Poetry and literary MSS, correspondence and other papers of Professor Dunn

Item author: Professor Douglas Dunn
Item date: 20th century
Grant Value: £20,000 (Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £100,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2007
Item institution: St Andrews University
Town/City: St Andrews
County: Fife

Literary, private and personal papers of Professor Douglas Dunn (b. 1942), Professor of English at St Andrew's since 1991 and one of Scotland's most eminent contemporary poets. His two most acclaimed publications are the collection of poems entitled Terry Street, 1969, and the poetic sequence Elegies, 1985. The University's purchase includes papers still (2007) in Professor Dunn's possession.

Item Provenance
Professor Douglas Dunn