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Before He Died, Galsworthy Had Selected Two Successive Literary Representatives (The Maximum Allowable by Law): His Wife, Ada, and His Nephew, Rudolf Sauter Notes The principal unpublished sources are designated in the notes as either Evans or Benedik;:.. Before he died, Galsworthy had selected two successive literary representatives (the maximum allowable by law): his wife, Ada, and his nephew, Rudolf Sauter. Most material remained with Ada while she lived, although some of it was lost in the bombing of a shed adjacent to her house in Torquay during the Second World War, some was inadvertently sold, and some apparently deliberately destroyed. After she died, in 1956, Rudolf Sauter assembled the remaining material more systematically. In 1959, he signed an agreement with the University of Birmingham through Professor Allardyce Nicoll, establishing a Galsworthy Memorial Collection in the rare book room of the University's library. This and a special room devoted to portraits and exhibits were officially opened in July 1962. Ownership, however, was still held by the Galsworthy Trust, the five surviving nephews and nieces in equal shares, and the material was granted to the University of Birmingham on a twenty-year loan to expire on 1 January 1980. Rudolf Sauter died in June 1977. After his death, the other members of the trust decided to sell this material in a single lot at auction at Sotheby's on 24 July 1979. This is now owned by Forbes Magazine, and has, since 1982, been situated in the Forbes Building on 60 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. In the notes that follow, reference to this material, which I read at Birmingham between 1973 and 1975, is indicated by Evans, often succeeded by a catalogue designation QG, followed by a number) from the Catalogue of the Galsworthy Collection compiled by D. W. Evans in 1967. A good deal of other, personal Galsworthy material, letters of particular importance, notebooks and some diaries, remained in Rudolf Sauter's personal possession. This was not under the control of the Galsworthy Trust and was left directly to the University of Birmingham as a bequest under the terms of his will. This material, some of which I saw at his home while Rudolf Sauter was alive and the rest of which I read at the University of Birmingham in 1979 and 1981, remains at Birmingham. Reference to this is indicated by Benedikz, often followed by a number or a series of numbers, using the catalogue called The Galsworthy Papers: The Bequest of R. H. Sauter, compiled by B. S. Benedikz in 1978. Permission to quote from copyright-material was granted by Rudolf Sauter in 1975. All illustrations are used by permission of the University ofBirmingham. Other library sources and those of public collections used in the notes are abbreviated as follows: Bod. Bodleian Library, Oxford, containing the Gilbert Murray Papers. 564 Notes 565 Rought. Houghton Library, Harvard, containing correspondences with J. B. Pinker, Harley Granville Barker, William Rothenstein and others. Hunt. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. King. King's College Library, Cambridge. NPRO Norwich Public Records Office, containing Galsworthy/Mottram correspondence. PRO Public Records Office, London. Scrib. Scribner Archives, Princeton University Library, contammg a complete file of correspondence with various members of the Scribner family as well as publishing and financial records. Soc. Auth. Society of Authors' Archive, London. Beginning in 1923, Heinemann published a complete edition, finally totalling thirty volumes, of all Galsworthy's work, called the Manaton Edition. In America, to which the plates were shipped, this was called the Devon Edition and published by Scribner's. Galsworthy wrote prefaces for all the volumes that had originally been published before 1923. Citations for these prefaces are indicated by Manaton, since they are generally known as the Manaton prefaces, even though my pagination is drawn from the Devon Edition (which should be identical to that of the Manaton Edition). Other citations from Galsworthy's published writings are indicated by JG, followed by appropriate abbreviations listed roughly in the order of original publication: FFW From the Four Winds (London: Unwin, 1897). 1 Jocelyn (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976). VR Villa Rubein and Other Stories, Devon Edition, vol. rv (New York: Scribner's, 1926). IP The Island Pharisees, Devon Edition, vol. v (New York: Scribner's, 1926). FS The Forsyte Saga (London: Heinemann, 1922, reprt. 1963), containing The Man of Properry, In Chancery, Awakening and To Let. MP The Man of Properry (see above). IC In Chancery (see above). A Awakening (see above). TL To Let (see above). Plays Complete Plays, Compact Edition (New York: Scribner's, 1929). IT The Inn ofTranquilliry (New York: Scribner's, 1912). CH The Country House, in Worshipful Sociery (New York: Scribner's, 1932), also containing Fratemiry and The Patrician. F Fratemiry (see above). p The Patrician (see above). c A Commentary (New York: Scribner's, 1916). MSD Moods, Songs, and Doggerels (New York: Scribner's, 1912). s A Sheaf(London: Heinemann, 1916). DF The Dark Flower, in Three Novels of Love (New York: Scribner's, 1933), also containing Beyond and Saint's Progress. B Beyond (see above). SP Saint's Progress (see above). 