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urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00037 Penelope Fitzgerald: An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Andra Whitworth and Vonda Totten; Liz Murray and Terence Dooley Harry Ransom Center, 1990, 2005 Text converted and initial EAD tagging for 1989 acquisition provided by Apex Data Services, September 2000. 1996-2002 acquisition encoded by Katy Hill, 11 August 2008. Corrections to EAD and merge done by Kelsey Handler, February 2025. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:08:11 CDT 2003 urn:taro.utexas.hrc.00037 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). 11 August 2008 Finding Aid merged by Kelsey Handler. Descriptive Summary Fitzgerald, Penelope, 1916-2000 Penelope Fitzgerald Papers 1898-2001 (bulk 1970-2000) Manuscript Collection MS-01403 19 boxes, 1 oversize flat box, 1 oversize folder, 1 bound mss. (7.98 linear feet) Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin The papers of British writer Penelope Fitzgerald include manuscript drafts, literary and personal correspondence, research, notebooks, production material, clippings, and photographs. English Biographical Sketch

Penelope Knox Fitzgerald was born into a literary family on December 17, 1916, in Lincoln, England. Her father was E. V. Knox, editor of Punch magazine (1932-1949). One of her uncles, Monseigneur Ronald Knox, was well known as a translator of the Bible and a writer of detective stories.

Penelope attended Somerville College and, in 1941, married Desmond Fitzgerald with whom she raised three children. Her work experience was varied and included working in the Ministry of Food, for the BBC, in a haunted bookshop in Southwold, and as an English teacher. Her first professional experience in writing came in the 1950s when she worked as an assistant editor for the literary magazine, World Review. She began her writing career as the biographer of Edward Burne-Jones ( Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography, 1975) and of her father and his three brothers in The Knox Brothers (1977).

Fitzgerald began writing fiction after her husband was diagnosed with cancer in the 1970s, partly in an effort to entertain him through his illness. Her first published novel was a mystery, The Golden Child (1977). Her second novel, The Bookshop, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978, and in 1979 Fitzgerald won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore. She was also shortlisted for Innocence (1986), The Beginning of Spring (1988) and The Gate of Angels (1990). Fitzgerald won the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for lifetime achievement in literature in 1996 and was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Prize in 1997 for Blue Flower, her fictional biography of the German Romantic poet Novalis.

Penelope Fitzgerald died on April 28, 2000. A collection of her short stories, The Means of Escape, was published later that year. Her collected essays, A House of Air and The Afterlife, were also published posthumously in 2003.

Scope and Contents

1989 Acquisition

Research notes, manuscripts, correspondence, printed materials, contracts, and photographs, 1971-1988 (8 document cases), document the literary works of Penelope Fitzgerald. Arranged as received in two series representing her creative works and research notebooks, the papers reflect the research and production phases of her works as well as the responses to them. Nearly half of the materials are research notebooks filled with various notes, writings, and clippings. There are also research materials included in the creative works series under each title. A third series was added comprising personal materials not related to any of Fitzgerald's writings. Oversized materials include one promotional poster for The Beginning of Spring and printed materials.

The creative works series includes varying levels of documentation on all nine of Fitzgerald's major works (The Knox Brothers, Offshore, Innocence, Charlotte Mew, The Beginning of Spring, The Bookshop, The Golden Child, Edward Burne-Jones, and At Freddie's) and four of her minor works (The Axe, The Poetry Bookshop, The Works of Ernest Shepherd, and Human Voices). The papers contain substantial information on the Knox brothers, Charlotte Mew, and Edward Burne-Jones that provides extensive documentation for research. There are eleven manuscripts, two of which are handwritten and four of which contain extensive corrections. Much of the research correspondence is annotated with comments by Fitzgerald. Also included in the creative works series are Fitzgerald's inventory lists which state the significance of many of the materials she collected during her research. There is no outgoing correspondence in the 1989 acquisition.

The researcher should be aware that this acquisition was a consciously created collection for which Fitzgerald selected the materials that would be included and made notations on many of them as to their significance or their relationship to her work. Some of her commentaries are quite blunt. None of Fitzgerald's life prior to her writing career is reflected in the 1989 acquisition.

Series I. Creative Works, 1912-1983 (bulk 1974-1981) consists of Fitzgerald's papers relating to her various creative works. Arranged as received, the papers are organized into subseries by the particular works they concerned. Some works are more completely represented than others. For example, The Axe has only one folder of production materials, while The Knox Brothers has 19 folders of research materials and correspondence. To show the various phases of the writing and publishing process, each work is arranged into research materials, manuscripts, production materials, responses to the book, and Fitzgerald's inventories of documents. The research materials include notes, incoming correspondence, photographs, and items Fitzgerald collected in pursuing her research. Fitzgerald corresponded with biographers, historians, British nobility, and relatives of the people she wrote about. This correspondence reveals information not only about Fitzgerald's subjects, but also about closely-related topics, such as the Pre-Raphaelites (the Rossettis in particular), Oscar Wilde, and George Eliot. Manuscripts (some handwritten) are present for Offshore, Innocence, Charlotte Mew, The Beginning of Spring, The Bookshop, At Freddie's, and her introduction to The Poetry Bookshop. All have corrections. Production materials include correspondence from her publishers, contracts, and dust jackets. Responses to the book include both personal letters and review clippings. Fitzgerald's inventories of documents are filed at the end of the materials for each work and provide additional information about items in the collection. Incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically; all other materials are arranged chronologically. Materials dating from 1912-1970 are items gathered by Fitzgerald in the course of her research. An Index of Works for the 1989 acquisition is located at the end of this guide.

