| Title |
Literary Activities |
| Reference |
BLGN 4 |
| Covering Dates |
1944–1973 |
| Extent and Medium |
11 archive boxes |
|
| Content and context |
Includes drafts, proofs, correspondence, reviews and copies of books by HMB. |
| Churchill/BLGN 4 contains: |
|
1
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Lectures given by HMB. Correspondence and notes for "The English Novel Today" given on behalf of the British Council to French Universities 1946 and in Belgium 1954, published in "Annals" of March 1948; lecture to Oxford University Graduates' Summer School, Aug 1949 on modern English literature; press cuttings about and notes of lecture on "Civilisation Today"; "The French Contribution", Oxford, Aug 1947; "Literature as the Mirror", St. Anne's House, London, Jun 1951; "Reading for Profit" and commendation of it from Turkey; lecture on "Herman Melville" (The Robert Spence Watson Memorial Lecture) to Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1950; typescript of three lectures on Style in Literature [missing page 1]; material for lecture on "The Making of Books and English Literature"; "Literature and Civilisation", Reading University, Jul 1946; "Le Roman Anglais Contemporaire", Liege, ? 1954; lectures and discussions at various religious conferences 1949-51; correspondence about possible American Lecture Tour, 1946 and notes for six lectures [the tour did not take place at that time]; papers and correspondence about lectures to Durham Union Society 1952, the Shirley Society, Cambridge 1949, the Institute of Sociology 1946, the Peterborough Rotary Club 1948 and others; schedule (manuscript) by Helen Belgion of HMB's published works and "Profile" of HMB from the Northamptonshire County Magazine, 1970.
1 file. |
1946–1970 |
|
1A
|
Lecture tour of the United States. Travel arrangements, agent's fees etc. . Also includes copies of lectures.
1 file. |
1961–1970 |
|
2
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"Reading for Profit". Four notebooks containing Ms. of lectures given while a prisoner-of-war and one loose-leaf Ms; 85 pages of typescript sent to Jonathan Cape from Germany; pages 87-424 of revised typescript prepared post-war for publication [remainder missing].
1 file. |
1941–1945 |
|
2A
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"Reading for Profit". Setting copy of typescript.
1 file. |
1945 |
|
2B
|
"Reading for Profit". Galley proof of "Prelims" to above and pages 161-313 of page proofs [remainder missing].
1 file. |
1945 |
|
2C
|
"Reading for Profit". Correspondence with English, French and American publishers (Penguin and Pelican, Cresset Press, Regnery (Chicago), Flore (Paris)); reviews in England, France and America; letters received by HMB about the book; royalty statements.
1 file. |
1944–1978 |
|
3
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"H.G. Wells". Typescript; galley proof; corrected proof; related correspondence; two copies of final print; reviews.
1 file. |
1953–1955 |
|
4
|
"David Hume". Proof copy; corrected proof; related correspondence, including with Professor Geoffrey Bullough of London University; reviews.
1 file. |
1963–1977 |
|
5
|
"News from the French" [published in German as "Neues aus Frankreich"]. Reviews and correspondence.
1 file. |
1938–1946 |
|
6
|
"Our Present Philosophy of Life" [published in French as "Notre Foi Contemporaine"]. Reviews.
1 file. |
1929–1946 |
|
7
|
"The Human Parrot". Carbon copy of extracts from reviews.
1 folio. |
c. 1931 |
|
7A
|
"Lydgate and Dorothea". Reviews of essay on George Eliot's "Middlemarch".
1 file. |
Aug 1949-Nov 1949 |
|
8
|
Edgar Allen Poe. Typescript and galley proofs of "The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe"; correspondence about and reviews of "A Selection of Poems by Edgar Allan Poe" and "Selected Poems of William Wordsworth" [both edited by HMB]. Also includes reviews of "Passion and Society" by Denis de Rougement, translated by HMB.
1 file. |
May 1940-Aug 1948 |
|
9
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"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. Typescript and printed proof of introduction to Cresset Press edition; correspondence and reviews. Also includes typescript and proof of article "Heterodoxy on "Moby Dick"?" by HMB.
1 file. |
Apr 1946-Apr 1947 |
|
9A
|
Herman Melville Society. Correspondence and newsletters. . Also includes booklet "Melville and the Whale" by Tyrus Hillway.
1 file. |
1950-Nov 1966 |
|
10
|
"Epitaph on Nuremberg" [published in the U.S.A. as "Victors' Justice"]. Original typescript [two copies but one is incomplete]; printed proof for the English edition; amendments for the U.S. Edition; printed proof of U.S. Edition.
1 file. |
1946 |
|
11
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"Epitaph on Nuremberg" [published in the U.S.A. as "Victors' Justice"]. Correspondence with publishers; royalty statements; reviews.
1 file. |
Oct 1945-Nov 1971 |
|
12
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Early typescript draft entitled "Not by Bread Alone".
1 file. |
|
|
13
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Source material, notes, drafts and synopsis; press cuttings; correspondence.
1 file. |
1952–1969 |
|
14
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Press cuttings.
1 file. |
1955–1963 |
|
15
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Press cuttings.
1 file. |
1955–1963 |
|
16
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Press cuttings.
1 file. |
1939–1950 |
|
17
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Typescript, presumed to be final version.
1 file. |
Dec 1966 |
|
18
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Typescript of chapters XII, XIV and XVII discarded from final version.
1 file. |
Dec 1966 |
|
19
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Correspondence with British publishers and with Hanns Fischer on publishing the book [unsuccessful].
1 file. |
Dec 1956-Aug 1968 |
|
20
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Correspondence re unsuccessful attempts at publication.
1 file. |
Jan 1951-May 1969 |
|
21
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Correspondence about publication and royalty statements from Johnson Publications. Includes letters from Enoch Powell and Sir Basil Liddell Hart.
1 file. |
Nov 1965-May 1973 |
|
22
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study of Megalopolitics". Includes agreement with Johnson Publications to produce the work; correspondence with Dr. Donald Johnson about the production of the book and possible publicity; draft blurb; list of gift copies to be made; royalty statements; reviews, mostly from local papers.
1 file. |
1968–1975 |
|
23
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"Our Present Philosophy of Life".
1 volume. |
1929 |
|
24
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"Notre Foi Contemporaine".
1 volume. |
1934 |
|
25
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"The Human Parrot".
1 volume. |
1931 |
|
26
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"News of the French".
1 volume. |
1938 |
|
27
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"Reading for Profit".
1 volume. |
1950 |
|
28
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"Epitaph on Nuremberg".
1 volume. |
1947 |
|
29
|
"Victors' Justice".
1 volume. |
1949 |
|
30
|
"Selected Poems of William Wordsworth". With an introduction by HMB.
1 volume. |
1947 |
|
31
|
"A Selection of Poems by Edgar Allan Poe". With an introduction by HMB.
1 volume. |
1948 |
|
32
|
"A Man After My Own Heart". The Human Affairs Pamphlets.
1 pamphlet. |
1949 |
|
33
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"H.G. Wells".
1 pamphlet. |
1953 |
|
34
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"David Hume".
1 pamphlet. |
1965 |
|
35
|
"Promise of Greatness. The 1914-18 War". A Memorial Volume for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Armistice, with a Foreword by Sir Herbert Read.
1 volume. |
1968 |
|
36
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"The Worship of Quantity: A Study in Megalopolitics". Includes copy of a note on the book by HMB (Dec 1966).
1 volume. |
1966–1969 |
|
37
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Correspondence. Includes letters on books, royalties and contracts.
1 file. |
1929–1951 |
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