Walter Shewring., 03/02/1981-04/20/1983

File — Box: 1, Folder: 66

Identifier: 65757

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The Michael Richey papers 1, consist of original correspondence from personal friends who also comprise the notable circle of artists who congregated at the home of English sculptor Eric Gill (1882-1940), on Pigotts farm in Buckinghamshire. Together with Gill, these included Anthony Foster, Rene Hague, David Jones, Walter Shewring, and Denis Tegetmeier.

Correspondence is also included from other well-known acquaintances (many of whom were related or closely associated to the Pigotts circle), such as Tom Burns, Graham Greene, Harman Grisewood (also longtime friend of Rene Hague and David Jones), Shirley Hazzard, Fiona MacCarthy (Gill's biographer), Jacques Maritain, Prudence Pelham (Buhler), Margaret Pepler, George Speaight, and Bernard Wall, as well as members of Richey's family.

Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by individual. Michael Richey provided annotations to many of the letters, indicated with an asterisk (*). A copy of the complete annotations is located in Folder 73.

Dates

Creation: 03/02/1981-04/20/1983

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Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

Correspondence from Walter Shewring to Michael Richey: ALS (2 pages/1 sheet) dated March 20. Reference to Shewring's translation of Homer's "Odyssey." ALS (3 pages/2 sheets) dated March 24, 1981. ALS undated. ACS dated April 20, 1983. Richey notes: "Walter Shewring was for many years senior classics master at Ampleforth. He was closely associated with Gill and became his literary executor. He edited the Letters of Eric Gill and wrote perceptively about his ideas, particularly in a small book of essays entitled Making and Thinking for which he used as a frontispiece a photograph of an inscription by Gill with a carving by me; this is the photograph he refers to in his letter dated Whitsunday. The picture of Rene by David Jones was used for the (Rene Hague) obituary in the Ampleforth Journal. Walter's letters, one of them anyway, is (sic) largely concerned with his translation of the Odyssey for Oxford University press, on which I had made some suggestions on nautical terminology."

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

SHEWRING, WALTER - CORRES. TO RICHEY, MICHAEL 1981-83: Autographed Letter

RICHEY, MICHAEL - CORRES. FROM SHEWRING, WALTER 1981-83: Autographed Letter

SHEWRING, WALTER - TRANSLATION OF "THE ODYSSEY" - REFERENCE: Autographed Letter

GILL, ERIC & SHEWRING, WALTER - REFERENCE: Autographed Letter

SHEWRING, WALTER & GILL, ERIC - REFERENCE: Autographed Letter

SHEWRING, WALTER - "MAKING AND THINKING" - REFERENCE: Autographed Letter