Of particular note the page proofs of Evelyn Waugh's The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and Pronotary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII, located with the research materials for The Knox Brothers.

Series II. Notebooks, undated consists of 57 notebooks used by Fitzgerald in her research and in drafting her stories and document her research and writing processes. The notebooks contain handwritten notes and parts of manuscripts as well as various loose sheets (many torn from other notebooks), correspondence, and clippings that have been left in their original positions between the pages. In some instances it was possible to determine a title for the notebooks, although there is no assurance that all the material in that notebook pertains to a specific novel or short story. Where no single title could be determined, a parenthetical note has been placed on the folder list to give the researcher some indication of the contents of the notebook. None of the notebooks are dated and, in many cases, the notes written on the covers of the notebooks were simply too extensive or too illegible to transcribe. An Index of Works for the 1989 acquisition is located at the end of this guide.

Series III. Personal Materials, 1978 focuses on Fitzgerald's personal materials that do not relate to any of her creative works. The folder contains two blank postcards, a memorial card on Joshua Haycraft's death, and a poem written (by Colin Haycraft?) to celebrate the 1978 election of a new Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

1996-2002 Acquisitions

This addition to the cataloged papers of Penelope Fitzgerald combines accretions received at the Ransom Center from 1996-2002. The bulk of the material dates from the 1990s, with the exception of photographs, early correspondence, and memorabilia for the Edward Burne-Jones, L. P. Hartley, and Knox brothers biographies. Though the biography remains unpublished, of particular interest in the L. P. Hartley biographical material is correspondence with Lord David Cecil, Keith Clements, Ursula Codrington, Basil Gray, Francis Henry King, Frank Magro, Anthony Powell, Ralph Ricketts, Reresby Sitwell, and Kathleen Tillotson. These correspondents are not included in the Index of Correspondents at the end of this finding aid.

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. Works in this series are not included in the Index of Works at the end of this finding aid.

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. Correspondents in this series are not included in the Index of Correspondents at the end of this finding aid. Note: Several folders of uncatalogued correspondence can be found at the end of box 11a.

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.

Note to Researchers:

The inventory for the Penelope Fitzgerald Papers is a conflation of one finding aid created in 1989 and a preliminary inventory created for additions received between 1996-2002. The 1996-2002 addition was appended to the end of the original finding aid. Because both descriptions began the box numbering with Box 1, the 1996-2002 addition is differentiated by adding the letter "a" to the original box number (e.g., Box 1a, Box 2a, etc.). The inventories were combined in 2025 to comply with a new content management system.

Acquisition:

Purchase, 1989 (1989-02-0025-P); Gift and purchases, 1996-2002 (Gift no. 11546; Reg. nos. 13742, 14806, 15073, 14922)

Access:

Open for research.

Restrictions on Use:

Authorization for publication is given on behalf of the University of Texas as the owner of the collection and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder which must be obtained by the researcher. For more information please see the Ransom Center's Open Access and Use Policies.

Processed by:

Andra Whitworth, Vonda Totten, 1990; Liz Murray and Terence Dooley, 2005

Index Terms Correspondents (only includes 1989 Acquisition) Adams, Frederick B. (Frederick Baldwin), 1910- Arnott, W.G. Askwith, Betty, 1909- Batey, Mavis Blakeway, John, 1918- Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901- Bruford, Walter Horace, 1894- Butler, Basil Christopher Carrington, Charles Edmund, 1897- Cassavetti, Eileen Christian, John, fl. 1974- Cline, Clarence Lee Colbeck, R. Norman (Reginald Norman), 1903- Collins, Dorothy E. Crankshaw, Edward Crowe, Michael J. Dammers, A.H. (Alfred Hounsell), 1921- D'Arcy, Ella Daube, David Dearden, James S. Denniston, Robin Dickinson, Patric, 1914- Dorment, Richard Easton, Malcolm Edel, Leon, 1907- Ellmann, Richard, 1918- Farmer, Herbert Henry, 1892- Farnhill, Kenneth H. Feldhaus, Irmgard Fredeman, William E. (William Evan), 1928- Freyberg, Paul Richard Freyberg, Baron, 1923- Garnett, Richard Gilling, John Gittings, Robert Gladstone, Erskine William, Sir, 1925- Golombek, Harry, 1911- Grylls, R. Glynn (Rosalie Glynn), 1905- Haight, Gordon S. (Gordon Sherman), 1901-1985 Hardinge of Penshurst, George Edward Charles Hardinge, Baron, 1921- Henderson, Philip, 1906- Hinsley, F.H. (Francis Harry), 1918- Holroyd, Michael Hooper, Leonard J., 1914- Howard, George Anthony Geoffrey, 1920- Isham, Gyles, Sir, Bart., 1903- Jenkins, A.D. Fraser Jones, Peter, 1929- Judd, Stephen Kahn, David, 1930- Kelvin, Norman King, Francis Henry Kingsford R.J.L. (Reginald John Lethbridge), 1900- Lannom, Gloria W. Lascelles, Mary Levy, Paul, 1941- Lillington, Kenneth Lovat, Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, Baron, 1911- Maas, Jeremy Maclean, A.D. (Alan Duart) Macmillan, Harold, 1894- Maschler, Tom Mew, Charlotte Mary, 1869-1928 Monro, Harold, 1879-1932 Morris, Helen Soutar, 1909- Murdoch, John, 1945- Murray, John, 1908- Needham, Joseph, 1900- Newby, P.H. (Percy Howard), 1918- Ormond, Richard Oxford and Asquith, Julian Edward George Asquith, earl, 1916- Parkinson, Ronald Plymouth, Other Robert Ivor Windsor-Clive, earl, 1923- Richardson, Margaret Alison Samuels-Lasner, Mark, 1952- Sewter, A.C. Spencer, Gilbert, 1892- Surtees, Virginia Sykes, Marjorie Thirkell, Lance Tillotson, Kathleen Mary Toynbee, Philip Trevelyan, Raleigh Usborne, Richard Vidler, Alexander Roper, 1899- Wansbrough, Elizabeth Lewis Wansbrough, George, 1904- Watts, Marjorie Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 Wilkinson, L.P. Williams, Frederick J. Wilson, Angus Winterbottom, F.W. (Frederick William), 1897- Yorke, Margaret Container List Original Acquisition (1989-02-0025-P), 1989 Series I. Creative Works, 1912-1983 (bulk 1974-1981) (4 1/2 boxes) The Knox Brothers General Research 1 1 Incoming correspondence, 1974, 1981 1 2 Genealogy, undated 1 3 Collected Reports 1 4 Photos 1 5 Production, 1975 1 Responses to the Book 1 6 Incoming correspondence, 1977-83, undated 1 7 The Tablet: The International Catholic Weekly, Jan. 7, 1978 1 8 Author's Inventory of Documents 1 Dillwyn (Dilly) Knox 1 Research 1 9 Incoming correspondence, 1974-77 1 10 Clippings 1 11 Responses to the Book, incoming correspondence, 1978-84 1 E.V. Knox 1 12 Research, incoming correspondence, 1957, 1974 1 13 Responses to the Book, incoming correspondence, 1978 1 Ronald Knox 1 Research 1 14 Incoming correspondence, 1974-77 1 15 The life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox... by Evelyn Waugh. Page proofs. (shelved w/bound mss.) 1 16 Letters of Evelyn Waugh to Lady Peck, 1958-59 1 17 Responses to the Book, incoming correspondence, 1977-79 1 Wilfred Knox 1 18 Research, incoming correspondence, 1950, 1974-78 1 19 Responses to the Book, incoming correspondence, 1978-83 Offshore 1 20 Typescript with holograph corrections, undated (photocopy) 1 21 Production, 1979-80 1 Responses to the Book 1 22 Incoming correspondence, 1979-80 1 23 Letters re Booker Prize, 1979-80 1 24 Clippings, 1979 Innocence 2 1 Research notes 2 2 Typescript with holograph corrections 2 3 Typescript with holograph corrections (photocopy) 2 4 Typescript (photocopy) 2 5 Production, 1986 2 Responses to the Book 2 6 Incoming correspondence, 1988-87 2 7 Clippings, 1987-1988 osb 1 Printed materials (removed to oversize storage) 2 8 Author's Inventory of Documents Charlotte Mew and Her Friends Research 3 1 Incoming correspondence, 1979-87 3 2 Copies of Letters, 1912-30 3 3 Research materials 3 