The author and publishers would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: a letter by Lord Stamfordham is reproduced by gracious permission of Her Majesty the Queen; Mrs Ernestine Carter for extracts from a letter by the late Mr John Carter; Oxford University Press for an extract from an unpublished letter by Robert Bridges and for extracts from Grant Richards, Housman 1897–1936; the Estate of A. E. Housman for extracts © 1979 from his unpublished and published writings including those in The Letters of A. E. Housman, The Manuscript Poems of A. E. Housman, Percy Withers, A. E. Housman: A Divided Life; The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of A. E. Housman, and Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, and Holt Rinehart, New York, as publishers for extracts from A. E. Housman, Collected Poems; Paul Roche for an extract from an unpublished translation of Sappho; Contemporary Books Inc., Chicago, for extracts from Maude Hawkins, A. E. Housman: Man behind a Mask (1958); Jonathan Cape Ltd for extracts from Percy Withers, A Buried Life; Jonathan Cape Ltd and The Seven Pillars Trust for an extract from T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom; Jonathan Cape Ltd and the executors of the R. W. Chambers Estate for extracts from R. W. Chambers Man’s Unconquerable Mind; Jonathan Cape Ltd and the executors of the Laurence Housman Estate for extracts from unpublished letters by Laurence Housman, a quote from the preface by Laurence Housman to A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, quoted from an article in Encounter, extracts from letters from Laurence Housman to Katharine Symons and short quotes from A Modern Antaeus (all the unpublished material listed is © 1979 Jonathan Cape Ltd); Jonathan Cape Ltd and the executors of the Laurence Housman Estate for extracts from Laurence Housman, The Unexpected Years, and from his My Brother A. E. Housman; Doubleday & Co., New York, for an extract from T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom; The Bromsgrove Library and Jonathan Cape Ltd for extracts from the Laurence Housman Letters given by Gilbert Turner; Charles Scribners & Sons, New York, for extracts from Laurence Housman, My Brother A. E. Housman; Robert E. Symons and Granada Publishing Ltd for extracts from Henry Maas (ed.), The Letters of A. E. Housman; Cambridge University Press for extracts from: A. S. F. Gow, A. E. Housman: A Sketch, G. H. Hardy, Bertrand Russell and Trinity, Sir Sydney Roberts, Adventures with Authors, A. E. Housman, The Confines of Criticism, J. Diggle and S. D. R. Goodyear (eds), The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman, A. E. Housman Selected Prose, ed. John Carter (including extracts for the introductory Lecture (1892) and ‘The Name and Nature of Poetry’ (1933)); Professor Otto Skutsch for passages from his lecture on A. E. Housman (1959); A. P. Watt Ltd for lines from two poems by Rudyard Kipling and six lines from two poems by W. B. Yeats; Bell & Hyman Ltd for extracts from J. J. Thomson, Recollections and Reflections (1936); Turner & Devereux of London for extracts from the Housman Society Journal, vols 1 and 2; Robert E. Symons and The Tregara Press for extracts from Alan Bell (ed.), Fifteen Letters to Walter Ashburner; J. D. S. Hedley and The Committee of the Society of Bromsgrove School for extracts from H. E. M. Icely, Bromsgrove School through Four Centuries and from the Bromsgrovian; Kathleen Tillotson for extracts from an article by Geoffrey Tillotson; Joseph W. Scott for extracts from the Catalogue of the Housman Centenary Exhibition, 1959; Saundra Taylor and The Lilly Library, Indiana University, for material from their Housman Collection; Mrs J. Percival and The Library, University College London, for extracts from a number of unpublished documents; A. Tattersall and University College London for a quotation from the Council Minutes, and for extracts from writings by Professor R. W. Chambers; Kenneth A. Lohf and Columbia University, New York, for extracts from unpublished letters by, and relating to, A. E. Housman in their possession; the President and Fellows of St John’s College, Oxford, for extracts from papers, books and records in their possession; the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, for unpublished documents in their possession (and Dr P. Gaskell for his friendly co-operation); the Trustees of Street Library, Somerset, for quotations from unpublished documents in their possession; Lloyds Bank Ltd for extracts from unpublished letters of Hugh Last; N. V. H. Symons for extracts from unpublished letters and other writings of Mrs Katharine Symons and for Plates 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 30; The Board of the British Library for extracts from the Diaries of A. E. Housman; C. A. Brodie for an unpublished extract from papers of T. H. Warren; M. Higham Esq. for unpublished extracts from documents and books in his possession; the Executors of A. S. F. Gow for extracts from his unpublished letters; Ethel Mannin for extracts from published and unpublished writings by Clemence Housman; Mrs C. Gleadowe for an extract from an unpublished letter written by her late husband, R. M. Y. Gleadowe; Col. M. C. P. Stevenson, OBE, MC, for an extract from an unpublished letter by R. Laffan; Major-General T. A. Richardson and Rooks, Ryder & Co. (Sols) for the beneficiaries of Professor A. W. Pollard dec’d and Mrs J. K. Roberts dec’d for extracts from unpublished material by Professor A. W. Pollard.
