Collection Summary
Morley, Christopher,
1890-1957
Christopher Morley Book-of-the-Month Club
Materials
1925-1955,
undated
Manuscript Collection
MS-54224
44 document boxes (18.30 linear feet), 1 galley folder
(gf)
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
The Christopher Morley Book-of-the-Month
Club Materials consist mainly of pre-publication bound galleys and page proofs of works
examined by Morley acting as a member of the Club’s Selecting Committee. Several manuscripts
and a small amount of correspondence are also
present.
English
Scope and Contents
The Christopher Morley Book-of-the-Month Club Materials consist mainly of pre-publication
bound galleys and page proofs of works examined by Morley acting as a member of the Club’s
Selecting Committee, 1925-1955. Several manuscripts and a small amount of correspondence are
also present. These materials were originally accessioned as part of Morley's library in
1959. However, because they represent pre-publication states of text, they were subsequently
transferred to be added to the large collection of Morley’s manuscripts, correspondence, and
other papers. This inventory supplements the finding aid for the Christopher Morley
Collection.
The Book-of-the-Month Club materials have been arranged alphabetically by author and title.
The format of the items has been indicated only when they represent other than galleys or
page proofs. Notable among the manuscripts is the corrected typescript of the second half of
George Santayana’s
The Last Puritan, the first half of which
is owned by the University of Virginia's Alderman Library. Also of special note is a very
heavily marked paste-up of Bruce Rogers’ Paragraphs on
Printing.
Only a few items of correspondence are present, including single letters from Blanche Knopf
and Don Marquis. The Index of Correspondents at the end of this inventory includes all
correspondent names and the locations of the letters. There is substantial correspondence in
the Christopher Morley Collection between Morley and various representatives of the
Book-of-the-Month Club (about 130 items, 1925-1955), often with commentary concerning
specific books.
For further information about Morley and his collection and library at the Ransom Center,
see:
Ashby, Anna Lou. A Publishing History of Christopher Morley. Dissertation, University of
Texas at Austin,
1974.
Ashby, Anna Lou.
The Writer as Bookman: Christopher Morley's
Library.
Library Chronicle 2 (November, 1970)
Bracker, Jon.
The Christopher Morley Collection.
Library Chronicle VII, No. 2 (Summer, 1962).
Note to Researchers
This material is part of the Christopher Morley Collection. In 2025, to comply with a
new content management system, this material was assigned a new collection number (changed from MS-02921 to MS-54224) and
a new EAD number (changed from 01432 to 01556).
Acquisition:
Purchase, 1959
(unnumbered).
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Related Material
Beinecke Library, Yale University: Book-of-the-Month
Club Records, 1946-1979
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin:
Christopher Morley Collection, 1787-1996 (bulk 1895-1957)
Library of Congress: Book-of-the-Month Club Records,
1939-1967
Container List
Series I.
1.1.