4 Photos 3 5 Delivered, short story by Charlotte Mew 3 6 Legal Documents re Mew family 3 7 Handwritten Manuscript 3 8 Setting copy (photocopy) 3 Responses to the Book 3 9 Incoming correspondence, 1984-85 3 10 Clippings, 1984-85 osb 1 Printed materials (removed to oversize storage) 3 11 Author's Inventory of Documents 4 1 The Axe, production, 1975-76 4 The Beginning of Spring 4 2 Research notes 4 3 Handwritten Manuscript 4 4 Typescript with holograph corrections osb 1 Production--Poster (removed to oversize storage) Responses to the Book 4 5 Clippings, 1988 osb 1 Printed materials (removed to oversize storage) The Bookshop 4 6 Research materials 4 7 Typescript with holograph corrections 4 8 Production, 1978-80 4 Responses to the Book 4 9 Incoming correspondence, 1978-80 4 10 Clipping osb 1 Printed materials (removed to oversize storage) 4 11 Author's Inventory of Documents 4 The Golden Child 4 12 Production, 1976-78 4 13 Responses to the Book, incoming correspondence, 1979 Human Voices 4 14 Production, 1980 Responses to the Book 4 15 Clippings, 1980 osb 1 Printed materials (removed to oversize storage) Introduction to The Poetry Bookshop, 1912-1935: A Bibliography by J. Howard Woolmer] 4 Research 4 16 Incoming correspondence, 1977-79 4 17 Printed Materials, 1979 4 18 Photos 4 19 Typescript with holograph corrections (photocopy) 4 20 Author's Inventory of Documents 4 "The Development of the Line" [contribution to The Work of E. H. Shepard] 4 21 Production, 1978 At Freddie's 5 1 Typescript with holograph corrections 5 2 Production, 1981 Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography Research Incoming correspondence, 1971-78 5 3 A-H 5 4 I-Z 5 5 Collected Materials 5 6 Production, 1972-73 Responses to the Book 5 7 Incoming correspondence, 1975-78 5 8 Clippings, 1975 5 9 Author's Inventory of Documents Series II. Notebooks, undated (3 1/2 boxes) 5 10 Rough drafts for At Freddie's 5 11 At Freddie's (What: Are They Children?), outlines and scenes. With research re Lilian Bayliss 5 12 Burne-Jones ms. scenes 5 13 Exercise book with The Likeness (Dimmie)plot outline, draft of Somerset short story (unpublished), ventriloquism dialogues 5 13 Book 14. Knox Brothers research 5 13 The Poetry Bookshop / Charlotte Mew, loose papers 5 14 The Bookshop One, ms. scenes 5 15 The Bookshop Two, ms. scenes 6 1 Burne-Jones 6 2 Burne-Jones 2 (incl. Mayday Poem) 6 3 Burne-Jones 3 (Italian expedition) 6 4 Burne-Jones 5 6 5 Burne-Jones 6 6 6 Burne-Jones 7 6 7 Burne-Jones 8 6 8 Burne-Jones 9 (Rothenstein, Men & Memories) 6 9 Burne-Jones 10 6 10 Burne-Jones 11 (Hearts Ease, Gerard's Herbal, conversations with Rooke) 6 11 Burne-Jones 12 6 12 Innocence scenes, including Parenti - The Dressmaker 6 13 Beginning of Spring (The Greenhouse) research 6 14 Charlotte Mew, Harold Monro 6 15 F. S. Flint, Harold Monro, The Poetry Bookshop 6 16 Charlotte Mew research (Sidney Cockerell) 6 17 The Iron Bridge, scenes from detective story, unfinished 6 18 Sale or Return, scenes from second detective story, unfinished, and clippings 7 1 Charlotte Mew research 7 2 William Morris (The Novel on Blue Paper), Mrs. Oliphant intro and research, Guns (?) 7 3 Mrs. Oliphant intro and research 7 4 Offshore Book 1 7 5 Offshore 2 7 6 Offshore 3 7 7 The Likeness (plot of an abandoned novel that became a short story in paperback Means of Escape, 2001), William Morris and Burne-Jones 7 8 William Morris ( Novel on Blue Paper) intro. and Burne-Jones 7 9 Burne-Jones, notes on 1890s 7 10 Burne-Jones, some scenes, research on Greek community 7 11 Burne-Jones, research (notes from Gladstone's library at Hawarden) 7 12 Charlotte Mew, draft index 7 13 Poetry Bookshop, poets, Charlotte Mew 7 14 Burne-Jones, scraps 7 15 Burne-Jones, research 7 16 The Poetry Bookshop, research and interview with Patric Dickinson 7 17 Burne-Jones research and William Morris Novel on Blue Paper intro 7 18 The Poetry Bookshop, Lascelles Abercrombie, Charlotte Mew's letters transcribed 7 19 Burne-Jones, very early research (1971) 7 20 Charlotte Mew's letters transcribed 7 21 Innocence, scenes including material for a second, unwritten part of the story 7 22 Innocence, early research and ideas 8 1 Burne-Jones, early research 8 2 Burne-Jones, research 8 3 Beginning of Spring, scenes and research 8 4 Beginning of Spring, conception and scenes, and Bloomsbury Review (Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) research 