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Director of the University Libraries from 1934 to 1960. An authority on modern poetry, he was a prolific book collector and the founder the University’s Twentieth-Century Poetry in English Collection.

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British writer and editor. Starting with the BBC the year after its founding in 1927, he was promoted to literary editor of The Listener, its weekly magazine, where he served for more than two decades. He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain. "I am an old pal of yours"

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Hungarian Communist politician. First Deputy Minister of Culture from 1958 to 1957. Graves had long conversation with him during a trip to Hungary (July 1970): "I found that my invitation to open the Poet’s Congress had come from the big boss Sec-Gen of the Party who had read my works while in prison — he did two long stretches — and with whom I formed an immediate friendship. He lives for poetry, really. And, of course, Socialism."

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Painter and illustrator. Illustrated Laura Riding’s Life of the Dead, and several book jackets for Graves including I, Claudius, Claudius the God, Count Belisarius. Married Lucie Brown (nee Saunders), and then Gretl Cameron (nee Bajardi, Norman Cameron’s widow). Visited Deyá in the 1930's and often after the war and painted many Deyá landscapes. Remained close friend of Graves and his portrait of Graves's is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Unidentified correspondent: query probably regarding the surname of someone in Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth. Graves answers: 'In Lord Corwallis' dispatches he appears as ‘Althorpe’ and this is repeated in Broughton Mainwarings History of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

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American classisist. Editor of Hudson Review and published several articles by Graves. They discuss The Golden Ass.

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Deputy chairman of the Times.

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Wife of John Auerbach (cf.)

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Israeli Sailor, Writer, Lived in a Kibbutz where Robert visted him in his trip to Israel in 1960. Visited Deià.

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British Actress married to Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis (letter of condolence)

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Wilfred Kenyon was an WWI Army officer with the Dorset Regiment who met Graves when both were convalescing at Somerville College, Oxford in March 1917. Kenyon and Graves had a long friendship/correspondence with apparently few mutual friends. Married, Barrett remained in the army and eventually retired as Major. His friendship/correspondence with Graves was truncated by Laura Riding, but resumed in the 1960's. The letters contain significant personal comments.

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Major Archibald Frank Becke was a Major in the Royal Artillery, a noted author on military history, and contributor to the British Official History of the First World War. Letter re T.E.Lawremce

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English art critic. Brief contacts with Graves through Ottoline Morrell during Oxford years. GTAT: "Conscientious objector, looked after the cows on the manor farm"

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American jazz pianist, songwriter, arranger, and composer. Robert stayed with him in New York and Benson-Brooks set a poem of his "Mend them Fences" to music on John Benson Brooks Trio "Avant Slant" Decca DL 75018. Sung by Annie Ross. "Time lists me as top-ranking pop lyricist"

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Artist. 17 years old when she arrived in Deyá about November 1950 (Her mother had a house in nearby Fornalutx). She became part of the family circle, and briefly Graves's muse. Judith published a illustrated book "The Litte Circus" with a foreword by Graves.

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First World War poet: saw continuous action in the front line, between 1916-18. His life-long friend Siegfried Sassoon maintained that Blunden was the ‘poet of the war most lastingly obsessed by it.’ He worked between 1919 and 1970 as a poet, literary editor, journalist, biographer and lecturer, travelling and teaching in England, Japan and Hong Kong. His connections with the Far East spanned from 1924 - 1964. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1966 following Robert Graves's tenure. Extensive correspondence with Graves 1919-1927.

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Wife of poet Edmund Blunden.

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Major Frederick Alexander Colquhoun Boothby. Derick was a member of the first modern WICCAN Coven formed by Gerald Gardner, the Bricket Wood Coven. Later became Scottish nationalist. Interest in The White Goddess and witches.

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Cornish poet. He was praised highly by F.R. Leavis, Anthony Burgess and Martin Seymour-Smith, and deprecated by Ian Hamilton and Martin Amis. Initially a Riding adept (1939) then a personal friend of Graves mostly in Glampton. Graves refuses to be anthologised by him. "Two short poems is not an adequate representation of my work".

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Man of letters of the old school – an adventurous magazine editor and publisher in his youth, a conscientious and perceptive literary critic in his later years. Letter about early books of poets

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British poet. Was Poet Laureate from 1913 until his death im 1930. Met when Graves was at Oxford. Graves asks him for a recommendtion for a job in the USA which he then used for the job in Cairo.

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Friend of Graves’s in Galmpton. - - Six Letters from Robert and Beryl Graves to Joyce Broom - Introduction by Martin Seymour-Smith.; Published in The Rialto Summer 1985, pp 38-44.

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Unidentified - re book about poets juvemilia.

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Mother of Margot Nichols, née Callas

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Scottish-born, English-raised actress and singer. All Music noted that "Cameron was one of a quartet of key figures in England's postwar folk song revival – and to give a measure of her importance, the other three were Ewan MacColl, A. L. Lloyd, and Alan Lomax". Frequent visitor to Deia, close friends with the Graves family. Events with Graves included a show with Spike Milligan at the Mermaid Theatre, London. And was in the BBC radio production of Graves's Anger of Achilles

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Widow of Catalan politician Campalans i Puig, then wife of Hubert von Ranke. Visited Deyá in 1934

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Publisher. Published a few of Graves' early books including Lawrence anf the Arabs and Goodbye to All That.

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Establised the The Corvinus Press in 1936. Joined RAF and died during WW2.

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British socialist writer and poet, known for his advocacy of natural living, and for his writings on homosexuality and his open espousal of this identity. British socialist writer and poet, known for his advocacy of natural living, and for his writings on homosexuality and his open espousal of this identity. Among his works are Towards Democracy (1883), Iolaus: An Anthology of Friendship (1908) and The Intermediate Sex (1908). One significant letter from Graves when still at Charterhouse. One significant letter from Graves when still at Charterhouse.

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Spanish writer from Galicia. Lived in Mallorca in the 1950's and edited a magazine Papeles de Son Armadans. Organized a prize for Poetry at Formentor, Mallorca, which Graves attended one day. Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989. Graves tried to get him to help protect Deya from overbuilding.

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Richard Thomas Church CBE was an English writer, poet and critic; he also wrote novels and verse plays, and three volumes of autobiography.

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American librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than 100 books

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Née Graves, Roz was RG’s elder sister and closest family member. Studied Royal College of Music. In 1917 joined the V.A.D as a nurse attached to the 54 London General Hospital B.E.F (Near Boulogne). Published WW1 poet. Later studied medicine and practised as a GP in Bishopsteignton, near Teignmouth, Devon most of her working life. Robert settled in Devon, to be near her, after his break with Riding and the beginning of his life with the then Beryl Hodge.

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Writer who achieved fame with his short stories depicting the English rural scene and its characters. Probaly played soccer with Graves at Islip. (postcard & note) "Stanton matches are not the same without you"

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Critic, journalist, translator, editor, novelist, poet, playwright — Cournos fulfilled all these writerly posts with distinction, .. Letter re. contribution to Winter Owl 1922

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Journalist. Married to RG’s eldest daughter, Jenny Nicholson (cf.), Patrick Crosse, born in Rhodesia, was an outstanding journalist and news manager, and held in high esteem by all those who worked with him during his 36 years with Reuters. He made important contributions to the development of Reuters' reputation for authoritative, unbiased and responsible news-gathering around the world and assisted many newly independent countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to establish their own news-gathering capabilities. Patrick married Jenny after the death of her first husband, Alexander Clifford, the 2nd World War Correspondent; and then outlived her after her early and tragic death.

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James Cuchiara was in the Vanguard of the Artists Exhibiting in their Studios in the 1960’s and 1970’s, in New York City’s Artist-neighbour groups in the Soho area. Part of Laracuen's friend.

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British writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class, and devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. Nancy became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists. She owned the Hours Press in Paris and printed both Graves's Ten Poems More and Riding's Twenty Poems Less with cover boards by Len Lye. Later Nancy Cunard owned the Creative Age Press, New York, and published American editions of Graves's King Jesus, The White Goddess, Watch the North Wind Rise, and Occupation Writer, after which the press was taken over by Doubleday. She visited Graves in Deya in 1948.

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RG’s second daughter with N.Nicholson. Married New Zealand nuclear scientist Clifford Dalton. Lived in Australia. Wrote (subsidized by Graves) "Without Hardware" published 1970 about cases of treason in Australia . In 1998 she publised "Robert Graves Against the Gannon Cult" in which she documents how she "Investigates unreprted episodes the powerful and mysterious Gannon Cult." Four children: David, Caroline, Antonia and Margaret.

