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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.

Scope and Contents An article, 'Jane Austen', in British book news, National Book League, 76 (1946), pp. 451-453; descriptions of William Blake's illuminated books, Songs of innocence and experience, Poetical sketches and Urizen; a copy of a letter to 'C.A. Tulk' on Blake's poems; notes on medical and surgical cases; an introduction to Thornton's Great medical book collectors; a copy of 'The history of blood transfusion', in Blood transfusion (1949), pp. 3-40; (running from the back of the notebook) medical...

Scope and Contents Notebook with 'Vigils' on spine, marked by Sassoon as 'a dummy specimen for the engraved Vigils which I got from G.K' [Geoffrey Keynes]. Contains fair copies and revised transcriptions of Sassoon's poems from 1945-1954, with a few earlier items revised in this period. Contents: Quotation by H. Vaughan: /1r. Note by Sassoon, 'These later poems are an attempt to continue my spiritual autobiography - alas, by an elderly moralist!': /2v. Poems: - 'A Memoirist', fair copy: /3v. - 'A Prayer to...

Scope and Contents Correspondence. Correspondents include A. J. Adams, Germaine Berder, Cecil Binney, J. B. Blackley, W. Blackshaw, Mrs G. M. Bloom, P. A. Buckingham, L. R. Burrows, John Carr, Bradford Cook, P. J. Croft, Evelyn Croft-Whynsted, Basil Drennan, Constantine Fitzgibbon, Patrick Hanley, Richard Hare, Margaret Harrington, A. W. Elsmere Harris, Marjorie Erskine Honore, Phyllis Hornsby, Herbert Howarth, Mrs L. S. Ivens, Margaret Calkin James, Arnrid Johnston, Barrington Kaye, Rockwell Kent, Geoffrey...

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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.

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enclosure with Add.8905/10/K/58

Scope and Contents From the Series: Volume containing poems for 'Vigils' and some additional poems not published there. Poems are neatly written and illustrated with watercolour abstract and pictorial designs. Marked 'Geoffrey Keynes April 1976'. Contents: Illustrated title page: /1r. Untitled poems, first lines as follows: - 'The weariness of life that has no will': /2r. - 'Birds in the world were waking': /3r. - 'Atlas who bore the world upon his back'; with illustration of Atlas: /4r. - 'Chord – very softly sounded –...

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Meynell's correspondents include Strickland Gibson, Holbrook Jackson, Geoffrey Keynes, Robert Leighton, and Beatrice Warde,

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Concerning the whereabouts of the miniature mentioned in Add.8532/2.

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Typescript, galley proof, and correspondence.

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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.

Scope and Contents Volume of carefully transcribed poems; fair copies with later emendations: titles excised or notes added in pencil (corrections or notes on spacing, font, etc.). Contents: - Title page, 'Vigils. Twenty Poems by SS', 'Authenticated for engraving 17.9.33': /1r. - 'Vigils': /2r. - untitled, begins 'The multitudinous dead, like books unread': /3r. - 'The Heart's Paradise' (title excised): /4r. - 'War Experience': /5r. - 'December Stillness': /6r. - untiled, begins 'Break silence. You have...

Scope and Contents Printer's copy in the hand of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, with note that nine poems in this transcript were not printed. The poems are numbered (non-sequentially). Contents: - title page: /1r. - table of contents, with note on typesetting: /1v. - 'A Prayer to Time': /2r. - 'Travelling Library': /2v. - 'Ultimate Values': /3r. - 'Solitudes at Sixty': /4r. - 'Confederacy with Oblivion', marked 'omit': /5r. - 'On Hearing Some Sonatas', marked 'omit': /6r-7r. - 'A Fallodon Memory': /8r-9r. - 'A Glimpse...

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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.

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Includes letters from Sassoon, Laurence Whistler, and publishers; with set of proofs of title page.

Scope and Contents 71 letters, aerogrammes and cards from Keynes to Huntley, 24 Aug. 1949 - 2 July 1982 (MSS Add.9670/1-71). The letters touch on many scholarly, literary and social subjects, and the correspondents' interest in Sir Thomas Browne is well represented. The majority of the letters were written from Lammas House, Brinkley, Newmarket, with others from various addresses in London and elsewhere. MS Add.9670/10 is written on a letter to Keynes from R. W. David, manager of the Cambridge University...

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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.

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First version of an essay concerning James' visit to Cambridge in 1909.

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Drafts and fair copies of writings and reviews, mainly on William Blake, Jane Austen, and medical subjects.

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Religious bibliography.

Scope and Contents Box 1: Typescripts of Gates ('No Life Is Long Enough'). Box 2: Typescripts of Gates; reviews of Gates; letters to Keynes prompted by its publication. Box 3: Original copies of 'The Enthusiast'; letters from Keynes to his parents, written from Rugby; Rugby School handbooks. Boxes 4-6: Envelopes containing letters to Keynes. Box 7: Papers concerning Eric Gill; unsorted letters, c. 1938-1940. Box 8: Bound volume of letters from Keynes to A.T. Bartholomew, 1906-1920, including many written from...

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Audiocassette.

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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).

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains papers of the Nonesuch Press from its beginning in 1923 until after its last publication (not counting John Dreyfus's History of the Nonesuch Press, 1981) in 1968. Meynell's files were roughly sorted into 'Pre-war Nonesuch', 'Macy's Nonesuch' (George Macy owned the business 1936-51), and 'Post-war Nonesuch'. This series retains the basic chronological scheme, except for subseries D42 and 43 at the end which keep general correspondence and correspondence about permissions...

Scope and Contents Notebook comprising draft poems for 'The Tasking' and 'Unwonted Themes' at one end, and notes for 'Meredith' from the other. The notebook also includes an almost continuous run of diary entries for 5 Feb. 1953 - 4 Apr. 1954. While the diary entries begin from the poetry end, many share pages with the Meredith notes. Contents: 'The Tasking. Unwonted Themes': /1r-29v & 76r. Contains the following draft poems and related notes: - Title page: /1r. - 'The Abstractionist': /1v. - Lists...