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John Middleton Murry Papers Edinburgh University Library Handlist to manuscripts: H62 John Middleton Murry papers. MS 2506-2518 Please note that only MS 2506 to 2510 are listed in detail. Detailed listing remains to be done for the contents of MS 2511 to MS 2515 and MS 2517 to MS 2518. Appended to this handlist is an earlier listing of the contents of MS 2506 to MS 2510. This listing gives references to George Lilley’s A Bibliography of John Middleton Murry 1889-1957 (London, 1974). Accession numbers for this collection include E87.68, E88.42, E89.43-44, E90.64, E91.01, E97.50. Further accession numbers are listed under MS 2515. MS 2506 .1 Review of An Anthology of Modern Bohemian Poetry, by P. Selver (London: Henry T. Drane, 1912). Ts. 2pp. .2 Francois Villon -Times Literary Supplement, 630, 69-70, 12 February 1914. Review of Francois Villon, sa vie et son temps, by Pierre Champion. Copy of TLS containing the review. .3 Untitled short story, pp 2-46. Ts. (The capture of Captain Ribnikov, Manchuria 1917?) .4 Art and Morality. Review of Aristotle on the Art of Poetry, translated by Ingram Bywater (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920). Corrected ts. 21pp. .5 Milton or Shakespeare? Review of Milton’s Prosody, by Robert Bridges, in Nation and Athenaeum, March 26, 1921. Ts, and carbon copy. 8pp. .6 Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy. Part appeared in the TLS, 1,006, 265-6, 28 April 1921. Ts. 15 pp. .7 Croce and History. Review of Theory and history of historiography, translated from the Italian of Benedetto Croce by Douglas Ainslie, in Nation and Athenaeum, XXIX, 18, 653-4, 30 July 1921. Ts and copy. 6pp. .8 Shakespeare and Florio. Review of Giovanni Florio, by Longworth Chambrun, and Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, by Sir George Greenwood, in Nation and Athenaeum XXIX, 21, 741-2, 20 August 1921. Ts and copy. 7pp. .9a Wordsworth and Meredith. Review of Three studies in Shelley, and an essay on nature in Wordsworth and Meredith, by Archibald T. Strong, in Nation and Athenaeum XXX, 2, 56-7, 8 October 1921. Ts and copy. 7pp. .9b Croce and criticism. Review of The Essentials of aesthetic, by Benedetto Croce. November 26 1921. .10 Sainte-Beuve the Romantic. Review of Le Romancier du Grande Condé, by Ernest Seillière, and Sainte-Beuve, agent, juge et complice de l’evolution romantique, by Ernest Sellière. In Nation and Athenaeum XXX, 14, 532, 31 December 1921. Ts and copy. 8pp. .11 27 (?) poems, mainly 1922 -23 (?). Some possibly by Katherine Mansfield? (See ink notes “Written just after her illness in 1923”.) Ts. 33pp. .12 The Poets Laureate. Review of The Laureateship: a study of the office of Poet Laureate in England, by E.K. Broadus. In Nation and Athenaeum XXX, 19, 694-5, 4 February 1922. Carbon ts. 7pp. .13 Samuel Butler and “The Odyssey”. Review of The Authoress of ‘The Odyssey’, by Samuel Butler, and ‘The Odyssey’ rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler. In Nation and Athenaeum XXXI, 7, 226-7, 13 May 1922. Ts and carbon. 7pp. .14 Notes on the Text of Coriolanus. Possibly for Coriolanus, TLS, 1,071, 481-2, 27 July 1922. Ts and carbon. 8pp. (Carbon lacking top of page 8). .15 Was Boswell a Fool? Review of Young Boswell, by Chancey Brewster Tinker. In Nation and Athenaeum XXXII, 1, 18-19, 7 October 1922. Ts and carbon. 6pp. .16 London Group. A foreword [to the exhibition by the London Group of Artists]. No date. Printed. 1p. .17 An Old Problem. Review of A Sheaf of Papers, by Oliver Elton, in Nation and Athenaeum XXXII, 19, 722-3, 10 February 1923. Carbon ts. 6pp. .18 The Etchings of Walter Sickert. In Print Collectors’ Quarterly, 10, pp.31-60 Proof sheets, with one correction and initialled J.M.M. 18pp (paginated 27 to 45). .19 Our Literary Historian. Review of The collected essays and papers of George Saintsbury, 1875-1920. In the TLS, 22 November 1923. Carbon ts. 6pp. .20 Article on Byron (possibly the centenary article in Algemeen handelsblad, 12 April 1924, p.13). Carbon ts, with some mss corrections. 3pp. .21 “The Religion of a Journalist”. Ms. 7pp. .22 On Poets and Christ and Asylums. Ts with ms corrections. 4pp. .23a Poetry. Carbon ts. 16pp. .23b Matthew Arnold. Dated 29 November 1923 but crossed out. Carbon ts with corrections. .24 The Tragic Plays of Shakespeare and our Modern Spiritual Problems. VI: Antony and Cleopatra. Signed Dr S. A. Mellor, 22 February 1925. Carbon ts. 9pp. .25 Literary criticism. Carbon ts. 6pp. .26a Keats’ Love. Carbon ts. with corrections, preceded by 1p. of ms. 28pp. Ms on verso of last page. .26b Dying into life. (On Keats.) Carbon ts, corrected and ms. 6pp. .26c (On Keats). Carbon ts, corrected, preceded by 3pp of mss. 27pp. .27 What May a Man Believe? Six lectures for the Huxley Centenary Sermon. Date of final lecture 12 July 1925. Ts. 6 bundles. 