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British biologist. Article on "Genetic Component of Language" which Graves read and comments on in the sole letter.

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South African born English actress. Correspoended with RG during the 1960s, after she had retired from acting and had become a painter.

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Sister of Alex Clifford (cf.), Jenny Nicholson's (cf.) first husband. Came out to stay often. Her daughter, Jane Clare, was Tomas Graves's age and also went to Bedales school.

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Anglo-Irish poet. Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death. Accompanied Graves to Buckingham Palace to receive his Queen's Gold Medal for poetry. Day Lewis's daughter went to the same school Robert's son Tomás.

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American novelist, biographer, scholar and critic. His study of the poetry of Robert Graves, Swifter than Reason his first book of literary criticism, he won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for scholarly writing in 1963. In the front flap of Selwyn Jepson's copy of the book Graves has inscribed in Selwyn Jepson's copy "repudiated" 'So you can have it if you want it'. His letters to Day are kinder...

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American novelist, Editor of "The Mediterranean Review", author of "The College Handbook of Creative Writing". Ran the Dowling College "Creative Writing Course" in Deià in 1969-1970. Visiting lecturers included Robert Graves and Ruthven Todd (local); Colin Wilson, Anthony Burgess, Colin Wilson, Paul Bowles (invited). Bob retired in Deià. Correspondence mostly regarding the Deyá "Creative Writing" affair.

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Kay Dick was a celebrated novelist, writer and editor. Her life began as unconventionally as she was to live it. She was born in London in 1915 to a penniless part-Irish actress and ‘baptised’ in the Café Royal by her bohemian friends. Educated in London and Geneva,... She sometimes wrote under the name Edward Lane and Jeremy Scott. She was called "the first woman director in English publishing" and she is celebrated for her dystopian "lost" novel,

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Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University. His philosophy of music is that we are hard-wired to understand both language and music with a certain grammar. His music is structured by this grammar, although its contrapuntal textures, and a desire for occasional special harmonic effects, require many grammatical lapses! He set several of Graves's poems to music.

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Lt Col P H Drake-Brockman, Commanding Officer - The East Surrey Regiment (retired). Commissioned in The East Surrey Regiment in May 1915. He served with the 1st Battalion in France and Belgium from 1915 to 1918 and was wounded three times. From April 1918 to July 1919 he was employed under the Air Ministry and apart from six years service with The Royal West African Frontier Force he was at regimental duty with the 1st or 2nd Battalions from 1919 to 1936. In Goodbye to All That refered to as the Surrey-man.

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Professor emeritus of English and Irish literature at Buffalo State College, where he taught for 38 years. The letter the only connection - it was found in a copy of Fairies and Fusiliers.

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English poet and dramatist. In the period immediately before the First World War, he was one of a group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke and others. Graves contacted him regarding the British Drama League for which he wrote John Kemp's Wager (1925)

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English writer, poet and playwright of German descent, now best known for his poem The Horse and for preparing the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia, first performed in 1946. Visited Graves in Mallorca in 1951

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Dr Berwyn Eastwood, GP, Lowestoft. Married to Margaret, an Oxford contemporary at St Anne's of Robert's wife Beryl. Berwyn was also water douser.

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Wife of Dr. Berwyn Eastwood. St Anne's College, Oxford. friend of Beryl Graves. Also mutual friends of Isobel Hawking, Stephen Hawking's mother.

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High ranking Civil Servant in the Tax office. Came to Deyá with his family in the 1960's. Close friend of Robert Graves. Also a friend of Idries Shah. Bought a house in Deya and lived part of his retirement there.

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Unidentified Student. Graves explains who "Parsiphae" was in his poem. "I am sorry my poems are set for analysis: poems are not for analysis".

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Highly distinguished American poet, critic, and editor, and much remembered as author of ‘The Waste Land’. Contacts with Graves in the 1920's and were planning a book together which Graves then completed with Riding. Close friend of Esra Pound. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats· (1939) gave rise the Lloyd Weber's West End "Cats". As editor at "Faber and Faber" he accepted the publication of Graves's The White Goddess, when others had turned it down, and Faber have had it in print since.

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Jewish Doctor, who left Austria after the annexation and eventually settled in Panama. Visited Graves in Deyá in 1959.

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Wife of Gustavo Engler.

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William Sargant's secretary

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American-born poet, born in New York, short story writer, translator and librettist, has mainly lived in Britain since she was 15, having also spent some years living in France and Spain. In addition to her own works, Fainlight has also provided criticism for BBC Radio, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and numerous other publications. Fainlight was married to the British writer Alan Sillitoe (cf) and has a son, David and an adopted daughter, Susan. She and Alan Sillitoe made several visits and long stays with Robert Graves.

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'The Prince of Proof-readers'. In 1922, Feipel began contacting the authors or publishers of 200 recently-produced books with an analysis of each book's typographical errors, as well as lexical, grammatical and orthographic inconsistencies. His aim was to determine the extent to which authors were involved with the production of their books and arouse their support to increase the quality of published books. Here he was proof-reading the American 1930 edition of Goodbye to All That

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English solicitor and writer, known as the friend and posthumous biographer of Samuel Butler. Appreciated Graves liking of Butler.

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Desmond Flower was a publisher, a book-collector, a scholar and a writer. Chairman of Cassell.

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Unidentified. Publisher of Winnie Ille Pooh?

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Spanish Politician. Minister of Tourism in Franco’s government. Spanish Ambassador in Britain. Visited Graves in Deya regarding tourism and the became friends. In exchange for facilitating the arrival of main electricity to Deyá in 1963, Graves gave a talk on tourism in the Ateneo in Madrid.

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English artist, designer and author. Old-Carthusian. Officer in Durham Light Infantry in WWI. Friend of Paul Nash. Designed for publisher Harold Monro including cover of Graves’s Over the Brazier. Died as a result of gassing in WWI.

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Danish artist. Re ·Lawrence and the Arabs

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Ms. Gamba is currently Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism established by Security Council resolution 2235 (2015) on the use of chemicals as weapons in Syria. She brings more than 30 years of experience and professional leadership on issues related to disarmament, peace and human security. At KIng's College London, during the Falklands war. Graves wrote to her mother, Signora Zavatarelli (cf.), in 1969 and enclosed a letter to Virginia who would have then been 15..

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American literary agent?

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American Actress. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in John Ford’s Mogambo (1953). Graves met Ava Gardner in 1956 through Ricardo Sicré (cf.), her next door neighbour in Madrid, and Ava flew over to Mallorca to "learn about poetry". She made several visits. Good friends and met often in Sicré's house on his way to lecture in the USA . At one of Graves's birthday parties in Deyá, she famously asked to dance with the head of the local Guardia Civil: he had to refuse because he was in uniform.

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English writer and publisher. Garnett described his memories of the English literary coterie—including the Bloomsbury group—of which he was a member during the period of World War I and the 1920s. Involved with T.E.Lawrence Trust: relates letters

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Born Karl Goldschmidt, trained as draftsman. Graves’s personal assistant until 1965. Working in Deyá from the early 1930's for both Graves and Riding, he left Mallorca with Graves and Riding at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. At the beginning of WW2 he was interned as an alien until Graves managed to have him released. Karl took out British nationality and changed his name to Kenneth Gay. He briefly became a submariner, but had a nervous breakdown. He continued to work a Graves's secretary and assistant, and followed him to Mallorca in 1947 where he lived next door in Deyá until 1965, when Graves (at 70) could no longer keep him busy. Karl then took up a post as assistant-librarian at the Poetry Collection at SUNY at Buffalo (where many of Graves's poetry manuscripts are housed). He died in Mallorca in 1995

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RGs editor at Cassell.

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Editor at Doubleday of The Hebrew Myths, by Graves and Patai published 1964

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Unidentified - publisher/magazine editor?

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American Painter. Married Cecily Foster. Painted portrait of Graves in 1948.

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Cicely Foster Gittes. Concert Pianist. Lived in Deya with painter Archie Gittes and their children during the war andlooked after 'Solomon', Graves's dog. Then moved to Palma until they left for the USA in 1949. When in Palma in 1947, William Graves stayed with them prior to the operation on his injured foot. They remained in close contact with the Graves. She sent food and clothes (washed) parcels from the USA into the early 1950's. "Family" letters from Graves. Cicely later wrote her account of Deyá during the Spanish Civil War and WW2.

