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Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Literature and Publishing |
Local
- Gorsedh Kernow, bardic association: biographical files, deceased bards; files, events and activities and other records, with some publications of Cornish American Heritage Society and the London Cornish Association 1900-2019 (X1104)
- Basset family of Sidcup, owners of The Kentish Times: photograph albums, memorabilia, ephemera, genealogies and autobiographies 1906-2022 (2022/009)
- Grass Roots Bookshop: records incl photographs, minutes and exhibition material c1970-2022 (2022/56)
- Kenneth Hopkins (1914-1988), poet and author; correspondence with literary circle 1982-1990 (MC 3628, 1078X6)
- Verily Bruce, (1915-2010), author of Northrepps: personal diaries 1924-2010 (ACC 2022/101)
- Friends of William Soutar Society, Perth: records rel to society activities, including ‘People who Knew Soutar’ oral history project 1932-2016 (Acc22/58)
- William Henry 'W H' Ogilvie (1869-1963), poet, author, journalist: poems, articles and sheet music 1918-2022 (SBA/907)
- Deanery Poets, poetry group: correspondence, promotional material 1980s-1990s (D/WIS)
- Brian David Scates (b1948), author and poet: personal papers comprising publications and manuscripts, primarily poetry and film scripts; also incl are photographs (2) of the author as a boy in Bermondsey, corresp about the collection and his childhood recollections 1959-2022 (2021/5)
- The Bookplace and Peckham Publishing Project: records of the project incl newsletters, reports, cuttings, publications, photographs, and film of the Bookfair event 1989 1982-1989 (2021/11)
- Frederick Thomas Bason (1907-1973), author, bookseller and diarist: personal papers incl published works, diaries, manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, press cuttings, publicity, business records, scrapbooks 1926-1980 (2022/9)
- Margaret Thomson Davis (1926-2006), novelist: corresp and typescripts 2005-2006 (891535)
- William Cowper (1731-1800), poet: signed autograph letter to his 'Dearest brother' [William Hayley] and two letters from Hayley to Cowper 1792 (20372)
National
- Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), author: miniature book, 'Characters of the Celebrated Men of the Present Time by Captain Tree', written in ink on hand cut paper 1829 (Add MS 89486)
- Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848), author: notebook of poems 1844-1846 (Add MS 89488)
- Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil (1938-2022), Australian publisher, writer and critic: Angela Carter archive 1973-2007 (Add MS 89490)
- Brendan Rendall Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken (1901-1958), politician and publisher: letters to William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (1879-1964), newspaper proprietor and politician 1925-1958 (Add MS 89495)
- Edward Lear (1812-1888), artist and author: annotated draft of 'The Story of the Pobble, who has no toes, and the Princess Bink' 1873 (Add MS 89473)
- Edward Lear (1812-1888), artist and author: transcriptions of early poems and letters, and draft manuscript unpublished poem 'Once I had a Mucous Membrane' 1830 (Add MS 89474)
- Beryl Agatha Gilroy (1924-2001), Guyanese educator, novelist, ethno-psychotherapist, and poet: archive 20th cent (Add MS 89476)
- Angelica Vanessa Garnett (1918-2012), painter and writer: papers c1920-2012 (Add MS 89477)
- Cyril Vernon Connolly (1903-1974), author and critic: letters to Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) writer, journalist and reviewer c1948 (Add MS 89504)
- Frances Crofts Cornford (1886-1960), poet: letters to Daniel George (1890-1967), reader for publisher Jonathan Cape, regarding her translations of the poems of Louis Aragon (1897-1982), together with the translations 1945-1947 (Add MS 89523)
- Emma Tatham (1829-1855), poet: poems 1841-1845 (Add MS 89532)
- ASLIB Microfilm Service: archive 20th cent (Add MS 89543)
- Rosalind Mary Turvey (1901-1976), illustrator: original poems and essays 1915-1919 (Add MS 89546)
- John Higden-Thornell (fl1870-1916), poet: Fugitive Verse, poetry book 1870-1916 (Add MS 89547)
- Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (b1958), writer and poet: 'What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us' 2016 (Add MS 89636)
- Stephen Henry Critten (1887-1964), author: original manuscript of 'Death Rocks the Cradle' 1932 (Add MS 89552)
- Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (1878-1957), 18th Baron Dunsany, writer: handwritten poem entitled 'Prisoners and Captives' 20th cent (Add MS 89580)
- John Galsworthy (1867-1933), author and dramatist: manuscript of 'One More River' c1933 (Add MS 89586)
- Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962), poet: manuscript of 'Hoops' 1914 (Add MS 89588)
- Fergus Hamilton Allen (1921-2017), civil servant and author: archive 20th cent (Add MS 89589)
- Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (1893-1964), Knight. actor: verse and notes 1938-1939 (Add MS 89591)
- John Lewis Roget (1828-1908), art critic and writer: diary 1848 (Add MS 89595)
- James Thomson (1700-1748), poet: 'Autumn' from 'The Seasons' late 18th cent (Add MS 89606)
