Note: This brief collection description is an accession record. The
collection is not fully processed or cataloged; no biographical sketch,
descriptions of series, or indexes are available.
Acquisition: Gifts and Purchases, 1996-2002
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Liz Murray and Terence Dooley, 2005
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The primary challenge in arranging and listing Fitzgerald's literary papers is due to her method of writing in notebooks on multiple subjects. Because a single notebook can be physically present in only one location, a system of "see" references has been employed to cross-reference the various subject entries to the physical location of the notebook. For example, writings on William Blake, George Moore, Margaret Oliphant, Edward Thomas, David Leavitt, Andrea Levy, and Vladimir Nabokov appear in the same handwritten notebook, but are indexed separately under the book titles where Fitzgerald's material ultimately surfaced in print. Loose sheets of notes are interspersed throughout the notebooks and readers should exert caution in retaining the original order of this material.
The material is organized in three Series: I. Works, 1898-2001; II. Correspondence, 1970-2000; and III. Career-Related Material, 1968-1991.
The Works series contains research, notes, handwritten and typescript drafts, correspondence, production material, publicity and reviews, in some measure, for The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism (2003), The Blue Flower (1996), Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (1984), Edward Burne-Jones (1975), The Gate of Angels (1990), The Golden Child (1977), A House of Air: Selected Writings (2003), Human Voices (1980), The Knox Brothers (1977), and The Means of Escape: Stories (2000). Also present are articles by Fitzgerald, a contract with Collins Publishers for At Freddie's, a playscript of The Beginning of Spring adapted by Michael Pennington, essays and reviews, introductions and afterwords, ideas for novels, and short stories. Two very similar works, The Afterlife and A House of Air, were published almost simultaneously in 2003, and in paperback in 2005. They differ by a couple of articles, for example "Vous Etes Belle," the Meaulnes essay, is only in A House of Air. The paperback edition of A House of Air contains additional editorial material including a biographical essay by Terence Dooley and a critical essay by Dean Flower and Linda Henchey.
Arranged in date order, the correspondence in Series II. contains primarily incoming letters in the categories of business, family, literary, personal, and publishers. In addition, there is considerable incoming correspondence from Raymond Watkinson and J. Howard Woolmer. Personal correspondents include A. L. Barker, Mavis Batey, Nina Bawden, Edward Blishen, Tom Burns, Simon Callow, Christopher Carduff, Sally Cline, Michael Gough, Michael Holroyd, Hans Koning, Mary Lago, Penelope Lively, Candida McWilliam, Sylvia Peck, Harvey Pitcher, Michael Ratcliffe, and A. N. Wilson, among others.
Series III. Career-Related Material includes articles about Fitzgerald, notes for conferences and judging literary prizes, interviews, lectures, and notebooks on a variety of subjects, from 1968-1969 teaching notes to Fitzgerald's 1991 trip to Tasmania for a literary festival.
Box Folder Description
THE AFTERLIFE: ESSAYS AND CRITICISM (2003) Alain-Fournier, Henri, "Le Grand Meaulnes" (see 11.1, 11.2) Austen, Jane, "Emma" introduction (see 6.6, 6.7) Bellow, Saul, "Ravelstein" (see 8.6) Blake, William (see 1.4) Burne-Jones, Edward, "The Grange" (see 1.1, 2.2) Carr, James Lloyd, "A Month in the Country" (see 6.7) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (see 6.7) 1 1 "Curriculum Vitae," and CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS autobiographical article, 1989 Eliot, George, notes for "Middlemarch" introduction (see 6.6, 8.3) Hill, Octavia (see 8.3) 2 Holy Land diary, April 1990 Housman, A. E. (see 6.6) Jewett, Sarah Orne, introduction to "The Country of Pointed Firs" (see 6.6, 6.7) Klemperer, Victor, "I Shall Bear Witness" (see 6.6, 6.7, 8.6) Larkin, Philip (see 1.2) Lee, Hermione, "Virginia Woolf" (see 1.4) Lehmann, John (see 8.3) 3 Macaulay, Rose