Adams, James Truslow. The Story of the Making of a New Man
(undated)
1.2
Allen, Frederick Lewis. The Lords of Creation (Harper & Bros.,
1935)
1.3
Allen, Hervey. Action at Aquila (Farrar & Rinehart, 1938)
1.4
Andrézel, Pierre (Dinesen, Isak). The Angelic Avengers (Random House,
1946)
1.5
Anthony, Katharine. Louisa May Alcott (Knopf, 1937)
2.1
Armstrong, Margaret. Trelawny (Macmillan, 1940)
2.2
Arthur, Joseph. Blue Jeans, photocopy of typescript (1940)
2.3
Asch, Sholem. The Apostle, Part II (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1943)
2.4
Asch, Sholem. Moses (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1951)
3.1
Bakeless, John Edwin. Christopher Marlowe, the Man in His Time (William
Morrow, 1937)
3.2
Beard, Miriam. A History of the Business Man (Macmillan, 1938)
3.3
Belden, Jack. Still Time to Die (Harper & Bros., 1943)
3.4
Benét, William Rose. The Dust Which Is God (Dodd, Mead,
1941)
4.1
Boswell, James. Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764 (McGraw, Hill,
1952)
4.2
Boswell, James. Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel
Johnson (Viking, 1936)
4.3
Bowen, Marjorie. The Scandal of Sophie Dawes (Appleton-Century,
1935)
4.4
Bowman, Peter. The Wakeful Stars (Random House, 1945)
5.1-2
Brandes, Georg. Voltaire (Albert & Charles Boni, 1930)
5.3
Brogan, D. W. The American Character (Knopf, 1944)
5.4
Brown, Curtis. Contacts (Harper & Bros., 1935)
5.5
Brown, Harry. A Walk in the Sun (Knopf, 1944)
5.6
Buchanan, Thompson. Star of Bengal, carbon typescript with handwritten notes
(undated)
6.1
Cary, Joyce. Prisoner of Grace (Harper & Bros., 1952)
6.2
Case, Frank. Tales of a Wayward Inn (Frederick A. Stokes, 1938)
6.3-4
Chesterton, G. K. The Man Who Was Chesterton (Dodd, Mead, 1937)
6.5
Chesterton, G. K. The Scandal of Father Brown (Dodd, Mead, 1935)
7.1
Ciano, Galeazzo. Count. The Ciano Diaries (Doubleday, 1946)
7.2
Colum, Mary Maguire. Life and the Dream (Doubleday, 1947)
7.3
Corbett, Jim. The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag (Oxford University Press,
1948)
7.4
Cozzens, James Gould. Castaway (Random House, 1934)
7.5
Crockett, Charis. The House in the Rain Forest (Houghton, Mifflin,
1942)
7.6
Davenport, Russell W. My Country (Simon & Schuster, 1944)
7.7
Davis, Forrest. How War Came (Simon & Schuster, 1942)
8.1
DeChair, Somerset. The Golden Carpet (Harcourt, Brace, 1945)
8.2
Dos Passos, John. The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson, reproduced
typescript (Doubleday, 1954)
8.3
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted, carbon typescript
(Cosmopolitan, 1948)
8.4
Edman, Irwin. Philosopher's Holiday (Viking, 1938)
9.1
Farson, Negley. Behind God's Back (Harcourt, Brace, 1941)
9.2
Finletter, Gretchen. From the Top of the Stairs (Atlantic Monthly
Press/Little Brown, 1946)
9.3
Finletter, Thomas. Can Representative Government Do the Job? (Reynal &
Hitchcock, 1945)
9.4
Finney, Charles G. The Circus of Dr. Lao (Viking, 1935)
10.1
Fleming, Berry. Colonel Effingham's Raid, typescript with handwritten note by
author (Duell, Sloan & Pierce, 1943)
10.2
Footner, Hulbert. Charles’ Gift (Harper & Bros., 1939)
10.3
Forbes, Esther. A Mirror for Witches (Houghton Mifflin, 1928)
10.4
Forrester, C. S. Hornblower and the Atropos (Little, Brown, 1953)
11.1
Forster, E. M. The Hill of Devi (Harcourt, Brace, 1953)
11.2
Frost, Robert. A Further Range (Henry Holt, 1936)
11.3
Geer, Andrew. Mercy in Hell (McGraw Hill, 1943)
11.4
Giles, Dorothy. Singing Valleys: The Story of Corn (Random House,
1940)
11.5
Granville, E. T. Huntsman of the Sky (Payson & Clarke, 1930)
12.1
Green, Julian. The Closed Garden (Harper & Bros., 1928)
12.2
Greenbie, Majorie Barstow. American Saga (Whittlesey, 1929)
12.3
Greenslet, Ferris. Under the Bridge (Houghton Mifflin, 1943)
12.4
Guedalla, Philip. Mr. Churchill (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942)
13.1
Habe, Hans. A Thousand Shall Fall (Harcourt Brace, 1941)
13.2
Harrison, George Bagshawe. An Elizabethan Journal (University of Michigan
Press, 1955)
13.3
Harsanyi, Zsolt de. Lover of Life (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942)
14.1
Haslett, A. W. Everyday Science (Knopf, 1937)
14.2
Hathaway, Katharine Butler. The Little Locksmith (Coward-McCann,
1942)
14.3
Heard, H. F. The President of the United States, Detective
(undated)
14.4
Heiden, Konrad. Der Fuehrer (Houghton Mifflin, 1943)
14.5
Henderson, Nevile, Sir. Failure of a Mission (G. P. Putnam's Sons,
1940)
15.1
Hennessy, Una-Pope. Charles Dickens (Howell Soskin, 1946)
15.2
Herbert, A. P. Siren Song (Doubleday, 1941)
15.3
Hitler, Adolph. My New Order (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941)
16.1
Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki (Rand McNally, 1950)
16.2
Hopkins, Harry L. Book III: Arsenal of Democracy, reproduced typescript.
