WALLER, Robert Ferns (1913-2005). Poet, writer and radio producer.
Extensive literary correspondence comprising ca 350 letters to Waller between 1936 and 1966, principally 1947-1955. Waller's residual archive, including letters of Charles Causley, Kenneth Clark, C. Day Lewis, Walter de La Mare, E.M. Forster, Graham Greene, L.P. Hartley, John Lehmann, Sonia Orwell, V.S. Pritchett and Stephen Spender.
The following is a list of the principal correspondents with only brief notes in some cases of the contents of the letters. The majority of the letters are of some length and almost all are of literary content. Since Bob Waller was personally acquainted with many of the writers, especially those with whom he had contact through the BBC, many letters are signed with first names only. There are therefore a further fifty-eight unlisted pieces, mostly as yet unidentified.
J.R. Ackerley (2), negative comments on his poetry; Walter Allen (2); Rupert Annand; Layne Beaty; Montgomery Belgion; Tristram Beresford (3); George, Bishop of Bristol (4), Typewritten Letter Signed from Waller to the Bishop; Victor Bonham-Carter (2), forwarded by VBC; B. Jocelyn Brooke (4); Nora Burt; Arthur Caddick; Roy Campbell (5), with a copy of The Writer etc; Maurice Carpenter (3), one incomplete; Charles Causley (3), praising his poetry; Bill ? Cawston; John O. Cherrington (4); Richard Church; Kenneth Clark; Leonard Clark (5); Jack Clemo, thanking him for a manuscript; Peter Collins (3); Cyril Connolly, commenting on his poetry; Richard Curle (2); Jonathan Curling (5); Ralph Currey (7); Spencer Curtis Brown (3), discussing his prose and poetry; John Danby; Mary Dawson; Cecil Day-Lewis (2), commenting on his poetry; Richard De La Mare; Walter De La Mare, commenting on his poetry; Ronald Duncan; Clifford Dyment; Tom Edridge; St John Ervine, commenting positively on his poetry; E.M. Forster, commenting on his poetry; Daniel George (4); Henry Gifford; Frank Gillard (8); Norman L. Goodland (7); Peter Grant Watson; Graham Greene, thanking him for the poetry; H. Powys Greenwood (6), pen-name of John Custance; John Green (5); Alyse Gregory (2), commenting on his poetry; Harman Grisewood (6), one incomplete; David Hardway; Christopher Harris; L.P. Hartley, praising 'The Two Natures'; Robert Henriques (5); Brian Horrocks (7); W.G. Hoskins (3); Laurence Housman (3), commenting on his poetry; Guy Hunter; E. Lillian Hutton; Lawrence Hyde (2); D.G. James (2); Robin Johnson; Bertram Joseph (2); Anna Kallin (*); Joseph Joel Keith; Godfrey Kenton; Helen King; James Langham; Fred Lawes; John Lehmann (4), discussing contributions to a book; Maria Leiper; Ronald Lewin, commenting on his poetry; S.J. Looker (4), discussing the writer Jefferies; Frank MacEachran, addressed to 'Victor'; Frank MacEachran, rejecting a manuscript; Eugene Magner, with envelope; Philip Mairet; Geoffrey Makin; Wolf Mankowitz (5); Walter Marsden; Ernest W. Martin (5); John Masefield, thanking him for the poetry; Jean Maud; Patrick McLaughlin; Robin Milford; V.H. Mottram (3); P.H. Newby; Robert Nichols; Wallace Nichols; Vivian Ogilvie; Sonia Orwell (2), denying a romantic attachment; Leslie Perrins; Hester Pinney (3); Phoebe Poole; A. Porter; John C. Powys, agreeing to write a contribution; V.S. Pritchett (2), asking him to shorten a review; Herbert Read (3), commenting on his reviews; Tony Rendall (5); Alec Robertson; Guy Roddon (2); Claude Rogers (2), discussing a hospital operation; Kay Routledge (2); A.L. Rowse (2); Hilary Rubinstein; Howard Sergeant; Frank Shelley; Eric Siepmann (5); John Smith; Stephen Spender, commenting on his poetry; Arthur Street; J.B. Thorburn (6); Geoffrey Tillotson (2); Henry Major Tomlinson (7); Robert Townsend; John Trewin (*); Hal W. Trovillion (3); Horace Vachell; Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald; M. Villiers; Margaret Warmley-Naylor (3); John Waterlow; Rosemary Weir; E.W. White; Sir Edmund Whittaker, discussing a talk he had given; Hugh Ross Williamson; Grace Wyndham Goldie.
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