MacNeice, Louis (see 3.10) Milton Abbot; Tavistock (see 1.4) Moore, George (see 1.4) * "The Moors," re Milton Abbot and Edwin Landseer Lutyens (*architectural drawings removed to oversize folder) 4 Notes (see 6.6, 6.7, 10.5, 10.8) Oliphant, Margaret (see 1.4) Shields, Carol, "The Stone Diaries" (see 1.1) Smith, Stevie (see 1.3) Spark, Muriel, "Reality and Dreams" (see 1.4, 8.3) Thomas, Edward (see 1.4) Thwaite, Ann, "Emily Tennyson" (see 1.4) Well Walk, Hampstead (see 1.1, 2.2) The Yeats sisters (see 3.6) Articles Asturias, notes (see 3.8) "Best Idea" (see 8.3) Grandmothers (see 6.6) Milton Abbot, Devon, travel article (see 1.1) 5 AT FREDDIE'S (1982), contract with Collins Publishers, 1981; paperback book cover, Flamingo Press, 2003 6 "The Beginning of Spring," playscript adapted by Michael Pennington based on PF's work THE BLUE FLOWER (1996) 7 Article/lecture re the inspiration for THE BLUE FLOWER Drafts 8-10 Various scenes (see also 1.1) 11 Handwritten and typescript draft, with corrections 2 1 Typescript with minor corrections 2 Explanation of method and ending 3-7 Notes, research, and translations 8 National Book Critics Circle Award, 1997, with review, (see also 1.1) CHARLOTTE MEW AND HER FRIENDS (1984, 1988) Biographical essay (see 1.4) Correspondence and reviews 3 1 Publishers 2 Readers 3 Notes, "Death of Charlotte Mew" Notes from THE POETRY BOOKSHOP material, for CHARLOTTE MEW (see 6.13) 4 EDWARD BURNE-JONES (1975, 1998), illustrations, photographs, and associated material (see also 1.1, 6.6, 10.1) Essays and reviews Ashbery, John (see 3.8) Atkinson, Kate, "Human Croquet" (see 1.4) Batey, Mavis, "Jane Austen and the English Landscape" (see 1.4) Bellow, Saul, "Ravelstein" (see 6.6) Benson, Edward White (6.7) Böll, Heinrich (see 3.10, 6.7) 5 Brookner, Anita, "A Start in Life" Carroll, Lewis (see 3.5) Cookson, Catherine (see 1.1) Dahl, Roald (see 2.2) David, Elizabeth (see 6.6) Eliot, George (see 3.5) Enright, Anne, "What Are You Like?" (see 8.3) Fantasy (see 1.4) Forster, Margaret (see 2.2, 3.5) Fox, James, "The Langhorne Sisters" (see 6.6) Freud, Esther (see 6.7, 8.3) Gee, Maggie, "Lost Children" (see 1.1) Greacen, Lavinia, "J. G. Farrell" (see 6.7) Harris, Robert, "Fatherland" (see 1.7, 3.6, 6.6) Howard, Elizabeth Jane (see 3.5) King, Francis Henry (see 1.1, 4.8, 4.9) Klemperer, Victor, "I Shall Bear Witness" (see 6.6, 6.7, 8.6) Larkin, Philip (see 1.2) Leavitt, David (see 1.4) Lehmann, John (see 6.7) Lessing, Doris (see 3.7) Leverson, Ada (see 2.2) Levy, Andrea (see 1.4) MacNeice, Louis (see 3.10) Marks, Grace (see 1.4) Messud, Claire, "When the World Was Steady" (see 3.8) Morris, Jan, "Fisher's Face" (see 3.10) Murdoch, Iris, "Jackson's Dilemma" (see 1.7) Nabokov, Vladimir (see 1.4, 6.7) Nicholson, Nigel (6.7) Peck, Winifred, née Knox (see 6.7, 11.2) Shields, Carol, "The Stone Diaries" (see 1.1) Tolkien, J. R. R. (see 8.5) Tremain, Rose (see 3.7) Trevor, William, memoirs (see 1.1) Wilson, A. N., "Vicar of Sorrows" (2.2, 6.7) 6-8 Various notes and typescripts for essays and reviews THE GATE OF ANGELS (1990, 1992) 9 Notes, ghost story 10-11 Scenes and research 12 Handwritten draft 4 1 Setting copy 2 Publicity photographs and reviews THE GOLDEN CHILD (1977), notes (see 3.8) Hartley, L. P. (Leslie Poles), correspondence, notes, and research for biography project 3-7 Notebooks, notes, and research Correspondence 8-9 Fitzgerald, Penelope, incoming from Lord David Cecil, Norah Hartley, Francis Henry King, and others, 1978-1995 Hartley, L. P., outgoing (photocopies of letters) Berkeley, Molly 5 1 1936-1953 2 1954-1956 3 1957-1960 4 1961-1967 5 Knox, E. V., 1955 Littleboy, Rex 6 1920-1932 7 1944-1948 6 1 1949-1950 2 1951-1953 3 1954-1960 4 1962-1969 5 Powell, Anthony and Lady Violet, 1956-1967 A HOUSE OF AIR: SELECTED WRITINGS (2003) Alain-Fournier, Henri, "Le Grand Meaulnes" (see 11.1, 11.2) Austen, Jane, "Emma" introduction (see 6.6, 6.7) Bellow, Saul, "Ravelstein" (see 8.6) Blake, William (see 1.4) Burne-Jones, Edward, "The Grange" (see 1.1, 2.2) Carr, James Lloyd, "A Month in the Country" (see 6.7) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (see 6.7) "Curriculum Vitae," and CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS autobiographical article, 1989 (see 1.1) Eliot, George, notes for "Middlemarch" introduction (see 6.6, 8.3) Hartley, L. P. (see 3.6 and boxes 5-6) Hill, Octavia (see 8.3) "The Holy Land" (see 1.2) Housman, A. E. (see 6.6) Jewett, Sarah Orne, introduction to "The Country of Pointed Firs" (see 6.6, 6.7) Klemperer, Victor, "I Shall Bear Witness" (see 6.6, 6.7, 8.6) Larkin, Philip (see 1.2) Lee, Hermione, "Virginia Woolf" (see 1.4) Lehmann, John (see 8.3) Macaulay, Rose (see 1.3) MacNeice, Louis (see 3.10) Milton Abbot; Tavistock (see 1.4) Moore, George (see 1.4) * "The Moors," re Milton Abbot and Edwin Landseer Lutyens (*architectural drawings removed to oversize folder) 6-7 Notes (see also 1.4, 10.5, 10.8) Oliphant, Margaret (see 1.4) Shields, Carol, "The Stone Diaries" (see 1.1) Smith, Stevie (see 1.3) Spark, Muriel, "Reality and Dreams" (see 1.4, 8.3) Thomas, Edward (see 1.4) Thwaite, Ann, "Emily Tennyson" (see 1.4) Well Walk, Hampstead (see 1.1. 2.2) The Yeats sisters (see 3.6) 8-13 HUMAN VOICES, working title "Ten Seconds from Now" (1980, 1999); notes, research, and complete scenes Introductions and afterwords 14 Morris, William, "The Novel on Blue Paper" in Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 10, 1982, correspondence and print material THE POETRY BOOKSHOP: 1912-1935 by J. Howard Woolmer, introduction by Fitzgerald; research; includes material later used in CHARLOTTE MEW AND HER FRIENDS (see 6.13, 10.2, 10.3) Various works (see 1.3, 6.6, 6.7, 8.5) THE KNOX BROTHERS (1977) 7 1-2 "Bolliday Bango," various handwritten issues, 1898 3 Children's story about a mastiff "Sir Beltane" and a terrier "Mr. York," handwritten with illustrations 4 Clippings and miscellaneous material Correspondence 5 Fitzgerald, Penelope, incoming 6 Knox brothers, 1907-1953 7 Knox, E. V., "A Hundred Years of PUNCH," lecture 8 Pamphlets on E.V. and W. L. Knox, and Bletchley Park 9-11 Photographs and family memorabilia 12 Research (see also 11.2) 13 Typescript, chapter one, sample of "American" edition THE MEANS OF ESCAPE: STORIES (2000) "At Hiruhama," origin of, and notes (see 1.2) 8 1 "Beehernz" (see also 8.3) "The Means of Escape," genesis of story (see 11.3) "Not Shown" (see 1.1, 2.2) 2 "Our Lives Are Only Lent to Us," handwritten and typescript drafts (published only in the U.S. and U.K. 2001 paperback editions) "The Red-Haired Girl" (see 8.3) 3 Short story drafts in notebook 4 Printed versions, photocopies Wittgenstein, Ludwig (see 10.1) Novels, ideas for (see 2.2, 8.5, 10.5, 10.8) Short stories 5-6 Unfinished, notes and drafts, 2000 (see also 8.3) 7 "Worlds Apart," uncollected story in WOMAN, 1983
8 Business, 1999-2000 Family Fitzgerald, Maria, draft of letter from PF about family money (see 1.4) 9 Fitzgerald, Penelope, to her father and step-mother Mary, undated 10 Literary, general, 1983-2000 11 BBC, 1998-1999 12 The Folio Society, 1998-1999 13 P.E.N., 1983-1999 14 Royal Society of Literature, 1998-2000 Personal 9 1 1970-1989 2 1990-1997 3 1998-2000 4 Publishers, general, 1979-2000 5 Counterpoint, 1999-2000 6 HarperCollins and Flamingo, 1985-2000 7 Penguin UK, 1998-2000 8 Watkinson, Raymond, 1992-2000 10 1 Watkinson, Raymond, 1992-2000, cont'd 2-3 Woolmer, J. Howard, 1979-1999
4 Articles about Fitzgerald Conferences, notes (see 1.2) 5 Interviews (see also 4.2, 8.4) Judging literary prizes 6 Commonwealth Prize judging notes 7 Encore Awards, John Llewllyn Rhys Prize, Silver Pen, Whitbread, ca. 1990 Forward Prize (see 6.7) Lectures King's Lynn Festival, lecture on the novel (see 10.6) 8 Knox Brothers, PEN, 1990s Morris, William, rough lecture notes (see 1.7) On Fitzgerald's writing (see 10.8) Somerville, Oxford (see 1.2) "Unconsoled," on Kazuo Ishiguro at Cheltenham Festival (see 1.7, 10.8) 9 William Morris Society, Burne-Jones lecture Move to 25 Almeric Road, 1975 (see 11.2) Notebooks, various subjects 10-11 1968-1969, teaching notes 11 1 1970s, notes on Virginia Woolf, J. M. Barrie's life, Peter Pan, Drinkwater, and Alain-Fournier, "Le Grand Meaulnes" (see also 11.2) 2 1975, Auntie Winnie (Winifred Peck, née Knox); notes from novels; the General Strike (research for the Knox Brothers); and Alain- Fournier, review of "Le Grand Meaulnes" 3-4 1991, literary festival in Tasmania, with associated material 5 Print material, miscellaneous
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