Finding Aid
Papers of Angus Wilson Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research. Tony Garrett retains literary copyright to all relevant materials. Digital Surrogates: Except where indicated, this document describes but does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections Department. Copyright: Please read The University of Iowa Libraries' statement on Property Rights, Copyright Law, and Permissions to Use Unpublished Materials. Use of Collections: The University of Iowa Libraries supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted by their fragile condition or by contractual agreement with donors, and it may not be possible at all times to provide appropriate machinery for reading, viewing or accessing non-paper-based materials. Please read our Use of Manuscripts Statement. Acquisition and Processing Information: This collection was acquired as a series of purchases from Angus Wilson and Tony Garrett beginning in 1968. The initial portion of the collection was processed beginning in 1968. The majority of the papers were processed in 2007-2008. Some materials were incorporated into the Wilson Papers from Margaret Drabble's Angus Wilson: A Biography Research Files (MsC 199A) in 2008. Adu Jussawalla donated a few items, all related to AW in India, to the collection in March 2010. Photographs: Series VIII contains photographs and photograph albums from or relating to Angus Wilson's brothers David and Patrick Johnstone. Series X contains photographs from or relating to Angus Wilson and/or Tony Garrett. |
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Scope and Contents
The Papers of Angus Wilson document the entire span of the famed writer's literary career, as well as his personal life. The collection contains holograph notes and typescripts of the texts for all of Wilson's novels as well as many of his short stories, plays and non-fiction works. The breadth of Wilson's research for his literary studies is well-represented by the presence of his research materials used for The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling. There are also holograph and/or typescript versions of many of Wilson's numerous articles, lectures, speeches, and reviews.
The correspondence in the collection begins in 1937 and lasts beyond Wilson's death in 1991; many of the correspondents are important literary figures or other notable personalities. Included as part of the correspondence are the letters of Wilson's companion and secretary Tony Garrett. A Correspondence Index, attached to this finding aid, notes the dates of the letters of many of Wilson's more famous correspondents.
A separate series contains records relating to Wilson's brothers Colin Frank (David) and Patrick Boswell Johnstone-Wilson. Other series concern Wilson's teaching career (primarily at the University of East Anglia), his finances, and his media presence (via press clippings).
There is a small collection of photographs and audio materials in the collection as well.
Collection Contents
Series II: Literary Manuscripts, Notebooks and Drafts
Series III: Non-Fiction Manuscripts, Notebooks and Drafts
Series IV: Diaries and Address Books
Series V: Financial Documentation and Publishers' Correspondence
Series VIII: David and Patrick Johnstone (Wilson)
Series IX: Miscellaneous Materials
Series X: Audio Materials and Photographs
Series XI: Foreign Language Editions of Wilson's Books
Biographical Note
Sir Angus Wilson (full name Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson) was one of the most renowned English novelists of the postwar 20th century, and one of England's first openly homosexual writers. Born in Bexhill, Sussex on August 11, 1913, Wilson was the sixth child of impoverished upper-middle class parents William and Maud (Caney) Jonhstone-Wilson. He attended public school from 1927-1931 at Westminster School, and went on to read history at Merton College, Oxford. In 1936 he went to work as a librarian in the British Museum's Department of Printed Books. When World War II broke out, he temporarily left the Museum and worked for the Foreign Office as a codebreaker in the Naval Section at the famous Bletchley Park intelligence center in Buckinghamshire.
During the war years, Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and bouts of depression. It was at this point in his life that he bgan writing, as a form of therapy. (He would later recall this period in his 1963 critical/autobiographical work The Wild Garden.) After a period of recuperation, he returned to Bletchley where he remained until the end of the war. In 1945 Wilson returned to the British Museum, where he became Deputy Superintendent of the Reading Room. It was here that, on December 31, 1945, Wilson first met Anthony (Tony) Garrett, who was to become Wilson's secretary, companion and partner for the remainder of his life.
Wilson's first short stories and sketches were published in 1949 in The Wrong Set and Other Stories. The book was met with critical and popular success and yielded one of his most controversial and powerful stories, "Raspberry Jam," in which a young boy is confronted with cruel and untrustworthy adults in the form of two women who torture a bird in his presence. Wilson published in 1950 his second collection, Such Darling Dodos and Other Stories. The title story, which uses terminal illness to symbolize the death of 1930s liberal ideals, was lauded for keenly portrayed psychological and historical details. Wilson's third collection, A Bit Off the Map and Other Stories (1957), was distinguished by a more softened stance toward his characters, mixing the pathos and comedy that often marks his writings with more subtle satire. His Collected Stories were eventually published in 1987.
In 1952, Hemlock and After, Wilson's first novel, appeared, offering a candid description of homosexual life in post-war Britain. Ernest Jones, reviewing it in the Nation, called the book a brilliant analysis of homosexual society. Soon after the publication of this novel, Wilson left the British Museum (where, as Deputy Superintendent he had been responsible for trying to replace 300,000 books that had been destroyed in German bombings during the war) and in 1955 took up writing fiction and criticism full time.
A spate of criticially acclaimed novels followed. His most famous, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, was published in 1956. Considered by many to be Wilson's finest work, the book is a biting satire of English academic society. The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot (1958) traces the psychological dislocations undergone by conventional wife Meg Eliot in the senseless killing of her husband at a Middle East airport. Wilson received the 1959 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for this novel. In 1961 Wilson published his most allegorical work, The Old Men At The Zoo, about a near-future England opposed to a hostile alliance of European powers. A story of gradual insight into the failures of life, most of the novel's action is set among the strife and machinations of the staff of the London Zoo.
