Keynes, Sir Geoffrey Langdon, 1887-1982 (Knight, surgeon and bibliophile)
Dates
- Existence: 1887 - 1982
Biography
Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, bibliographer and literary scholar, was born in Cambridge on 25 March 1887. His brother was John Maynard Keynes, later Lord Keynes. Geoffrey went to school at Rugby, before entering Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1906, to study natural sciences. He trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. After the war he became part of the surgical team at Bart's, where he was appointed assistant surgeon in 1928. During World War II he was consulting surgeon to the R.A.F., and was made acting Air Vice-Marshal in 1944. He retired from Bart's in 1952, and received a knighthood in 1955. Keynes wrote many bibliographies and biographies. The subjects of his works include Jane Austen, Rupert Brooke, John Donne, John Evelyn, William Harvey, William Hazlitt, Siegfried Sassoon, Izaak Walton and, in particular, William Blake. His work on Thomas Willis remained uncompleted at his death. Keynes was also a great admirer of ballet, and wrote his own ballet, Job, with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, which was first performed by the Camargo Society in 1931.
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Tighe: Psyche or the legend of love
A copy of Psyche, or the legend of love, 193 numbered pages, made by M. Heath from a copy sent to Dr Vaughan by the author. There is a frontispiece and three full-page illustrations, the latter probably by James Heath.
Notebook
An essay on William Blake, Illustrations of the book of Job, Sadler's Wells Ballet Books, No. 2, pp. 24-34; a description of copies of Blake's Jerusalem; and an article, 'The early recognition of malignant disease', in Sir Heneage Ogilvie, ed., The early recognition of disease (1949), pp. 97-102.
Notebook
Notebook, poems 1940s-1950s, 1940 - 1959 (circa)
Other rejected publications, 1951-1963
Papers relating to the special number on the birthday of Geoffrey Keynes (Spring 1972), 1971-1972
Folder 1 = correspondence with Ian Fletcher and typescript (photocopy) of his article 'The Ellis-Yeats-Blake manuscript cluster' Folders 2-3 = other correspondence, including with contributors Rupert Hart-Davis, William Lefanu, A. N. L. Munby, D. P. Piper, and Charles Ryskamp . Other correspondents include F. R. Collieson, Arnold Muirhead and John Sparrow Folder 4 = partial page proofs, layout of the issue, proofs of illustrations, and order form for the separate publication in book form.
photo of Chateau de Villers, 20 Sep 1960-20 Sep 1963 (circa, no date given)
enclosure with Add.8905/10/K/58
Photocopy of a handwritten note from Geoffrey Keynes listing unpublished poems in the 'Vigils' volume, 4 May 1976
Research correspondence, 1943-1944
Meynell's correspondents include Strickland Gibson, Holbrook Jackson, Geoffrey Keynes, Robert Leighton, and Beatrice Warde,
Ronald Coke-Steel to Sir G.L. Keynes, 12 Nov. 1959
Concerning the whereabouts of the miniature mentioned in Add.8532/2.
Samuel Johnson and Bishop Berkeley (Summer 1981), 1978-1981
Typescript, galley proof, and correspondence.
Siegfried Sassoon: Correspondence and Papers
Correspondence, poems and other papers. Sassoon often issued his poems privately in limited editions, and some of these were seen through the press by A.T. Bartholomew, and later by Geoffrey Keynes. Some of the manuscripts therefore include their correspondence about publication, and transcripts by Keynes.
Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'Vigils' (transcript by G. Keynes), 1934
Siegfried Sassoon's poems 'Emblems of Experience', 27 July 1951 (circa)
Sir Edmund Gosse: Review of The works of Sir Thomas Brown
The manuscript of an unfinished review of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, ed., The works of Sir Thomas Browne, vol. I. This was the last piece written by Gosse before his death.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, correspondence about the printing of Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'Rhymed Ruminations', 1939
Includes letters from Sassoon, Laurence Whistler, and publishers; with set of proofs of title page.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes: Correspondence with Frank Huntley
Sir Geoffrey Keynes: Details of his portrait of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1953
Keynes purchased a picture of Sir Nicholas Bacon in 1953, from the collection of the late Prince Duleep Singh. The picture now hangs in the Keynes Room at CUL. These notes were formerly attached to the back of the picture. [182-186] Keynes's notes on provenance of his picture, page of sale catalogue, photograph of it and National Portrait Gallery version.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes: 'Henry James in Cambridge'
First version of an essay concerning James' visit to Cambridge in 1909.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes: Notebooks
Drafts and fair copies of writings and reviews, mainly on William Blake, Jane Austen, and medical subjects.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes: 'Religio Bibliographici'
Religious bibliography.
Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes: Personal Papers and Correspondence
Speeches by Geoffrey Keynes and Francis Meynell at the opening of the Gainsborough's House exhibition, 1974
Audiocassette.
The compleat angler, by Isaac Walton, 1929
Letters from Meynell to the editor Geoffrey Keynes and to the Curwen Press; trial settings of the title-page; and proofs of the 6 copper engravings by Charles Sigrist (2 sets).
The complete writings of William Blake with all the variant readings (1957), 1956-1958
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