Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1939-1961 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Seventy one manuscript and typescript letters from Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart to Robert Graves, 1939-1961, with typescript articles, extracts and notes by Liddell Hart including 'A reflection on the sustenance of morale', 1942; 'Notes on the Dieppe "reconnaissance in force", from a Canadian soldier', 1942; 'Age-old truths of war', 1942; 'Reprisals on prisoners', 1942; 'Historical note on the defence plan that foiled Rommel's invasion of Egypt in 1942 - by the officer who designed it (E E Dorman Smith)' (Maj Gen Eric Edward Dorman Smith), 1943; 'Three civilisations', 1944; 'Inconsistencies of historical judgment', 1961; 'Notes on the BBC's centenary programme on Haig' (FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig), 1961.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1895; educated at Rokeby, Charterhouse and St John's College, Oxford; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into 3 (Reserve) Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1914; attached to 2 Bn, Welch Regt, 1 Div, Western Front, 1915; Lt, 1915; served with 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 19 Bde, 2 Div, Battle of Loos, France, 1915; Capt, 1915; service with 1 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1915-1916; wounded serving with 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 19 Bde, 33 Div, High Wood, Battle of the Somme, Picardy, France, 1916; poet and writer, 1917-1985; posted to 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, Western Front, 1918; served with Wadham College Company, 4 Officer Cadet Bn, Oxford, 1918; service with 3 (Reserve) Garrison Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1918-1919; demobilised, 1919; graduated from St John's College, Oxford as a Bachelor of Letters, 1925; Professor of English Literature, Royal Egyptian University, Cairo, Egypt, 1926; moved permanently to Majorca, 1929; Clarke Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1954; awarded Gold Medal of the National Poetry Society of America, 1960; Arthur Dehon Little Memorial Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1963; Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford, 1961-1966; awarded Gold Medal for Poetry, Cultural Olympics, Mexico, 1968; awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1968; elected Honorary Fellow, St John's College, Oxford, 1971; died 1985.Publications: Refer to A bibliography of the writings of Robert Graves by Fred Hall Higginson, Second Edition revised by William Proctor Williams (St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester, 1987).
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1995.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Related materials
Publication note
Published biographies include: Robert Graves by Martin Seymour-Smith (Longmans, London, 1956); Under the influence, recollections of Robert Graves, Laura Riding, and friends by Thomas Stanley Matthews (Cassell, London, 1979); Robert Graves, the assault heroic by Richard Perceval Graves (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1986); Robert Graves, the years with Laura,1926-1940 by Richard Perceval Graves (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1990); Robert Graves and the white goddess by Richard Perceval Graves (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1995); Wild olives, life in Majorca with Robert Graves by William Graves (Hutchinson, London, 1995); Robert Graves, life on the edge by Miranda Seymour (Doubleday, London, 1995); Robert Graves, his lifeand work by Martin Seymour-Smith (Bloomsbury, London, 1995).
Note
Compiled Dec 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Haig, Douglas, 1861-1928, 1st Earl Haig, Field Marshal (Subject)
- O'Gowan, Eric Edward, 1895-1969, Major General (Subject)
- Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen, 1891-1944, German Field Marshal (Subject)
- Canadian Army (Subject)
- Hart, Sir Basil Henry Liddell, 1895-1970, Knight, Captain, military historian (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.