urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00881 Dorothy Charques: An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Jack Boettcher Harry Ransom Center, 2012 Finding aid encoded by Daniela Lozano 23 April 2013 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Charques, Dorothy, 1899-1976 Dorothy Charques Collection 1935-1960, undated 9 boxes (3.78 linear feet) Includes manuscripts for nine historical novels written by the English novelist, researcher, and lecturer Dorothy Charques, who also used the pseudonym R. D. Dorothy. English Manuscript Collection MS-0749 Acquisition:

Purchase, 1960

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Open for research. Part or all of this collection is housed off-site and may require up to three business days' notice for access in the Ransom Center's Reading and Viewing Room. Please contact the Center before requesting this material: reference@hrc.utexas.edu.

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Joan Sibley and Jack Boettcher, 2012

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This finding aid replicates some information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.

 Container List Works: Between sleeping and waking (1938) 1.1-3 Handwritten manuscript / original draft with extensive revisions, approximately 491 pages bound, undated. 1.4-6 Signed typescript / second draft with few handwritten revisions, 379 pages bound, undated. Between the twilights (1949) 2.1-3 Typescript / first draft with extensive handwritten revisions, 442 pages bound, January - November? 1945. 2.4-6 Typescript / second draft with handwritten revisions, 438 pages bound, undated. 3.1 Signed page proofs with handwritten revisions, 345 pages, undated. The dark stranger, a novel of the English civil war (1956) 3.2-4 Handwritten manuscript / original draft with extensive revisions, approximately 600 pages bound, 11 October 1955. 3.5, 4.1-2 Typescript / second draft with many handwritten revisions, 503 pages bound 26 February 1956. Men like shadows (1952) 4.3-5 Typescript with many handwritten revisions, 665 pages bound, undated. 5.1 Page proofs with handwritten revisions, 343 pages, undated. The nunnery (1960) 5.2-4 Typescript / original draft with extensive handwritten corrections, 494 pages bound, undated. 5.5 Page proofs with handwritten corrections, 354 pages, undated. The returning heart (1943) 5.6, 6.1 Signed handwritten manuscript / original draft with many revisions, approximately 438 pages bound, undated. 6.2-3 Signed typescript / second draft with handwritten revisions, 405 pages, undated. Enclosed with this: typed excerpts from critical reviews of the book. The tramp and his woman (1937) 6.4-5 Signed handwritten manuscript / original draft with extensive revisions, approximately 474 pages bound, June 1935- July? 1936. 7.1-2 Typescript / second draft with few revisions, 420 pages bound, undated. Time's harvest (1940) 7.3-4, 8.1 Signed handwritten manuscript / original draft with extensive revisions, approximately 816 pages bound, undated. 8.2-4, 9.1 Typescript / second draft with handwritten revisions, 632 pages bound, undated. 9.2 The valley (1954), signed page proofs with handwritten corrections, 286 pages, undated.