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Vanguard Press Records, ca.1925-ca.1985

Title: Vanguard Press Records, ca.1925-ca.1985

ArchivalResource: 134 linear ft. (227 boxes and 22 preservation cases).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079730 View

Brooke, Jocelyn. Letter, 1954.

Title: Letter, 1954.

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 9 Dec. 1954, and addressed to S. (?) Hughes. Brooke states he was alarmed by "your angry letter" and expresses regret "you have to wait for the book."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 page) ; 18 x 14 cm. + 1 photocopy.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79977053 View

Vanguard Press. Vanguard Press Records, ca. 1925-ca. 1985.

Title: Vanguard Press Records, ca. 1925-ca. 1985.

The collection consists of the editorial and production archives of Vanguard Press: correspondence, manuscripts, contracts, memoranda, galley proofs, photographs, clippings, and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: l34 linear ft. (ca. 128,500 items in 227 boxes and 22 preservation cases)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/467178937 View

Pudney, John, 1909-1977. Papers, 1850-1977 (bulk 1926-1976).

Title: Papers, 1850-1977 (bulk 1926-1976).

The John Pudney Papers, 1850-1977 (bulk 1926-1976), include drafts, notes, printer's copies, galleys, research material, notebooks, diaries, and correspondence. Manuscripts for Pudney's poetry collections and chapbooks include Collected Poems, 1957, and Selected Poems, 1967-1973, as well as proofs for Beyond this Disregard (1943), South of Forty (1943), Spandrels: Poems and Ballads (1969), and Living in a One-Sided House (1976). Manuscripts for early and/or unpublished later poems, 1926-1968, are also present. Some materials such as those for Ten Summers: Poems, 1933-1943 include only notes and correspondence. Manuscripts of Pudney's fiction include The Accomplice (1950), Shuffley Wanderers: An Entertainment (1948), and 'Sleadley' (nd). Materials for such works as The Net (1952), Trespass in the Sun (1957), and Home and Away: An Autobiographical Gambit (1960), include only critical notes and correspondence. Nonfiction materials include the proposal and correspondence for The Thomas Cook Story (1953). These materials, which concern the British temperance movement, consist primarily of the mid-19th century letters and ephemera of Thomas Cook, George Cruikshank, and Emily Ellis. Also present are the manuscript for Lewis Carroll and His World (1976), a working notebook, 1947 on the history of the British Air Force, and numerous materials for the revised edition of The Smallest Room (1954, 1959), a humorous history of sanitation and water closets. The Correspondence series, 1937-1962, primarily concerns the revision of The Smallest Room. Other correspondence also describes the nature of Pudney's other literary endeavors and editorial duties, while letters from George Barker and H.E. Bates are of a more personal nature. Other significant correspondents include Kingsley Amis, Malcolm Arnold, John Betjeman, Benjamin Britten, Jocelyn Brooke, Sir Winston Churchill, Cynthia Coville (Secretary to Queen Mary), Oliver Dawney (Secretary to H.M. Queen Elizabeth), C. Day Lewis, T.S. Eliot, John Lehmann, Compton Mackenzie, Wolf Mankowitz, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Laurence Olivier, J.B. Priestly, Frederic Prokosch, Herbert Edward Read, Michael Redgrave, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Henry Treece, and Evelyn Waugh.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1 linear foot), 1 galley folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122692658 View

Bryher papers, 1812-1980, 1911-1978

Title: Bryher papers 1812-1980 1911-1978

The papers document the personal lifeand literary career of Bryher. Her extensive correspondence includes lettersfrom H. D., Robert MacAlmon, Kenneth MacPherson, Norman Holmes Pearson, SylviaBeach, Norman Douglas, Horace Gregory, Islay Lyons, and Edith Sitwell, and frommany other figures in the fields of literature, psychoanalysis, and film.There are manuscripts of many of her works, including fragments of anunpublished volume of autobiography; financial and personal papers; materialcollected by Bryher on "boys' books" authors such as R. M. Ballantyne and G. A.Henty; and documentation of Bryher's interest in film and the making ofBorderline (1930).

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 184; Other Storage Formats: oversize; Linear Feet: 75

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Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969. Letters, 1918-1957.

Title: Letters, 1918-1957.

Discussing his writing; mentioning a proposed essay on Somerset Maugham; concerning the works of John Collier and Jocelyn Brooke.

ArchivalResource: 26 items (49 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233124592 View

Brooke, Jocelyn. Papers, 1831-1966.

Title: Papers, 1831-1966.

Letters, postcards and cards of both a personal and business nature addressed chiefly to Brooke. Also clippings, printed matter, a typed prose paragraph, a typed poem entitled "On a Picture by Paul Veronese (1896)" signed illegibly, pencil and pen drawings, a watercolor, holograph and printed recipes, a commonplace book, and a ledger book.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders (229 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31638900 View

Brooke, Jocelyn. [Notes on the Kiabara].

Title: [Notes on the Kiabara]. 1888.