- Robert Browning Settlement, evangelical charity rel to poets Robert Browning (1812-89) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61), Camberwell: visitors book 1895-1994 (Add MS 89644)
- Eliza Cook (1812-1889), poet and journalist: autograph letters and poems 1854-1934 (Add MS 89645)
- Peter Cashmore (d2019), journalist: extensive collection of corresp (c700 letters) written by individual British service personnel to the popular magazine 'Nuts', edited by Cashmore, whilst serving on various operational tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Falklands and other overseas operations between 2008 and 2013 2008-2013 (Documents.27521)
- Alan Norman Bold (1943-1998), poet, biographer, journalist, musician: further literary papers incl pencil sketches and other artwork c1940-1969 (Acc.14452)
- Robert Burns (1759-1796), poet: first Commonplace Book nd (Acc.14409)
- Gall & Inglis, printers and publishers, Edinburgh: business records 1840-1974 (Acc.14407)
- Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), Knight, author: typescript of 'Greek memories', First World War memoirs 1932 (Acc.14449)
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), essayist and historian: notebooks 1813-1873 (Acc.14412)
- Robert Burns (1759-1796), poet; Walter Scott, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford, (1771-1832), writer; George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, afterwards Noel (1788-1824), poet: manuscripts from the Library of Honresfield House 18th-19th cent (Acc.14410)
- Dic Jones, (1934-2009), Welsh poet and Archdruid, National Eisteddfod: papers and tapes rel to the literary work of Dic Jones c1970-2009 (Papurau Dic Jones)
- Ruth Bidgood, (1922-2022) poet and historian: research and literary papers 20th-21st cent (Ruth Bidgood Papers)
- Berta Ruck (1878-1978) novelist: volumes of ‘Notes’, or journals (2), containing a commentary of literary life in London, and incl numerous letters, postcards, newspaper cuttings, photographs, and ephemera 1929-1936 (NLW MSS 24195-6)
- Daniel Jenkyn Jones (1912-1993), composer and conductor: further papers, incl Jones’ copy of the script of Under Milk Wood, 1954, containing notes and corrections in his hand; handwritten drafts, a complete typescript and proofs of his book My Friend Dylan Thomas, together with corresp with the publishers, diaries, notes and corresp 1920s-1980s (DANJON)
- Cynthia Abbott (fl1983), author: book, entitled 'Wartime Sketches', published at her own expense, containing sketches and notes around her experiences serving in the WRNS during the Second World War, incl sketches of the WRNS learning to drive vans and becoming ambulance drivers 1983 (NMRN 2022/253/1)
- John William Streets (fl1913-1917), Sergeant, York and Lancaster Regiment: pocket books and poems, together with a published copy of a book containing a collection of his poems titled 'The Undying Splendour' (published by Erskine Macdonald Ltd, 1917) and a draft typescript of a book about John William Street titled 'Temple of Truth' by Leslie T. Yaw 1913-1917 (578-K/8/2/1085)
Special
- Mary Bertenshaw, (b 1904), author: mss autobiography, letters, cuttings and photographs c1980-1999 (Acc. 186)
University
- Helena Mennie Shire (1912-1991), literary scholar: additional papers 1980s-1990s (MS 3407)
- R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), Welsh poet: poetry Late 20th cent (2022/18)
- Neil Curry (b1937), poet and author: manuscript notes for 'Some letters never sent' (Enitharmon Press, 2014), 6 note books, and 2 printed poetry pamphlets c2011-2017 (DM3071)
- Edward Morgan Forster, (1879-1970), novelist and critic: letters and postcards to George Weys 1942-1950 (GBR/0272/EMF/18/580X)
- Penny Cleobury, (fl1982-1997), author: photographs and contact proofs for the book on the King's College choir 1982-1997 (KCPH/2/79)
- Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894), Scottish writer: autograph manuscript (386 leaves) of R. M. Ballantyne’s Erling the Bold: A Tale of the Norse Sea-Kings, a novel of Viking life, inspired by Icelandic sagas. Working manuscript with alterations, clarifications and revisions 1869 (Coll-2074 (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0086))
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish novelist and poet: autograph letter to his friend the antiquarian Cuthbert Sharp in Bishopwearmouth, Durham. From Abbotsford, dated 10th May [no year, but probably 1830] c1830 (Coll-1147/22-0057/2)
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish novelist and poet: autograph letter to Robert Smith Esq., primarily concerning the recovery of a debt, but also with family news and remarks of a general nature. St Paul’s Churchyard, Edinburgh, dated 5 January 1800 1800 (Coll-1147/22-0057/1)
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), historian, essayist and philosopher: autograph letter to an unnamed correspondent, Chelsea, 9 January 1845, possibly written when he was working on his book The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell 1845 (Coll-1848/22-0018)
- Edwin Morgan (1920-2010), Glasgow poet laureate and translator: corresp, press cuttings, medical reports c2000-2010 (GLAASC ACCN 00063)
- Edwin Morgan (1920-2010), Glasgow poet laureate and translator: letters to Emma Richardson regarding a school poetry competition in North Carolina, USA 1985 (GLAASC ACCN 00107)
