Arquivo GB 0096 MS1119 - Baxter, James

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GB 0096 MS1119 1960 October 25 fonds 1 letter Baxter , James Keir , 1926-1972 , poet and playwright
Born Dunedin, New Zealand, June 1926; poet and playright, his radio play, Jack Winter's Dream (1959), made him internationally famous. Among his poetry collections was Pig Island Letters, published in 1966. In that year, he accepted the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. He resigned to live in Jerusalem, a Maori settlement on the Wanganui river and travelled to nearby cities to work with the poor. His poems of this period often railed against society for tolerating poverty. The ascetic life he led from this period resulted in his health suffering. He moved to a commune near Auckland and died there in October 1972.

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Letter, 1960, from James Baxter to John Pocock, thanking him for the review of his two plays, The Wide Open Cage, and Jack Winter's Dream.

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Compiled by Richard Temple, July 2006. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997. 24 July 2006 Baxter , James Keir , 1926-1972 , poet and playwright Literary forms and genres Literature Poetry

Transferred from Senate House Library.

Letter, 1960, from James Baxter to John Pocock, thanking him for the review of his two plays, The Wide Open Cage, and Jack Winter's Dream.

Catalogued as a single item with arrangement unaltered.

Open for research.

May be copied so long as researchers fill in the appropriate copyright form.

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English.

Description also available on the University of London Research Library Services on-line archives catalogue.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

• inglês