Alexander Inglis

• Reference:GB 559 MS/53
• Dates of Creation:1926-1954
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• Scope and Content

  Author's typescript of "Eden Phillpotts: A Literary Craftsman" by Alexander Inglis, c 1934; Correspondence concerning proposed publication, 1934; Correspondence with Eden Phillpotts and others concerning his work, news cuttings, and miscellaneous papers, 1926-1954; News cuttings of Inglis's articles while in India, c 1931-1941; Correspondence received by Inglis while in India, 1934-1942, including letter from Mahatma Ghandi (1934); Papers, including correspondence with publisher, for proposed Penguin book on India by Inglis, 1939-1942; Correspondence between Inglis and editors of "The Times", mostly concerning articles submitted by Inglis for publication but also containing general remarks on current affairs, 1934-1942.

  Alexander Inglis was born in Musselburgh and was educated locally and in Edinburgh. At first he did freelance work for various Scottish newspapers, but his first staff job wa with the Pasadena "Star-News", California, from 1923 until 1929. He returned to Britain to take a job with the "Manchester Evening News" and then (from 1930 to 1933) with the "Christian Science Monitor", during which he was its Indian correspondent from 1931 to 1933. He joined "The Times" in 1933, and was its resident correspondent in India from 1934 to 1942 until ill-health intervened. He then became the resident correspondent in Canada, but again ill-health led to a forced departure and a return in 1951 to Edinburgh, where he continued to work for a short time, Apart from his journalistic career, his interests included Eden Phillpotts, a novelist and playwright popular in the early 20th century.

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