Late Call (1965) explored the spiritual desolation of life in the English Midlands, and was narrated from the perspective of a retired hotel manager. Sylvia Calvert, the protagonist, comes to the New Town of Carshall, in which she finds that people are strangers in their own life. No Laughing Matter, published in 1967, was a long, ambitious work, a mock bourgeois epic that traced the fortunes of the fictional Matthews family from 1912-1967. Wilson published As If By Magic in 1973, a novel about the ambitious and in some ways dubious campaign to overcome third world poverty through biological science and miracle crops. It reflected Wilson's increasing impatience with British literary parochialism. His last novel was published in 1980: Set The World On Fire, which was generally poorly received by critics.
Wilson had a successful and notable career as an academic. From 1966-1978 he was a professor of English literature at the University of East Anglia, where with Malcolm Bradbury he founded the school's creative writing program. He also lectured or served as a visiting professor a number of other institutions, including, among other, Cambridge University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins, and the Universities of Arizona, California-Berkeley, California-Los Angeles, Chicago, Delaware, Georgia, Minnesota, and Pittsburgh. He was a visiting professor three times at the University of Iowa, in 1971, 1978 and 1986. As a literary critic, Wilson published several important works of non-fiction, including Émile Zola: An Introductory Study of His Novels (1952), The World of Charles Dickens (1970), and The Strange Ride Of Rudyard Kipling (1977). He also wrote critical introductions for a number of published literary classics, including works by Austen, Bowen, Dickens, Kipling, and Maugham.
Wilson, a lifelong member of the British Labour Party, was a social liberal who spoke out for a number of important social causes, including the advocacy of homosexual rights. In part due to a growing disgust with Margaret Thatcher's Britain, he and Tony Garrett left their country in 1985 and moved to France. Illness and Wilson's growing infirmities obliged the two to return home a few years later. Wilson's finances were increasingly straightened by this time, and he had to be supported by friends and a pension from the Royal Literary Fund. He was placed in Pinford End Nursing Home in Bury St. Edmunds due to accelerating mental and physical infirmities, and Angus Wilson died there of a stroke on May 31, 1991.
Wilson received a number of honors and awards throughout his life, culminating in a knighthood in 1980. He was made a Commander, Order of the British Empire in 1968. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1958, and served as its President from 1982-1991. The RSL made him a Companion of Literature in 1972. He was also a member of the Society of Authors, PEN, the Powys Society (president, 1970-91), the Dickens Fellowship (president, 1974-75), the John Cowper Powys Society (president, 1970-80), the Kipling Society (president, 1981-88), the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (honorary member), and the Athenaeum Club, among other organizations. He was made a honorary Doctor of Letters at the Universities of East Anglia, Leiceister, Liverpool, and Sussex, and the Sorbonne.
DRABBLE, MARGARET, 1939-. Margaret Drabble's Research Files for Angus Wilson: A Biography, 1990-1995. 4.8 ft.
Acclaimed British novelist and scholar. Research files, including administrative material, research materials, and corrected typescripts for her 1995 biography of novelist Sir Angus Wilson. MsC 931. (Finding Aid)
Box Contents List
SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE (See Correspondence Index for a guide to some of Wilson's more notable correspondents.)
Box 1 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | 1937, 1941, 1944-1949 |
2 | 1950-1951 |
3 | 1952 |
4 | 1953-1954 |
5 | 1955-1956 |
6 | 1957 |
7 | 1958 |
8 | 1959 |
9 | 1960 |
10 | January-June 1961 |
11 | July-December 1961 |
12 | January-April 1962 |
13 | May-June 1962 |
14 | July-August 1962 |
Box 2 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | September-October 1962 |
2 | November-December 1962 |
3 | January 1963 |
4 | February-March 1963 |
5 | April 1963 |
6 | May 1963 |
7 | June 1963 |
8 | July 1963 |
9 | August 1963 |
10 | September 1963 |
11 | October 1963 |
12 | November 1963 |
13 | December and undated 1963 |
14 | January-July 1964 |
15 | August-September 1964 |
16 | October-November 1964 |
17 | December and undated 1964 |
18 | January-February 1965 |
19 | March 1965 |
Box 3 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | April-May 1965 |
2 | June 1965 |
3 | July 1965 |
4 | August-September 1965 |
5 | October 1965 |
6 | November 1965 |
7 | December 1965 |
8 | January-February 1966 |
9 | March 1966 |
10 | April 1966 |
11 | May 1966 |
12 | June 1966 |
13 | July-August 1966 |
Box 4 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | September-October 1966 |
2 | November-December 1966 |
3 | January-February 1967 |
4 | March 1967 |
5 | April 1967 |
6 | May 1967 |
7 | June 1967 |
8 | July-August 1967 |
9 | September-October 1967 |
10 | November-December and undated 1967 |
11 | January 1968 |
12 | February 1968 |
13 | March-April 1968 |
14 | May-June 1968 |
15 | July-August 1968 |
Box 5 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | September 1968 |
2 | October 1968 |
3 | November-December and undated 1968 |
4 | January 1969 |
5 | February 1969 |
6 | March 1969 |
7 | April 1969 |
8 | May 1969 |
9 | June 1969 |
10 | July-August 1969 |
11 | September-October 1969 |
12 | November 1969 |
13 | December 1969 |
14 | January-February 1970 |
15 | March 1970 |
16 | April 1970 |
17 | May 1970 |
Box 6 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | June 1970 |