Possibly for The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins, an Intimate History, by
Robert E. Sherwood, 1948.
16.3
Hotson, J. Leslie. The Death of Christopher Marlowe, typescript with
handwritten corrections (Harvard University Press, 1925)
16.4
Houseman, A. E. More Poems, carbon typescript (Knopf, 1936). Includes memo
from Blanche Knopf, 27 July 1936.
16.5
Hunt, George P. Coral Comes High (Harper & Bros., 1946)
16.6
Huxley, Aldous. Brief Candles (Doubleday, Doran, 1930)
17.1
Huxley, Aldous. Texts and Pretexts (Harper & Bros., 1933)
17.2
Jackson, Charles. The Lost Weekend (Farrar & Rinehart, 1944)
17.3
Jaffe, Bernard. Men of Science in America (Simon & Schuster,
1944)
17.4
Johnson, Gerald. Incredible Tale (Harper & Bros., 1950)
18.1-2
Kafka, Franz. The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913, Parts I and II
(Schocken, 1948)
18.3
Kent, Rockwell. Salamina (Harcourt, Brace, 1935)
19.1
Koestler, Arthur. Thieves in the Night (Macmillan, 1946)
19.2
Krachenko, Victor. I Choose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a
Soviet Official (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946)
19.3
Lagerkvist, Pär. Barabbas, carbon typescript (Random House,
1951)
19.4
Laski, Harold J. The American Democracy (Viking, 1948)
20.1
Laski, Harold J. The American Democracy
20.2
Laski, Harold J. Where Do We Go From Here? (Viking, 1940)
20.3
Lawrence, Jack. When the Ships Came In (Ferris Printing, 1940)
20.4
Laxness, Halldor. Independent People (Knopf, 1946)
20.5
Leacock, Stephen. Charles Dickens: His Life and Work (Doubleday Doran,
1933)
20.6
Lederer, William. The Last Cruise (William Sloane Assoc., 1950)
21.1
Lehmann, Rosamond. The Ballad and the Source (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945).
Also letter from Curtice Hitchcock, 29 December 1944.
21.2
Lehmann, Rosamond. The Buried Day (tentative title, Harcourt Brace,
undated)
21.3
Lewis, Oscar. The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and
Crocker and of the building of the Central Pacific (Knopf, 1938)
21.4
Lewis, Sinclair. Dodsworth. Dramatized by Sidney Howard (Harcourt, Brace,
1933, 1934)
22.1
Lippmann, Walter. U.S. War Aims (Little Brown, 1944)
22.2-4
Lockridge, Ross, Jr. Raintree County, Parts I, II, and III (Houghton,
Mifflin, 1948)
22.5
Low, David. Years of Wrath (Simon & Schuster, 1946)
23.1
Lowell, Amy. A Chronicle (Houghton, Mifflin, undated)
23.2
Lowes, John Livingston. Geoffrey Chaucer (Houghton Mifflin, 1934)
23.3
Mann, Thomas. The Beloved Returns (Knopf, 1940)
23.4
Marchal, Leon. Vichy: Two Years of Deception (Macmillan, 1943)
24.1
Marloe, Christofer. Lusts Dominion, or the Lascivious Queen, carbon
typescript (1934). Includes two letters from Harry Scherman dated 1929, and one letter
from Anderson Galleries, undated.
