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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. 8pp.

.57 Untitled fragment, c1928. “About two years ago I took my courage in my hands & wrote for the satisfaction of my soul a life of Jesus.” Ms. 3pp.

MS 2507

.1 Autograph manuscript of God, 1929. 226pp. With two contracts: one with Jonathan Cape, dated 3 January 1929; and one with Harper, dated 18 January 1929. Also original wrapper.

.2 Poetry and Religion, New Adelphi II, 4, 318-29, June 1929. Ts. 20pp..

.3 The Creation of Conscience. New Adelphi III, 2, 107-19, December 1930. Ts. 16pp. Carbon ts (headed Pascal & Newman). 18pp. Printed text, mounted on sheets. 13pp.

.4 Three bundles of notes on Keats. One bundle ts, one bundle carbon ts, one bundle ms. With original folder.

.5 Part of a work on Keats. Ts, with ms corrections, paginated 7-38.

.6 Autograph manuscript of The Necesity of Communism, 1931. c130pp. With two contracts: one with Jonathan Cape, dated 13 November 1931; and one with Thomas Seltzer, dated 8 June 1933. Also letter on Adelphi notepaper from Geoffrey Sainsbury to Murry, dated 14 January 1932.

MS 2508

.1 A Lecture to the Modern Churchmen’s Union. No date, but c1930. Ms. 26pp. Signed “J. Middleton Murry, South Acre, Yately,” at which address he was resident from Sept. 1929-December 1931.

.2 Review of The Proving of Psyche, by Hugh L’Anson Faussett, in Criterion IX, XXXV, 349-53, January 1930. Galley proofs. 2pp. 2 copies.

.3a The Detachment of Naturalism. This appeared in Criterion IX, XXXVII, 642-60, July 1930. Ms. 28pp.

.3b The Detachment of Naturalism. This appeared in Criterion IX, XXXVII, 642-60, July 1930. Proofs with ms corrections. 17pp.

.4 Essays On Modern Religion. Given at the Mary Ward Settlement, 1929, and published in the Adelphi 1930-31. 6 Lectures given, published in 7 instalments. 7 bundles of lectures in ms, with one bundle of the plan in ms: there are three versions of lecture 1. 10 bundles of tss (including two versions of lecture 3), and one set of proofs. (The relationship between all these parts needs further investigation.)

.5 Defence of Possessions. Appeared in Adelphi 3, 1, 8-19, October 1931. Ts. 13pp.

.6 A Digression. Appeared in Adelphi 3, 2, 90-7, November 1931. Ts. 8pp.

.7 Towards a Marxian Revolution. Appeared in Adelphi 3, 3, 138-45, December 1931. Ts (and carbon copy). 8pp.

.8 Lecture on Blake. No date. JMM lectured on Blake at Liverpool University in February 1932. Ms, heavily corrected. [1] + 28pp.

.9 William Blake and Revolution. Appeared in Adelphi 4, 2, 536-43, May 1932. Ts. (and carbon copy). 8pp.

.10 Communism and the Universities. Appeared in Oxford Outlook XII, 79-88, May 1932. Ms. 10pp.

.11 Pacifism and Socialism. Appeared in Adelphi 4, 3, 603-9, June 1932. Ms. 9pp.

.12 The Return to fundamentals: Marx and Morris. (1). Appeared in the Adelphi 5, 1, 19-29, October 1932. Ts (and carbon copy) 12pp.

.13 Essay on Blake, probably The Religion of William Blake which appeared in the Aryan Path III, II, 738-44, November 1932. Ts. 26pp.

.14 Essay on Blake’s “Visions of the Daughters of Albion” . Probably the introductory note to the facsimile edition of 1932. Ts with ms corrections. 24pp.

.15a Memorandum on organisation of the new I.L.P. Ts, with some ms corrections. 12pp.

.15b Memorandum on organisation of the new I.L.P. Also, Memorandum of comments. Ts with some ms corrections. 21pp. Late 1932?

.16 Untitled essay on the relationship between Christianity and Communism. Ms. 7pp. c.1932/3.

.17 Karl Marx’s Philosophy. Ms. 7pp.

.18 The Doctrine of Will in Shakespeare. Appeared in the Aryan Path IV, 7, 479-83, July 1933. Ms. 8pp.

.19 Marxism and Christianity. Appeared in New Britain II, 27:9, 22 November, 1933. Ts. Page 1 only.

