MS 381

A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949)

Christopher — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:13:38 +0000

A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949)

Christopher Skelton-Foord

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(2024): 21

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Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark

Cyril Hare

Library Manuscripts

MS 381

Letters

��Ƶ 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 ��Ƶ Library’s MS 381.

��Ƶ Library, Oxford, MS 381, f. 48r [detail]

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

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