2 | July 1970 |
3 | August 1970 |
4 | September 1970 |
5 | October 1970 |
6 | November 1970 |
7 | December 1970 |
8 | January-March 1971 |
9 | April 1971 |
10 | May 1971 |
11 | June 1971 |
12 | July 1971 |
13 | August-September 1971 |
14 | October-December 1971 |
15 | January 1972 |
Box 7 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | February 1972 |
2 | March 1972 |
3 | April 1972 |
4 | May 1972 |
5 | June 1972 |
6 | July-August 1972 |
7 | September 1972 |
8 | October 1972 |
9 | November-December and undated 1972 |
10 | January 1973 |
11 | February 1973 |
12 | March 1973 |
13 | April 1973 |
14 | May 1973 |
15 | June 1973 |
16 | July 1973 |
17 | August 1973 |
Box 8 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | September 1973 |
2 | October 1973 |
3 | November 1973 |
4 | December and undated 1973 |
5 | January 1974 |
6 | February 1974 |
7 | March-April 1974 |
8 | May-June 1974 |
9 | July-August 1974 |
10 | September-October 1974 |
11 | November 1974 |
12 | December and undated 1974 |
13 | January 1975 |
14 | February 1975 |
15 | March-April 1975 |
16 | May 1975 |
17 | June 1975 |
Box 9 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | July 1975 |
2 | August 1975 |
3 | September 1975 |
4 | October 1975 |
5 | November 1975 |
6 | January 1976 |
7 | February 1976 |
8 | March 1 - 15, 1976 |
9 | March 16 - 31, 1976 |
10 | April 1976 |
11 | May 1976 |
12 | June 1976 |
13 | July 1976 |
Box 10 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | August 1976 |
2 | September - October 1976 |
3 | November 1976 |
4 | December 1976 |
5 | Undated 1976 |
6 | January - February 1977 |
7 | March 1977 |
8 | April 1977 |
9 | May 1977 |
10 | June 1977 |
11 | July 1977 |
12 | August 1977 |
Box 11 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | September - October 1977 |
2 | November - December 1977 |
3 | Undated 1977 |
4 | January - February 1978 |
5 | March 1978 |
6 | April 1978 |
7 | May 1978 |
8 | June - July 1978 |
9 | August - September 1978 |
10 | October - November 1978 |
11 | December 1978 |
12 | Undated 1978 |
Box 12 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | January 1979 |
2 | February - March 1979 |
3 | April 1979 |
4 | May 1979 |
5 | June 1979 |
6 | July 1979 |
Box 12 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | September - October 1979 |
2 | November 1979 |
3 | December 1979 |
4 | Undated 1979 |
5 | January 1980 |
6 | February 1980 |
7 | March 1980 |
8 | April 1980 |
9 | May 1980 |
Box 13 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | June 1 - 14, 1980 |
2 | June 15 - 19, 1980 |
3 | June 20 - 30, 1980 |
4 | July 1 - 16, 1980 |
5 | July 17 - 31, 1980 |
6 | August 1 - 15, 1980 |
7 | August 16 - 30, 1980 |
8 | September 1980 |
9 | October 1980 |
10 | November 1980 |
11 | December 1980 |
12 | Undated 1980 |
Box 14 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | January 1981 |
2 | February 1981 |
3 | March 1981 |
4 | April 1981 |
5 | May 1981 |
6 | June 1981 |
7 | July 1981 |
8 | August 1981 |
9 | September - October 1981 |
10 | November 1981 |
11 | December 1981 |
12 | Undated 1981 |
13 | January 1982 |
14 | February 1982 |
15 | March 1982 |
Box 15 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | April 1982 |
2 | May 1982 |
3 | June 1982 |
4 | July 1982 |
5 | August 1982 |
6 | September - October 1982 |
7 | November 1982 |
8 | December 1982 |
9 | Undated 1982 |
10 | January 1983 |
11 | February 1983 |
12 | March 1983 |
13 | April 1983 |
14 | May 1983 |
15 | June 1983 |
Box 16 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | July 1 - 11, 1983 |
2 | July 12 - 31, 1983 |
3 | August 1983 |
4 | August 1983 (Birthday cards and wishes) |
5 | September 1983 |
6 | October 1983 |
7 | November 1983 |
8 | December 1983 |
9 | Undated 1983 |
10 | January 1984 |
11 | February 1984 |
12 | March 1 - 9, 1984 |
13 | March 10 - 31, 1984 |
Box 17 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | April 1984 |
2 | May 1984 |
3 | June 1984 |
4 | July 1984 |
5 | August 1984 |
6 | September 1984 |
7 | October 1984 |
8 | November 1984 |
9 | December 1984 |
10 | Undated 1984 |
11 | January 1985 |
12 | February 1985 |
13 | March 1985 |
14 | April 1985 |
Box 18 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | May 1985 |
2 | June 1985 |
3 | July 1985 |
4 | August - October 1985 |
5 | November - December 1985 |
6 | Undated 1985 |
7 | January - March 1986 |
8 | April - June 1986 |
9 | July - September 1986 |
10 | October - November 1986 |
11 | December 1986 |
12 | Undated 1986 |
13 | January - February 1987 |
14 | March - April 1987 |
15 | May 1987 |
16 | June 1987 |
17 | July - August 1987 |
18 | September - October 1987 |
Box 19 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | November - December 1987 |
2 | Undated 1987 |
3 | January 1988 |
4 | February 1988 |
5 | March 1988 |
6 | April 1988 |
7 | May 1988 |
8 | June 1988 |
9 | July - August 1988 |
10 | September 1988 |
11 | October - November 1988 |
12 | December 1988 |
13 | Undated 1988 |
14 | January 1989 |
15 | February 1989 |
16 | March - May 1989 |
17 | June - August 1989 |
18 | September - December 1989 |
19 | Undated 1989 |
Box 20 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | January - April 1990 |
2 | May - December 1990 |
3 | Undated 1990 |
4 | Rose Tremain - Responses to her May 19, 1990 appeal for financial help for AW (May - June 1990) |
5 | 1991 |
6 | Undated, Correspondents A - G |
7 | Undated, Correspondents H - M |
8 | Undated, Correspondents N - S |
9 | Undated, Correspondents T - Y |
10 | Undated, Correspondents Unnamed |
Anthony Garrett's Correspondence |
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Box 21 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | 1945 - 1961 |
2 | 1967 - 1970 |
3 | 1971 - 1975 |
4 | 1976 - 1977 |
5 | 1978 |
6 | 1979 - 1980 |
