Archive of books and correspondence

3,000 volumes, comprising Webbs collection of Puffin and other childrens books and reference works. Also includes Webbs extensive correspondence with leading childrens writers, illustrators and publishers, with letters from Richard Adams, Sir Max Beerbohm, Quentin Blake, Michael Bond, Raymond Briggs, Charles Causley, Roald Dahl, Eleanor Farjeon, Christopher Fry, Rumer Godden, Alec Guinness, Ted Hughes, Clive King, Laurie Lee, Ursula le Guin, John Masefield, Mary Norton, Laurens van der Post, Mervyn Peake, James Reeves, Dodie Smith, Noel Streatfield, Rosemary Sutcliffe and Jill Paton Walsh. There are also MSS of Walter de la Mare, including an unpublished poem A Childs Ghost and three Robert Graves MSS. Illustrated at p.27 of AR