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F. T. Prince Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms095

The F.T. Prince Papers consists of editorial material towards Collected Poems (New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1980), including setting copy [xerox] and one set of galleys; F. T. Prince: Interview and reading [audiotape]; Notes for a reading of Memoirs in Oxford given in the early 70's [introduction to a reading]; and material toward The Yüan Chên Variations.

Dates

  • Creation: 1970-1981

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

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Extent

1.00 boxes

0.25 linear feet

Biographical or Historical Information

Frank Templeton Prince (13 September 1912 – 7 August 2003) was a British poet and academic, known generally for his best-known poem Soldiers Bathing, written during the World War II in 1942. He was born in Kimberley, South Africa. His father Henry (Harry) Prince (formerly Prinz) was from the East End of London, of Dutch-Jewish descent, while his mother was Scottish. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Kimberley, then Balliol College, Oxford. He had a visiting position at Princeton University. In World War II, he was involved in intelligence work at Bletchley Park. He married in 1943, and took an academic position after the war at the University of Southampton, where he settled. In the mid-1970s, he taught at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, as well as Brandeis University in the United States and Sana'a University, Yemen. Prince's early work drew praise from T.S. Eliot, who was then editor at Faber and Faber. Eliot published some of his poetry in The Criterion before publishing Prince's first book Poems in 1938. Prince died in Southampton in 2003.

Source of Acquisition

Accession number 1508. Laid in materials, October 24, 1980.

Accession number 1530. Gift of F.T. Prince, April 20, 1981.

Accession number MS-2023-021. Purchase from Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books, Inc., April 18, 2023.

Title
F. T. Prince Papers
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
eng

Revision Statements

  • 2020 October 15: Resource record updated in ArchiveSpace by Sarah Schnuriger.

Collecting Area Details

Part of the Manuscripts Collecting Area

Contact:
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