24.2
Marquis, Don. Sons of the Puritans (Doubleday, Doran, 1939) Includes one
letter from the author dated 27 November 1926, also typescript of preface to Sons of
the Puritans.
24.3
Martin Du Gard, Roger. The Thibaults, Part II (Viking, 1939)
24.4
Masefield, John. In the Mill (Macmillan, 1941)
24.5
Masters, Edgar Lee. Vachel Lindsay (Scribners, 1935)
25.1
Maurois, André. Tragedy in France (Harper & Bros., 1940)
25.2
McFee, William. The Beachcomber (Doubleday & Doran, 1935)
25.3
McFee, William. Derelicts (Doubleday & Doran, 1938)
26.1
McFee, William. Ship to Shore (Random House, 1944)
26.2
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman (Viking, 1949)
26.3
Miller, Max, Lt. Cmdr. The Far Shore (Whittlesey, 1945)
26.4
Millis, Walter. Why Europe Fights (Morrow, 1940)
26.5
Moody, Minnie Hite. Death Is a Little Man (Julian Messner,
undated)
27.1
Moorehead, Alan. Eclipse (Coward-McCann, 1946)
27.2
Muggeridge, Malcolm. The Earnest Atheist: A Study of Samuel Butler (G. P.
Putnam's Sons, 1937)
27.3
Murphy, Charles J. V. The Lives of Winston Churchill (Scribners,
undated)
27.4
Neurath, Otto. Modern Man in the Making (Knopf, 1939)
27.5
New York Book of Verse (Harcourt, Brace, 1935)
27.6
Newton, A. Edward. Doctor Johnson (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923)
28.1
O'Neill, Eugene. Dynamo (H. Liveright, 1929)
28.2
O'Reardon, Alicia. Living High (Appleton-Century, undated)
28.3
Orwell, George. Animal Farm (Harcourt, Brace, 1946)
28.4
Paxson, Frederick L. American Democracy and the War (undated)
28.5
Pinckney, Josephine. Great Mischief, carbon typescript with handwritten
corrections (undated)
29.1
Polner, Tikhon. Tolstoy and His Wife (W. W. Norton, 1945)
29.2
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Leaning Tower and Other Stories (Harcourt, Brace,
1944)
29.3
Pyle, Ernie. Brave Men (Henry Holt, 1944)
30.1
Pyle, Ernie. With the Yanks in Africa, carbon typescript (Henry Holt,
undated)
30.2
Quennell, Peter. Byron: The Years of Fame (Viking, 1935)
30.3
Rauschning, Hermann. The Voice of Destruction (G. P. Putnam's Sons,
1940)
30.4
Reves, Emery. The Anatomy of Peace (Harper & Bros., 1945)
31.1
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front (Little, Brown,
1929)
31.2
Remarque, Erich Maria. A Time to Love and a Time to Die, reproduced
typescript (Harcourt, Brace, 1954)
31.3
Riesenberg, Felix. Cape Horn (Dodd, Mead, 1939)
32.1
Riesenberg, Felix. Golden Gate (Knopf, 1940)
32.2
Riesenberg, Felix. Living Again: An Autobiography (Doubleday, Doran,
1937)
32.3
Roberts, Kenneth. Northwest Passage (Doubleday, Doran, 1937)
33.1
Robinson, Henry Morton. Science Versus Crime (undated)
33.2
Robinson, William Albert. Voyage to Galapagos (Harcourt, Brace,
1936)
33.3-4
Rogers, Bruce. Paragraphs on Printing, dummy made up of proofs with
handwritten additions (William E. Rudge, 1943)
34.1
Romains, Jules. Verdun, Vol. VIII of Men of Good Will (Knopf,
1939)
34.2
Rosten, Leo C. Hollywood (Harcourt, Brace, 1941)
34.3
Saint Exupéry, Antoine de. Flight to Arras (Reynal & Hitchcock,
1942)
35.1
Saint Exupéry, Antoine de. Wind, Sand, and Stars (Reynal &