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Australian composer and music critic. Approached Graves for the rights to compose an opera out of Homer's Daughter which she was granted. The libretto was by Alastair Reid (cf). It was performed in Athens in 1961 to great aclaim.

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Peter Glenville was an English theatre and film director, and actor. He was a prominent director of stage plays on the West End and Broadway in the 1950s. He was nominated for four Tony Awards for his American plays. In the following decade, he transitioned to become a film director. 1957 letter from Graves concerning I, Claudius, Alec Guinness.

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Popular British poet, critic, and literary biographer, Sir Edmund Gosse wrote more than sixty books between 1873 and 1928. He is best remembered for his personal memoir, Father and Son (1908). English poet, author and critic. Several unsatisfactory letters.

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Pupils of fith grade at an unidentified school

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Alfred Perceval Graves, RG’s father, was an Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter and folklorist. He married, firstly, Jane Cooper, in 1874, and had five children. Widowed, he then married Amalie von Ranke, daughter of Heinrich von Ranke, in 1891. He had another five children of which Robert was the third born. Alfred was Inspector of Schools but is better known as writer of ballads and songs. He is best remembered for his song ‘Father O'Flynn'. He wrote To Return To All That, published 1931 in reply to Robert's Goodbye to All That .

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RG’s mother. Born Amalia Sophia von Ranke, a great-niece of the historian Leopold von Ranke, was born in London, and later looked after an elderly relation, from who she inherited a substantial sum. She met her future husband Alfred Perceval Graves, another relation who had recently widowed with five children. She then bore Alfred five children more, Robert being the third. It was Amy who paid for the family house in Wimbledon, London, and then for their home in Harlech, Wales, and later helped Robert financially with his first young family with Nancy.

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RG’s second wife. PPE at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Married Alan Hodge 1938. Changed her name by deed poll from Hodge to Graves in June 1943. Married Robert Graves in May 1950 after his divorce from Nancy Nicholson was granted. Did much typing for Robert when the work-load was too much for Karl, or when Karl was not available. She kept the Graves household together when Robert had his muses, and then throughout his senility and last years. Beryl was essential in compiling and editing Robert's Complete Poems with Dunstan Ward. When she died the Graves house was sold to the Mallorca Government by the heirs.

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RG’s brother, the fourth child of Alfred Perceval Graves with Amalie von Ranke. He married, firstly, Margaret (Peggy) Gordon, and secondly, Vivien Winch. No issue. Young Charles followed Robert through Charterhouse and St John's but missed WWI. As a journalist and travel writer he met celebrities, politicians, sportsmen, royalty and business leaders. His literary friends included George Bernard Shaw, P.G.Wodehouse, Somerset Maugham and Rudyard Kipling. As opposites there was a poor relationship between he and Robert, although they made up towards the end.

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RG’s sister, the eldest of his siblings. Never married, mostly looked after her parents, almost killed in a bomb blast in Jerusalem when with her half-brother Richard Graves (cf.) in 1948. Poet. Painter, Christian Scientist.

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RG’s first son with N.Nicholson. Commissioned in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Died in action in Burma in 1943 when he was 23 years old. No issue. He was the only one of Graves children of who wrore poetry.

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Daughter of Richard M. Graves, Robert's half-brother. Actress in "The Love of the Four Colonels" with Peter Ustinov, married actor Michael Gough, and mother of Simon Gough. Wrote her biography To My Astonishment

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Robert's half brother. Diplomat m. Eva Wilkinson, daughter Diana Graves (cf.) As de facto Mayor of Jerusalem, in 1946, he narrowly avoided a bomb assasiation in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. He had met his sister Clarissa (cf.) a couple of streets away and had stopped for a coffee. He wrote his account in Experiment in Anarchy by R.M. GRaves who during critical 1947-1948 when he was MAYOR OF JERUSALEM. Robert Graves added an appendix Sovereign Rights in Palestine.

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RG’s youngest brother, again went to Chartehouse and St John's and missed WWI. Writer. Helped Robert reseach Emperor Claudius' conquest of Britain; accompanied Amy Graves to visit RG in Mallorca in 1935. John worked on a history of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Married Mary Wickens; four children: Richard Perceval (RG's biographer), Simon, Elizabeth (illustrator), Charles. John was head-master of Holme Grange School 1950-1970, where RG visted him.

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(Margaret, née Leigh) first wife of Charles Graves, Robert's brother. Nurse then writed under pen name of Jane Gordon

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RG’s second son with N.Nicholson. Speech and hearing impediment due to poorly treated measels in Cairo. Studied architure. Two children- Georgina and David

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Nephew of RG, son of John Graves.

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Youngest son of RG. Bedales School then London School of Printing. Set up New Seizin Press and published Eleven Songs, and Across the Gulf, poems of Robert Graves. He has written several books including Bread and Oil: Majorcan Culture's Last Stand, Tuning Up At Dawn: A Memoir of Music and Majorca, and A Home in Majorca. He was a founding member of the Pa'amb Oli Band. Lives in Mallorca with wife Carmen, and daughter Rocio.

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Married Charles Graves -, Robert's brother. née Bligh St George (then married Clarke, then Winch). - Wrote "A Mirror for Mama". Correspondence with Graves after Charles death in 1971.

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Eldest son of Robert and Beryl Graves. Oundle School, Imperial College, BGS Cert. Geologist. Consulting Petroleum Geologist. Also Robert Graves's literary executor . Author of Wild Olives, Life in Mallorca with Robert Graves, translator into Spanish (with his wife Elena Lambea) of The White Goddess. Unpaid director of the Fundacion Robert Graves and of La Casa de Robert Graves in Mallorca. MBE

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St John's Oxford University involved in RG’s Crewellian Oratio

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English composer and poet. One of the "war poets". Suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionlsed for the last 15 years of his life in a mental institution. He set various of Graves' poems to music.

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American teacher, a classical scholar, and a translator of numerous works from Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and German. Graves to Hadas: "I do hope we meet. You are my favourite Classical professor." Short but pleasant correspondence.

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Born in Sussex in and spent the summers there while growing up in Northern Ireland. He obtained First Class Honours in English at University College, Oxford. After living in Italy, the USA and Portugal, he worked from one end of Canada to the other as university lecturer, farmer, small press publisher, then as a psychologist, having completed clinical training and a doctorate in Boston and San Francisco. He returned to England in 1994 to work in the NHS as a consultant neuropsychologist. HIs second wife was Marnie Pomeroy: "What a happy day when you paired-off with Marnie" in letter from RG.

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British newspaper editor including The Times and broadcasting administrator. Met Graves in waiting lounge at Rome Airport. Then Graves wrote to him regarding the publication of a letter in the Times.

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American independent oil producer and philanthropist. Friend of Ricardo Sicre. He invited Willliam Graves (cf.) when he finished his degree in Geology, to learn about petroleum exploration in the Hamon offices.

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Wife of Jake Hamon.

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Daughter of Terence Hards

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Poet and friend - Graves published his poems as a Seizin Press book As It Was (1964) and distributed by Heinemann. Graves said, in his foreword: ‘He never sent me his poems for comment. Instead, I humbly asked permission to see them. Nor did he ever study technique at a University, but read what poetry happened to come along, decided on its authenticity, and found a style of his own.’ Terry spent his last years in retirement in the Dorset village of Morcombelake. But the extra time he wanted to devote to writing poetry, radio plays, and short stories, was tragically cut short: he died after being struck by a car near his home.

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2nd wife of Thomas Hardy. Teacher and author.

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English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, though he saw himself as a poet and wrote novels mainly for financial gain only. Hardy’s poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Graves visited him at Max Gate, and held a brief correspondence with him.

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English Author, biographer and historian. At Charterhouse with Graves - Co-editor of ‘Green Chartreuse’ magazine -only one issue- which they published with the help of their English teacher George Mallory (cf.), the climber who was lost on Everest.

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English archaeologist and writer. She was the first woman to study the Archaeology and Anthropology degree course at the University of Cambridge. Short correspondence (she came to Mallorca with her first husband, Christopher Hawkes, for an archaeological conference in Pollensa in August 1950, and visited Graves in Deyá.) Later married J.B.Priestley.

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Solicitor used by Robert Graves and Joshua Podro in ther libel cases against The Manchester Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.

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One of the leading poets of his generation, he believed his progressive blindness stimulated his imagination. Letter re the "Balearic Crane" in the White Goddess

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Unidentified printer friend of Graves's daughter Jenny Nicholson

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Scottish American classicist, academic writer, intellectual critic, and literary historian.