7 | 1981 |
8 | 1982 |
9 | 1983 |
10 | January - April 1984 |
11 | June - December and undated 1984 |
12 | January - June 1985 |
13 | July - December 1985 |
14 | January - October 1986 |
Box 22 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | November - December and undated 1986 |
2 | January - April 1987 |
3 | May - July 1987 |
4 | August - October 1987 |
5 | November - December and undated 1987 |
6 | January - Februrary 1988 |
7 | March - May 1988 |
8 | June - August 1988 |
9 | September - December and undated 1988 |
10 | January - March 1989 |
11 | April - July 1989 |
Box 23 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | August - October 1989 |
2 | November - December and undated 1989 |
3 | January - February 1990 |
4 | March - April 1990 |
5 | May - June 1990 |
6 | July - August 1990 |
7 | September - October 1990 |
8 | November - December and undated 1990 |
9 | January - February 1991 |
10 | March - April 1991 |
11 | May - June 1, 1991 |
Box 24 |
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Folder | Dates |
1 | June 2 - 3, 1991 |
2 | June 4 - 7, 1991 |
3 | June 8 - 31, 1991 |
4 | July 1991 |
5 | August - September 1991 |
6 | October - November 1991 |
7 | December 1991 |
8 | Undated 1991 |
9 | January - February 1992 |
10 | March - April 1992 |
11 | May - June 1992 |
12 | July 1992 |
13 | Undated 1992 |
14 | Undated, year not known |
15 | Undated, from AW |
SERIES II: LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, NOTEBOOKS AND DRAFTS
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Novels |
Box 1 | |
Folder | Items |
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) |
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1 - 6 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #53-63) |
7 | Holograph notebooks of notes (Notebooks #64-66) |
Box 2 |
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes |
Folder | Items |
1 | Holograph notebooks of notes (Notebooks #67-68) |
2 - 3 | Typescript carbons, parts 1-6 |
As If By Magic (1973) |
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4 - 6 | Holograph notebooks of the text |
Box 3 |
As If By Magic |
Folder | Items |
1 - 3 | Holograph notebooks of the text |
4 - 6 | Holograph notebooks of notes |
Box 4 |
As If By Magic |
Folder | Items |
1 - 2 | Holograph notebooks of notes |
3 - 6 | Typescript with corrections and revisions, pgs 1 - 650 (1) |
Box 5 |
As If By Magic |
Folder | Items |
1 | Typescript with corrections and revisions, pgs 651-716 (1) |
2 - 3 | Typescript with corrections and revisions pgs 1 - 523 (2) |
4 - 6 | Typescript and typescript carbon intermixed with duplicated pages with revisions, pgs 1-560 |
Box 6 |
As If By Magic |
Folder | Items |
1 | Typescript and typescript carbon intermixed with duplicated pages with revisions, pgs 561-720 |
2 | Typescript (pgs 1-53) and typescript carbon (pgs 54-260) |
3 | Typescript carbon, pgs 261-523 |
4 | Typescript carbon (incomplete), with many missing pages |
5 - 6 | Miscellaneous notes |
Box 7 |
As If By Magic |
Folder | Items |
1 | Miscellaneous notes |
2 | Additional handwritten notes, 1973 |
3 | Rejected pages |
Hemlock And After (1952) |
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3 - 6 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #136-141) |
7 | Holograph notebooks of notes and first chapters prefiguring the novel |
Late Call (1964) |
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8 - 10 | Holograph notebooks of the text, chapters 1-3 (Notebooks #42, 48-49) |
Box 8 |
Late Call |
Folder | Items |
1 - 4 | Holograph notebooks of the text, chapters 4-6 (Notebooks #43, 50, 44-45) |
5 | Holograph notebook of text and miscellaneous pages of typescript carbon, chapter 7 (Notebooks #46-47) |
6 | Holograph notebooks of notes (Notebook #51) |
7 - 8 | Typescript, pgs 1-417 |
Box 9 |
Late Call |
Folder | Items |
1 - 2 | Typescript with corrections, pgs 1-345 |
Laughing Mirrors (the original version of No Laughing Matter) |
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3 - 6 | Typescript (2nd copy), pgs 1-714 |
Box 10 |
The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot (1958) |
Folder | Items |
1 - 3 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #86-92) |
4 - 6 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #93-96) |
Box 11 |
The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot |
Folder | Items |
1 | Holograph notebooks of notes (Notebooks #97-98) |
No Laughing Matter (1967) |
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2 | Assorted research notes and correspondence, 1965 - 1967, n.d. |
3 - 8 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #69-77) |
Box 12 |
No Laughing Matter |
Folder | Items |
1 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #78-79) |
2 - 6 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #80-85a) |
7 | Holograph notebook of notes (Notebook #119), including unpublished short story "Live and Let Die" and notes for short stories never written |
Box 13 |
No Laughing Matter |
Folder | Items |
1 - 4 | Original typescript with corrections and revisions, pgs 1-912 |
5 - 6 | Typescript, pgs 1-600 |
Box 14 |
No Laughing Matter |
Folder | Items |
1 - 2 | Typescript, pgs 601-912 |
The Old Men At The Zoo (1961) |
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3 - 5 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #124-126) |
6 - 7 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #127-129) |
Box 15 |
The Old Men At The Zoo |
Folder | Items |
1 - 2 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #130-131) |
3 | Holograph notebooks of notes and early version of the first part of the text (Notebook #132) |
4 - 6 | Holograph notebooks of notes (Notebooks #133-135) |
7 | Incomplete typescript draft with corrections and notes |
Setting The World On Fire (1980) |