8 5 Burne-Jones, research 8 6 Burne-Jones, introduction as first written and research 8 7 Offshore, early versions of many scenes with the children's real names 8 8 Burne-Jones, manuscript parts of chapters and notes for the 1880s and 1890s year by year 8 9 Burne-Jones, early research 8 10 Burne-Jones, letters from Dante and Rossetti 8 11 Burne-Jones, research 8 12 Burne-Jones, research 8 13 Burne-Jones, list of chapters, Beardsley, financial help to Oscar Wilde 8 14 Burne-Jones, research, 1870s year by year 8 15 Charlotte Mew, research, in year order and Ada Leverson 8 16 Innocence, Gramsci visit and other scenes 8 17 The Likeness, planned novel 1977, poem The Kitchen Drawer, and Mew research, Icons, Mentmore clippings Series III. Personal Materials, 1978 (1 folder) 8 18 Duckworth memorabilia, 1978 Additions (Gift no. 11546; Reg. nos. 13742, 14806, 15073, 14922), 1996-2002 Series I. Works, 1898-2001 The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism (2003) Alain-Fournier, Henri, Le Grand Meaulnes (see 11a.1, 11a.2) Austen, Jane, Emma introduction (see 6a.6, 6a.7) Bellow, Saul, Ravelstein (see 8a.6) Blake, William (see 1a.4) Burne-Jones, Edward, The Grange (see 1a.1, 2a.2) Carr, James Lloyd, A Month in the Country (see 6a.7) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (see 6a.7) 1a 1 Curriculum Vitae, and Contemporary Authors autobiographical article, 1989 Eliot, George, notes for Middlemarch introduction (see 6a.6, 8a.3) Hill, Octavia (see 8a.3) 1a 2 Holy Land diary, April 1990 Housman, A. E. (see 6a.6) Jewett, Sarah Orne, introduction to The Country of Pointed Firs (see 6a.6, 6a.7) Klemperer, Victor, I Shall Bear Witness (see 6a.6, 6a.7, 8a.6) Larkin, Philip (see 1a.2) Lee, Hermione, Virginia Woolf (see 1.4) Lehmann, John (see 8a.3) 1a 3 Macaulay, Rose MacNeice, Louis (see 3a.10) Milton Abbot; Tavistock (see 1a.4) Moore, George (see 1a.4) 1a * The Moors, re Milton Abbot and Edwin Landseer Lutyens (*architectural drawings removed to oversize folder) 1a 4 Notes (see 6a.6, 6a.7, 10a.5, 10a.8) Oliphant, Margaret (see 1a.4) Shields, Carol, The Stone Diaries (see 1a.1) Smith, Stevie (see 1a.3) Spark, Muriel, Reality and Dreams (see 1a.4, 8a.3) Thomas, Edward (see 1a.4) Thwaite, Ann, Emily Tennyson (see 1a.4) Well Walk, Hampstead (see 1a.1, 2a.2) The Yeats sisters (see 3a.6) Articles Asturias, notes (see 3a.8) Best Idea (see 8a.3) Grandmothers (see 6a.6) Milton Abbot, Devon, travel article (see 1a.1) 1a 5 At Freddie's (1982), contract with Collins Publishers, 1981; paperback book cover, Flamingo Press, 2003 1a 6 The Beginning of Spring, playscript adapted by Michael Pennington based on PF's work The Blue Flower (1996) 1a 7 Article/lecture re the inspiration for The Blue Flower Drafts 1a 8-10 Various scenes (see also 1a.1) 1a 11 Handwritten and typescript draft, with corrections 2a 1 Typescript with minor corrections 2a 2 Explanation of method and ending 2a 3-7 Notes, research, and translations 2a 8 National Book Critics Circle Award, 1997, with review, (see also 1a.1) Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (1984, 1988) Biographical essay (see 1a.4) Correspondence and reviews 3a 1 Publishers 3a 2 Readers 3a 3 Notes, Death of Charlotte Mew Notes from The Poetry Bookshop material, for Charlotte Mew (see 6a.13) 3a 4 Edward Burne-Jones (1975, 1998), illustrations, photographs, and associated material (see also 1a.1, 6a.6, 10a.1) Essays and reviews Ashbery, John (see 3a.8) Atkinson, Kate, Human Croquet (see 1a.4) Batey, Mavis, Jane Austen and the English Landscape (see 1a.4) Bellow, Saul, Ravelstein (see 6a.6) Benson, Edward White (6a.7) Böll, Heinrich (see 3a.10, 6a.7) 3a 5 Brookner, Anita, A Start in Life Carroll, Lewis (see 3a.5) Cookson, Catherine (see 1a.1) Dahl, Roald (see 2a.2) David, Elizabeth (see 6a.6) Eliot, George (see 3a.5) Enright, Anne, What Are You Like? (see 8a.3) Fantasy (see 1a.4) Forster, Margaret (see 2a.2, 3a.5) Fox, James, The Langhorne Sisters (see 6a.6) Freud, Esther (see 6a.7, 8a.3) Gee, Maggie, Lost Children (see 1a.1) Greacen, Lavinia, J. G. Farrell (see 6a.7) Harris, Robert, Fatherland (see 1a.7, 3a.6, 6a.6) Howard, Elizabeth Jane (see 3a.5) King, Francis Henry (see 1a.1, 4a.8, 4a.9) Klemperer, Victor, I Shall Bear Witness (see 6a.6, 6a.7, 8a.6) Larkin, Philip (see 1a.2) Leavitt, David (see 1a.4) Lehmann, John (see 6a.7) Lessing, Doris (see 3a.7) Leverson, Ada (see 2a.2) Levy, Andrea (see 1a.4) MacNeice, Louis (see 3a.10) Marks, Grace (see 1a.4) Messud, Claire, When the World Was Steady (see 3a.8) Morris, Jan, Fisher's Face (see 3a.10) Murdoch, Iris, Jackson's Dilemma (see 1a.7) Nabokov, Vladimir (see 1a.4, 6a.7) Nicholson, Nigel (6a.7) Peck, Winifred, née Knox (see 6a.7, 11a.2) Shields, Carol, The Stone Diaries (see 1a.1) Tolkien, J. R. R. (see 8a.5) Tremain, Rose (see 3a.7) Trevor, William, memoirs (see 1a.1) Wilson, A. N., Vicar of Sorrows (2a.2, 6a.7) 3a 6-8 Various notes and typescripts for essays and reviews The Gate of Angels (1990, 1992) 3a 9 Notes, ghost story 3a 10-11 Scenes and research 3a 12 Handwritten draft 4a 1 Setting copy 4a 2 Publicity photographs and reviews The Golden Child (1977), notes (see 3a.8) Hartley, L. P. (Leslie Poles), correspondence, notes, and research for biography project 4a 3-7 Notebooks, notes, and research 4a Correspondence 4a 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 5a 1 1936-1953 5a 2 1954-1956 5a 3 1957-1960 5a 4 1961-1967 5a 5 Knox, E. V., 1955 5a Littleboy, Rex 5a 6 1920-1932 5a 7 1944-1948 6a 1 1949-1950 6a 2 1951-1953 6a 3 1954-1960 6a 4 1962-1969 6a 5 Powell, Anthony and Lady Violet, 1956- 1967 A House of Air: Selected Writings (2003) Alain-Fournier, Henri, Le Grand Meaulnes (see 11a.1, 11a.2) Austen, Jane, Emma introduction (see 6a.6, 6a.7) Bellow, Saul, Ravelstein (see 8a.6) Blake, William (see 1a.4) Burne-Jones, Edward, The Grange (see 1a.1, 2a.2) Carr, James Lloyd, A Month in the Country (see 6a.7) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (see 6a.7) Curriculum Vitae, and Contemporary Authors autobiographical article, 1989 (see 1a.1) Eliot, George, notes for Middlemarch introduction (see 6a.6, 8a.3) Hartley, L. P. (see 3a.6 and boxes 5a-6a) Hill, Octavia (see 8a.3) The Holy Land (see 1a.2) Housman, A. E. (see 6a.6) Jewett, Sarah Orne, introduction to The Country of Pointed Firs (see 6a.6, 6a.7) Klemperer, Victor, I Shall Bear Witness (see 6a.6, 6a.7, 8a.6) Larkin, Philip (see 1a.2) Lee, Hermione, Virginia Woolf (see 1a.4) Lehmann, John (see 8a.3) Macaulay, Rose (see 1a.3) MacNeice, Louis (see 3a.10) Milton Abbot; Tavistock (see 1a.4) Moore, George (see 1a.4) 6a * The Moors, re Milton Abbot and Edwin Landseer Lutyens (*architectural drawings removed to oversize folder) 6a 6-7 Notes (see also 1a.4, 10a.5, 10a.8) Oliphant, Margaret (see 1a.4) Shields, Carol, The Stone Diaries (see 1a.1) Smith, Stevie (see 1a.3) Spark, Muriel, Reality and Dreams (see 1a.4, 8a.3) Thomas, Edward (see 1a.4) Thwaite, Ann, Emily Tennyson (see 1a.4) Well Walk, Hampstead (see 1a.1, 2a.2) The Yeats sisters (see 3a.6) 6a 8-13 Human Voices, working title Ten Seconds from Now (1980, 1999); notes, research, and complete scenes Introductions and afterwords 6a 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 6a.13, 10a.2, 10a.3) Various works (see 1a.3, 6a.6, 6a.7, 8a.5) The Knox Brothers (1977) 7a 1-2 Bolliday Bango, various handwritten issues, 1898 7a 3 Children's story about a mastiff "Sir Beltane" and a terrier "Mr. York," handwritten with illustrations 7a 4 Clippings and miscellaneous material 7a Correspondence 7a 5 Fitzgerald, Penelope, incoming 7a 6 Knox brothers, 1907-1953 7a 7 Knox, E. V., A Hundred Years of Punch, lecture 7a 8 Pamphlets on E.V. and W. L. Knox, and Bletchley Park 7a 9-11 Photographs and family memorabilia 7a 12 Research (see also 11a.2) 7a 13 Typescript, chapter one, sample of American edition The Means of Escape: Stories (2000) At Hiruhama, origin of, and notes (see 1a.2) 8a 1 Beehernz (see also 8a.3) The Means of Escape, genesis of story (see 11a.3) Not Shown (see 1a.1, 2a.2) 8a 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 8a.3) 8a 3 Short story drafts in notebook 8a 4 Printed versions, photocopies Wittgenstein, Ludwig (see 10a.1) Novels, ideas for (see 2a.2, 8a.5, 10a.5, 10a.8) Short stories 8a 5-6 Unfinished, notes and drafts, 2000 (see also 8a.3) 8a 7 Worlds Apart, uncollected story in Woman, 1983 Series II. Correspondence, 1970-2000 8a 8 Business, 1999-2000 Family Fitzgerald, Maria, draft of letter from PF about family money (see 1a.4) 8a 9 Fitzgerald, Penelope, to her father and step-mother Mary, undated 8a 10 Literary, general, 1983-2000 8a 11 BBC, 1998-1999 8a 12 The Folio Society, 1998-1999 8a 13 P.E.N., 1983-1999 8a 14 Royal Society of Literature, 1998-2000 Personal 9a 1 1970-1989 9a 2 1990-1997 9a 3 1998-2000 9a 4 