51pp. .28 Review of Modern Poetry, by H.P. Collins (Cape, 1925). Ts. 1p. .29 The Classical Revival. Adelphi III, 9, 585-95, February 1926, & Adelphi III, 10, 648-53, March 1926. Ts. with pencilled comments. [1] + 19pp. .30 The Romantic Fallacy. (On Tolstoy’s What is Art?). 2 sets of galley proofs (one corrected) of article for New Criterion, 3, 521-37, June 1926. .31 Reason and Criticism. Review of Reason and Romanticism, by Herbert Read. For the TLS, 1,275, 453-4, 8 July 1926. Ts, with some ms corrections, dated 19 May. 13pp. .32 Review of Studies green and gray, by Henry Newbolt. For the TLS, 1,287, 649, 30 September 1926. Corretced ts. 6pp. .33 Index to The Life of Jesus. Dated 1926 in pencil. 8pp. .34 Towards a synthesis. In Monthly Criterion, 3, 294-313, June 1927. Corrected galley proofs. .35 The “Common-sense” of Jesus, In St. Martin’s Review, 14 July 1927. Corrected ts and carbon ts. 6pp. .36 Review of Marcel Proust: his life and work, by Leon Pierre-Quirt. In TLS 1332, 544, 11 August 1927. Carbon ts. 9pp. .37a Poetry and Christianity. Address to the summer school of the Society of Friends at Jordans Meeting House, June 1927. Published as The Parables of Jesus, New Adelphi, 2, 1, 46-58, September 1927. Carbon ts. 28pp. .37b Poetry and Christianity. Address to the summer school of the Society of Friends at Jordans Meeting House, June 1927. Ts with ms corrections and additions. pp 1-2, 8-9. 22-28 only. .37c Poetry and Christianity. Notes. Ts. 6pp. .38 Review of Outspoken Essays by W.R. Inge. Published as part of “Spiritual vision” in New Adelphi I, 1, 76-81, September 1927. Carbon ts. 6pp. .39 General Smuts and the Future. Probably a review of Holism and Evolution, by J.C. Smuts, part of the review Spiritual Vision (see above). Ts with one correction. 3pp. .40 Review of Man and the Supernatural, by Evelyn Underhill. Published as “The Mystic Monist and the religious dualist” in the Spectator 8 October 1927. Carbon ts. 4pp. .41 Review of Platonism and the spiritual life, by George Santayana, Monthly Criterion, November 1937. Galley proofs. 2 copies. 2pp. .42 Review of The Reveries of a solitary, by Jean Jacques Rousseau, translated by John Gould Fletcher, Monthly Criterion, January 1928. Galley proofs. 2pp. .43 Art and Society. In Arts (New York) XIV, 2, 101-5, August 1928. Ts. 12pp. .44 Review of The Shakespeare mystery, by George Connes; Shakespeare, actor-poet, by Clara Longworth de Chambrin; The Taming of the shrew, edited by J Dover Wilson; etc. In the Monthly Criterion VIII, 30, 134-9, September 1928. Galley proofs. 2pp. .45 Pure Poetry. Review of Prayer and poetry, by Henri Bremond, translated by Algar Thorold. In TLS 1,395, 765-6, 25 October 1928. Carbon ts. 17pp. .46 Nathaniel Wanley. Review of The Poems of Nathaniel Wanley, edited by L.C. Martin. In TLS 1,398, 853, 15 November 1928. Ts. 4pp. .47 Three ms notebooks, entitled “Shakespeare Vol. 1 1926”, “Shakespeare Vol. II 1928” and “Shakespeare Vol. III”. Comprising reading notes on Shakespeare’s plays & poems. Vol. 1 contains five pages of loosely inserted notes and vol II is prefaced, “These notes: covering the early plays are valuable & good. J.M.M. Aug 1933”. .48 Ms notebook, entitled, “Shakespeare. Notes. Merchant of Venice”. Entries dated 1924 and 1926. Reading notes. .49 Ms notebook on Shakespeare’s sonnets, dated 29 September 1928 on front flyleaf. Reading notes plus 6pp. of loosely inserted notes. .50 Ms notebook. “Shakespeare Notes/words & Metaphors/Images”. .51 Ms notebook, signed on inside cover “J. Middleton Murry The Athenaeum”. Contains ten fols of notes on Shakespeare, the “Last act of Tig’s play”, other fragments, poems, quotations etc. Three pp. loosely inserted, ms, on self discovery (1923?). .52 Ms notebook. 2 fols of notes on I. A. Richards & Shakespeare. .53 The True and the False in Reincarnation. No date, but ms address on title page, “1a The Gables Hampstead, N.W.3” was where J.M.M. was resident July - September 1927. Ts 1+5 pp. .54 The Passing of the “Daily Mail”. No date. Signed Henry King, J.M.M.’s pseudonym in the Athenaeum and the Adelphi, c.1926. Ts, corrected in ms. 9pp. .55 What is the Tradition? Prose notes on Romanticism. c.1924-7, as this was the period in which J.M.M. was engaged in the Classicism v Romanticism debate with T.S.Eliot. Ts, with ms corrections. 10pp. .56 Poetry and Philosophy. Refers to the debate with T.S.Eliot. Carbon ts, with ms corrections.
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