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8 - 9 | Holograph notebooks of the text (2 notebooks) |
Box 16 |
Setting The World On Fire |
Folder | Items |
1 - 2 | Holograph notebook of the text (4 notebooks) |
3 - 5 | Holograph notebooks of preliminary notes(3 notebooks) |
Box 17 |
Setting The World On Fire |
Folder | Items |
1 - 2 | Holograph notebooks of preliminary notes (2 notebooks) |
3 | Holograph notebook of notes, holograph notes and clippings |
4 - 5 | Typescript with holograph corrections and revisions |
Box 18 |
Setting The World On Fire |
Folder | Items |
1 | Miscellaneous clippings and publications |
2 | Miscellaneous preliminary papers |
Unpublished |
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3 | Goats and Compasses - Holograph notebooks containing fragments of a novel (Notebooks #18-19) |
4 | Goats and Compasses - Typescript carbon of the novel's beginning |
5 | Notes for an untitled, unfinished novel, 1974 |
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Short Stories |
Box 19 |
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Folder | Items |
1 - 2 | "After The Snow" - Holograph notebooks (Notebooks #15-17) |
3 | "At School Together, As You Might Say" - Printed version, in Trifler (1959) |
4 | "A Bit Off The Map" - Holograph notebooks (Notebooks #31-32) |
5 | "Christmas Day in the Workhouse", "Holiday Lesson", and "Learning's Little Tribute" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #41) |
6 | "Cuckoo" - Typescript with notes |
7 | "Et Dona Ferentes" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #27) |
8 | "The Eyes of the Peacock" - Holograph and typescripted drafts |
9 | "A Flat Country Christmas" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #36) |
10 | "The Flying Spur" (Short story or novel, early 1990s) - Holograph notebooks of notes |
11 | "Fossils All Alive Oh!" - Typescript |
12 | "Men in Bowler Hats" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #30) |
13 | "More Friend Than Lodger" - Holograph notebook (Notebooks #38-39) |
14 | "More Friend Than Lodger" - Typescript |
15 | "Mother's Sense of Fun" - Holograph notebook, including fragments of other stories (Notebook #34) |
16 | "My Little Folly" - Typescript and photocopy of holograph notes |
17 | "Mummy to the Rescue" and "The Wrong Set" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #25) |
Box 20 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | "No Future for Our Young" - Holograph notebook( includes review of Courage by Lord Beaverbrook (Notebook #114); and typescript with corrections |
2 | "No Man Goes Alone" and "No Retreat" - Typescript |
3 | "The Old Lady of Mogador" - Typescript carbon |
4 | :"The Old, Old Message" (also known as "A Flat Country Christmas") - Typescript |
4 | "Once a Lady" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #35) |
5 | "Once a Lady" - Typescript |
6 | "Raspberry Jam" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #24) |
7 | "Rex Imperator" and "Crazy Crowd" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #40) |
8 | "A Sad Fall" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #29) |
9 | "Saturnalia", "Who For Such Dainties", "Realpolitik", "A Little Companion" and "Totentanz" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #22) |
10 | "Significant Experience" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #33) |
11 | "Sister Superior", "Such Darling Dodos", "What Do Hippos Eat?, and "Heart of Elm" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #1) |
12 | "A Story of Historical Interest", "Necessity's Child", and "An Elephant Never Forgets" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #23) |
13 | "Ten Minutes to Twelve" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #28) |
14 | "Totentanz" - Holograph notebook of story for television (Notebook #113) |
15 | "Unwanted Heroine" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #26) |
16 | Notes for miscellaneous stories - Holograph notebook (Notebook #37) |
17 | Notes for miscellaneous stories - Holograph notes |
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Stage, Radio and Television Plays |
Box 21 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | After the Snow - Photocopy of television script (Sept. 2, 1959) |
2 | After the Snow - Rehearsal script (September 2, 1959) |
3 | Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (adapted by Roger Nokes) - Photocopy of script treatment with revisions |
4 | Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (adapted by Roger Nokes) - Complete script |
5 | Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (adapted by Roger Nokes) - Script, episodes 1 - 3 |
6 | Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (adapted by Roger Nokes) - Script, episodes 4 - 5 |
7 | Come Out of the Cold (1968) - Typescript of story idea with corrections and revisions |
8 | The Dance of Death - Various typescript drafts with corrections and revisions |
9 | The Invasion - Holograph notebook of text (also includes review of C. Heilbrun's work The Garnett Family) (Notebook #122) |
10 | The Invasion - Holograph notes and partial typescript of television play |
11 | The Invasion - Holograph notebook draft of play |
12 | The Invasion - Carbon typescript of play |
13 | The Invasion - Typescript of play with corrections and revisions |
Box 22 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | The Invasion - Script with revisions (June 6, 1962) |
2 | Last Call (adapted by Dennis Potter) - Rehearsal script, episode 1 (1974) |
3 | Last Call (adapted by Dennis Potter) - Rehearsal script, episode 2 (1974) |
4 | Last Call (adapted by Dennis Potter) - Rehearsal script, episode 3 (1974) |
5 | Last Call (adapted by Dennis Potter) - Rehearsal script, episode 4 (1974) |
6 | Left In The Middle - Holograph notebooks of manuscript |
7 | Left In The Middle - Typescript of script (1956) |
