Collection Summary
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Whitham, John Mills, 1883-1956
John Mills Whitham Papers
ca. 1921-1954
Manuscript Collection MS-04498
6 boxes (2.52 linear feet)
The papers of John Mills Whitham contain
typescripts of several unpublished works as well as revisions of previously published works
including Wolfang.
English
Scope and Contents
The papers of John Mills Whitham contain typescripts of several unpublished works as well
as revisions of previously published works including
Wolfang. Included are notebooks and transcripts of Cry Havoc: A West
Country War Journal, Whitham's journal of World War II. There is also one notebook of
sketches and drawings by Sylvia Mills Whitham, the wife of Whitham.
Related Materials
Additional manuscripts at the Ransom Center include four letters from Whitham to Harold
Wright, dating between 1923 and 1955, as well as one scrapbook and one folder in the
vertical files.
Acquisition:
Purchase, 1973 (Reg. no. 5971)
Access:
Open for research
Processed by:
Hope Rider, 2004
Container List
1
1
A.E.W.: A Biographic Sketch, typescripts, ca. 1945
1
A Biographical History of the Great Rebellion, ca. 1937-1938
1
2
Handwritten notebook
1
3
Synopsis typescripts
1
4-5
Christina Ballad, typescript, ca. 1926-1928
1
Cry Havoc: A West Country War Journal (early title, "A Breaking of Nations"),
1939-1945
1
Handwritten notebooks
1
6-7
1-2
2
1-3
3-6 (notebook 5 missing)
2
Typescripts
2
4
September-December 1939
2
5
January-April 1940
2
6
May-October 1940
2
7
October 1940-September 1941
2
8
September 1941-May 1942
2
9
May 1942-August 1943
2
10
September 1943-May 1945
3
Fruit of the Earth (1919)
3
1
"Revised" handwritten draft, 2/12/1945
3
2
Published version with handwritten corrections
3
3
Gunnar, typescript, ca. 1938
3
4
The Heretic (1921), "author's proof," bound
volume with handwritten corrections
3
The Human Circus (1919)
3
5
"Author's copy," bound volume with handwritten corrections, 4/19/1945
4
1
"Author's copy" cont'd
4
2-3
Journal of an Obscure Man, typescript, ca. 1954
4
4-5
The Last of the Romantics: Autobiographical Sketches, typescripts, ca. 1939
4
A Philosophy of Recipience, ca. 1948-1954
4
6
Notebook and typescript notes
4
7
"2nd Writing" typescript, synopsis, correspondence
5
1
Typescript
5
2-5
Redpits (new version of Broom), typescript, ca.
1935
5
6-7
Starveacre (1913), handwritten draft of new
version of novel, ca. 1939
6
1
The Windlestraw (1924), "author's proof,"
bound volume
6
2
Wolfang (1917), "revised version" handwritten
draft, February 10, 1944
6
Miscellaneous
6
3
Whitham, Sylvia Mills, sketch book, loose drawings