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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.
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GB 0103 MS ADD 111 Created 1940s Collection (fonds) 1 folder Marron , Os , fl 1945-1946
Marron , Margaret , fl 1946
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.
Given by Alex Comfort in February 1967.
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.
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University College London Special Collections also holds papers of Alex Comfort (Ref: COMFORT).
1999, revised 2001 Comfort , Alexander , 1920-2000 , poet and novelist Literary forms and genres Literature Marron , Margaret , fl 1946 Marron , Os , fl 1945-1946 PoetryImmediate source of acquisition or transfer
Given by Alex Comfort in February 1967.
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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.
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University College London Special Collections also holds papers of Alex Comfort (Ref: COMFORT).
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