/ en /newly-acquired-literary-manuscript-ms-381-autograph-copy-cyril-hares-when-wind-blows-1949 A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949) Christopher Skelton-Foord Issue number (2024): 21 Notes category Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark Cyril Hare Library Manuscripts MS 381 Letters

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ alumnus, Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (1900–1958), is better known as the murder mystery writer—one of the luminaries of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction—who went by the penname ‘Cyril Hare’.  Seventy-five years since the first publication of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows, I am delighted to be adding to our library’s collections the original holograph manuscript of this novel—now ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library’s MS 381.

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 381, f. 48r [detail]

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford

21NCN9 (2024) Skelton-Foord on Hare.pdf899.52 KB ]]> Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:13:38 +0000 Christopher 3153 at /some-notes-new-college-hunters Some Notes on ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Hunters Christopher Skelton-Foord Issue number (2023): 19 Notes category Hunting George Turbervile Philip Herbert, First Earl of Montgomery and Fourth Earl of Pembroke Peter Beckford Robert Lowth Robert Lowth, Jr. Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke Cyril Hare Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark Raymond Carr

Hunting has been woven into the very fabric of our college since the earliest days. The most celebrated and widely read of hunting poems, The Chase (1735), was penned by our alumnus William Somervile. But what of other ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ hunters whose writings have appeared in print?

 

Misericord [detail], late 14th century (wood) English School, New College Chapel, Oxford

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford

19NCN3 (2023) Skelton-Foord on Hunters.pdf1.74 MB ]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:50:06 +0000 Christopher 2763 at