Correspondence compiled by Alec Waugh concerning the publication of The Loom of Youth (ref. SS/OS/Waugh, A.R./2/1):
Maurice BARING (1874-1945), poet & author
Arnold BENNETT (1867-1931), author
Oscar BROWNING (1837-1923), historian & educational reformer
Norman Graham BROWNRIGG (1874-1936), Headmaster of Fernden Preparatory School
Gilbert Eric CANNAN (1884-1955), translator & author
Godfrey Mohun CAREY (1872-1927), Sherborne schoolmaster
Desmond Francis Talbot COKE (1879-1931), author & schoolmaster
Cyril Vernon CONNOLLY (1903-1974), author & literary reviewer
CONSTABLE & CO., publisher
Alexander DEVINE (1865-1930), Headmaster of Clayesmore School
Robert GRAVES (1895-1985), author & poet
Ernest Derek Glass HOOPER (1903-1996)
Henry Robinson KING (1855-1935), Sherborne schoolmaster
Arnold Henry Moore LUNN (1888-1974), author, skier & mountaineer
Ian Hume Townsend MACKENZIE (1898-1918), poet
Stuart Petre Brodie MAIS (1885-1975), author, journalist, broadcaster & schoolmaster
Henry William MASSINGHAM (1860-1924), journalist
William Somerset MAUGHAM (1874-1965), author & playwright
METHUEN & CO. LTD., publisher
Humphrey Sumner MILFORD (1877-1952), publisher to the OUP
Henry Woodd NEVINSON (1856-1941), social activist & journalist
Montague John RENDALL (1862-1950), Headmaster of Winchester College
Robert Baldwin ROSS (1869-1918), journalist, art critic & gallery director
Martin SECKER (1882-1978), publisher
Nowell Charles SMITH (1871-1961), Headmaster of Sherborne School
Ralph STRAUS (1882-1950), author & biographer
Frank Arthur SWINNERTON (1884-1982), author
Hugh Seymour WALPOLE (1884-1941), author
Alexander Raban WAUGH (1898-1981), author
Arthur WAUGH (1866-1943), publisher, critic & managing director of Chapman & Hall Ltd
Herbert George WELLS (1866-1946), author & social commentator
See also:
- Alec Waugh and The Loom of Youth
- A Love Letter to Sherborne: Alec Waugh’s The Loom of Youth
- Alexander Raban Waugh Archive held at Sherborne School (pdf)
- The Alec Waugh & Arthur Waugh Library held at Sherborne School (pdf)
- Characters in The Loom of Youth
- First Royalty Statement for The Loom of Youth, 31 December 1917
- Reviews of The Loom of Youth and Resentment Poems (pdf)
- Alec Waugh’s Sherborne Photograph Album
- Alec Waugh’s cricket scores, May-July 1915
- The School House bell mentioned in The Loom of Youth (Flickr)
- Campaign and Victory medals awarded to Alec Waugh (Flickr)
- Alec Waugh’s postcard from Mainz Prisoner of War camp, 6 April 1918 (pdf)
For further information about Sherborne School’s Alexander Raban Waugh Archive please contact the School Archivist.
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