Publishers, general, 1979-2000 9a 5 Counterpoint, 1999-2000 9a 6 HarperCollins and Flamingo, 1985-2000 9a 7 Penguin UK, 1998-2000 9a 8 Watkinson, Raymond, 1992-2000 10a 1 Watkinson, Raymond, 1992-2000, cont'd 10a 2-3 Woolmer, J. Howard, 1979-1999 Series III. Career-Related Material, 1968-1991 10a 4 Articles about Fitzgerald Conferences, notes (see 1a.2) 10a 5 Interviews (see also 4a.2, 8a.4) Judging literary prizes 10a 6 Commonwealth Prize judging notes 10a 7 Encore Awards, John Llewllyn Rhys Prize, Silver Pen, Whitbread, ca. 1990 Forward Prize (see 6a.7) Lectures King's Lynn Festival, lecture on the novel (see 10a.6) 10a 8 Knox Brothers, PEN, 1990s Morris, William, rough lecture notes (see 1a.7) On Fitzgerald's writing (see 10a.8) Somerville, Oxford (see 1a.2) Unconsoled, on Kazuo Ishiguro at Cheltenham Festival (see 1a.7, 10a.8) 10a 9 William Morris Society, Burne-Jones lecture Move to 25 Almeric Road, 1975 (see 11a.2) Notebooks, various subjects 10a 10-11 1968-1969, teaching notes 11a 1 1970s, notes on Virginia Woolf, J. M. Barrie's life, Peter Pan, Drinkwater, and Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes (see also 11a.2) 11a 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 11a 3-4 1991, literary festival in Tasmania, with associated material 11a 5 Print material, miscellaneous Index of Correspondents (1989 Acquisition only) Adams, Frederick B. (Frederick Baldwin), 1910-.--3.1 Amory, Mark, 1941-.--1.14 Arnott, W. G.--1.9 Askwith, Betty, 1909-.--[Betty Miller Jones]--3.9 Asquith, Katharine.--5.3 Backhouse, M. Joy (Mrs.).--4.21 Bagley, Jack [J.M.E., Canon].--1.18 Bagot, O. R.--5.3 Balmaceda, Margarita.--5.3 Barnden, Patricia.--5.3 Barnes, Melvyn.--3-1 Batey, Mavis.--1.9, 1.23 Beaulah, G. K.--5.7 Bennett, Susan.--1.9 Birch, Vera.--1.9 Birtchnell, Percy C.--3.1 Blakeway, John, 1918-.--2.6 Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901-.--5.3 Boyle, Alexander.--1.17 Bradley, Bridget.--1.11 Brooksbank, Susan.--1.14 Bruford, Walter Horace, 1894-.--1.9 Buchan, Toby.--5.3 Bulmer, R. H.--1.11 Burden, Vera B.--3.9 Butler, Basil Christopher [Christopher, Bishop B.C.]--1.17, 1.23 Cantacuzino, Marina.--1.23 Carr, James L.--2-6 Carrington, Charles Edmund, 1897-.--5.3 Cassavetti, Eileen.--5.3 Chapman, F. J.--1.17 Chesterman, Sylvia.--4.16 Christian, John, fl. 1974-. [John Gordon]--5.3 Cisar, Peter.--4.9 Clarke, C. M. (Mrs.).--1.22 Cline, Clarence Lee [C.L.]--5.3 Coke, C. S.--1.14 Colbeck, R. Norman (Reginald Norman), 1903-.--5.3 Collins, Dorothy E.--1.14 Coulson, G. A.--1.17 Crankshaw, Edward.--1.9 Creaven, John J.--1.14 Crowe, Michael J.--1.14 Crozier, Robert Dupre.--1.17 Curgenven, Peter, Rev.--5.3 Dammers, A. H. (Alfred Hounsell), 1921-.--[Horace]--1.18 D'Arcy, Ella.--3.2 Daube, David.--1.19 Davidow, Mary C.--3.10 Dearden, James S.--5.3 Dennis, Imogen.--5.3 Denniston, Robin.--1.6, 1.9, 1.23, 5.3 Dewey, Meredith B., Rev.--1.18 Dexter, Kathleen M.--1.23 Dickinson, Patric, 1914-.--4.16 Dorment, Richard.--5.3 Ducrow, Sally.--1.22 Duesbury, Kendall.--4.8 Duff, Hester L. E.--1.19 Dundmuir, Aileen M.--1.22 Easton, Malcolm.--5.3, 5.7 Edel, Leon, 1907-.--5.3 Ellmann, Richard, 1918-.--5.3, 5.7 Erskine, T. R. (Ralph).--1.11 Farmer, Herbert Henry, 1892-.--1.18 Farnhill, Kenneth H.--1.9 Feldhaus, Irmgard.--5.3 Fisher, Emma.--4.9 Fredeman, William E. (William Evan), 1928-.--5.3 Freyberg, Paul Richard Freyberg, Baron, 1923-.--5.3 Garnett, Richard.--1.5, 1.9 Gilling, John.--1.18 Gittings, Robert.--3.9, 4.16 Gladstone, Erskine William, Sir, 1925-.--5.3 Golombek, Harry, 1911-.--1.9 Gough, Michael.--2.6 Grant, Bridget.--1.14 Grylls, R. Glynn (Rosalie Glynn), 1905-. [Lady Rosalie Mander]--5.4 Haight, Gordon S. (Gordon Sherman), 1901-1985.--5.3, 5.7 Hallam, Annie.--4.8 Handisyde, George, Canon.--1.18 Hardinge of Penshurst, George Edward Charles Hardinge, Baron, 1921-.--5.3 Hardinge of Penshurst, Helen.--5.3 Hawker, Pamela.--1.19 Haycraft, Anna.--4.12 Haycraft, Colin.--4.8, 4.12, 5.3, 8.18 Heddingham, Sybil.--5.3 Henderson, Philip, 1906- .--5.3 Hibbert, F. Dennis.--1.18 Hinsley, F. H. (Francis Harry), 1918- .--1.9 Holroyd, Michael.--3.9 Hooper, Leonard J., 1914- .--1.9 Howard, George Anthony Geoffrey, 1920- .--5.3 Ingram, Michael.--1.23 Isham, Gyles, Sir, Bart., 1903- .--5.3 Isham, Virginia.--5.3 Jameson, Harriet C.--4.16 Jenkins, A. D. Fraser.--5.4 Jerdein, Charles.--5.4 Johnston, Violet.--5.4 Jones, Peter, 1929- .--4.16 Joss, Dennis H.