8 | The Mulberry Bush - Holograph notebooks of the play (Notebooks #7-8) |
9 | The Mulberry Bush - Holograph notebooks of the play (Notebooks #9-11) |
Box 23 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | The Mulberry Bush - Holograph notebooks of the play (Notebooks #12-13) |
2 | The Mulberry Bush - Typescript carbon under earlier title "A Liberal Education" |
3 | The Mulberry Bush - Typescript carbon with notes and revisions |
4 | The Mulberry Bush - Typescript |
5 | The Mulberry Bush - Typescript with revisions |
6 | The Mulberry Bush - Incomplete typescript with holograph corrections, revisions and notes |
7 - 8 | The Mulberry Bush - Acting script with notes |
9 | The Mulberry Bush - Television script |
Box 24 |
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Folder | Items |
1 - 2 | The Old Men At the Zoo (adapted by Troy Kennedy Martin) - Revised script, episodes 1-2 (1982) |
3 | The Old Men At the Zoo (adapted by Troy Kennedy Martin) - Revised script [photocopy], episode 3 (1982) |
4 - 5 | The Old Men At the Zoo (adapted by Troy Kennedy Martin) - Script, episodes 4-5 (1982) |
6 - 7 | Operation Take-Over (formerly The Invasion) - Script with revisions (June 6, 1962) |
8 | Operation Take-Over (formerly The Invasion) - Script (June 9, 1962, 2 copies) |
9 | Operation Take-Over (formerly The Invasion) - Script (October 9, 1962) |
Box 25 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | Skeletons and Assegais - Holograph notebooks of manuscript, and published version of play |
2 | Sister Superior - Holograph draft of never-produced play (Notebook #6) |
3 | The Stranger - Holograph notebook of manuscript |
4 | The Stranger - Typescript of play with holograph notes, corrections and revisions |
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Full-Length Studies |
Box 1 | |
Folder | Items |
Emile Zola: An Introductory Study of His Novels (1952) |
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1 - 5 | Holograph notebooks of the text (Notebooks #99 - 109) |
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The Wild Garden (1963) |
1 - 2 | Holograph notebooks (Notebooks #1 - 3) |
Box 2 |
The Wild Garden |
Folder | Items |
1 | Holograph notes |
2 | Typescript with holograph notes |
3 | Typescript with corrections |
4 | Typescript with corrections and revisions |
5 | Early typescript with holograph notes, corrections and revisions |
6 | Incomplete typescript (2 copies) |
7 | Typescript carbon |
8 | Anthony Garrett's corrections |
9 | setting typescript with printer's notes |
Box 3 |
The World of Charles Dickens (1970) |
Folder | Items |
1 | Holograph notebook of preliminary notes |
2 - 7 | Holograph notebooks, chapters 1 - 6 |
Box 4 |
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling (1977) |
Folder | Items |
1 - 7 | Holograph notebooks (Notebooks #1 - 6) |
Box 5 |
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling |
Folder | Items |
1 - 7 | Holograph notebooks (Notebooks #7 - 8, 1 - 4 and unnumbered) |
8 | Miscellaneous notes and fragments |
Box 6 |
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling |
Folder | Items |
1 | Miscellaneous pages of holograph draft and insertions |
2 - 3 | Typescript carbon with revisions (under original title of From Bombay to Burwash: The Life and Writings of Rudyard Kipling) |
4 - 6 | Printer's typescript (under original title of From Bombay to Burwash: The Life and Writings of Rudyard Kipling) |
Box 7 |
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling |
Folder | Items |
Research Materials | |
1 | Notes on interview with Kipling's friend Lady Hardinge, May 1976 |
2 | Photocopies of Kipling letters |
3 | Research library holdings of Kipling material |
4 - 10 | Research materials A - C |
Box 8 |
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling |
Folder | Items |
1 - 11 | Research materials, E - M |
Box 9 |
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling |
Folder | Items |
1 - 11 | Research materials, N - Z |
Box 10 |
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling |
Folder | Items |
1 | Research material and miscellaneous pages of typescript |
2 - 4 | Holograph notebooks of research material |
5 | Miscellaneous research material |
6 - 7 | Illustrations and notes |
8 - 9 | Photocopies of published articles, 1958 - 1972 |
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Articles |
Box 11 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | "The Book I Read", "Envy", and "Jane Austen" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #117) |
2 | "The British Museum: Some Impressions of One Who Works There" - Holograph notebook of manuscript (Notebook #5) |
3 | "Charles Dickens on Children and Childhood" (1969) - Holograph notebook of text, and typescript of article |
4 | "Conformity and the Novel" -- Typescript and correspondence |
5 | "East Anglia" - Holograph of text, and typescript |
6 | "Emile Zola" - Typescript carbon |
7 | "Envy" - Typescript |
8 | "John Cowper Powys as a Novelist" - Photocopy of article in The Powys Review, Spring 1977 |
9 | "Journey to my Mother's Land" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #116) |
10 | "The Library's Loss from Bombardment" - Incomplete published article, n.d. |
11 | "My Father" - Typescript |
12 | ' "Mythology" in John Cowper Powys' Novels ' - Typescript with revisions |
13 | "The Novels of William Godwin" (Article) and "English Stories from New Writing by John Lehmann" (Review) - Holograph notebook (Notebook #110) |
14 | Physicality in Fiction (untitled) - Typescript |
15 | "The Point of View of an Englishman" (from AW's speech at the Forum of European Writers in Leningrad), published in Literary Gazette, August 18, 1963 - Typescript with corrections |
16 | "A Rapist Confounded: Lovelace vs. Clarissa" - Holograph notebook, and typescripts with corrections and revisions |
