B28074

Shelfmark

MS 438

Author

Leslie, Shane

Title

Shane Leslie archive,, 1876-1977 (bulk 1900-1965).

Physical description

3.83 linear metres (8 boxes, 10 volumes).

Organization and arrangement of materials

Organised into four series: I. Eton Papers, 1876-[1977]. II. King's College, Cambridge Papers, 1904-1970. III. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and Related Papers, 1915-1962. IV. Other Shane Leslie Papers, 1902-1973.

Note

Correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs and other material that document aspects of Shane Leslie's literary and political pursuits, particularly those related to Eton College or other Old Etonians.

Note

Series I, Eton Papers, contains papers relating to The Oppidan, the purchase of the Marianne Hunt bust of Shelley for the College, as well as miscellaneous Eton papers. An incomplete typescript draft of The Oppidan, heavily annotated by Leslie, is accompanied by letters written by Old Etonians sharing their memories of Eton and a black and white silent film of the novel made in 1939 by Eton boys. The Shelley Bust correspondence includes letters from Edmund Blunden, Marshall Field, and A. S. W. Rosenbach, and his miscellaneous Eton papers include letters written by Alexander of Tunis, Hugh Macnaghten, A. C. Rayner-Wood, Sir A. M. Carr-Saunders, Harold Vincent Charrington, John Gordon Dill, Anselm Guise, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, Harry Streatfield, Henry Edward Verey, A. B. Ramsay, Claude Elliott, Blanche Warre-Cornish, Grizel Hartley, Marjorie Madan, and Clare Frewen Sheridan, in addition to four ALS written by M. R. James to Gwyndolen McBryde.

Note

Series II, King's College, Cambridge Papers contains correspondence from his time at King's, including many letters about rowing, others written by friends during the First World War, and others about the controversial book The Cantab. Correspondents include Charles Cary-Elwes, John Conybeare, John S. Herbert, Buthbert Lyons Buckle, Donald Corrie, and Wilfrid Meynell. An incomplete typescript draft of The Cantab is present, as well as photographs of King's College rowing, and four photos of a production of 'Eumenides'.

Note

Series III, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and Related Papers, contains 21 letters from Spring-Rice and 29 drafts of letters from Leslie to Spring-Rice recording their efforts to sway Irish-Americans to the British side during World War I. Also present is Leslie's corrected typescript of extracts from his diearies 1916-1917.

Note

Series IV, Other Shane Leslie Papers, contains correspondence, writings, printed material and other papers. There is an incomplete typescript draft of The Anglo-Catholic, and a holograph draft of the beginning of Long Shadows, letters from Vyvyan Holland, Ronald Knox, Martin Secker and notes about M. R. James. There are no letters to or from Winston Churchill, Leslie's first cousin, in the collection.

Note

Biographical note: Shane Leslie, writer, Catholic intellectual, and Old Etonian, first cousin of Winston Churchill. Leslie attended Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, later writing loosely about them in The Oppidan and The Cantab. During the First World War, he promoted the British cause to Irish-Americans, working unofficially for British Ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. He wrote and edited many books, short stories and articles, including three autobiographies: The End of a Chapter, The Film of Memory and Long Shadows.

Cite as

Shane Leslie Archive. Eton College Library.

Indexes

Finding aid available.

Subject

James

Subject

Hunt, Marianne Kent

Subject

Leslie, Shane

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Macnaghten, Hugh

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Spring Rice, Cecil, Sir,

Subject

eton college

Subject

King's College

Subject

World War, 1914-1918

Subject

Authors, British, 20th century, Archives

Subject

Great Britain (Place), Foreign relations

Subject

Pakistan (Place), Foreign relations

Subject

Valletta (Place), Foreign relations, 1913-1921

Subject

Valletta (Place), Foreign relations, Great Britain

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Alexander of Tunis, Earl,

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Blunden, Edmund

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Buckle, Cuthbert Lyons

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Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles

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Charrington, Harold Vincent Spenser

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Corrie, Donald

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Dill, John Martin Gordon

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Elliott, Claude Aurelius, Sir,