.20 Politics, economics and freedom. Appeared in Adelphi 7,5, 328-41, February 1934. (Originally a lecture given in Manchester, November 1933.) Ms. 22pp.

.21a-c The Free Man according to Marxian philosophy. Appeared in Aryan Path V, 5, 291-5, May 1934. Reprinted in Adelphi 8,4, 235-40, July 1934. Ms, ts, and ts carbon. 9pp, 8pp, 8pp.

.22 Keats and Shelley. The Wanderer, 7, 97-109, June 1934. Printed, with ms corrections.

.23 William Morris. Appeared in Adelphi 8, 3, 151-71, June 1934. Also published in The Great Victorians, ed H. J. & Hugh Massingham, 1932, and with alterations in Heaven and Earth, 1938, Ts. 18pp.

.24a/b Copies of The Wanderer, for July and August 1934, with ms corrections by Murry on article on Thomas Hardy.

.25 Citizen Rousseau. Appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, 1,703, 625-6, 20 September 1934. A review of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Moralist, by Charles William Hendel, Rousseau and the modern state, by Alfred Lobban, and The Meaning of Rousseau, by Ernest Hunter Wright. Ts. Page 1 only.

.26 Marx and Rousseau. Appeared as Rousseau and Marx in the Adelphi 9, 1, 35-47, October 1934 and Adelphi, 9, 2, 98-107, November 1934. Introductory lecture given at Adelphi summer school, Sept 1, 1934. Ts. 33pp.

.27 Draft of speech to I.S.P. convention. Appeared in Adelphi 9, 2, 65-8, November 1934. Corrected ts. 8pp.

.28 Dostoevsky and Russia. Appeared in Adelphi 9,3, 155-60, December 1934. A review of Dostoevsky, by Nicholas Berdayev. Carbon ts. 9pp.

.29 Taking bearings. c.1934: begins “Since my resignation from the I.L.P. ...” and 1934 was the year in which he resigned from the I.L.P. Ms. 13pp.

.30 Jesus: Prophet of to-day. Lecture given in Buffalo City, 2 February 1935. Ms. 24pp.

.31 The Two Coleridges. Review of Coleridge and S.T.C., by Stephen Potter. Appeared in the TLS 1,740, 361, 6 June, 1935. Carbon ts. 4pp.

.32a Community (i.e. the classless society). Ms. 15pp (not continuous - several drafts?).

.32b Community (i.e. the classless society). Ts, corrected. 30pp (last two pages a different draft?).

.33a Russia and the west. Appeared in Adelphi II, 3, 129-45, December 1935. Text of a lecture written for an American audience. Ts. 29pp.

.33b Russia and the west. Appeared in Adelphi II, 3, 129-45, December 1935. Text of a lecture written for an American audience. Ts carbon of MS 2508.33a, with 7pp of ms additions at the front, ms corrections throughout, and one ms page at the end.

.34 Revolution. Deals with I.L.P., early 1930s. Ms. 3pp.

.35 The significance of the cross. Bears the address “The Old Rectory, Larling nr Norwich” at which J.M.M. was resident December 1931 - January 1937. Carbon ts. 13pp. (Also numbered in pencil: 156-167.)

.36 Letter on Mr Joad & Christianity. Carbon ts., with ms corrections. 4pp (page 1 torn, and lacks right-hand edge of text).

.37 Poetry & Xtianity: Religion & Romantic Poetry. Lecture at Minnesota (J. M. M. lectured in Minnesota, March 1936). Ts and ms: p.1 in ms, the rest in ts, corrected. Lacks pp 2,8-9.

MS 2509

.1a Jesus - Spinoza - Marx. Lecture at Kenyon College. Ms. 13pp (text preceded by 3 pages of notes).

.1b Jesus - Spinoza - Marx. Corrected ts. 14pp.

.2a-c Essay on Marxism and Socialism. Ms. 24pp. Ts and carbon ts copy, 28pp each.

.3 Great Britain & the world crisis. A lecture given to an American audience, possibly on the lecture tour of 1935/6. Ms. 11pp.

.4 Essay on politics and spirituality. Possibly composed after the 1931 Labour collapse? Ms. 12pp.

.5 Paper on communism and Marxist socialism, delivered at Pontypridd. No date. Ms and corrected ts. 5pp.

.6 Towards a new socialism. Ts fragment. 1p.

.7 Creative socialism. (Title pasted over with blank.) Corrected ts. 8pp.

.8a-e 5 groups of ts notes dealing with incidents and periods in J.M.M.’s life, for use in Between Two Worlds.