Bunya Mts. area; Classes with diag. & explanation, names of totems, descent of totems.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225730254 View

Van Druten, John, 1901-1957. John Van Druten papers, 1901-1957.

Title: John Van Druten papers, 1901-1957.

The John Van Druten papers consist of diaries, correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and ephemera documenting his life and career.

ArchivalResource: 2 lin. ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122640151 View

British authors collection, 1840-1953.

Title: British authors collection, 1840-1953.

Literary manuscripts and letters of writers of the British Commonwealth. Correspondence, literary manuscripts, commonplace books, autographs, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122571339 View

Welch, Denton, 1915-1948. Denton Welch Papers, 1770-2002 (bulk 1938-1982).

Title: Denton Welch Papers, 1770-2002 (bulk 1938-1982).

The Denton Welch papers comprise manuscripts, correspondence, personal documents, and biographical materials. Series I, Works, includes manuscripts for Denton Welch's novels, short stories, and poems, many being represented by multiple drafts. Brave and Cruel and Other Stories, In Youth is Pleasure, and Maiden Voyage are also present in typescript. Series II, Correspondence, contains a significant amount of correspondence from Welch to his friends Noel Adeney, Maurice Cranston, Eric Oliver, and Helen Roeder. Letters to Welch from, among others, Julian Goodman, Thomas Hennell, Henry Moore, Edward Sackville-West, and Edith Sitwell are also present. Series III, Other Papers, comprises letters written to Eric Oliver after Denton Welch's death, along with Oliver's correspondence with Hector Bolitho. Photographs, research material, and several of Welch's personal documents are also located in the series.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (4.2 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84699220 View

Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964. Letters, 1917-1960.

Title: Letters, 1917-1960.

Concerning criticisms of her poetry; discussing her own writing and that of others, including William Faulkner, John Collier, John Lehmann, and Gertrude Stein; stating her opinion of Sir Allen Lane and Kenneth Allott; mentioning copyright and publishing issues.

ArchivalResource: 133 items (371 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233125216 View

Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection

Title: Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection

Autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the materials were donated by Fred Rosenstock to Brigham Young University, but some were acquired from different sources. Many of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collins, Colorado. Contains autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collings Colorado. The materials are largely letters and autographs produced by prominent American and British authors, editors, politicians, and other important artistic and historical figures in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The items relating to the individual creators are being cataloged separately and will be available on the Brigham Young University cataloging data base. BYU special collections created this artificial collection placing the material in alphabetical order.

ArchivalResource: 40 boxes (20 linear ft.)

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/Vault%20MSS%202 View

John Van Druten papers, 1901-1957

Title: John Van Druten papers 1901-1957

The John Van Druten papers consist of diaries, correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and ephemera documenting his life and career. The papers span the years 1901-1957 and give excellent insight into Van Druten's creative processes. Missing from the collection are scripts of his most well-known works. There are however, scripts for some plays including AWAKENING, CHANCE ACQUAINTAINCE, DANCING IN THE CHECKERED SHADE, THE RETURN HALF and SOLITAIRE. The papers also include many other literary forms: essays, parodies and poetry all written by Van Druten.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21311 View

Abse, Dannie. Nimbus magazine archive, 1945-1962.

Title: Nimbus magazine archive, 1945-1962.

The Nimbus Archive, 1945-1962, consists primarily of editorial files which include manuscripts, paste-ups, galleys, page proofs, designs, photographs, and various materials collected for publication, plus related correspondence, legal documents, and publicity. All issues of Nimbus, except the material for the last issue (Vol. IV, no. 2), are represented in the Editorial Files, 1951-1957. Nimbus published a diverse group of authors representing various literary schools, including such writers as Dannie Abse, W.H. Auden, George Barker, Bertolt Brecht, Jean Cocteau, Mircea Eliade, T.S. Eliot, Jean Genet, Michael Hastings, John Heath-Stubbs, C.G. Jung, Patrick Kavanagh, Laurie Lee, George Macbeth, Colin MacInnes, Pablo Neruda, Stevie Smith, Alexander Trocchi, Richard Wilbur, and Noel Woodin. Also found here are several manuscripts not published by Nimbus, including works by John Health-Stubbs, Alexander Trocchi, David Wright, a radio play, "Too Tired for Words," by Stevie Smith, and others. The Business Files, 1945-1962, include correspondence, legal papers, and publicity. The outgoing and incoming correspondence primarily addresses editorial and financial concerns during David Wright's co-editorship. The letters of Christopher Logue and Noel Woodin, however, are of a more personal nature. Other significant correspondents include Dannie Abse, W.H. Auden, Djuna Barnes, Edward Dahlberg, C. Day Lewis, J.P. Donleavy, T.S. Eliot, William Empson, Michael Hamburger, John Heath-Stubbs, Patrick Kavanagh, Christopher Logue, Hugh MacDiarmid, W. Somerset Maugham, Vernon Scannell, Dame Edith Sitwell, Alexander Trocchi, and Evelyn Waugh.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1 linear foot), 2 oversize folders, and 16 galley folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122385636 View