Foreword: T.H. White Holdings at the Harry Ransom Center

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Kurth Sprague's study of T.H. White's The Once and Future King is based in part on his research in the large White archive at the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin). The recent arrival of additional correspondence provides an opportunity to acquaint scholars with the Center's substantial (and underutilized) holdings of White materials and research opportunities therein.

White's archives were purchased by the Ransom Center between 1967 and 1969 and include manuscript materials for 108 novels, short stories, articles, poems, and other works. Titles represented include The Age of Scandal, The Book of Beasts, The Elephant and the Kangaroo, England Have My Bones, The …