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English historian and journalist. A member of the circle of writers and artists that centred on Laura Riding and Robert Graves in the late 1930s. Hodge came out to Deya early 1936 until the Spanish Civil War broke out. He later researched for Graves on Count Belisarius, and the Sergeant Lamb books, and collaborated with Graves on The Long Week-End, a social history of Britain between the wars, and The Reader Over Your Shoulder, a guide to writing English prose. After the Second World War he worked as the general editor of Hamish Hamilton's Novel Library, as an editorial assistant on Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and as a founding co-editor (with Peter Quennell) of the successful magazine History Today. Graves married Hodge's first wife.

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English artist and illustrator, and Member of the Royal Academy. He bought a house in Deyá in the 1960's so became Graves's neighbour. He proposed illustrating a book of Graves's stories and the result was Majorca Observed. In 1975 he produced the spectacular Deyá A Portfolio Of Five Poems And Lithographs by Robert Graves and Paul Hogarth.

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She earned degrees at Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University. She is married to a career Mexican Ambassador Her task during the 1968 Olympics was to keep Graves entertained by interesting him in Mexico’s cultural history. Her account of Robert’s time in Mexico appears in "Poetry and The Olympics, 1968 Mexico, Robert Graves" in The Robert Graves Review - Volume 1 Number 2 / Summer 2022. Significant number of letters.

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Pobably curator at the Bodlean asking for Graves's papers. Graves responds that he is selling his to US Universities to pay for children and grandchildren's education.

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Director of A.P. Watt & Sons

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He was a co-founder with Cape of the publishing house of Jonathan Cape. Editorial concerns. Dealt with Goodbye to All That, But it Still Goes On and with No Decency Left (written jointly by Riding and Graves as Barbara Rich).

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Produced a Master’s Dissertation on RG poetry in 1965. Univerity Professor of English Lit. in South Africa

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Prizewining American photographer. Friend of Graves and Laura Riding in Mallorca in 1930's and wrote an essay in Epilogue on photography. Moved to England at the begining of the Spanish Civil War. Great Bardsfield?

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Irish diplomat and poet. He served as Irish Ambassador to Sweden, Norway, Finland, India, Luxembourg and Portugal. As a young man Graves helped Iremonger with his poetry, and he assisted Graves with his research for The White Goddess. He is acknowledged in the first sentence of the Foreword (first edition) among the short list of friends who helped him. In a letter Graves reiterates ' I acknowledge my debt to you of the quotation from Calder’s Hearings of the Scholars about the hind and the apple-tree.'

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American, teacher in New York. Arrived in Deya having won the $64,000 question. Close friend of Aemilia Laraçuen (Cindy Lee).

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Close friend and advisor of Graves. Selwyn served in the Tank Corps during World War I. Before WW2 war he wrote short stories and film scripts. In 1943 Selwyn set up a section F. of Special Operations Executive, SOE and became recuting officer and then one of the five directors. He looked after operations in France during war and insisted, with Churchill's OK, on using women agents including Odette. After the war he wrote detective stories, and more film scripts. In the 1960's he helped Robert Graves manage his affairs in his old age. Collector of Robert Graves books and publications, he passed his collection on to William Graves when William became Graves's literary executor.

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Wife of Selwyn Jepson.

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Unidentified person. Regarding Seizen Press books "If you knew what a hell of a nuisance you were."

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British scholar, poet and translator. Graves's answer to a one-off letter.

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Editor at Faber & Faber (USA).

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Author of Vartanoosh. Contacted Graves re. T.E.Lawrence bust.

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Unidentified. Foreign Office? Had Robert Graves's Passport.

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Curator of the RWF Museum at Caernarfon Castle in 1970's. Two 1970 letters. Graves mentions his audience with Queen Elizabeth II, Colonel in chief of the RWF, and conversation regarding the Regiment. Graves also mentions visits in Mallorca from WWI soldiers serving under him.

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Author of "Myth and Miracle" re. Shakespeare

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Founder with his wife Blanche of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., an American publishing house in 1915. and Alfred traveled abroad regularly and were known for publishing European, Asian, and Latin American writers in addition to leading American literary trends. Publieshed several of Graves's books

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Danish painter and writer. In Palma in 1947-1948.

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Kosambi was an Indian polymath with interests in mathematics, statistics, philology, history, and genetics. He contributed to genetics by introducing the Kosambi map function. Graves wrote to him: "I am translating the Iliad at present, and find many close similarities with the Irish Epic The War of the Bulls".

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British arts journalist, editor and broadcaster. In answer to request for a review of two books on folklore.

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American artist and muse of poet Robert Graves. Arrived in Deya c. 1960 with Ralph Jacobs, rumoured as having won the 64,000 dollar quiz on television in the USA. Initially known as Cindy Lee, (she and her then husband, Owen Lee, a scuba diver whom she later stabbed, lived one summer in Graves's cottage above the Cala Deya). Cindy took over the musedon when Margot tired (Margot Callas to William Graves). Cindy cheated Graves for as long as her Musedom lasted. He bought her a house in Mexico, where she lived on and off with another man. To prove his trust in her he gave her the copyright to all his muse poems, which she then tried to sell on the open market. Selwyn Jepson (cf.) arranged for them to be acquired by The University of Victoria.

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Literary executor of his brother T.E. Lawrence. British authority on classical sculpture and architecture. As chairman of the T.E.Lawrence Trust he gave Graves together with Basil Liddell Hart difficulties on publishing their letters from T.E.L. when writing their biographies of him. Their personal letters to T.E. were sold rather than donated to the Bodleian. Later in 1963/4 correspondence re. the Lawrence of Arabia film and then

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British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia. Graves met him at Oxford and became friends. When in financial difficulty, Lawence arranged for Graves to write a 'light' biography Lawrence and the Arabs, published in 1927.

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Mallorca Resident - Married to Gerald Baker. Stayed at the Posada for their honeymoon.

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English publisher, poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. He published several of Graves's poems.

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British scholar at St John's College, Oxford of English literature and a translator of German poetry. Helped Graves with his Latin oration, the Oratio Creweiana, in 1962 and 1964, and also for a literary prize covered in the correspondence.

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Hungarian physician, writer, translator, painter, musician, poet and occasional language instructor. He is best known as the Latin translator of A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh. of which Lenard sent a copy to Graves which began the correspondence, mostly in Latin. Lenard then wrote "The Valley of the Latin Bear". Graves writes in his introduction to the book: "Both as a physician and a poet - he writes poems in German and Hungarian, but seems at his quintessential best in Latin - Dr. Lenard has felt bound to treat people solely as themselves, rather than as classifiable sociological specimens. And this is what makes The Valley of the Latin Bear a real book."

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Remarkable poet and short-story writer, died, aged twenty-eight, in Burma in the Second World War. Some critics see him as the last of the great Romantic poets, a twentieth century Keats. Others describe his poetry as the path from pre-war Yeats and Auden to post-war poets like Hughes and Gunn. In Wales there are those who think his greater versatility and finer intelligence place him above his contemporaries Dylan Thomas and R.S. Thomas. Graves admired him and introduced and helped publish his postumous poems Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets

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Wife of Alun Lewis. Welsh teacher. Arranged with Robert to publish Alan Lewis' poems postumously Ha,Ha, Among the Trumpets.

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Usually known before his knighthood as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was an English military historian who greatly influenced the development of armoured warfare in the 20th century, and strategic theory. He used ‘Liddell’ (his mother’s maiden name) as part of his surname from 1921. Collaborated with Graves on the T.E.Lawrence - Letters to his Biographers which led to a long correspondence between them which continued through WW2. Graves's moved to South Devon, near Brixham, to be close to Liddell Hart and his own sister Rosaleen (Roz) Cooper.

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Wife of Basil Liddel Hart, Looked after Basil's affairs after his death.

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Not identified, Possibly: John ('Jack') Lindsay (1900-1990), writer and polymath,

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Mother of Betty Sicré

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New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. Interested in Australian Aboriginal, Pacific Island and African cultures, and this had great influence on his work. Moved to London in 1926 where he met Eric Kennington, and then Graves and Riding. Designed dust jacket for Goodbye to All That, and then covers for several of the Seizin books. Seizin published his No Trouble. During war worked in the GPO Film Unit. Lye was married twice. Firstly to Jane Thompson with whom he had two children, then to Ann Zeiss. He took US citizenship in 1950. There is a Len Lye Foundation and Centre in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Two of Len's early batiks hang in the Graves house in Mallorca.

