Archives

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/blunden

This archive draws in items from various collections and shows manuscript versions of Blunden’s poems, photographs etc. 

https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml.html 

Ms Collection\Blunden, Edmund Blunden Papers, 1922-1986

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed material documenting his personal and professional activity. Blunden’s letters to his second wife, Sylva Norman, and his secretary, Aki Hayashi, are particularly well represented. Also included are many letters addressed to Blunden by eminent literary figures such as John Betjeman, George Orwell, Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Spender, and Henry Williamson. Other literary correspondents are Adrian Bell, Joyce Cary, Richard Church, C. Day Lewis, Walter de la Mare, Graham Greene, H.D., William Plomer, Kathleen Raine, and Leonard Woolf. A substantial portion of the catalogued correspondence contains drawings, verse fragments and poems by Blunden which have been analysed. Also present are eleven of Blunden’s diaries, 1936-1967, which contain drafts of a number of poems. In addition, the collection contains a small number of autograph manuscripts of Blunden’s literary works. Blunden’s copy of Undertones of War is catalogued for the Rare Book collection.

https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml.html 

Ms Collection\Blunden, Edmund Blunden Papers, 1922-1986

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed material documenting his personal and professional activity. Blunden’s letters to his second wife, Sylva Norman, and his secretary, Aki Hayashi, are particularly well represented. Also included are many letters addressed to Blunden by eminent literary figures such as John Betjeman, George Orwell, Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Spender, and Henry Williamson. Other literary correspondents are Adrian Bell, Joyce Cary, Richard Church, C. Day Lewis, Walter de la Mare, Graham Greene, H.D., William Plomer, Kathleen Raine, and Leonard Woolf. A substantial portion of the catalogued correspondence contains drawings, verse fragments and poems by Blunden which have been analysed. Also present are eleven of Blunden’s diaries, 1936-1967, which contain drafts of a number of poems. In addition, the collection contains a small number of autograph manuscripts of Blunden’s literary works. Blunden’s copy of Undertones of War is catalogued for the Rare Book collection.

https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature 

Correspondence within collections of papers from his contemporaries and friends e.g. Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon. Also Blunden and Sassoon’s annotated copy of Graves’s Goodbye to All That.

https://www.ohio.edu/library/

The Edmund Blunden Collection is an extensive library collected by Blunden and focused on British literature and arts and letters, many of which are annotated. There is also a small collection (4 folders) of letters, poems and writings, ID no: MSS409. There is an interesting view of the collection here:

https://www.themorgan.org/

There are letters from Blunden as well as Kenneth Lohf’s donation of his printed books.

https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/ 

MsC 829, Edmund Blunden Papers, c.1918-1982.

This includes correspondence, essays, photographs, reviews and lectures. There is also a collection of Blunden’s books and pamphlets.

https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/#/

The main collection is Edmund Blunden’s family papers:

https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/3665

Separately indexed:

1. MS. Don. c. 2 – Autograph fair copy of Edmund Blunden, ‘Elegy of his majesty King George V’, Jan 1936.
2. MS. Don. d. 52 – Manuscript copy of Clark Lecture by Edmund Blunden, ‘Charles Lamb and his contemporaries’, 1932.
3. MS. Don. d. 173 – Letters (48) and notes from Edmund Blunden to W.G. Bebbington, 1938-1968.
4. MS. Eng. c. 2048 – Letters from Edmund Blunden to John and Marjorie Buxton, 1939-1967.
5. MS. Eng. c. 3216, fols. 70-96 – Letters from Edmund Blunden to H.J. Massingham, c.1919-1949.
6. MS. Eng. c. 8375, fols. 1-9 – Letters (8) from Edmund Blunden to Prof. James Sutherland, 1940s.
7. MSS. Eng. lett. c. 410; MS. Facs. b. 83 – Letters from Edmund Blunden to A.H. Buck, 1917-1967 
8. MS. Eng. lett. d. 513/2, fols. 255-263 – Correspondence between Norman Ault and Edmund Blunden, 1937.
9. MS. Eng. poet. d. 187, fols. 1-20 – Edmund Blunden autograph fair copy of George Herbert’s Latin poems, 1934 and autograph copy of ‘Mr Charles, of Hull’, 1931.
10. MSS. Sidgwick and Jackson, 46-80 – Publishers’ letters, 1919-1937 [various].
11. MS. 6492 – Poems and letters of Edmund Blunden, 1916-1990.
12. MS. 6493 – Letters to Edmund Blunden, 1945-1957.
13. MS. 12282/10 – Letters from Edmund Blunden to Harold Owen, 1957-1964.
14. MS. 12282/33 – Letters from Edmund Blunden to Susan Owen, 1930-1938; and two to Harold Owen, 1939.

The Bodleian Rare Books collection also holds the ‘Blunden family collection’ of books with inscriptions and annotations.

https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ 

Manuscript Collection MS-0426 – Edmund Blunden Papers, 1909-1970.

This is a collection of 95 boxes, in which nearly all of Blunden’s poetry, fiction and non-fiction is represented, together with extensive correspondence with e.g. Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Hart-Davis, Sylva Norman and A.D. Peters.