--4.9 Judd, Stephen.--1.1 Kahn, David, 1930- .--1.9 Kelvin, Norman.--5.4, 5.7 King, Francis Henry.--1.23, 2.6, 3.9, 5.4 Kingsford, R. J. L. (Reginald John Lethbridge), 1900- .--1.18 Kingston, Ruth.--1.6 Knox, Oliver.--1.9 Lannom, Gloria W.--4.13 Lascelles, Mary.--3.9 Laughton, Katharine.--3.9 Law, P. J.--1.12 Leclerc, Yves.--4.9 Levin, Bernard.--1.14, 5.4 Levy, Paul, 1941- .--1.9 Lillington, Kenneth.--3.9 Loewe, Michael.--1.19 Lovat, Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, Baron, 1911- [Shimi].--1.17 Low, Adam.--1.23 Luttrell, Edward.--4.16 Maas, Jeremy.--5.4 Macalay, Rose.--1.12 MacDonald, Murray, Canon.--1.18 McGregor, Freda (Mrs. L.).--4.16 MacInnes, Gurney.--1.19 Macintyre, Kenneth (Mrs.)--1.23 Mackenzie, J. G. (Iain).--1.18 Mackenzie, Laura.--1.23 Maclean, A. D. (Alan Duart).--1.5 Macmillan, Harold, 1894-.--1.6 Marshall, Roderick.--5.4 Martin, Keith A.--1.23 Maschler, Tom.--4.1 Mead, Hugh.--1.9 Mervyn, Grahame.--1.23, 5.7 Mew, Charlotte Mary, 1869-1928.--3.2 Mew, K. F.--3.10 Miller, Beatrix.--1.23 Milligan, Helen.--5.4 Moberly, Edward.--1.19 Monro, Harold, 1879-1932.--3.1 Morel, Oliver.--4.16 Morris, Helen Soutar, 1909-.--1.9 Moseley, Elsie M.--1.1, 1.6 Mullett, John St. H., Rev.--1.18 Murdoch, John, 1945-.--5.4 Murray, John, 1908-.--5.4 Nanson, Mary E.--1.23 Neame, Phyllis.--4.9 Needham, Joseph, 1900-.--1.18 Neil-Smith, Christopher, Rev.--1.18 Newby, P. H. (Percy Howard), 1918-.--1.23 Oliver, Robert.--4.13 Oliver, Stephen.--3.10 Ollard, Richard.--1.21, 4.14 Ormond, Richard.--5.4 Oxford and Asquith, Julian Edward George Asquith, earl, 1916-. [Oxford]--1.14, 1.17, 5.4 Palmer, Michael.--5.4, 5.7 Parish, Dorothy.--5.4 Parkinson, Ronald.--5.4 Pedley, Geoffrey H. K., Prebendary.--1.18 Pepper, Barbara (Mrs. J.).--1.19 Petty, Mike.--4.1 Plymouth, Other Robert Ivor Windsor-Clive, earl, 1923-.--5.4 Price, Ianthe.--4.16 Proffitt, Stuart.--3.9 Raimes, Helen (Mrs. H. P.).--4.9 Reynolds, P. (Mrs. Louis R.).--5.4 Richardson, Margaret Alison. [Peggie, Mrs. Gordon]--1.6 Ridolfi, Remo Angelo (Ray A.).--2.6 Robertson, Christian.--5.4 Rooke, Celia.--5.4 Ryde, Mary.--5.4 Samuels-Lasner, Mark, 1952-.--5.7 Scammell, H. A. (Mrs.).--3.1 Scott, Muriel.--5.4 Sewter, A. C.--5.4 Sherwood, John.--4.16 Spencer, Gilbert, 1892-.--1.9 Stark, Matthew.--1.17 Stevenson, Quentin.--3.9 Street, J. M.--1.14 Surtees, Virginia.--2.6, 5.4 Swinburne, Laurence.--4.13 Sword, Richard.--4.16 Sykes, Marjorie.--1.1 Taylor, Iris M.--4.1 Thirkell, Lance.--5.4 Thomas, E. F.--5.7 Tibbotts, George.--1.18 Tillotson, Kathleen Mary.--3.9 Tongue, Stanley.--1.18 Toynbee, Philip.--4.16 Trevelyan, Raleigh.--5.6, 5.7 Tweedsmuir, Susan, Lady.--5.4 Usborne, Richard.--1.13, 1.14, 1.23 Vidler, Alexander Roper, 1899-.--1.18, 1.19 Vines, Joy R.--4.16 Walters, D. M. I., Canon.--5.4 Wansbrough, Elizabeth Lewis.--5.4 Wansbrough, George, 1904-.--1.14 Waterhouse, A.--1.9 Watts, Marjorie.--3.1 Waugh, Auberon.--1.14 Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.--1.16 Welbourn, Olga.--1.11 Whiteley, D. Pepys.--1.18 Wilkinson, L. P. [Patrick]--1.9 Williams, Frederick J.--1.11 Wilson, Andrew.--1.6 Wilson, Angus.--5.4 Winterbottom, F. W. (Frederick William), 1897-.--1.9 Woodruff, Douglas.--1.17 Yorke, Margaret.--1.23 Index of Works (1989 Acquisition only) At Freddie's--5.1, 5.2, 5.10, 5.11 "The Axe"--4.1 The Beginning of Spring--4.2-4.5, 6.13, 8.3, 8.4 The Bookshop--4.6-4.11, 5.14, 5.15 Charlotte Mew and Her Friends--3.1-3.11, 5.13, 6.14-6.16, 7.1, 7.12, 7.13, 7.16, 7.18, 7.20, 8.15, 8.17 "The Development of the Line" [contribution to The Work of E. H. Shepard, edited by Rawle Knox]--4.21 Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography--5.3-5.9, 5.12, 6.1-6.11, 7.7-7.11, 7.14, 7.15, 7.17, 7.19, 8.1, 8.2, 8.5, 8.6, 8.8-8.14 The Golden Child--4.12, 4.13 Human Voices--4.14, 4.15 Innocence--2.1-2.8, 6.12, 7.21, 7.22, 8.16 Introduction to J. Howard Woolmer's The Poetry Bookshop1912-1935: A Bibliography--4.16-4.20, 5.13, 6.14-6.16, 7.1, 7.12, 7.13, 7.16, 7.18, 7.20, 8.15, 8.17 Introduction to Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford novels--7.2, 7.3 Introduction to William Morris's The Novel on Blue Paper--7.2, 7.7, 7.8, 7.17 The Iron Bridge [unfinished detective novel]--6.17 "The Kitchen Drawer"--8.17 The Knox Brothers--1.1-1.19, 5.13 The Likeness [abandoned novel]--5.13, 7.7, 8.17 Offshore--1.20-1.24, 7.4-7.6, 8.7 Sale or Return [unfinished detective novel]--6.18