.9 Between Two Worlds, 1935. Ms. 630 pp., plus 11 unnumbered pages at the end.

.10 Shakespeare Miscellany, 1936. Ms.

.11 Miscellaneous ms and ts material on Shakespeare.

MS 2510

.1 Essay on America, probably 1936. Appeared in Adelphi II, 5, 302-4, February 1936; 12, 1, 40-1, April 1936. Ts. 7pp.

.2 Modern Marriage. Written jointly with Dr James Carruthers Young. Appeared in New Britain, N.S. 1, 5, 4 March 1936. Corrected ts, with covering ms note, not in Murry’s hand. 22pp.

.3 Review of The Allegory of Love, by C.S. Lewis. Published as “A History of Romantic Love”, in the TLS, 1792, 475, 6 June 1936. Galley proofs.

.4 Review of Saint Joan of Arc, by V. Sackville-West. Appeared in the Fortnightly, N.S., 835, 113-4, July 1936. Galley proofs.

.5 Myth and Poetry. Review of The Timeless Theme: a critical theory formulated and applied, by Colin Still. Appeared in the TLS, 1797, 577, 11 July 1936. Ts. 2pp. (Incomplete?)

.6 Review of Europe and Europeans, by Count Carlo Sforza. Published in the Aryan Path VIII, 1, 3-8, 8 January 1937. Dated “Oct 1936”. Ts. 7pp.

.7 Peace at any price. c1936? Ts carbon. 18pp.

.8 Notes for address to Peace Pledge Meeting at Colchester, 30 March 1937. Ts. 3pp.

.9 “The Man in the Machine.” First appeared in Peace News, 53, 7, 19 June 1937. Ms. 4pp.

.10 “Meditations of a socialist.” One of a series written for the Adelphi between February and September 1937. Ts and carbon ts. 6pp each.

.11 “On Love: Human & Divine.” Dated Larling, 30 November 1937. Published in the 1938 version of Things to Come. Ms. 32pp.

.12 “The New Community.” Possibly J.M.M.’s contribution to Community in Britain: a survey of community thought and activity compiled mainly from addresses given at the Bath and London conferences in 1937 (1938). J.M.M.’s contribution was on pp 110-119. Corrected carbon ts. 14pp.

.13 “God or the Nation”. Probably the pamphlet, 1937, rather than the version published in The Price of leadership, 1939. Corrected ts. 35pp. (incomplete).

.14 Fragment from “Rousseau: The miracle of progress”, pp 185-7 of Heaven and Earth, 1938. Ts. 3pp.

.15 Heaven and Earth, 1938. Ms and ts. c300 pages. (Needs sorting and foliating.)

.16 Possibly “Thoughts on Reviewing”, which apperaed in the TLS, 17 September 1938, pp.597-8. Ts. 6pp.

.17 Review of True Humanism, by Jacques Maritain, translated by Margot Adamson. Appeared as “Towards a Christian Society: the humanism of M. Maritain, a spiritual renaissance” in the TLS, 28 January, 1939, p.56. Ts. 8pp.

.18 “The New Statesman and the devil”, Student Movement XLI, 9, June 1939, 227-9. Ts. 10pp (numbered 11-20) and 1p of ms. Part of an address to the Student Christian movement general conference, July 1938. (Other parts of this address published in Not as the scribes, 1959.)

.19 Essay on theology. Ms, undated. 19pp. J.M.M. attended a conference of modern churchmen at Cambridge around September 1939, so this is possibly a paper delivered at that conference.

.20 Prepare the peace. Appeared in Adelphi, 16,1, October 1939, 6-10 Ts. 7pp. Reprinted in Looking before and after, 1948.

.21 “The Dynamic of Social Revolution”, Chapter VIII of The Defence of Democracy, 1939. This draft headed Chapter VII. 1p of ms, and 18pp of carbon ts.

.22 Excerpt from the Defence of Democracy, 1939, pp 115-116 & 122-126. Corrected ts, paginated 75-6 & 82-85.

.23 Rules of Community Farming Society Limited. No date, but registered at The Oaks, Langham, at which J.M.M. was resident Jan 1937 - March 1939. Proof sheets. 16pp.

.24a & b The Evolution of an Intellectual. No date. 2 carbon tss. One 28pp; one 29pp.

.25 A Christian looks at the Word. Appeared in the Listener XXIII, 22 February 1940, 367-8. Ts. 8pp.

.26 The Case for a negotiated peace. Dated 8 March 1940. Ts. 10pp.

