MacCarthy, Charles Otto Desmond, 1877 - 1952 (literary journalist)
Dates and places
1877-1952
Sphere of activity
Literary journalist.
Relationships
Husband of Mary MacCarthy (nee Warre-Cornish)
Other information
Freelance contributor to 'The Spectator'; editor of 'The New Quarterly' (1907-1912); contributor to 'The New Statesman' (1913-19), and literary editor (1920-7); senior literary critic for 'The Sunday Times' (1928-).
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
11 letters from Desmond MacCarthy to Oscar Browning, 1906 - 1909
Most of the files contain five or more letters. Some files include letters from more than one member of a family, and the larger correspondences occupy two or more files.
Correspondence from Desmond and Molly McCarthy, 1938 - 1954
7 autograph letters, signed; 2 typed letters, signed, and 1 autograph postcard, signed, to Vanessa Bell. 1938-54 and undated.
1 autograph letter, signed, to 'Marjorie'. 17 Dec. 1951.
1 autograph letter, signed, from Michael [McCarthy] to Vanessa Bell. 30 Dec. 1953.
1 typed letter, signed, to 'Annetta'. 6 Dec. 1951.
Cuttings of reviews, 1911 - 1931
The file comprises newspaper cuttings of reviews of the ghost stories:
- Review of 'More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary', 1911, in an article by Desmond MacCarthy in 'The Eye-Witness', 4 Jan. 1912;
- Review of the same volume in 'The Yorkshire Daily Observier', 3 Feb. 1912 (the first four inches only, the rest is missing) by an unknown reviewer;
- Review of 'Collected Ghost Stories', 1931, in 'The Times Literary Supplement', 23 July 1931. Unsigned.
Desmond MacCarthy to REF, 1923-04-29 - 1927-09-08
2 autograph letters signed.
Letter from Desmond MacCarthy to NGA, 1951-01-22
1 autograph letter signed.
Letter from Desmond MacCarthy to Sir George Barnes, 1949-10-30
1 autograph letter signed.
Letter from Desmond, possibly Desmond MacCarthy, to Julian Bell
1 autograph letter, signed.
Letter to RNL from Desmond MacCarthy, 1938
1 typed letter signed.
Letters from Desmond MacCarthy to Frances and Ralph Partridge, 1932-05-11 - 1951-01-05
2 autograph letters signed and 1 typed letter signed.
Letters from Desmond MacCarthy to H. O. Stutchbury, 1936 - 1950
5 autograph letters signed and 3 typed letters signed, on the subject of Balzac.
Letters from Desmond MacCarthy to JDH, 1928 - 1948
1 autograph letter signed and 3 typed letters signed. The file also contains an autograph letter signed from Elizabeth Arnold about Desmond MacCarthy, no year date.
Letters from Desmond MacCarthy to J.M. Keynes, 1904 - 1939
3 autograph letters, signed, and 2 typed letters, signed. 1909-39.
This file also includes a photocard of J.M. Keynes and 4 others (2 men, 1 woman and 1 boy) sitting at the side of the road in the course of a cycle ride. Annotated on back [possibly by Daniel Macmillan; i.e., wrongly identified and misfiled here], Oct. 1904.
Letters from Sir Desmond MacCarthy to the Bells and Roger Fry, 1931 - 1951
8 autograph letters signed, 2 typed letters signed and 1 autograph postcard signed to Clive Bell. 1929-47 and undated.
2 autograph letters signed to Vanessa Bell with 2 envelopes. 22 Nov. and 2 Dec. 1951.
Photocopies of 2 autograph letters signed, 4 typed letters signed to Clive Bell. 1928-1949.
Photocopy of 1 autograph letter signed to Roger Fry. Undated.
Letters from the editors of the 'New Statesman and Nation' to JDH, 1927 - 1931
5 typed letters signed and 2 autograph letters signed. The editors were: Desmond MacCarthy (1927-8); Clifford Sharp (1929); Leonard Woolf (1929-30); and R. Ellis Roberts (1931).
Letters to Rupert Brooke from a variety of correspondents, 1909 - 1914
Postcard from Desmond MacCarthy to G. Phelps, 1947-01-11
1 autograph postcard signed to G. Phelps, Broadcasting House, Bristol, concerning the publication of MacCarthy's talk on 'Max'.