Rylands, George Humphrey Wolferstan, 1902-1999 (literary critic and dramatist)
Dates and places
1902-1999 KCC 1921; Fellow, 1927-99
Legal status / Nationality
British
Sphere of activity
University Lecturer in English, Poet, Dramatist
Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:
Lytton Strachey sitting outdoors with Roger Senhouse, G.H.W. Rylands, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and Ralph Partridge, 1928-07
Lytton Strachey sitting with G.H.W. Rylands, 1928
Snapshot of G.H.W. ('Dadie') Rylands sitting at a table covered with a checked cloth and laid with jugs, plates and glasses on the verandah of Ham Spray House. He rests his right elbow on the table and looks towards the camera. Lytton Strachey sits to the right, with his hands resting on the table. He wears a hat and looks towards the camera.
Lytton Strachey sitting with G.H.W. Rylands and Alix Strachey, 1922 - 1930
Snapshot of Lytton Strachey sitting to the left at one end of a table covered with a checked cloth, and cups and plates arranged on top. He is wearing a hat and is looking towards the camera. In the centre sits G.H.W. ('Dadie') Rylands. To the right, opposite Lytton Strachey, sits Alix Strachey, also looking at the camera. The windows of Ham Spray House are visible in the background.
Lytton Strachey sitting with G.H.W. Rylands and Rosamond Lehmann, 1922 - 1930
Snapshot of Lytton Strachey sitting at the left of a table spread with a checked cloth in the garden of Ham Spray House. He sits in a chair with his legs crossed, wearing a hat, looking to the right at Rosamond Lehmann, who sits opposite him. G.H.W. ('Dadie') Rylands sits at the table furthest from the camera, smiling and looking downwards. Rosamond Lehmann sits in a deckchair, leaning forwards to the table, looking down at her hands. The table is spread with cups and saucers.
Lytton Strachey sitting with G.H.W. Rylands and Rosamond Lehmann, 1922 - 1930
Snapshot of Lytton Strachey sitting at a table covered with a checked cloth and laid with teacups on the lawn of Ham Spray House. He has his legs crossed, is turned away from the camera, and is wearing a hat. In the centre of the group sits G.H.W. ('Dadie') Rylands, with his right hand resting on a teacup. To the right, Rosamond Lehmann sits forward in a deckchair, looking across the table at Lytton Strachey.
Lytton Strachey sitting with James Strachey and G.H.W. Rylands, 1922 - 1930
Snapshot of Lytton Strachey sitting in a deckchair in the garden of Ham Spray House. He is wearing a hat, his legs are crossed and he looks towards the camera. Next to him, sitting in a deckchair is James Strachey, with his arms crossed, looking to the left at Lytton. In the foreground, G.H.W. ('Dadie') Rylands reclines on a rug, drinking from a glass, looking away from the camera to the left.
Lytton Strachey with G.H.W. Rylands and Sandy Baird, 1929
Snapshot of Lytton Strachey sitting in a deckchair on the lawn near the verandah of Ham Spray House. His legs are crossed at the ankles and his right hand rests in his lap. Sandy Baird stands to the left and G.H.W. ('Dadie') Rylands stands to the right, both with their hands by their sides. All three men look towards the camera.
Lytton Strachey with G.H.W. Rylands and Sandy Baird, 1929
Memorial/funeral file, 1999
Dadie Rylands. Order of service not included.
'Memorials of King's College', 1939
Items contain typed and manuscript correspondence with, and carbon typescript lists of Kingsmen for, F.L. Lucas, R.E. Balfour, E.J. Dent, Percy Lubbock, G.C. Morris, F.W. Reddaway and G.H.W. Rylands.
Pettifer interview with GHWR, 1996-10 - 2006
Digital copies in various media of an interview by Julian Pettifer with GHWR.
Photograph of G. H. W. Rylands and graduating students, 1943
Modern reprint of G.H.W. ('Dadie') Rylands leading five students graduating in the year 1943 across the front lawn to the Senate House.
Programmes for Forster centenary, 1979
Three files of material relating to G.H.W. Rylands's programme in celebration of the centenary of the birth of EMF, performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, June 1979.
Roger Senhouse reading outdoors with G.H.W. Rylands, 1928-07
Snapshot of Roger Senhouse lying on his stomach on grass with trees in the background. He rests on his elbows and arms, and looks down at a newspaper or book lying on the grass. G.H.W. ('Dadie') Rylands reclines on the grass behind him, but his face is obscured because he also looks downwards.
Rylands, G.H.W.: Correspondence with the Press, 1934 - 1944
Includes mention of Waldock, A.J.; Meldrum, R. Fraser- and Loewinthal, M.
Rylands: The Papers of George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands
The collection contains G. H. W. Rylands' published and unpublished writings, the scripts of broadcasts, correspondence, and programmes and other papers relating to theatrical productions.
'Shakespeare the Poet', 1925 - 1999
TS draft of an essay, with handwritten amendments and annotations.
Stallybrass correspondence: main series, 1965 - 1978
This sub-series contains miscellaneous correspondence between Oliver Stallybrass and others, found in a large accordian folder indexed by the last name of Stallybrass' correspondent. It includes correspondence with: Sir Harold Acton, Noel Annan, W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Bob Buckingham, Paul Cadmus, Christopher Isherwood, Bernard Levin, Sir Joseph Napier, Sonia Orwell, Bill Roerick, G.H.W. Rylands and Lionel Trilling.
'The Account of My Election as Provost of King's', 1957-05-05
This file contains a signed typescript and an unsigned carbon typescript account of the King's College, Cambridge Praeposital election of 1956, given to the Archive Centre at different dates. It includes a biographical essay about George Humphrey Wolferstan ('Dadie') Rylands, who was a candidate for the Provostship. The file also includes an autograph letter signed from NGA to A.N.L. ('Tim') Munby, Librarian of King's College, undated.
'The Dons', 1996 - 2001
This file includes a modern reprint of a black and white photograph showing Jamie Drew, Cameron Drew and G.H. W. ('Dadie') Rylands, c. 1939 and a paper copy of a photograph showing G.H.W. Rylands and NGA, 1939.
'The Family Reunion', 1954-07 - 1954-09
Three letters from G. H. W. Rylands to J.D. Hayward, and two from Hugh Beaumont to J.D. Hayward about a projected production of 'The Family Reunion'.
'The Revenger's Tragedy', 1937-03-08 - 1937-03-13
This file contains a programme note by T.S. Eliot, typescript with manuscript corrections, 2 pp., with printed version in A.D.C. and Marlowe Society's Programme, 8-13 Mar. [1937], a 'Spectator' notice and an explanatory typed note, both by George Rylands.
Two tape recordings of GHWR, 1987 - 1995
The records comprise:
- 'Ninety not out': an interview with Ned Sherrin in GHWR's rooms in King's College, broadcast on Radio 4, 7 Aug. 1995;
- Interview with Chris Kelly, made in 1987 for a broadcast by the BBC to mark GHWR's 85th birthday.
University Publisher: Correspondence with Rylands, G.H.W., 1936 - 1944
3 carbon typed letters.
Unstead, R.J.: Correspondence with the Press, 1943
This correspondence relates to a proposed publication about Virginia Woolf by R.J. Unstead and comprises a letter from E.M. Forster and a report by G.H.W. Rylands.