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American editor, novelist and critic whose literary career spanned more than 50 years. Editor at Playboy

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A poet, but also a short story writer, a translator, and a lecturer on many literary subjects. Sent Graves a book.

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Eddie Marsh, translator, arts patron and civil servant. He was the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many individuals, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as Private Secretary to a succession of Great Britain’s most powerful ministers, particularly Winston Churchill. He was a friend and mentor of Graves and published him in his "Georgian Poetry" collections. He also helped Robert financially when first married, with little income, a wife and four children, and later with the police investigation during the Laura Riding attempted suicide crisis.

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Mathews was born in New York City. He was raised in Massachusetts. He studied at Princeton University and at Harvard University. In 1949 he eloped with his childhood friend and artist Niki de Saint Phalle. After having two children together, they separated in 1960. He later married Marie Chaix. American writer, the author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. Harry lived on Mallorca with Niki de Saint Phalle in Soller and were friends of the Graves, who used to visit them at their house in the Vercors, France, when driving up to London. The couple appear in the group image of Graves and Ava Gardner at Palma airport.

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Throughout the 1920s Matthewman was especially associated with the poetry scene in Leeds, as well as in London. He was the founder and editor of Yorkshire Poetry from 1922-24, while also the associate editor of Poetry Review (1921-23) and assistant editor of The Decachord from 1923-29.

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Graves met Princeton University educated Matthews, in Oxford in 1923. Working for "Time" magazine in America, in 1932 he took a sabbatical in Europe with his family, and visited Graves and Riding in Deyá. He wrote, 'under Laura Riding's guidance" The Moon's no Fool, published by the Seizen press. When Graves and Riding went to the USA in 1939, they stayed with a close friend of Tom Matthews, Schuyler Jackson, whom Riding later married. Graves and Matthews remained life long friends. (See The Moon's No Fool/Under the Influence by T.S.Matthews.)

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Ken McCormick (1906-1997), served as both editor and chief operating executive of Doubleday’s editorial department. During his association with the company of more than fifty years, he occupied a variety of positions and distinguished himself as one of the leading figures in publishing. From 1955, after his previous publishers Creative Age Press with Eileen Garrett sold out, Robert Graves dealt mostly with Ken at Doubleday.

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German & Greek Scholar. Married Marion M’o’zskce. Possibly friend of Herbert Von Ranke. Robert consulted McFadyen on Greek matters.

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Nee M’o’zskce, Married Colin McFadyean, then married FitzGibbon, then Whitehorn. Parents lived in Paignton. Visited Galmpton in the 1940’s. Helped Robert research "The Golden Fleece"

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Roderick Meiklejohn, senior civil servant at the Treasury and poet. Helped Robert with his poetry in 1917 and 1919

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Artist, illustrator. Studied at Yale, Italian program at RISD and the Royal Danish Academy. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and Europe. In the 1960s she and her husband Bruce Wallace bought a house in Deya with Graves’s help. She Illustrated Graves’s children's book The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star .

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Unidentified autograph hunter

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Britsh-Irish actor and comedian, born in British India, but relocated in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life. Disliking his given name he called himself "Spike". Milligan was the co-creator, main writer, and a principal cast member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show. Spike wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon (1963) and Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971). He also wrote comical verse, with much of his poetry written for children. Graves and Milligan met on a TV show and became friends. They held a substancial exchange of letters and did two theatrical performances together. Pauline Scudamore edited their correspondence: Dear Robert, Dear Spike, The Graves-Milligan Correspondence, 1991.

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Scottish novelist and poet. Baroness Mitchison. Often called a doyenne of Scottish literature, she wrote over 90 books of historical and science fiction, travel writing and autobiography. Sent a prospectus in 1928 to Graves and Riding which they returned. In 1948 showed interest in The White Goddess.

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Half sister of the Duke of Portland and wife to a liberal M.P., she ran a celebrated salon in Bedford Square, London, before WWI. Later she offered solace, comfort and hospitality at Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire, to artists and writers, undergraduates. Among her friends were Siegfried Sassoon and pacifist Bertram Russell. Graves spent a couple of weekends at Garsington after his wounding 1916-1917.

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Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. Graves sends him a copy of Riding's The Trojan Ending

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Wife of Gilbert Murray

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Andrew Mylett, a young student and admirer of Graves' work, was employed by the publishers Constable for a few years before becoming a free-lance journalist, He was the editor of the magazine Summary, whose first and only issue (Autumn 1970) was largely devoted to a distinguished symposium on Anthony Powell. Long correspondence with Graves

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Wife of Vis Nathan.

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Friend of Catherine Dalton. Helped RG with his piece on Reincarnation in Playboy Magazine.

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Beryl Graves’s elder sister. Went to St Hilda’s Oxford. Married barrister Jack Neep later K.C. (c.f.)

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Highly successful barrister and later K.C. Left UK after the war because of high taxes and bought a coffee plantation in Kenya. He and his wife Evelyn (Beryl Graves's sister) were friendly with the kikuyu and knew Jomo Kenyata. They sold up and eventually retired to Portugal where they are both buried. They visited Robert and Beryl Graves in Mallorca.

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Sir Henry John Newbolt, CH was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a role as a government adviser with regard to the study of English in England. He is perhaps best remembered for his poems "Vitaï Lampada" and "Drake's Drum". Corresponded with Graves regarding the poem "Alice" (Fleuron Press)

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Nee Callas, Canadian of Greek parents. Came to Deyá in 1959. Graves’s "muse" until she went off to live with Alastair Reid in 1961. Most of Graves's poems in the early 60's were dedicated to her. In 1963 she married film producer Mike Nichols, has a daughter Daisy, and divorced him in 1974. She remained friends with the Graves’s.

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English writer, playwright and war poet of World War I. He served in the Royal Artillery as an officer from 1914 to 1916, in the fighting at Loos and the Somme. He was then invalided out, with shell shock. He began to give poetry readings in 1917. In 1918 he was a member of an official British propaganda mission to the USA. After the war he moved in social circles in London. He was Professor of English Literature at the University of Tokyo, from 1921 to 1924. He then worked in the theatre and cinema.

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First daughter of RG with Nancy Nicholson (cf.). Started dancing and performing in Wales at the age of 12. In 1936 joins the Charles B. Cochran (cf.) company where she continues dancing. Made friends with Sarah Churchill, and performed in Follow the Sun. Later joined the Liverpool Playhouse. When WW2 started she enlisted in the RAF and become a Public Relations for them at the BBC while writing sketches. Wrote Kiss the Girls Goodbye. Her boyfriend went missing in the Arnhem “bridge-too-far”, and she had a bad patch. She then took up journalism and met Alex Clifford (cf.) one of the best war correspondents. They married after the war and bought a castle in Portofino. Alex died in 1953 and she then married Patrick Cross (cf.), head of Reuters News Agency in Italy, and lived in Rome. Jenny was very well connected and after a varied job as a journalist she lost her job with the Spectator when rightfully accusing the head of the British opposition of drunkenness. She helped her father Robert with various film projects. She died of a brain haemorrhage when only 48 years old.

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Robert's first wife. British painter and fabric designer. Her father was Sir William Nicholson, painter, and her brother, Ben Nicholson, the avant-guard painter; her mother was also a painter. Nancy married Robert Graves in 1918 when he was still in uniform - she was "land-girl". Nancy kept her maiden name. They soon had for children, Jenny, David, Catherine and Samuel. Girls were Nicholson, boys were Graves. As from early 1926 Nancy and Robert lived in London with Laura Riding, in a triangular relationship. Robert's marriage eventually broke down, and he left with Laura Riding for Spain. Nancy brought up the four children in Cumberland and elsewhere. Robert and Nancy were legally divorced in 1949 but had kept in touch by letter.

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British writer, collector and librarian.

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Robert Nye FRSL (was an English poet and authorof bestselling novel Falstaff, published in 1976. No contact with Graves oyher than letter regarding Laura Riding

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One half of married couple of folklorists who applied modern techniques to understanding children's literature and play. Married to Peter Opie, Iona and Peter were folklorists who pioneered the study of childhood culture, past and present, in Britain. They were well known for their many classic books, including the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951),

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One half of married couple of folklorists who applied modern techniques to understanding children's literature and play. Married to Iona Opie (cf.)

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British journalist, author and editor

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Unidentified. Thanking her for her letter about his broadcast (1956)

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Brother and executor of war poet Wilfred Owen.

