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Finding Aid for Andrew Young collection of papers, 1922-[1970]

Guide to the Andrew Young collection of papers, 1922-1970

Berg Coll MSS Young
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Date Completed:
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Table of Contents

Descriptive Summary Table of Contents

Title
Andrew Young collection of papers, 1922-1970
Creator
Young, Andrew, 1885-1971.
Call Number
Berg Coll MSS Young
Size
424 items
Repository
The New York Public Library.
The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.New York, New York
Abstract
This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, and portrait photographs.

Administration Information Table of Contents

Source

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Custodial History

Previous owners include Leonard Clark and Robert Andrew Clark.

Access

Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Biography Table of Contents

Andrew Young was a Scottish poet, cleric, and botanist.

Scope and Content Note Table of Contents

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, and portrait photographs. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of radio scripts, poems, television broadcasts, and reviews by the author, as well as a poem and biographical material relating to the author by Edmund Charles Blunden, Leonard Clark, and Katharine Garvin. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1922 to [1970], to Leonard Clark, Robert Andrew Clark, Geoffrey Grigson, Christopher Hassall, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, and Samuel Menashe, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1946 to 1969, between various correspondents including Leonard Clark, Bonamy Dobree, Edwin Muir, Leslie Norris, William Plomer, Stephen Spender, and others. There are letters to Young from John Arlott, Rupert Hart-Davis, John Bagguley, and Cecil Woolf, dating from 1959 to 1970.

Container List Table of Contents

   
Manuscripts and Typescripts Table of Contents
   
Manuscripts and Typescripts written by Young Table of Contents
Manuscript box     
Andrew Young introduces and reads a short selection of his short poems. Mimeographed radio script with the author's ms. corrections. Transmission: March 12, 1961
n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 8 p. )

Came with his correspondence with Leonard Clark

Manuscript box     
Case of conscience. Mimeographed radio script with the author's ms. corrections. Transmission: Oct. 23, 1957
n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 7 p. )

Came with his correspondence with Leonard Clark

Manuscript box     
Collected poems of Andrew Young, The. Typescripts of poems with the author's ms. corrections. Includes poems not in published edition, London, R. Hart-Davis, 1960
n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 91 p. )

Accompanied by Clark's notes on collation and chronology of the poems, 93 p.

Manuscript box     
Lizard orchid. Typescript of radio script with the author's ms. corrections. "Record: Friday, 30th July 1954"
n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 4 p. )

With covering note: "With Mr. [P. H.] Newby's compliments. Accompanied by his: On the Great Orme. Typescript of radio script, undated. 3 p. "Record: Friday, 30th July 1954."; Came with his correspondence with Leonard Clark

Manuscript box     
Night-light. Typescript (carbons) of seven television broadcasts
[1960 May]
typescripts
( 1 p. each )

One signed. Came with his correspondence with Leonard Clark

Manuscript box     
On the Great Orme. Typescript of radio typescript. "Record: Friday, July 30th 1954"
n.d.
typescripts
( 3 p. )

With his: Lizard orchid. Typescript of radio script. Came with his correspondence with Leonard Clark

Oversize (+)     
Out of the world and back: Into Hades and A traveller in time, two poems. Final typescript (incomplete) with the author's ms. corrections
1958
typescripts (emended)
( 22 p.; 24 p. )

Also, three successive typewritten drafts of an earlier version of A traveller in time. 33 p.; 34 p.; 47 p.; In Hades "published 1952, revised 1958"

Manuscript box     
Poets and natural history. Typescript of radio script with the author's ms. corrections. Transmission: Nov. 18, 1961
n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 4 p. )

Came with his correspondence with Leonard Clark

Cased     
Quiet as moss; thirty-six poems. Two typescript (carbons) Inscribed by Leonard Clark: "Master copy."
n.d.
typescripts
( 39 p. each )

With additional typescript (carbon) of t.p. and contents, 3 p.; accompanied by Clark's holograph notebook containing bibliographical information on the poems. Published, London: R. Hart-Davis, 1959

Manuscript box     
[Reviews. Sark discovered, by Leonard Clark] Holograph draft
n.d.
ms.
( 1 p. )

Came with his correspondence with Leonard Clark

   
Manuscripts and Typescripts relating to Young Table of Contents
Manuscript box. In his: 66 ALS, 2 TLS, 36 postcards to Leonard Clark. 1951-1970. On conjugate leaf with his letter postmarked Jan. 4, 1957. Folder 6     
Blunden, Edmund Charles. A southern pilgrim. Holograph poem. Relates to Andrew Young
n.d.
ms.
( 1 p. )

Signed with initials. Published in: Andrew Young: prospect of a poet, edited by Leonard Clark. London, Hart-Davis, 1957

Manuscript box (Young, A.)     
Clark, Leonard, ed. Andrew Young: prospect of a poet. 1 holograph, 12 typescripts, and 2 printed contributions. Contributors include: John Arlott, John Baillie, and others.
n.d.
typescripts
( 21 folders )

Some signed. With related correspondence [separately cataloged]; accompanied by: Clark, Leonard, ed. [Andrew Young: prospect of a poet] Galley proofs with the author's ms. corrections. 26 sheets. Published, London: R. Hart-Davis, 1957

Manuscript box (Young, A.)     
Garvin, Katharine. J. L. Garvin: a memoir. Manuscript extract in an unidentified hand. Relates to Andrew Young
n.d.
ms.
( 1 p. )

Sent to Leonard Clark by an unidentified correspondent

   
Correspondence Table of Contents
   
Outgoing Correspondence Table of Contents
Manuscript box     
Clark, Leonard. 160 ALS, 66 postcards to
1946 Aug. 1 - [1970] July 7
corr. out
( 226 letters in 46 folders )

