada. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Gary Fogg Thanking
her, sending books, and telling her what he has read recently. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg Saying how
useful to him her book of maritime disasters had been to him. He had consulted
it twice in one day. |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary
Fogg. Thanks for the clipping she had sent. 20 April 1923 |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg/
Thanks for the cuttings she had sent, and suggests that next year she try to
attend the Recitations. ?, 1923 |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Thanks for
some cuttings she'd sent to him. |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary
Fogg. Saying he would like to meet up with Mabel et al soon, but it may not be
possible owing to the unreliability of the trains. 21 April 1924 |
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Undated ACS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. |
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Undated TMs A newspaper cutting of a review of Masefield's
novel,
Sard Harker. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Sending
autographs for the bazaar and apologising for his tardiness. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Saying he
knows nothing about it. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg. Saying he
will be lecturing in Stockport and perhaps they could arrange to meet in
Didsbury. |
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Undated ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg Thanks for
the cuttings she had sent him and saying not to send him M. Legouis' Spenser.
He does not think the French mind would be at ease with Spenser. |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel
Cary Fogg Happy Christmas and New Year greetings. 24 December 1925 |
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Undated AMS Some notes and jottings in the hand of John
Masefield. |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel Cary
Fogg. Thanking her for her letter and talking about
The Witch. 14 May 1930 |
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ALS John Masefield to Mabel
Cary Fogg. `So many thanks for your very kind and charming letter'. 7 November 1930 |
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ACS John Masefield to Mabel Cary Fogg.
Thanking her for the gift she had sent to him. ?, 1931 |
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