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WWI poet. Graves met him with Sassoon at Craiglockhart. Interesting letters from Graves to Owen regarding Owen's poetry. Attended Graves's wedding with Nancy, 23 Jan 1918, giving them an incomplete set (11) of "apostle" spoons. Killed in the last days of the war.

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Literary Agent and agency for Graves c. 1920-1930. On friendly terms in the 1940s

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Jourmalist and author and producer of 11 portraits, (phographic? )including one of Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt. Parker was co-editor of a book of selected letters from Edith Sitwell. Wrote to Graves re. her letters to Graves.

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Comrade from WW1. Answering letter in 1930. Remembers him bleeding like hell just before he himself was wounded. Is this probably the same Parry as Nigel Parry (cf.)

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Comrade from WW1. Answering his letter in 1971 Graves mentions 'visit from Owen who put me on a stretcher before being badly wounded himself'. (N.B. not Owen the poet)Is this probably the same Parry as Mr Parry of 1930.

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Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer and anthropologist. His work was wide-ranging but focused primarily on the cultural development of the ancient Hebrews and Israelites and on Jewish history and culture. Co-wrote The Hebrew Myths with RG. Published Robert Graves and the Hebrew Myths - A Collaboration in 1992 which included most of the correspondence and notes on the writing of their collaboration.

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Australian actor, who worked in both Australia and the United Kingdom. In Mallorca with London-Med Productions in 1970 when Robert re-wrote a poem Pegge had sent him. (See the letter)

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Unidentified

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Eric PinKer of the JAMES B. PINKER. LITERARY & DRAMATIC AGENT. Graves's literary agents to 1930.

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RG’s first Literary Agent. Started by John Pinker and then taken over by his sons Eric and Ralph Pinker after John's death in 1922. Graves then changed to A.P.Watt & Son.

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Ralph PinKer of the JAMES B. PINKER. LITERARY & DRAMATIC AGENT. Graves's literary agents to 1930.

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Unidentified

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Wife of Joshua Podro.

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Jewish immigrant from Belorussia, ran a successful press-cuttings agency by day while devoting his evenings to biblical scholarship. As a young man he had participated in a flourishing Yiddish circle which included the poet Isaac Rosenberg and painters such as David Bomberg. His sister-in-law, Clara Klinghoffer was a successful painter and draughtswoman. He collaborated with Robert Graves, and visited Deyá, on the monumental The Nazarene Gospel Restored (1953), and the subsequent Jesus in Rome (1957).

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Mother of Marnie Pomeroy. (Graves wrote to apologize for missing an engagement with she and her husband.)

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Canadian author, poet, publisher and teacher. Among other books, she is the author of ‘Emily Dickinson’ in the Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary Series. A university student of Alastair Reid who introduced her to Mallorca in 1956 -1958 and became a close friend of the Graves’s.

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American businessman and politician from New York. Father of Marnie Pomeroy.

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American poet. From 1957-1969, Posner was an English instructor and Assistant Curator of Poetry at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Greek Sculptress - Helped Graves on trips to Greece. Married first to Ian Dutton then to Phaedon Stratu.

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Editor and board director at Faber & Faber

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British book critic, writer, journalist and Liberal Party politician. He was notably editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1948 to 1959. Graves wrote to him when the TLS stopped the correspondence regarding a damaging review asking hin to reopen it. When this did not occur Graves and Podro began legal proceedings.

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Friend of T.E. Lawrence when he was in the R.A.F. Extracts from long letters to RG is published in the appendix of Lawrence and the Arabs and gives an excellent account of T.E.'s character through anecdotes of T.E. in the Tank Corps and then in the RAF when he was simply known as "Aircraftsman Shaw". Graves was so apprecialtive they became friends and Graves became god-father of one of Pugh's children.

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American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon College, he was the first editor of the widely regarded Kenyon Review. Ransom was a key member of the Fugitives of which Laura Riding was a member and it was though Ranson that Roding first visited Graves. They Graves and Ranson met up late in life.

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English writer and poet. He published nearly 30 books of poetry, stories and anthologies for both adults and children. He was also well known as a literary critic and broadcaster. Close friend of Graves, he came out to Mallorca both before and after the war and edited, for Hutchinson Educational, the excellent Selected Poetry and Prose by Robert Graves, chosen, introduced and annotated by James Reeves.

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Scottish poet, writer, translator. Graves’s friend and confidant in the 1950's. On staff of "The New Yorker". Came over with his first wife Jean. Then married Mary Mortimer Maddox with whom he had his son Jasper. He accompanied Graves on his first lecture tours in the USA starting 1957. In lieu of a sequel to Goodbye to all That, Graves wanted to publish a correspondence with he in Mallorca and Alastair in the USA, to be entitled QUOZ (cf. Roberts's side of the correspondence). However, in 1961 Graves quarelled with Alastair over Margot Callas. Nevertheless Alastair remained in touch with the family and he wrote Robert's obituary in the New Yorker.

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Unidentified person

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? Publisher of "Balearic book project" ?

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Journalist and editor, married to Lynette Roberts. Published Robert's Dog, Lapwing and Roebuck (1, 2, 3), the precursor to The White Goddess, in three subsequent numbers of Poetry Wales which he edited.

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Author of perhaps the finest memoir of the Great War to be written by a ranker, Old Soldiers Never Die’. Richards published in 1933 his classic account of the war from the standpoint of the regular soldier, and thus differs in many ways from memoirs written by officers who joined the army specifically to serve in the war. Robert Graves "Englished" the text for Richards anonymously, because he felt that the story needed telling; and later did the dame for Richard`s book Old Soldier Sahib.

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Moved from practicing copyright law into a position as assistant to the General Secretary for the Society of Authors in England (telegramme only)

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Born in Buenos Aires of Welsh stock, and lived West Wales. She published two collections of poems in her lifetime, both with Faber and Faber: Poems (1944) and Gods with Stainless Ears. She married the Welsh writer and editor Keidrych Rhys, and came to know some of the prominent writers and artists of her day. T.S. Eliot was her publisher and advocate. Roberts helped Robert Graves with his work on The White Goddess, and Dylan Thomas was best man at her wedding. She was a friend of Wyndham Lewis (who painted her), Edith Sitwell (to whom she dedicated Gods with Stainless Ears) and Alun Lewis (for whom she wrote ‘Poem from Llanybri’), and published in a variety of magazines in Britain and America.

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Unidentified. Graves: obliged to you for your kindness in sending me the Anauni inscription which is very useful: Non stulte guidem = Don’ be a fool. Re Claudius

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Poet, art critic, translator, and editor. Born in Paris in 1910 to American parents, Roditi was educated in England and began writing and translating at a very young age. He was seventeen when his first poem was published and his poems were experimental and rich with imagery. This was about the time he wrote to Laura Riding. Graves replied. "Miss Riding has influenza and has been unable to write to you herself. Miss Stein’s book has been delayed through the binder getting ill but will be sent you soon."

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Unidentified. Rodriguez encloses a poem which Graves takes apart in his letters and ends: "Forgive this, but please take it to heart."

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Hungarian Jewish doctor, settled in Barcelona c. 1940. Antique dealer. Close friend visited Graves in the 1950's and then acquired a house in Deyá..

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German doctor. M. Arnaldo Rosenstingl (cf.).

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Born in Calcutta, studied Modern Language at St. Johns College Oxford, until starting his war service. Poet, writer and cricket devotee whose brilliant editorship of the London Magazine kept alive a literary tradition. Little contact with Graves: sent him questionare on poetry.

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Canadian journalist and art critic. He is best known, however, as the executor of the estate of Oscar Wilde, with whom he had been lifelong friends. He was also responsible for bringing together several great literary figures, such as Siegfried Sassoon and acting as their mentor. Extensive correspondence with Graves.

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Infantry regiment of the British Army and part of the Prince of Wales’ Division, founded in 1689. Correspondence with. Graves joined August 1914 and demobilized, with rank of captain, in February 1919.

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British classicist and academic. He was Professor of Classical Literature at the University of Oxford between 1985 and 1988, and a fellow and tutor of classics at St John’s College, Oxford, from 1948 to 1988. He helped Graves with his Latin Oratio Creweiana delivered in 1962, and then in the one for 1964. Graves tried to write it in Latin himself.

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Succeeded Larkin as literary editor of the Sunday Times in 1945.

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British psychiatrist who is remembered for the evangelical zeal with which he promoted treatments such as psychosurgery, deep sleep treatment, electroconvulsive therapy and insulin shock therapy. Sargant was on Mallorca when he met Graves. When reading the manuscript for Battle for the Mind, Graves became interested in the subject, and offered to help "English" it: he started work on it in 1955 and it was published in 1966. The correspondence is mostly about this and Sargent's subsequent book in 1965 The Unquiet Mind.