17 | "Samuel Butler and His Influence" - Typescript carbon |
18 | "Seven Ages of Men" (part of a series for the Observer) - Typescript, holograph notebook, holograph wth corrections and revisions, and relevant correspondence |
19 | Sources of AW's anger (untitled article)- Holograph of text |
20 | "Television", and notes for untitled article on Channel Islands - Holograph notebook (Notebook #118) |
21 | "Television", "Dickens and East Anglia", and "The Whites of South Africa" - Holograph notebook |
22 | "Why Do I Write?", 1985? - Typescript |
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Lectures |
Box 12 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes" - Typescript with corrections and revisions, and holograph notes |
2 | Angus Wilson on AW (untitled lecture)- Typescript drafts with corrections and revisions |
3 | "The Artist in the Novel" - Typescript notes with corrections and revisions |
4 | "Being a Writer" - Holograph notes |
5 | Bloomsbury Lectures - Typescript of text for 3 lectures |
6 | "The Body and Art"? (title uncertain) - Holograph notebook of notes, and typescript of some text |
7 | "Breadth and Depth in the Novel" - Holograph notebook (Notebook #111) |
8 | "The British Museum" - Typescript |
9 | "The Bronte Sisters" - Typescript |
10 | California Lectures "Amalgam" - Typescript |
11 | "The Contemporary English Novel and Contemporary English Society" - Typescript with corrections and revisions |
12 | Defense of the British Novel (given in Leningrad, August 8, 1963) - Typescript |
13 | "Dickens", "Virginia Woolf", and "Town and Country Values in English Literature" - Holograph notebook of notes |
14 | "Dickens and Children" - Holograph notebook of notes, and typescript notes with revisions |
15 | "Dickens and Children" (Given in Bombay, January 17, 1973) |
Box 13 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | "Dickens and Dostoevsky" - Typescript with corrections and revisions, and holograph notebook of text |
2 | "Dickens and Doestoevsky", AW's Preface to The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and miscellaneous notes and quotations - Holograph notebook |
3 | "Dickens and the Age of Naturalism" - Typescript |
4 | "Dickens and the City" - Holograph and typescript notes with corrections and revisions |
5 | "Dickens and the Law" - Typescript notes and text with corrections and revisions |
6 | "Dickens and the Modern City" - Typescript with revisions |
7 | Dickens lectures (Assorted) - Holograph notebook of notes and text |
8 | Dickens lectures, including "Dickens and Dostoevsky" - Holograph notebook of notes |
9 | Dickens lecture for BBC-TV (untitled)- Miscellaneous holograph and typescript notes |
10 | Emile Zola lectures (untitled)- Holograph and typescript notes |
11 | "English Contributions to the Growth of the Novel" - Holograph notes |
12 | "Evil In the English Novel" (Radio lectures), 1962 - Holograph notes |
13 | "Evil In the English Novel" (Radio lectures), 1962 - Transcripts of broadcasts |
14 | "Evil In the English Novel" (Radio lectures), 1962 - Typescripts of notes and literary excerpts |
15 | Ewing Lectures, University of California-Los Angeles, 1960 - Holograph notebook |
Box 14 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | Fiction, Theater, Television lectures (untitled) - Holograph notebook of notes |
2 | Finn Carling (untitled) - Holograph of text |
3 | Gay life lectures (untitled) - Holograph and typescript of notes with corrections and revisions |
4 | General Cultural Scene of England (untitled, given in Cairo?) - Holograph notes |
5 | "The Heroes and Heroines of Dickens" - Partial typescript of text |
6 | Jane Austen lectures (untitled) - Holograph of texts, and holograph notebook of notes |
7 | Jane Eyre/Wuthering Heights/David Copperfield/Lord Jim/Huckleberry Finn lectures (untitled) - Holograph notebook |
8 | "John Cowper Powys: The Novels" - Holograph notebook |
9 | Kipling Annual Luncheon lecture (St. Louis, MO?) - Typescript with corrections and revisions |
10 | "Modern English Society in Contemporary Fiction" - Typescript |
11 | "Moral Conflicts in Victorian Novels", "The Writer and His Approach", "Contemporary English Novel and Contemporary English Society" - Holograph notebook |
12 | "Neglected Novelists" - Holograph notebook of notes |
13 | "The Neighborhood of Tambuctoo: Conflicts in Jane Austen's Novels" - Typescript with corrections |
14 | 19th Century Novels (untitled) - Typescript with corrections and revisions |
15 | Nirad C. Chaudhuri (untitled) - Holograph notes |
16 | "The Novelist and the Narrator" (August 1959, Lausanne and Bern) - Reprint, 1961 |
17 | "Novelists: Deception and Reality" - Holograph of text |
18 | "On Being A Novelist" - Holograph notebook |
19 | "On Being a Writer", "The Contemporary English Novel and Contemporary English Society", "Conflicts in the Contemporary English Novel" - Holograph notes |
20 | "On Writing" - Typescript |
Box 15 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | "Oscar Wilde" - Holograph and typescript of text |
2 | "Reading for Pleasure" - Holograph notes |
3 | "Robert Broomfield", 1966? - Holograph and typescript notes |
4 | "Rudyard Kipling" and "Henry Green" - Holograph notebook of notes |
5 | "Samuel Beckett", "William Golding", "Graham Greene" - Typescripts |
6 | "Samuel Richardson" - Holograph notes |
7 | Santa Cruz Lectures, 1967, and lectures on Dickens, Meredith, George Eliot, Forster, Woolf and Sterne - Holograph notebook of notes |
8 | "Sense and Sensibility in Recent Writing" - Typescriot of radio lecture, August 1950 |
9 | "Speech for East Anglian Librarians" - Holograph notes |
10 | "The Theatre in England To-Day" - Typescript |
11 | 20th Century Literature Colloquy at Columbia - Holograph notes |
