Graham Greene Papers 1807-1999 (bulk 1940-1989) MS.1995.003 hdl.handle.net/2345/7753 Archives and Manuscripts Department John J. Burns Library Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill 02467 library.bc.edu/burns/contact URL: http://www.bc.edu/burns Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 4 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Biographical Note .......................................................................................................................................... 6 Scope and Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 7 Arrangement ................................................................................................................................................... 8 Collection Inventory ..................................................................................................................................... 10 I: Art, artifacts, and ephemera .................................................................................................................. 10 II: Auctions and manuscript sales ............................................................................................................. 10 III: Correspondence ................................................................................................................................... 11 IV: Legal records ....................................................................................................................................... 68 V: Literary works ...................................................................................................................................... 68 VI: Loose material removed from books .................................................................................................. 87 VII: Memberships and honors ................................................................................................................ 101 VIII: Photographs .................................................................................................................................... 102 IX: Subject files ....................................................................................................................................... 105 X: Travel .................................................................................................................................................. 108 XI: Writings by others ............................................................................................................................ 110 Graham Greene Papers MS.1995.003 - Page 2 - Summary Information Creator: Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 Title: Graham Greene papers Collection Identifier: MS.1995.003 Date [inclusive]: 1807-1999 Date [bulk]: 1940-1989 Physical Description 69.5 Linear Feet (104 boxes) Language of the Materials in this collection are primarily in English, with small Material: amounts of Czech, French, German, Polish, Spanish, and possibly Chinese, Kikuyu, Swahili, and Vietnamese. Abstract: The Graham Greene papers document the life and work of Greene, including his childhood and family, as well as his career as a journalist and writer. The collection is global, with material from and concerning a variety of countries. Topics include literary culture, film history, mid-to-late twentieth century world history, wars, revolutions, counterintelligence, communism, and Catholicism. The collection consists of art, artifacts, correspondence, ephemera, legal records, literary manuscripts, photographs, scrapbooks, and subject files. Preferred Citation Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Graham Greene papers, MS.1995.003, John J. Burns Library, Boston College. Graham Greene Papers MS.1995.003 - Page 3 - Administrative Information Publication Information Processed by Annalisa Moretti and Xaviera Flores in February 2016. This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace. Restrictions on access Collection is open for research; some folders are closed for privacy or condition concerns. Audiovisual materials may not be immediately available due to formatting issues. End dates for restrictions are indicated at the folder-level. Provenance The bulk of the collection was purchased in 1995 from Bloomsbury Book Auctions. The remainder is a compilation of gifts from Molly Walker (1995), Tennant C. Wright (1995), Thomas McCoog (1997), Roger Watkins (1999), Derek Parker (2011), and Dermot Keogh (2012), as well as purchases from Bertram Rota (1996), Gloucester Road Bookshop (1996), Bloomsbury Books Auctions (1999, 2004), and Richard Kelly (2013). Processing Information The Graham Greene papers consists of acquisitions made by the John J. Burns Library over the course of two decades. Each was individually described and made available to researchers for most of that time. In 2015, the collections were closed and reprocessed into a single collection. Clippings have been replaced with preservation photocopies; original clippings have been retained, but are restricted due to fragility. Restrictions on use These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials. Graham Greene Papers MS.1995.003 - Page 4 - Related Materials Related Materials At Boston College: Gerald C. Walling - Graham Greene collection, MS.1993.007, John J. Burns Library, Boston College. Philip Caraman, S. J., papers, MS.1998.030, John J. Burns Library, Boston College. At other repositories: Graham Greene collection, 1924-1998, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Graham Greene papers, Georgetown University Manuscripts, Georgetown University Special Collections Research Center. Separated Materials The Burns Library also holds Graham Greene's personal library, which is described separately in the Library Catalog under the local collection name "Greene's Library." These books may be requested and used in the Burns Library Reading Room. Graham Greene Papers MS.1995.003 - Page 5 - Biographical Note Graham Greene was born in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire on October 2, 1904, to Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene. Greene's father was the headmaster of Berkhamstead School, where Greene was an unhappy pupil for sixteen years. When Greene was thirteen, his parents moved him from the headmaster's residence to room with the boarding students, where he was bullied. Following several suicide attempts, he attempted to run away, at which point his parents removed him from the school for six months. He then lived in London under the care of Kenneth Richmond, an amateur psychoanalyst inspired by Carl Jung. Greene finished his education at Berkamstead and attended Balliol College at Oxford, where he studied history and wrote poetry for the Weekly Westminster Gazette and the student magazine Oxford Outlook. In his last year at university, Greene published a poorly-received collection of poetry and abandoned his ambitions to become a poet. After leaving Oxford, Greene became a journalist and, in 1926, worked as a subeditor at The Times. During the same year, Greene converted to Roman Catholicism. In 1927, he married the Catholic Vivien Dayrell-Browning. The couple lived in London and had two children, Lucy Caroline (b. 1933) and Francis Hugh (b. 1936). In 1929, Greene wrote and published The Man Within, a critical and commercial success that enabled him to leave his job at The Times. Greene's next two novels were less successful; however, Stamboul Train was written to have popular appeal and draw a wide readership. Greene labelled it the first of his "entertainments"; a term he used for work sharing many characteristics with popular thriller fiction, but which he felt more deeply explored the moral complexities of their situations and characters. He later abandoned the term. Greene was an avid cinemagoer, first writing on film at Oxford, where he reviewed film for Oxford Outlook. During the 1930s, he reviewed over four hundred films for The Spectator. His passion for the cinema led him to work as a screenwriter for producer and director Alexander Korda during the 1940s. Greene's screenwriting method was to produce a very detailed treatment of the narrative before developing the screenplay, which he called a "film story." Some of these treatments were themselves published as novels, including The Third Man. The narrative techniques of cinema, such as rapid cutting between scenes, became a part of Greene's stylistic repertoire, not only as a screenwriter, but as a novelist, too. When World War II broke out, Greene began working at the Ministry of Information commissioning and editing war propaganda, while also serving as an air raid warden at night. Greene moved to the Secret Intelligence Service in 1941,