Marron Papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ADD 111
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full 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
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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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Given by Alex Comfort in February 1967.

Allied Materials

Related material:

University College London Special Collections also holds papers of Alex Comfort (Ref: COMFORT).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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Date(s) of descriptions:
1999, revised 2001