12 | "The Victorian Novelists and Their Influence on the Writers of Today" - Typescript (3 copies) |
13 | "Virginia Woolf" - Holograph note, and typescript notes with corrections |
14 | "What It Is Like to Be a Novelist", "Conformity and the Novel" - Holograph notes |
15 | Women in Literature and Sexual Equality (untitled, broadcast on TV September 10, 1968) - Holograph notes |
16 | The Writer in England (untitled) - Typescript |
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Speeches |
17 | Academics in the Novel (untitled) - Typescript |
18 | Acceptance of Honorary Degree from University of Leicester - Typescript |
19 | Angus Wilson on AW (given in King's Lynn) - Holograph of notes |
20 | AW's 70th Birthday Speech, 1983 - Holograph of text |
21 | Booker Prize Ceremony Speech (1975) - Photocopy of typescript with revisions |
22 | European Community of Writers Speech (untitled, given in Leningrad, August , 1963) - Typescript |
23 | Foyle's Luncheon, July 17, 1980 - Typescript |
24 | Glendenning, Victoria, Introduction to lecture by - Typescript with corrections and revisions |
25 | J.B. Priestley's 79th Birthday Speech - Typescript |
26 | John Edward Bowle - Holograph of text |
27 | Kipling Evening Speech (untitled) - Typescript, with event program |
28 | "On Being A Writer" - Holograph notes |
29 | Opening of Adelaide (Austrl.) Festival, 1966 Speech - Holograph notes |
30 | Penhurst Speech (untitled) - Holograph notes |
31 | Presidential Address, John Cowper Powys Society, 1976 - Holograph text |
32 | Rudyard Kipling (untitled) - Typescript with corrections and revisions |
33 | St. Andrews Society, Philadelphia, November 30, 1971 - Holograph notes |
34 | "The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling" - Typescript with corrections and revisions |
35 | Suffolk and Bury St. Edmunds (untitled) - Holograph draft |
36 | Wedding toast - Given for Juliet Corke, 1982 - Typescript with handwritten French translation |
Reviews |
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37 | Abroad, by Paul Fussell - Typescript |
38 | An American Experience by Allan Ashbolt - Typescript |
39 | Branwell Bronte by W. Gerin, and various television programs - Holograph notebooks of notes (Notebooks #120 - 121) |
40 | Charles Dickens' Letters and Dickens from Pickwick to Dombey by S. Marcus - Holograph notebook (Notebook #112 - also contains early jottings for No Laughing Matter) |
41 | City of Night, by John Rechy - Typescript with handwritten notes by Tony Garrett |
42 | Dickens on America and the Americans, ed. Michael Slater, and Dickens on England and the English, ed. Malcolm Andrews - Typescript |
43 | English Stories from New Writing, ed. John Lehmann - Typescript carbon |
Box 16 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | Essays by Divers Hands 1984 - Typescript wtih corrections |
2 | The Harp and the Oak, by Hugh Massingham, 1982 reappraisal - Typescript |
3 | Ivy Compton Burnett, by Hilary Spurling - Typescript |
4 | Marie Corelli by Eileen Bigland - Typescript |
5 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens, and The Decoding of Edwin Drood, by Charles Forsyte, 1981 - Typescript |
6 | A Nation of Fools, by Khanna Balraj - Typescript |
7 | New Maps of Hell by Kinsgley Amis - Holograph notebook (Notebook #115 - also contains notes on Jane Austen) |
8 | The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and Other Stories by Evelyn Waugh - Typescript of radio broadcast |
9 | The Other Love, by H. Montgomery Hyde, 1970 - Typescript |
10 | Remembrance of Things Past (New edition) by Marcel Proust - Typescript of text, and holograph notes |
11 | T.S. Eliot, by Peter Ackroyd - Typescript |
12 | The Victorian Countryside, ed. G.E. Mingay - Typescript |
13 | A Wilder Sea: A Life of John Ruskin, by John Dixon Hunt, 1982 - Typescript with corrections |
14 | A Year of Life, by Alexander Chakovsky - Typescript |
15 | Various reviews - Miscellaneous notebooks |
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Other Non Fiction |
Folder | Items |
16 | Afterword to Great Expectations - Holograph of text |
17 | Essay on 'Little Nell and "Derby Day"' - Typescript |
18 | Interview with AW in Cairo, 1986 - Typescript of questions and answers |
19 | Zola's "Gin Mill", Introduction to - Typescript |
20 | Graham Greene, Notes on, 1984 - Typescript |
21 | Journal of an "Expedition to Provence", Author unknown - Holograph journal |
22 | Kim, Introduction to - Typescript with corrections |
23 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Preface to - Typescript |
24 | The Naughty Nineties - Documentation and correspondence re: illustrations, 1974 - 1975 |
25 | Oliver Twist, Introduction to - Typescript with corrections and revisions |
26 | Viking Portable Dickens, Notes for - Holograph notebook |
27 | Public reading of As If By Magic, Notes on, 1982 - Typescript |
28 | Radio Script for John Cowper Powys Tribute (September 1962) - Typescript |
29 | The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Introduction to - Typescript |
30 | The Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, Introduction to - Photocopied typescript with corrections |
31 | Tempo - Holograph notebook of text (Notebook #123) |
32 | Travelling in Ceylon, Notes on, 1982 - Typescript |
33 | The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Notes on - Typescript of notes with corrections |
Box 17 |
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Folder | Items |
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Miscellaneous Notes and Notebooks |
1 - 2 |
Assorted Notes, various dates |
Box 18 |
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Folder | Items |
1 - 5 | Miscellaneous Notebooks |
Box 19 |
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Folder | Items |
1 | Miscellaneous Notebooks |
SERIES IV: DIARIES AND ADDRESS BOOKS