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Field, Marshall

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Guise, Anselm William Edward, Sir,

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Hartley, Grizel

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Herbert, John Stewart

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Holland, Vyvyan Beresford

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James, M.R

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Knatchbull-Hugessen, Hughe, Sir,

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Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott

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Leslie, John

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Macnaghten, Hugh

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Meynell, Wilfrid

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Ramsay, A, (Allen Beville),

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Rayner-Wood, A.C

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Rosenbach, A. S. W, (Abraham Simon Wolf),

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Secker, Martin

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Sheridan, Clare

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Spring Rice, Cecil, Sir,

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Streatfeild, Henry Sidney John

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Verey, Henry Edward

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Warre Cornish, Blanche

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Conybeare

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Madan, Geoffrey, Mrs.

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Carr-Saunders, Sir,

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Finding aid

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096##$aMS 438

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24510$aShane Leslie archive,$b1876-1977 (bulk 1900-1965).

300##$a3.83 linear metres (8 boxes, 10 volumes).

351##$aOrganised into four series: I. Eton Papers, 1876-[1977]. II. King's College, Cambridge Papers, 1904-1970. III. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and Related Papers, 1915-1962. IV. Other Shane Leslie Papers, 1902-1973.

500##$aCorrespondence, writings, printed material, photographs and other material that document aspects of Shane Leslie's literary and political pursuits, particularly those related to Eton College or other Old Etonians.

500##$aSeries I, Eton Papers, contains papers relating to The Oppidan, the purchase of the Marianne Hunt bust of Shelley for the College, as well as miscellaneous Eton papers. An incomplete typescript draft of The Oppidan, heavily annotated by Leslie, is accompanied by letters written by Old Etonians sharing their memories of Eton and a black and white silent film of the novel made in 1939 by Eton boys. The Shelley Bust correspondence includes letters from Edmund Blunden, Marshall Field, and A. S. W. Rosenbach, and his miscellaneous Eton papers include letters written by Alexander of Tunis, Hugh Macnaghten, A. C. Rayner-Wood, Sir A. M. Carr-Saunders, Harold Vincent Charrington, John Gordon Dill, Anselm Guise, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, Harry Streatfield, Henry Edward Verey, A. B. Ramsay, Claude Elliott, Blanche Warre-Cornish, Grizel Hartley, Marjorie Madan, and Clare Frewen Sheridan, in addition to four ALS written by M. R. James to Gwyndolen McBryde.

500##$aSeries II, King's College, Cambridge Papers contains correspondence from his time at King's, including many letters about rowing, others written by friends during the First World War, and others about the controversial book The Cantab. Correspondents include Charles Cary-Elwes, John Conybeare, John S. Herbert, Buthbert Lyons Buckle, Donald Corrie, and Wilfrid Meynell. An incomplete typescript draft of The Cantab is present, as well as photographs of King's College rowing, and four photos of a production of 'Eumenides'.

500##$aSeries III, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and Related Papers, contains 21 letters from Spring-Rice and 29 drafts of letters from Leslie to Spring-Rice recording their efforts to sway Irish-Americans to the British side during World War I. Also present is Leslie's corrected typescript of extracts from his diearies 1916-1917.

500##$aSeries IV, Other Shane Leslie Papers, contains correspondence, writings, printed material and other papers. There is an incomplete typescript draft of The Anglo-Catholic, and a holograph draft of the beginning of Long Shadows, letters from Vyvyan Holland, Ronald Knox, Martin Secker and notes about M. R. James. There are no letters to or from Winston Churchill, Leslie's first cousin, in the collection.

500##$aBiographical note: Shane Leslie, writer, Catholic intellectual, and Old Etonian, first cousin of Winston Churchill. Leslie attended Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, later writing loosely about them in The Oppidan and The Cantab. During the First World War, he promoted the British cause to Irish-Americans, working unofficially for British Ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. He wrote and edited many books, short stories and articles, including three autobiographies: The End of a Chapter, The Film of Memory and Long Shadows.

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