The author and publishers would also like to acknowledge the use of material from The Cleveland Street Scandal by H. Montgomery Hyde (W. H. Allen, 1976); Oscar Wilde by H. Montgomery Hyde (Eyre Methuen, 1976); ‘A. E. Housman at Oxford’, an article by A. S. F. Gow in the Oxford Magazine, 11 November 1937; an article by John Quinlan in the Musical Times (March 1959); A History of Woodchester by Rev. W N. R. Black (Spring, 1972); A Traveller at Forty by Theodore Dreiser (Grant Richards, 1914); Max by David Cecil (Constable, 1964); E. M. Forster: The Personal Voice by John Colmer (Routledge & Kegan Paul); A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (Penguin, 1961); A. E. Housman: Scholar and Poet by Norman Marlow (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958); Romanticism and Revolt by J. L. Talmon (Thames & Hudson, 1957); Cambridge Doctor by Rex Salisbury Woods (Robert Hale Ltd., 1962); A Number of People by Edward Marsh; E. M. Forster: A Life, vol, 1: The Growth of a Novelist 1879–1914 by P. N. Furbank (Secker & Warburg, 1977); Swinburne Letters, ed. Cecil Y. Lang, vol. 6 (Yale University Press, 1962); Caviare by Grant Richards (London, 1912); Stories and Episodes by Thomas Mann (Dent, 1940); Treatise on the Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse (Penguin); The Once and Future King by T. H. White (Fontana Books); Oxford by James Morris (Faber & Faber, 1965); Petronius, Trimalchio’s Banquet with an Introduction by M. J. Ryan (The Walter Scott Publishing Co.); a letter to The Times by A. E. Housman (23 September 1924); an extract from the memorial number of the Mark Twain Quarterly (Winter, 1936); articles on A. E. Housman by Edmund Wilson, John Wain and J. P. Sullivan, as reproduced in Christopher Ricks (ed.), A. E. Housman; A Collection of Critical Essays (Spectrum Book (1968)); an article by E. M. Forster in the Listener (11 November 1936); extracts from the A. E. Housman Memorial Number of the Mark Twain Quarterly (Winter, 1936); A. E. Housman: A Divided Life by George L. Watson (Rupert Hart Davis, 1957); extracts from copies of documents held by John Pugh; an extract from ‘An evening with A. E. Housman’, by Cyril Clemens.
The author and publishers would also like to acknowledge the use of the following material for which, despite strenuous efforts, the copyright holders could not be traced: extracts from unpublished letters of Ellinor M. Allen, L. P. Brown, M. H. Eyre, Ralph Griffin, F. W. Hodges, Canon Nance, Arthur Platt, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Grant Richards, E. L. Robins, W. Fothergill Robinson, W. Snow, George Addison Turner, E. W. Watson, Oscar Wilde.