Part of a collection of letters to John Betjeman from Joe Randolph "J. R." Ackerley (writer and literary editor of the BBC's weekly magazine The Listener, and open homosexual). Ackerley asks Betjeman for an article on a small collection of comics he has. Titles include: "Men, Women and Dogs" by James Thurber, "You're Sitting on my Eye Lashes" by Whitney Darrow, Jr., "Common Man and Colonel Bogus" by Michael Barsley, cartoon "Finale" by Stephen, and cartoons by Osbert Lancaster.

In Collection:

• John Betjeman Collection

Creator

• Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967

Contributor

• Betjeman, John, 1906-1984

Subject

• Authors
• Lancaster, Osbert, 1908-1986
• Darrow, Whitney, 1909-1999
• Authors, English--Correspondence
• Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967
• Thurber, James, 1894-1961
• Barsley, Michael
• Betjeman, John, 1906-1984
• Authors, English
• Modernism (Literature)
• Poets
• Poets, English
• Literature, Modern
• Television journalists

Language

• eng

Date created

• December 19, 1944

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 2 pages ; 20.2 x 12.6 cm

Geographic Coverage

• England--London

Coordinates

• 51.50853, -0.12574

Additional physical characteristics

• Handwritten in black ink with "The Listener" letterhead.

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• John Betjeman Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• letters (correspondence)
• correspondence

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2000-010; File: Box 1, Folder 2

Fonds title

• John Betjeman fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC015

Is referenced by

• Special Collections finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/john-betjeman-fonds

Date digitized

• November 9, 2021

Technical note

• Scanned on Plustek OpticbookA300 at 600 DPI Tiff, each image cropped and resized to under 35MB for Vault by PD. Metadata by MT.

Rights

• Use of this material is permitted for research and private study purposes only. For all other uses, contact University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/byn2-2v64

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