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Rafferty, Séan Dickson Kerr, poet, 1909-1993

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Literary papers of Séan Rafferty.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12351
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, sketches and ???, typescripts of poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman.

Dates: circa 1945-2003.

Nine letters and notes of Sean Rafferty to Betty Cummings, with one manuscript and six typescript poems.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13202
Scope and Contents

The letters and notes are mainly short, and concern some of Rafferty`s manuscripts, which Betty Cummings may have been typing for him; there is also some domestic detail in the longer letters. The poems are a manuscript of `Case history`, and typescripts of `Exposition`, `Biography`, `Soliloquy`, `Finale` and an untitled poem beginning `Dryden and Donne ...`. The vendor also supplied copies of some photographs of Betty Cummings and her circle, some of whom are mentioned in the letters.

Dates: 1934-1937.

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Correspondence. 1
Letters. Correspondence. 1
Manuscripts. 1
Notebooks. 1
Short stories. 1
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