Subseries BXB/1/1/CLJ - Jack Clemo

Identity area

Reference code

BXB/1/1/CLJ

Title

Jack Clemo

Date(s)

  • 1988 - 1995 (Creation)

Level of description

Subseries

Extent and medium

2 boxes

Context area

Name of creator

(1916-1994)

Biographical history

As a young man, Jack Clemo lived in poverty amidst the bleak clay wastelands of Cornwall. He was also stone deaf, and after writing two visionary novels and his autobiographical Confession of a Rebel, he lost his sight in 1955. His Selected Poems (1988) ... Read more

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Consists of letters and proofs relating to the published poetry works of Jack Clemo.

Allied materials area

Related units of description

BXB/2/7/38

Other archival material for Jack Clemo is held by University of Exeter Library, Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum and University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library.

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