Janus: The Papers of Julian Heward Bell

King's/PP/JHB/1 contains:
1	School and undergraduate essays
2	Essays and reviews
3	Papers for the Society of Apostles
4	Fellowship dissertations
5	Autograph manuscript poems
6	Manuscript poems with typescript or carbon typescript copies.
7	Typescript and carbon typescript poems
8	'Winter Movement & other poems published & unpublished'
9	'Work for the Winter More or Less for Christmas'
10	Decorated poems
11	Poetry game
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The Papers of Julian Heward Bell

Title	Essays and reviews
Reference	JHB/1/2 (former reference: JHB/8 unless otherwise stated.)
Covering Dates	1927–1937 (Dates have been estimated.)
Extent and Medium	40 items in 2 envelopes; paper

Content and context

This sub-series comprises autograph manuscript and typescript essays and reviews written while an undergraduate and graduate student at King's College, Cambridge, and after. These seem to be creative writings rather than Tripos essays, and some may have been written while teaching English at Wuhan University, China, 1935-7.

Essays are arranged in approximate chronological order, which reflects a change in subject matter from literature and ethics towards politics and military strategy. Reviews of other authors' printed works are placed at the end of the sequence.

King's/PP/JHB/1/2 contains:

Essays on literature, ethics and politics. This envelope contains:. Autograph manuscript biographical sketch of Lydia Lopokova Keynes and John Maynard Keynes. [?1928x9]. Autograph manuscript and typescript, 'The progress of poetry', erased sub-title 'An Open Letter to J.L.' Includes 1 autograph letter, signed, from Geoffrey W. Rossetti [Editor of 'The Cambridge Review'] to Julian Bell. 7 Feb. 1930. . Autograph manuscript, 'Results of the Sixth Experiment. Bedlam or Parnassus', [?1930]. Typescript, 'The Naturalist's Point of View'. Autograph manuscript, 'A Short view of An Aesthetic of poetry'. Autograph manuscript, 'Lycidas and the Lusitania or Theme and Form'. Typescript essay on theology and absolute ethics. Autograph manuscript, 'A Brief Sermon' ['against Pessimism' erased in title], essay in reply to suggestion by 'Peter' [F.L. Lucas], possibly made at a meeting of the Apostles . Autograph manuscript, 'A Working Hypothesis', on theories of ethics . Autograph manuscript, 'A working hypothesis II', on emotional judgements. 2 typescripts with autograph manuscript addition in Julian Bell's hand, 'A Brief View of Poetic Obscurity', with manuscript notes by Michael Redgrave. Typescript with autograph manuscript addition in Julian Bell's hand, and carbon typescript, 'Modern Verse Satire'. Autograph manuscript, 'The Case for Reaction'. Autograph manuscript, 'The Case for Reaction' [A different essay from the one listed above]. Typescript and carbon typescript, 'Prose Reflections: To My Bourgeois Friends in the Communist Party'. Autograph manuscript, 'A Materialist Ethic'. Typescript, 'Politics and the Good Life', [?1932]. Typescript, 'The Labour Party and War', [?1933]. Autograph manuscript, 'Specific positive recomendations [sic] in the British situation', [?1935].
1 envelope; paper.

1927–1935

Essays on politics and military strategy, with reviews. Autograph manuscript and typescript, 'Sketch of a revolutionary strategy based on the campaigns of Michael Collins', with a photocopy of title page, table of contents, Section A. 'Situation', and Section B. 'Theory of War.' [?1935x6]. Autograph manuscript, 'A sketch of military policy for a future socialist govt. of Britain'. Written on note paper from the New China Hotel, Canton, suggesting the following date. [?1935x6]. Typescript, 'Reflections on Air War'. Typescript, 'On Roger Fry. A Letter', prefaced by Julian Bell in the published version: 'These ... essays were written between the summer of 1935 and the spring of 1937, in China or at sea.' [?1935x7]. Typescript and photocopy of autograph manuscript, 'Poetry as a Pure Art' [Original autograph manuscript held at Wuhan University, China] . Typescript, 'The Sea Monster', possibly written in China, [?1936x7]. Typescript, 'Military considerations of socialist policy', [?1936x7]. Autograph manuscript open letter [To Kingsley Martin on the Spanish situation. 5 Sept. ?1936] . Autograph manuscript review of E.W. Hendy, 'The Lure of Birdwatching' (1928) and Walter Johnson, Gilbert White: 'Pioneer, Poet & Stylist' (1928). Autograph manuscript review of a book on the French Revolution possibly by Lenôtre, the pseudonym of Louis Léon Théodore Gosselin. Autograph manuscript review of three books on the French Revolution, but Julian Bell only names two authors: one is possibly Lenôtre, the other is Mrs. Williams. Autograph manuscript review of Davide [possibly David Vindici], 'The Tragedy of the Italia'. Typescript, 'Bathos', a review of Thomas Thornely, 'Whims and Moods' (1930). Typescript, 'The highest reach of human wit', a review of F.L. Lucas, 'Ariadne' (1932). . Typescript, 'Surtees', a review of Frederick Watson, 'Robert Smith Surtees: A Critical Study' (1933). Typescript, 'Strindberg for the children', a review of August Strindberg, 'Tales', translated by Leonard James Potts (1930). Typescript, 'Who was Shakespeare', a review of Gerald Rendall, 'Shakespeare Sonnets and Edward de Vere' (1930). . Typescript, 'Lyttelton', a review of Sydney Castle Roberts, 'An Eighteenth Century Gentleman and other Essays' (1930). Typescript, 'Last legs', a review of Sir Charles Marston, 'The Bible is True' (1934), Canon Percy Dearmer, 'Our National Church' (1934), Jules Lebreton, 'The Life and Teaching of Jesus Christ' (1934), Angelo Solomon Rappoport, 'Mediaeval Legends of Christ' (1934), and Jacob Böhme, 'Of The Incarnation of Jesus Christ' [possibly translated by John Rolleston Earle, 1934]. Typescript, 'écrasez L' Infame: Mr Eliots [sic] Gods', a review of T.S. Eliot, 'After Strange Gods' (1934). Typescript fragment of a review of an historical novel by Mr. Sitwell (possibly Osbert). Former reference JHB/20. 'The Life of Fouché', 'The Nation & Athenaeum', 2 June 1928. Printed. Anonymous, possibly by Julian Bell. Former reference JHB/21.
1 envelope; paper.

1928–1937