Letters from Iris Murdoch to Roly Cochrane
TitleLetters from Iris Murdoch to Roly Cochrane
ReferenceKUAS7
Date
1985-1999
Production date 1985 - 1999
Scope and ContentThis archive contains letters from Iris Murdoch to Roly Cochrane. His letters to her no longer survive.
Most of the letters and cards are undated and few have envelopes with post marks or information in the contents that allow a date to be derived with any certainty. The most important date indicator is Iris Murdoch's address which provides a date range. She lived at Cedar Lodge, Steeple Ashton until March 1986 when she moved to Hamilton Road, Oxford, and then in April- May 1989 moved to Charlbury Road, Oxford.
Most of the letters and cards are undated and few have envelopes with post marks or information in the contents that allow a date to be derived with any certainty. The most important date indicator is Iris Murdoch's address which provides a date range. She lived at Cedar Lodge, Steeple Ashton until March 1986 when she moved to Hamilton Road, Oxford, and then in April- May 1989 moved to Charlbury Road, Oxford.
Extent220 items
Archival historyThe letters were inherited by a relative of Roly Cochrane in 2002 and offered for sale in 2005.
SubjectCorrespondence
Admin. history/BiographyRoly [Rollin] Cochrane was a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and Stanford University. He joined the faculty at Stanford, teaching French and published a French textbook in 1973. After that he moved to Europe to continue his language studies and eventually settled in Amsterdam where he worked as a translator. He died, age 61, on 14 February 2002
Roly Cochrane first wrote to Iris Murdoch in 1984 or 1985 and they began a correspondence that lasted until her death in 1999.
For more information see Peter Conradi 'Divine Though Unfinished: letters to Roly Cochrane' in the Iris Murdoch Society Newsletter, No. 8 (Autumn 2006), pp. 29-32
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