IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 111
Held at: University College London
Title: Marron Papers
Date(s): Created 1940s
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Marron | Os | fl 1945-1946
Marron | Margaret | fl 1946
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Os Marron was a Lancashire poet (d1947). He was the son of a miner and cotton worker and one of a small number of working class poets writing in the 1940s. He died of tubercolosis.
Alex Comfort (1920-2000) was a gerontologist and author.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters to Alex Comfort from Margaret Marron, dated 19 October 1946, and Os Marron, dated 17 October 1945 and 5 January 1946; poems by Os Marron, some typescript and some printed, dating from the 1940s.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Given by Alex Comfort in February 1967.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
University College London Special Collections also holds papers of Alex Comfort (Ref: COMFORT).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: 1999, revised 2001