- Mark Hinchliffe (1960-2019), poet and Ted Hughes expert: collection incl signed first editions of Hughes’s trade, limited-edition and fine-press publications; original letters by Hughes and his first wife, poet Sylvia Plath; photograph album; poems; a ceramic jaguar sculpted by Hughes; a holograph manuscript of ‘Orpheus & Eurydice’; original watercolours (8) by Leonard Baskin; also Hinchliffe's personal archive, incl correspondence with Hughes and his family, as well as Hughes scholars and collectors 1940s-2000s (MHTH)
- Edward (Ted) James Hughes (1930-1998), poet: collection of published works signed by Hughes 1904-1989 (THN/SB)
- Gerda Kamilla Mayer (1927-2021), poet and writer: material rel to Mayer's literary work and early life incl copies of Mayer's published works and substantial files of literary correspondence 1939-2008 (MS 2260)
- Ms, letters and books of the Blavatnik Honresfield Library, collected during the late nineteenth century by William Law. The ms items rel to the Brontë family, incl early writings of Charlotte Brontë, letters by Branwell Brontë and letters by Elizabeth Gaskell concerning Haworth 1830-1853 (MS 2266)
- University of Leicester: Rose Griffiths, Professor of Education: oral history interview relating to career in children's non-fiction (maths resources and texts books) during the late 20th century c1980-2000 (Acc 2022/21 (D))
- Sue Townsend (1946-2014), author and playwright: draft ms, AV material and correspondence rel to "Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years" (c2006); correspondence with John Tydeman (1936-2020), Head of BBC Radio Drama (c1982-2017) c1982-2017 (Acc 2022/15, Acc 2022/22)
- Michael Butterworth, (b 1947), writer, publisher and editor: papers incl corresp, drafts, books and business records c1950-2023 (BUT)
- Anthony Lejeune, (1928-2018), journalist and writer: papers rel to journalism career incl research notes and some corresp. Also incl TSS ‘London Letters’ and personal corresp c1940-2018 (ALP)
- Rosie Garland, (b 1960), writer: working papers rel to three published novels 'The Place of Curiosities', 'Vixen', 'The Night Brother'. Also incl material rel to some unpublished earlier novels and poetry c2005-2017 (RGP)
- DH Lawrence (1885-1930), writer: typescript of 'Dead pictures on walls',letters and postcards from Curtis Brown, Helen Corke, James Boulton, Harwood Brewster Pickard, Harry T Moore and Martin Jarrett-Kerr; first edition of 'Sex Locked Out' 1929-1987 (La L 35; La Mc 2/11)
- Jane Austen (1775-1817), novelist: holograph letters (2) written to sister Cassandra Austen 1796-1813 (MS. 21838)
- Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell (1901-1983), novelist: manuscript draft of 'The Greenstone Griffins' c1983 (MS. 21797)
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), author, Nobel Laureat: letters from Lütfi Özkök (c. 1923-2017), poet and photographer c1960 (IE TCD MS 11657)
- Christopher Nolan (1965-2009), Irish poet and author: literary archives c1980-2009 (IE TCD MS 11678)
- Marie Corelli (1855-1924), novelist: letters 1906-1910 (DSH33)
- Gail McConnell (b1981), poet: draft manuscripts and correspondence rel to the collection of poetry 'FotherMather' 2018-2022 (GM)
- Joelle Taylor (b1967), poet, playwright and author: draft manuscripts, correspondence rel to the collection of poetry 'Cunto and other stories', notebooks and working papers c1990-2022 (JT)
- Christopher William Edgar Bigsby (b1941), literary analyst and novelist: correspondence with well known writers and critics, audio and video tape recordings (6) and floppy disks (113) c1980-2000 (CB)
- Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo (b1973), poet and writer: literary material, including notebooks c1990-2022 (AVC)
- Lee Child (b 1954), author: additional papers, incl manuscripts, correspondence and working papers c2018-2022 (LC)
- Henry Williamson (1895-1977), naturalist and author: additional papers, mostly personal created and accumulated throughout his life, some literary papers 1900-2000 (EUL MS 43/PERS add. 1)
- Philip Nicholas Furbank (1920-2014), literary scholar: corresp and papers rel to Furbank's friend the poet and writer Patricia Beer 1960-2011 (EUL MS 477)
- Sylvia Kantaris (1936-2021), poet: additional personal and literary papers rel to published and unpublished collections of poetry; collection of poetry volumes, often with corresp between Kantaris and the author 20th-21st cent (EUL MS 367 add. 1)
- Letters and postcards written to Edward Beckett, nephew of the playwright Samuel Beckett and Trustee of The Samuel Beckett Society 1990-2012 (Acc.MS5779)
- Katharine Worth (1922-2015), author and professor of drama and theatre: screenplay for Samuel Beckett's "Company", incl 3 letters from Beckett 1991 (Acc.MS5780)
- Taner Baybars (1936-2010), poet and painter: correspondence, journals and notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts and newscuttings 1950s-1990s (Acc.MS5787)
- Elaine Greene (1920-1995), literary agent: mainly corresp with Richard Percival Lister (1914 –2014) author, poet, artist and metallurgist; also incl some business papers 1962-1969 (Acc.MS5855)
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