Hitchcock, 1940)
35.2-4
Santayana, George. The Last Puritan, typescript with handwritten corrections
(Scribners, 1936)
35.5
Santayana, George. The Middle Span (Scribners, 1945)
35.6
Sayers, Dorothy. Unpopular Opinions (Harcourt, Brace, 1947)
35.7
Sayers, Michael, and Albert E. Kahn. Sabotage! The Secret War Against America
(Harper & Brothers, 1942)
36.1
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Jacksonian Revolution (Little, Brown,
1944)
36.2
Scudder, Townsend. Jane Welsh Carlyle (Macmillan, 1939)
36.3
Shapley, Harlow. A Treasury of Science (Harper & Brothers,
1943)
37.1
Sher, Jack. The Cold Companion (Rinehart, 1948)
37.2
Singer, I. J. The Brothers Ashkenazi (Knopf, 1936)
37.3
Smith, Ken. Balkan Firebrand (Ziff-Davis, 1943)
37.4
Smith, Logan Pearsall. All Trivia (Harcourt, Brace, 1945)
37.5
Smith, W. G. Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs (Clarendon Press,
1935)
38.1
Stebbins, Lucy Poate & Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes (Columbia
University Press, 1945)
38.2
Stephenson, Geneva. Spring Journey (Macmillan, 1939)
38.3
Stettinius, Edward R. Lend-Lease Weapon for Victory, reproduced typescript
and illustrations (Macmillan, 1944)
39.1
Stettinius, Edward R. Roosevelt and the Russians: The Yalta Conference
(Doubleday, 1949)
39.2
Stowe, Leland. While Time Remains (Knopf, 1946)
39.3
Strode, Hudson. The Pageant of China (Harrison Smith and Robert Haas,
1934)
40.1
Tarbell, Ida M. All in the Day's Work (Macmillan, 1939)
40.2
Tharp, Louise Hall. The Peabody Sisters of Salem (Little, Brown,
1949)
40.3
Thirkell, Angela. Cheerfulness Breaks In (Knopf, 1941)
40.4
Tolischus, Otto D. They Wanted War (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940)
41.1
Tomlinson, H. M. Below London Bridge (Harper & Brothers,
1935)
41.2
Tomlinson, H. M. Gallions Reach (Harper & Brothers, 1927)
41.3
Tomlinson, H. M. Out of Soundings (Harper & Brothers, 1931)
41.4-5
Untermeyer, Louis. A Treasury of Great Poems, Parts I and II (Simon &
Schuster, 1942),
42.1
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. Ships and How They Sailed the Seven Seas (Somerset,
1935)
42.2
Von Elm, Anna. The Rover (1936)
gf 1
Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang. South America Called Them (Knopf,
1945)
42.3
Wells, H. G. The Croquet Player (Viking, 1937)
42.4
White, E. B. Quo Vadimus? (Harper & Brothers, 1939)
42.5
White, William L. Report on the Russians (Harcourt, Brace, 1945)
42.6
Williams, Gertrude Marvin. Priestess of the Occult (Knopf, 1946). Includes
typescript recommendation by Morley.
43.1
Wilson, Forrest. Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Lippincott, 1941)
43.2
Winwar, Frances. Farewell the Banner (Doubleday, Doran, 1938)
44.1
Wolff, Maritta. Night Shift (Random House, 1942)
44.2
Woolf, Virginia. Between the Acts (Harcourt, Brace, 1941)
44.3
Woolf, Virginia. Flush (Harcourt, Brace, 1933)
Index of Correspondents
- Anderson Galleries -- 24.1
- Hitchcock, Curtice (Reynal & Hitchcock) -- 21.1
- Knopf, Blanche -- 16.4
- Marquis, Don -- 24.2
- Scherman, Harry -- 24.1