| Title |
Literary |
| Reference |
TUCK 4 |
| Covering Dates |
1903–1906 |
| Extent and Medium |
6 volumes and 14 files |
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| Content and context |
Notes, drafts, correspondence, typescripts and source material for Tuck's literary work. Also including pamphlets and volumes by other individuals. |
| Churchill/TUCK 4 contains: |
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1
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"The Log of HMS Goliath, China Station, 1900-1903". by J. B. Brodie and A. F. Ray. 1 volume; Printed. |
1903 |
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2
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"Port Arthur. The Siege and Capitulation". by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett. 1 volume; Printed. |
1906 |
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3
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"Shipping Log". Comprising a log of ship locations, hand written by Oswald Tuck. 1 volume. |
1914 |
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4
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"Preliminary Narratives". Comprising a typewritten account of shipping routes, movement of ships and instructions received. Covers 'Atlantic Ocean'; 'notes on communications'; 'Area E'; 'Area G'; War registry telegrams dealing with the Ostend demonstration'; 'operations in the Channel during and after the Ostend demonstration'; 'the Mediterranean'; 'Cape'; 'East Indies'; 'West America'; 'North America and West Indian waters'. Volume includes diagrams, maps and Tuck's own handwritten annotations. 1 volume. |
Jul 1914-Dec 1914 |
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5
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"Preliminary Studies". Comprising Oswald Tuck's typed accounts of histories of 'mediterranean', 'Russia', 'Pre-Convoy', 'Anti-Submarine measures', and 'Evacuation of Serbian Army', all used in the production of "Naval Operations". Including a letter from Tuck outlining the work at the beginning of the volume. 1 volume. |
1919–1932 |
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6
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"A Great Korean Admiral". Handwritten by Tuck, about the Chino-Japanese war of the sixteenth century. 1 file. |
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7
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"Clearing the Pacific 1914". Lecture notes for petty officers, signed and dated by Oswald Tuck. 1 file. |
1922 |
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8
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Transactions of Japan Society, volumes XXI-XXXVI. Oswald Tuck articles including: 'Some Comic Medieval Plays of Japan', volume XXI, 1923; 'A Post-War Japanese Play', volume XXIII, 1926; 'Jitsuzo: A study of a student', volume XXXIV, 1931; 'Kyogen: The Comic Drama of Japan', volume XXXV, 1938; and 'Japanese Nightingales', volume XXXVI, undated. 1 file of 6 articles. |
1923–1938 |
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9
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"The Old Telegraph". by Oswald Tuck, in 'The Fighting Forces' journal. 1 volume. |
Sept 1924 |
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10
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"Japanese Culture" lectures: Walthamstow Library. Comprising correspondence about the proposed lectures, 1924 (4); course syllabus and list of books; and lecture draft notes with annotations: Lecture I: geographical considerations; Lecture II and IIa: people and their history; Lecture III or IV: people and their customs; Lecture V: people and their beliefs; Lecture VI: the influence of Japan on the world. 3 files. |
1924 |
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11
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History of the War. Comprising typescript and handwritten accounts of submarine campaigns and the mediterranean. Also includes letters from the Admiralty, giving approval for publication, 1926 (2). 1 file. |
1926 |
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12
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"Elizabethan Seaman" lectures: University of London. Comprising notes; examination papers; cuttings about Francis Drake and other naval matters, 1926 (3); National Portrait Gallery postcards of key figures from the Elizabethan age, undated (5); article "Navy Life under Charles II: A chaplain's diary 250 years ago" from the Marine Magazine, 1927; and a copy of "The Admiralty Telegraphs and Semaphore" by Commander Hilary P. Mead, 1938. Also including the drafts of the lectures, with annotations- Lecture I: the world in early Tudor times; Lecture II: the beginnings of English seamanship; Lecture III: the discovery of Russia; Lecture IV: Queen Elizabeth and the temper of the people; Lecture V: John Hawkins defied Philip of Spain; Lecture VI: Francis Drake on the Spanish main; Lecture VII: the world encompassed; Lecture VIII: Martin Frobisher and John Davis- the last attempts to reach Cathay; Lecture IX: the first attempts at colonization; Lecture X: India and the far east- the East India Company; Lecture XI: the outbreak of war with Spain; Lecture XII: the most fortunate and invincible Armada. 4 files. |
1926–1938 |
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13
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"Old Japanese Poetry". by Oswald Tuck, in 'Empire Review and Magazine'. 1 volume. |
1939 |
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14
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"The Nature of Japanese Poetry". by Oswald Tuck, in 'The Asiatic Review', Volume XXXVI, Number 125. 1 file. |
Jan 1940 |
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15
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"Impressions of Post-War Japan". by Eric Bertrand Ceadel [Cambridge University Librarian]. 1 file. |
1952 |
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16
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"Captain Oswald Tuck and the Bedford Japanese School". by Sue Jarvis, Bletchley Park report, number 19. 1 file. |
2003 |