Janus: The Papers of Roger Eliot Fry

King's/PP/REF contains:
<-- See earlier
4	Notebooks, sketches, and designs
5	Diaries
6	Photographs
7	Personal papers
8	Writings by others
9	Books owned by Roger Fry
10	News cuttings
11	Posthumous publications of writings by Roger Fry
12	Material collected for Donald Laing's bibliography
13	Biographical material
14	Correspondence

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The Papers of Roger Eliot Fry

Title	Biographical material
Reference	REF/13
Covering Dates	1912–1985
Extent and Medium	47 envelopes; paper

Content and context

Includes reprints, newspaper cuttings, memoirs and catalogues. Mostly collected after REF's death.

King's/PP/REF/13 contains:

'Picture arrangements 13 iv 35'. Autograph manuscript memorandum on the disposition of REF's paintings after his death.
Creator: Fry, Margery.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

13 Apr. 1935

'Roger's will and requests; SMF's corresp[ondence] as exec[utor]'.
Creator: Fry, Margery.

1932–1937

Sotheby's fine art catalogue for sale on 11 Apr. 1935. Includes details of REF's collection of contemporary drawings.
1 item in envelope; paper; Printed.

11 Apr. 1935

Memorandum about publication and copyright of REF's writings. Typescript memorandum with related note, on the publication and division of copyright royalties in REF's writings, including his lectures and the translations of Mallarme. Signed and annotated by Julian Fry.
Creator: Fry, Margery.
3 sheets in envelope; paper.

1935

List of subscribers to the Roger Fry Memorial Fund.
1 sheet in envelope; paper; Printed.

30 Mar. 1935

Assorted folders and envelopes formerly containing REF's papers. Annotated by REF and Pamela Diamand.
Creator: Fry, Roger Eliot.
5 items in envelope; paper.

1920–1959

Notes made while sorting out REF's papers. Assorted contents notes on small cards, envelopes and slips of paper, made in the course of sorting out REF's papers. Include details of 1) certain REF letters to his father and Helen Fry; and 2) news cuttings of articles and reviews by REF.
Creator: Woolf, Virginia; Fry, Margery and Diamand, Pamela.
Approximately 50 items in envelope; paper.

1935–1969

Cuttings of newspaper and magazine obituaries of REF. Also includes an obituary of Professor Edward Bullough, from the 'Cambridge Review' (19 Oct 1934) written by E K Bennett (Gonville and Caius College).
Approximately 145 loose items and 1 album, in 2 envelopes; paper; Printed.

1934

Cuttings of newspaper and magazine articles on REF as a critic, painter and writer.
47 items in envelope; paper; Printed.

Oct. 1934-Dec. 1969

Cuttings of newspaper reviews of exhibitions of REF's paintings.
Approxmiately 95 items in 6 envelopes; paper; Printed.

1934–1967

Assorted letters concerning exhibitions involving REF's handwriting or paintings. The letters are addressed to Margery Fry and others. The file also contains a carbon typescript transcript of part of an undated lecture by REF on Italian Renaissance painting.
12 sheets in envelope; paper.

1948–1964

News cuttings relating to Virginia Woolf: 'Roger Fry: a biography', Hogarth Press: London, 1940.
1 folder and 2 envelopes; paper; Printed.

1904–1940

Typescript transcripts and photocopies of newspaper cuttings relating to REF.
Creator: Diamand, Pamela.
Approximately 85 items in envelope; paper.

1905–1927

News cuttings, chiefly obituaries, relating to REF's family and friends.
12 items in envelope; paper; Printed.

1964–1969

Catalogues of exhibitions of REF's paintings, and related papers.
12 items in 7 envelopes; paper; Printed.

1934–1976

Drafts of 'Esquisses pour le tombeau d'un peintre'. Autograph manuscript, typescript and carbon typescript drafts. The book was dedicated to REF.
Creator: Mauron, Charles.
33 sheets in envelope; paper.

Carbon typescript commentary on 'Esquisses pour le tombeau d'un peintre'.
Creator: Mauron, Charles.
4 sheets in envelope; paper.

Photocopies documenting Jacques Copeau's connections with REF and Duncan Grant in London. Photocopied pages from Les Registres du Vieux Colombier, 1 (Nouvelle Revue Francaise, ? date).
13 sheets in envelope; paper.

1912–1914

'Roger Fry: an inaugural lecture', Leeds University Press: Leeds, 1964.
Creator: Bell, Quentin.
1 pamphlet in envelope; paper; Printed.

2 Dec. 1963

'Enemy News: the newsletter of the Wyndham Lewis Society' No.19, Summer 1984. Includes, on p.8 and pp.42-5, articles on the Omega Workshops and Lewis's disagreement with REF, 1913.
Creator: Wyndham Lewis Society.
2 copies; paper; Printed.

1984

'Apollo', Aug. 1985. Includes, on pp.130-59, an article by Denys Sutton on Herbert Horne and REF, with transcripts of Horne's letters to REF, 1902-13.
1 copy; paper; Printed.

1985

Notebook. The notebook contains extracts from the writings of REF and reminiscences of him, compiled [? for the use of Virginia Woolf].
Creator: Fry, Margery.
1 volume in envelope; paper.

1940

'Recollections of Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops'. Photocopy of typescript.
Creator: Diamand, Pamela.
9 sheets in envelope; paper.

1970–1979

Interviews with Pamela Diamand. 3 casette tape recordings of interviews with Pamela Diamand.
Creator: Robinson, Gillian and Dusinberre, Juliet.
3 items in envelope; audio tape.

1985

Photocopy of a diagram of the garden at Durbins. The diagram was drawn by Pamela Diamand from memory. The garden at Durbins was laid out by Gertrude Jekyll.
Creator: Diamand, Pamela.
2 sheets in envelope; paper.

1979

Photographs of portraits by REF. Black and white photographs of REF's portraits of Edward Carpenter, Edward Morgan Forster, himself, Lydia Lopokova Keynes, John Ellis McTaggart, Bertrand Russell and Giles Lytton Strachey.
Creator: Fry, Roger Eliot.
7 items in envelope; photograph.

'The Fry sisters'. Photocopy of chapter 19 of Katharine Moore 'Cordial relations: the maiden aunt in fact and fiction', 1966.
Creator: Moore, Katharine.
5 sheets in envelope; paper.

1966

'Some notes on family history'. Photocopied extract from a typescript memoir. Recollects Helen Coombe, her marriage to REF and subsequent insanity.
Creator: Reynolds, Richard.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

Marbled book cover.
Creator: Diamand, Miku.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Photocopied typescript transcript of part of a letter concerning the sale of letters from Lord Macaulay to his family. Neither writer nor recipient identified.
2 sheets in envelope; paper.

Autograph manuscript notes for a lecture on prison reform. The file also contains typescript extracts from Samuel Romilly's diary of parliamentary life. The documents were found among REF's Mallarme papers (REF 11/1-7).
Creator: Fry, Margery.
13 sheets; paper.

Conversation with Julian Fry. 'Conversation with Julian Fry' printed on the occasion of 'Roger Fry: Artist and Critic', an exhibition of Roger Fry's paintings and drawings held at Scarborough College, January 28th through February 16th, 1977, as part of the sesquicentennial [150th] celebrations of the University of Toronto.
1 pamphlet; paper.

c. 1977