On verso of letter postmarked Jan. 26, 1960: Hart-Davis, Rupert. TNS to Andrew Young, Jan. 25, 1960. 1 p. Folder 20; on verso of July 7 [1970]: Hart-Davis, R. TLS to A. Young, July 5, 1970. 1 p. Folder 44; with 1 TL reply, 2 postcards to Jan Clark

Manuscript box     
Clark, Robert Andrew. 2 ALS, 3 postcards to
[1958 July 31] - 1969 Mar. 21
corr. out
( 5 letters in 1 folder )
Manuscript box     
Grigson, Geoffrey. 5 ALS to
1939 June 20 - 1964 May 13
corr. out
( 1 leaf; 3 p.; 1 p.; 1 leaf; 1 leaf )
Manuscript box     
Hassall, Christopher. ALS to
1925 Jan. 22
corr. out
( 1 leaf )

Removed from his: A prospect of flowers. London [1945]

Manuscript box     
Hassall, Christopher. ANS to
[n.d.]
corr. out
( 1 p. )

Removed from his: The green man. London [1947]

Manuscript box     
Marsh, Sir Edward Howard. 13 ALS to
1922 June 8 - 1938 July 27
corr. out
( 13 letters in 3 folders )
Manuscript box     
Menashe, Samuel. ALS to
1961 Aug. 28
corr. out
( 1 leaf )
   
Incoming Correspondence Table of Contents
Manuscript box     
Arlott, John. TLS to Young
1959 Mar. 9
in. corr.
( 1 p. )

Came with Leonard Clark's correspondence

Manuscript box. In: Young, Andrew. 160 ALS, 66 postcards to Leonard Clark. 1946-1970. On verso of letter postmarked Jan. 26, 1960. Folder 20     
Hart-Davis, Rupert. TNS to Young
1960 Jan. 25
in. corr.
( 1 p. )
Manuscript box. In: Young, Andrew. 160 ALS, 66 postcards to Leonard Clark. 1946-1970. On verso of July 7 [1960]. Folder 44     
Hart-Davis, Rupert. TLS to Young
1970 July 5
in. corr.
( 1 p. )
Manuscript box (Vietnam)     
Woolf, Cecil and John Bagguley, eds. Authors take sides on Vietnam
1967
in. corr.
( 1 folder )
   
Related Correspondence Table of Contents
Manuscript box (Clark, L.)     
Dobré, Bonamy. 11 TLS to Leonard Clark. Many letters relate to Andrew Young
1946 Nov. 24 - 1963 Apr. 23
related corr.
( 11 letters in 2 folders )

Accompanied by his: TL (copy) to The secretary, The Royal society of literature. Dept. of English literature, The University, Leeds [Eng.] Oct. 14, 1953

Manuscript box     
Hamilton, George Rostrevor. 4 ALS to Leonard Clark. Relate to F. W. Harvey and Andrew Young
1956 Oct. 2 - 1960 Jan. 31
related corr.
( 1 leaf; 1 leaf; 1 p.; 1 leaf )
Manuscript box (Young, A.)     
Hart-Davis (Rupert) ltd., London. 56 TL to Leonard Clark. Relate to Andrew Young's Quiet as moss and The collected poems
1958 Sept. 25 - 1961 Jan. 27
related corr.
( 56 letters in 6 folders )

Signed Rupert Hart-Davis, Richard Garnett, and others. With three TL (carbon) replies

Manuscript box     
Lee, Laurie. ALS to Leonard Clark. Relates to Andrew Young
1956 July 30
related corr.
( 1 leaf )
Manuscript box (Young, A.)     
Letters, ALS, TLS, etc., from miscellaneous correspondents, not listed separately, to Leonard Clark. Relate to Andrew Young's Quiet as moss
1959
related corr.
( 8 letters in 1 folder )
Manuscript box     
Muir, Edwin. TLS to Leonard Clark. Relates to Andrew Young
1956 Sept. 25
related corr.
( 1 p. )

With Clark's TL (carbon), Sept. 17, 1956. 1 p.

Manuscript box     
Norris, Leslie. 26 ALS, 2 TLS to Leonard Clark. Many letters mention Jon Silkin and Andrew Young
1960 Dec. 7 - 1969 May 14
related corr.
( 28 letters in 6 folders )

Letter of Oct. 11, 1961, encloses his: Boy. Holograph poem [n.d.] 1 p. Folder 2

Manuscript box     
Pitter, Ruth. ALS to Leonard Clark. Mentions Andrew Young
1954 Nov. 22
related corr.
( 1 p. )
Manuscript box     
Plomer, William. ALS to Leonard Clark. Relates to Andrew Young
1956 July 6
related corr.
( 1 leaf )
Manuscript box     
Spender, Stephen. ALS to Leonard Clark. Relates to Andrew Young
1956 Aug. 20
related corr.
( 1 p. )
Manuscript box (Vietnam)     
Woolf, Cecil and John Bagguley, eds. Authors take sides on Vietnam. Correspondence with Andrew Young
1967
related corr.
( 1 folder )
Manuscript box (Young, A.)     
Young, Douglas. TLS to Leonard Clark. Relates to Andrew Young
1957 Aug. 8
related corr.
( 1 p. )
Manuscript box (Young, A.)     
Young, Janet Green. 15 ALS, 1 postcard to Leonard and Jane Callow Clark
1956 Jan. 23 - 1957 Oct.[?]
related corr.
( 16 letters in 3 folders )
   
Portraits Table of Contents
Manuscript box     
Portrait photographs (3)
n.d.
portraits
( 3 items )

One inscribed on verso for Robert Andrew Clark; came with his correspondence with Leonard Clark

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