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English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. He later won acclaim for his prose work. Close friend of Graves during WWI in the Royal Welch Fusiliers - heroic soldier. Became involved with the anti-war group which included Bertram Russell. Wrote an antiwar letter to The Times and Graves managed to get him sent (instead of a court martial) to Craiglockhart Hospital where he met Wilfred Owen. Sassoon's friendship with Graves ended with the arrival of Laura Riding in the late 1920's.

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English pacifist, poet and critic. Corresponded with Robert Graves from 1943 to 1960. Graves vaguely considered him as a tutor for his children, but his letters are fairly non committal although he did send him a little money.

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Book Editor - adviser to the Lawrence executors - Lost photographs?

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Unidentified poet. Sent Graves a book of his selected poems in 1924

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Canadian friend of RG. Anthopologist and Graphologist. Lived in Palma in the 1950's.

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Scottish writer, most famous for his English translation of Proust’s ’À la recherche du temps perdu’, ‘Remembrance of Things Past’. Wounded at the Battle of Arras in 1917. Wartime correspondence with Graves. It was at Robert Graves's wedding in January 1918 that Charles Scott Moncrieff met the war poet Wilfred Owen, in whose work he took a keen interest.

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Rolfe Arnold Scott-James OBE was a British journalist, editor and literary critic. He is often cited as one of the first people to use the word "modernism" in his 1908 book Modernism and Romance. Contact when Assistant editor, The Spectator, London (1933-1935;)

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Editor or Subeditor of the Spectator in 1954

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Ronald Searle CBE RDI was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School. Graves supplied a School Hymn for St Trinians. Searle also produced twelve splendid illustrations for Graves's The Anger of Achilles (The Iliad) for which Searle spent a significant time taking notes for the images from vases in the British Museum.

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Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist. In touch with Graves who then translated his La Luna de los Perros (the translation was never published).

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Father of Marin Seymour-Smith. Librarian and book seller. Provided Graves with many of the reference books he required for his books and novels.

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Janet Seymour-Smith born Janet de Glanville was an English translator and scholar. She worked as a translator of Greek texts for Robert Graves and she became a life-long muse and collaborator with her prolific writer husband Martin Seymour-Smith.

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Marjorie Seymour-Smith, married to Frank S-S, and mother of Martin Seymour-smoth

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Poet and author. Son of Frank Seymour Smith, (cf.) who supplied Graves with second hand books for research, Martin came to Mallorca to tutor (successfully) Graves's son William for the entrance exam to an English boarding School. As such Martin features in Robert Creely's The Island. He married Janet de Glanville who was helping Graves as researcher with his Greek Myths. They live in a flat in Palma above the Graves’s. Later Martin became reviewer for Financial Times. He is best known for his thorough study of 20th-century poetry, drama and fiction entitled Guide to Modern World Literature, published in 1973. He was Graves’s first biographer with Robert Graves, His Life and Work, Hutchinson 1982.

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Grand Sheikh of the Sufis, born in India, was writer a teacher, perhaps best known for his collections of humorous Mulla Nasrudin stories. Author of many books including The Sufis (with an introduction by Graves) in his writings, Shah presented Sufism as a universal form of wisdom that predated Islam. Emphasizing that Sufism was not static but always adapted itself to the current time, place and people, he framed his teaching in Western psychological terms. Shah made extensive use of traditional teaching stories and parables, texts that contained multiple layers of meaning designed to trigger insight and self-reflection in the reader. He was one of Graves's closest intellectual friends in the 1960's, and a frequent visitor to Deyá with his family.

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Wife of Ricardo Sicre (cf.) Piloted US and Allied aircraft in and out of war zones in the British Air Transport Auxiliary, set up spy rings along the Côte d'Azur for the Office of Stragegic Services. Close friend of Robert and Beryl Graves and family: used their house in Lluchalcari often, and, when away, lent the house to the Graves family for their Sunday picnics.

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Officer in Republican Army, Met Graves in 1939. Went to USA. Member of Bill Donovan’s OSS. Worked with Betty Lussier, also in the OSS whom he later married. Returned to Franco’s Spain as US citizen. VP of World Commerce Corporation. Remained good friends with Graves. Bought house in Deya, c. 1960, belonging to Robin Blyth . Robert and betty helped his publish his book, "The Tap on the Left Shoulder". Became a millionaire with large sailboat but continued helping Graves.

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Frank Sidgwick was an English publisher, writer, scholar and literary editor known by Sherlockians for his 1902 article about Sherlock Holmes titled "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Graves turned down Sidgwick's request to publish a poem of his for the reasons published in A Pamphlet Against Anthologies.

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English writer: difficult beginnings working in Raleigh bicycle factory in Nottingham. Joined the RAF, and was radio operator during the Malaya “Emergency”. Tuberculosis. Came to Mallorca with Ruth Fainlight (cf) in 1953, writing poetry but having his novels rejected, Graves suggested he wrote novel based on his life experience: Alan wrote his best selling Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ in Mallorca circa 1955 and subsequent best sellers followed. Close friends of the Graves’s and stayed many time with them in Deyá.

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Oscar Ansell Silverman was associated with the University at Buffalo in various roles from 1926 to his retirement in 1972. 4In 1960 he was named director of Libraries and served until 1968. Silverman played a key role in the acquisition of the important James Joyce and Robert Graves material.

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School Inspector, married to sculptor Dorothy Simmons. In 1928 they met Laura through Vyvian Richards and their printing press.Very much acolytes of Laura they followed her to New Hope. Later as from 1953 they ran the successful Kneesworth Hall School (1953-1970) for "juvenile delinquents". One of these was Robin Blyth who arranged delivery of a Land Rover for Graves in 1955

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Eminent Radiologist. (George Simon, M.D., M.R.C.P., F.F.R., Assistant Director, X-ray Department, Brompton Hospital, London; Radiologist, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.) Met in Graves in Devon during war. Graves got his advice on medical questions, sent him books. Difficult period towards end when his daughter Julia (Graves’s god-daughter) became Graves’s ‘Fourth Muse’.

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Editor of Fleuron Press. Published Graves's 'The Welchman's Hose', a collection of poems, with Paul Nash's cover and engravings in 1925. Correspondence relates to a plea for an advance on royalties.

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Unidentified editor. In 1968 Graves asks him to correct a passage to the press (?)

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American Professor of English who in 1969 published Letters of Aldous Huxley.

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Aspiring teenage poet in the late 1960s. Graves gives her encouragement.

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Teacher of English Literature at Barnard Castle School. "absolutely remarkable English teacher" friend of W. H. Auden at Oxford and later of Robert Graves. Important correspondence with Graves during 1943

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Held Knightsbridge Chair of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge, and was elected a fellow of Kings College. Father of Charles Hamiton Sorley, whom Graves regarded the best of the poets in WWI. Edited his son's poems in 1919.

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Issuer of Press Cards in Spain during the Franco Regime.

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Editor at "Playbpy" Magazine

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British pianist and author. She was the second wife of the writer Sir Stephen Spender. Taking the stage-name Ray Litvin she was a leading actress during The first World War at the Old Vic. A complex life during which she became interesed in gardening late in life and puplished "An Elglish Garden in Provence"

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European born independent Academy Award-winning film producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront and a further two times for his two collaborations with British director David Lean, Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He had Graves help on a script but then failed to pay him.

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A leading poet of the Georgian school, and an influential critic and editor. He was appointed literary editor of the New Statesman in 1913, and acting editor in 1917. From 1919 to 1934, he was the editor of the monthly periodical, the London Mercury, a publication that highlighted the work of the Georgian poets. His book of poems The Survival of the Fittest (1916) was one of the earliest poetic protests against the First World War. Contributed to The Owl. Corresponded with Graves 1918 to 1930

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American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Made two trips to Mallorca 1915-1916 with her companion Alice Tolkas. Riding and Graves published her book of poems An Acquaintance with Destription in their Seizin Press. After Riding's defenestration and when they left England in 1929, Stein suggested to Graves and Riding they go to Mallorca saying: ‘It’s paradise if you can stand it.’ Her friendship with Graves resumed after her break with Riding.

