Archive of correspondence and literary manuscripts

Item author: Woodrow Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford
Item date: 20th century
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 80,000
Item date acquired: 1998
Item institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

The archive includes early diaries, manuscripts of his own writings, constituency papers and correspondence, papers, reports and accounts for his printing and publishing business, notes and working papers; letters from readers of his books and articles and appointment books and personal correspondence. The files which document Wyatts time as editor of English Story contain many letters from prominent writers including HE Bates, Elizabeth Bowen, Laurence Housman, VS Pritchett, Osbert Sitwell and Stephen Spender. Grant from the Philip Larkin Fund