566 Notes LM The Little Man and Other Satires (London: Heinemann, 1927). Fre. The Freelands (New York: Scribner's, 1915). FT Five Tales (New York: Scribner's, 1918). BS The Burning Spear: Being the Experiences of Mr john Lavender in Time of War (New York: Scribner's, 1923). AS Another Sheaf (London: Heinemann, 1919). AA Addresses in America (London: Heinemann, 1919). OE On Expression (London: English Association Pamphlet no. 59, July 1924). Car. Caravan (London: Heinemann, 1925). CS Castles in Spain (&Other Screeds) (London: Heinemann, 1927). MC A Modem Comeqy (London: Heinemann, 1929, rept. 1962), containing The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon and Swan Song. WM The White Monkey (see above). SS The Silver Spoon (see above). SwS Swan Song (see above). OFC On Forsyte 'Change (New York: Scribner's, 1930). FPO Forsytes, Penqyces, and Others (London: Heinemann, 1935). EC End of the Chapter (London: Heinemann, 1935, rept. 1960), containing Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness and Over the River. MW Maid in Waiting (see above). FW Flowering Wilderness (see above). OR Over the River (see above). The following initials stand for members of Galsworthy's family, close friends, and other sources mentioned frequently in the notes as writers or recipients ofletters and other statements. Where the letter or interview is given no object, only the initialled subject, "letter" or "interview", and date, I was the recipient of the information or opinion. These are arranged alphabetically by last name: WA William Archer JMB Sir James M. Barrie MB Max Beerbohm AB Arnold Bennett AC Andre Chevrillon JC Joseph Conrad DE Dwye Evans FMF Ford Madox Ford AG Ada Galsworthy BBG Blanche Bartleet Galsworthy JG John Gals worthy JG, Sr John Galsworthy, Sr HG Hubert Galsworthy HJG Hubert John Galsworthy MG Muriel Galsworthy DG David Garnett EG Edward Garnett Notes 567 HGB Harley Granville Barker TH Thomas Hardy WWH William H. Hudson DI Dorothy Easton Ivens. These citations are often followed by U}SR and a page number, referring to her unpublished manuscript, written over a number of years and read in 1975, entitled Uncle jack: A Sketch of a Relationship. RI Ralph Ivens EVL E. V. Lucas FL Frank Lucas HVM H. Vincent Marrot HWM H. W. Massingham MM Margaret Morris FM Fanny (MrsJames) Mottram RHM Ralph Hale Mottram GM Sir Gilbert Murray HWN Henry W. Nevinson MP Maxwell Perkins WLP William Lyon Phelps JBP James B. Pinker MER Mabel Edith Galsworthy Reynolds LS Lilian Galsworthy Sauter RHS Rudolf Helmut Sauter cs Charles Scribner CS,Jr Charles Scribner, Jr GBS George Bernard Shaw ST Dame Sybil Thorndike HW Hugh Walpole MW Marjorie Watts HGW Herbert George Wells RW Dame Rebecca West The following abbreviations designate secondary sources cited with some frequency in the notes. They are arranged in alphabetical order by the author's last name: Baines Jocelyn Baines, joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960). D. Barker Dudley Barker, The Man of Principle: A View ofJohn Galsworthy (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1963). AB,Journ. The journal of Arnold Bennett, 1896--1928, ed. Newman Flower (New York: Viking, 1933). JeConrad Jessie Conrad, Joseph Conrad and his Circle (London: J arrolds, 1935). }C, Last Joseph Conrad, Last Essays, ed. Richard Curle (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1926). Dean Basil Dean, Seven Ages: An Autobiography, 1888-1927 (London: Hutchinson, 1970). 568 Notes Dupre Catherine Dupre, john Galsworthy (London: Collins, 1976). FMF, Grit. Ford Madox Ford, The Critical Attitude (London: Duckworth, 1911). This was published under Ford Madox Hueffer, as Ford had not yet changed his name. FMF, Night. Ford Madox Ford, It was the Nightingale (Philadelphia and London:]. B. Lippincott, 1933). FMF, Port. Ford Madox Ford, Portraits from Life (New York and Boston: Houghton Miffiin, 1937). DC, Gold. David Garnett, The Golden Echo, vol. r of Autobiography (London: Chatto & Windus, 1953). DC, Great David Garnett, Great Friends: Portraits of Seventeen Writers (New York: Atheneum, 1980). EG, Letters Edward Garnett (ed.), Letters from John Galsworthy, 1900-1932 (London: Jonathan Cape; New York: Scribner's, 1934). Hart-Davies Rupert Hart-Davies, Hugh Walpole (London: Macmillan, 1952). Havighurst Alfred F. Havighurst, Radicaljournalist: H. W. Massingham, 1860- 1924 (Cambridge University Press, 1974). Karl Frederick R. Karl, Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979). Laski Harold Laski, in Haimes-Laski Letters, 1916-1935 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953). Marrot H. V. Marrot, The Life and Letters ofJohn Galsworthy (London: Heinemann, 1935; New York: Scribner's, 1936). Mizener Arthur Mizener, The Saddest Story: A Biography of Ford Madox Ford (London: The Bodley Head, 1971). Morris Margaret Morris, My Galsworthy Story (London: Peter Owen, 1967). Mottram R. H. Mottram, For Some We Loved: An Intimate Portrait of Ada andjohn Galsworthy (London: Hutchinson, 1956).
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