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Wife of Tom Matthews

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Official in the British Foreign and Colonial Office. He served as Oriental Secretary in Cairo, Military Governor of Jerusalem, Governor of Cyprus, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia. Letter regarding errors in The Long Weekend to which Graves replies. "Beryl and I recall you visit to Galmpton with lively warmth"

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British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A short correspondence with Graves who in 1919 was asking for a contribution to The Owl.

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Popular English novelist, critic, historian, and poet, and published under the name L. A. G. Strong. Friendship with Strong aparently began during the war when Graves was instructing at Wadham after recovering from his wound and persisted through the 1930's. Strong joined Methuen in 1938, and he may have edited Graves's Sargeant Lamb books in the early 1940's.

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Commander Struben RN, Participated in D-Day Landings. His cousin was at Charterhouse, 2 years Robert's junior. In R.F.C, killed in WW1

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Kathleen LiddellHart's brother

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Poet. Long correspondence with Graves from 1966 to 1971. Graves wrote the introduction to Sutton's Out on a Limb published in 1969.

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Special collections curator at Lockwood Memorial Library, SUNY at Buffalo in 1965.

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Inidentified editor

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Red Taylor's (cf.) wife

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"Red" Taylor Welsh artist. Sculptor in metal, painter in oil and gouache, born in Brighton, Sussex. Taylor attended Heatherley's School of Fine Art and signed his work R H R T. Visited Mallorca 1950's. Knew William Cook, Maybe Gerturde Stein. Friends of Graves.

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Quarryman poet. Contact in 1952 with Robert giving him tips. Then quarry accident? More details required. In 1974, interested in publishing Sorley's poetry.

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Generic for anyone receiving correspondence from army personnel

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First worked as a silk-screen printer, graphic designer, stage manager and BBC documentary maker. Since he started writing and illustrating children’s books in 1990, Colin has had more than 40 books published. He has received several awards, Lived with his wife Heather in Deyá for a couple in the early '70's of years where they helped Beryl Graves, and then moved to the Hebrides. Colin lives in Bellingen, Australia.

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British Scholar, novelist, historian and translator. Edward John Thompson was a historian, novelist and translator. He was an ordained Wesleyan (although he later resigned his ordination) and in 1910 he went to Bankura Wesleyan College in Bengal where he became acquainted with Rabindranath Tagore. In 1923, Thompson settled in Oxford and taught Bengali. His friendship with Graves began when he lived on Boars Hill and Graves in Islip, and he was the editor of the sixpenny (6d) Augustan Poetry Series which published the works by Graves. Graves also worked with him on the English Ballad. Edward, his wife Theodosia and their two sons were friends of the family. Their early letters involve football and led to an extensive correspondence on poetry. Thompson was at Dartngton Hall in 1940s. and was (briefly?) in Mallorca in 1944...

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Colin Thompson’s first wife.

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Wife of Edward J. Thompson

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Radio producer at the BBC.

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RWF Sergeant, with Graves in WWI. Short but moving 3 letters ending "I heard officially today that my boy was shot between the eyes, in Burma that day (1943), so I am no longer hoping." David Graves was also a young officer in the RWF.

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Wife of WJ Turner (cf.)

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Australian-born, English-domiciled writer and critic. There he met and befriended a number of literary intellectual figures, including Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Ottoline Morrell (the caricature of her in his book The Aesthetes ended their friendship). During the period from the First World War until the mid-1930s, he was known primarily as a poet. His 1916 Romance ("Chimborazo, Cotopaxi....") is probably the best remembered of his poems. Interesting correspondence with Graves -- involved with the Owl magazine project - correspondence 1918-1921

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Unidentified

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American poet, anthologist, critic and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961. Corresponded with Graves throughout the 1930's.

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Wife of sculptor Oscar Nemon; daughter of Patrick Villiers-Stuart.

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Von Ranke, aka ‘Moritz’, was head of counter-espionage of the PSUC in pre-civil war Catalonia. Robert Graves met him in Deya in 1935 where he was seeing his future wife Seppl Campalans (cf.), the widow of a leftist Catalan politician. At the end of the Spanish Civil Hubert was on the Nazi’s wanted list, so escaped to France. There Graves put him in touch with Gertrude Stein. Hubert helped in the Maquis during WWII. In 1946 he asked for help from Graves whom tried to have the publishers advance for a book transferred to Hubert. Correspondence is from this later period with Stein involved.

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Allied Newspapers

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English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with The Movement literary group. For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio.

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Australian writer living in Deya in 1960s. Married to illustrator Alice Mayer.

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Canadian poet and a sergeant in the RAFVR, who was lost in action during World War II over Essen, Germany in April 1943.

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American Banker (Vice President of J.P. Morgan). Wasson spent most of his career in banking in his position at J.P. Morgan. Later in his life, despite having little formal training in the field, he turned his interests to the study of hallucinogenic mushrooms, religion, and ethnomycology, publishing papers that received attention and acclaim. Wasson became close friends with Graves who contributed ideas on hallucinogenic mushroom usage in ancient times. Graves tried the "magic mushroom" when staying with Wasson in New York in January 1960.

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Director of A.P. Watt & Sons

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Director of A.P. Watt & Sons

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Director of A.P. Watt & Sons

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British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher. Early 1918 contact with Graves not continued.

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English author, literary critic, and publisher. He was the father of the writers Alec and Evelyn Waugh.

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Children’s publisher and journalist. Editor of Puffin Books in the 1960s and 1970s and founder of the Puffin Club. [married names Brierley, Hunter, Searle]. Compiled "The St Trinian’s Story" with her husband Ronald Searle’s cartoons etc including song by Graves. Publised Robert's The Big Green Book in Puffin of which she was editor.

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Photographer. From his migration to Australia in the 1920s to try his luck, until his untimely death in Mallorca at the age of 51, Weedon captured the world he knew with his camera. Places such as Egypt, the Middle East, Ceylon or Central Europe were the protagonists of his images and graphic reports. Married to Veronica More lived in Fornalutx until his early death in 1959 the family were close friends of the Graves. Weedon took many excellent photographs of Robert Graves.

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American writer, essayist, and editor of The Atlantic. Published several articles of Robert Graves

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German Jew who managed to escape to Britain in 1939. Studied at Kings College London. German teacher, lterary critic, translator and wrote in German newspapers after the War.

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Unidentified critic who met Graves (in 1925) at the "Jaw bone Club" and identified his "John Doyle" pseudonym.

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Unidentified person

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Worked for Ricardo Sicré in World Commerce Corporation and was a great help to Graves with international paperwork.

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Unidentified Editor of Magazine: Late October 1930 Graves' offered him short stories: The Shoult, Papa Johnson, and Avocado Pears.

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President of Chicago Arts Club. Lecture: diet and thankyou notes

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Unidentified anthologist. Graves turns down his request for poems in Sept 1933.

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Unidentified person who is being difficult and legalistic regarding help with nursery rhymes in Jan 1922

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English actress, writer and philosopher. Vegetarian and non-violence. Short brush-off letter for Poetry Club dinner.

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Quatermaster/Lieutenat later Major. An important member of the Second Battalion of the RWF Graves knew. Fought in WWI, mentioned in Goodbye to All That. Nicknamed "Daddy Yates".

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Argentinian Poet and Writer. Mother of Virginia Gamba (cf.)

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Poem for publication from Robert Graves

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Incumbent editor of Birmingham News (Alabamah).

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Incumbent editor of Christian Century.

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Incumbent editor of Church Times.

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Incumbent editor of Churchman.

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Incumbent headmaster of Ecole International in Geneva

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Editor at Everyman

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Incumbent editor of Herald Tribune.

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Incumbent editor of the New Statesman

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Incumbent editor of Picture Post.

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Incumbent editor of Princeton Seminary Bulletin.

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Incumbent editor of Sinagogue Review.

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Incumbent editor of The Jewish Chronicle newspaper.

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Incumbent editor of The Listener.

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Incumbent editor of The Manchester Guardian (now The Guardian)

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Incumbent editor of The Observer newspaper.

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Incumbent editor of The Specator, a British pilitical and cuiltural magazine.

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Incumbent editor of the Sunday Times

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Letter regarding T.E.Lawrence

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Incumbent editor of The Times newspaper

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Incumbent editor of The Twentieth Century.

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Incumbent editor of Theology.

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Incumbent editor of Time and Tide.

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Incumbent editor of Times Literary Supplement.

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Incumbent editor of The Truthseeker.

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Editor of an unidentified publication (1).

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Editor of an unidentified publication (2).

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Editor of an unidentified publication (3).

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Incumbent editor of Wiadomosci, a London based Polish magazine.