.27 Article on leadership, with comment by the press censor in accompanying letter, dated 1 July 1, 1940. 7pp (also numbered 127-133 in pencil), plus 1p. Censor’s letter has “Odds & Ends rescued Oct. 1946” written on it in ink.

.28 Which way are we going? Appeared in Adelphi 17, 1, October 1940, 11-23. Carbon ts. 27pp (incomplete).

.29 Prize giving speech at Thetford Grammar School, October 1940. Ms. 5pp.

.30 Democracy & Pacifism. Notes for an address at Cardiff, 2 November 1940. Ms. 4pp.

.31 Good Neighbourhood. Peace News, 29 November, 1940. Ms. 5pp.

.32a-c Three chapters of The Betrayal of Christ by the Churches, 1940. Ts of chapter VII, 8pp; ts of chapter X, 12pp; ms of chapter XIII, 15pp.

.33 Notes by an unknown author on J.M.M.’s broadcast “A Christian look at the world?” headed “Homecrofting (suggested broadcast)”. c1940. Corrected ts. 5pp.

.34 Possibly J.M.M.’s contribution to the 4th AGM of the Peace Pledge Union, April 1941. Ts. 5pp.

.35 Peace by Negotiation. A memorandum for the National Council of the P.P.U., 13 September 1941. Ts. 7pp.

.36 Address at Holton Beekering, 27-28 September 1941. Ms. 11pp.

.37a-g The Impact of total war in society. A series of lectures given at Manchester College, Oxford. Autumn 1941. Ms of lectures 1-3 (first lecture incomplete, starting on p. 2): pp.2-15, 23pp, and 26+2pp) and ts of lectures 1-4 (the last incomplete): 27pp, 27pp, 28pp. and 18pp.

.38 Possibly parts of the book, Famine over Europe: the problem of controlled food relief, by Roy Walker, 1941, to which J.M.M. contributed an introduction. Carbon ts. Pp 36-131.

.39 How British Christians React to the War. Possibly a draft of British Christians and the War, 1941. Ms. 9pp. Incomplete. Written on the back of a carbon ts on Christianity, paginated 17-25.

.40 2 memoranda by Alan Staniland. Possibly part of the co-written (A.S. & J.M.M.) “The Peace Pledge Union and peace aims declaration” which appeared in Peace News 292, 16 January 1942. Ts with ms corrections in J.M.M.’s hand. 12pp.

.41 Probably J.M.M.’s contribution to Britain & Russia: the future, a pamphlet which reproduced speeches given at a conference on the theme of Britain and Russia in the new world order, London, April 1942. Ts. 6pp.

.42 Draft of a speech, 7 July 1942. Corrected ts and carbon ts copy. 12pp.

.43 Christocracy, 1942. Ms of chapters 10-14. 56pp.

.44 Probably the introduction to The Right to Live: essays, by Max Plowman, 1942. Ts. 26pp.

.45 On worship. Not dated but p.25 refers to 1942. Ts. 26pp.

MS 2511

Material dating from 1943-1944. No detailed list yet made. Includes much material relating to Adam & Eve (1944), which needs further sorting.

MS 2512

Material dating from 1945-1948. No detailed listing yet made. Includes much material relating to The Free Society (1948).

MS 2513

Material dating from 1948-1959. No detailed listing yet made. Includes “Unprofessional Essays”, 1955.

MS 2514

Material unidentified or undated. Not yet sorted or listed..

MS 2515

Incoming letters, letterbooks, diary, contracts, etc. Not yet sorted or listed. Includes the following letters: Murry (J.M.) 19 ALSs to Orlo Williams 1920-29 MS 2515 (E91.38) Murry (J.M.) 2 ALSs + 2 TLSs 1937-47 MS 2515E87.78 Murry (J.M.) 2 ALSs + 2 TS 1956 MS 2515 (E88.127) Murry (J.M.) 2 ALSs 1930 MS 2515 (E87.77) Murry (J.M.) 4 ALSs to S.& M.Waterlow 1929-1932 MS 2515 (E93.4) Murry (J.M.) 8 ALSs 1921-1936 MS 2515 (E92.86) Murry (J.M.) ALS 1923 MS 2515 (E89.11) Murry (J.M.) ALS 1925 MS 2515 (E88.121) Murry (J.M.) ALS 1928 MS 2515 (E90.99) Murry (J.M.) ALS 1931 MS 2515 (E94.84) Murry (J.M.) ALS 1932 MS 2515 (E89.87) Murry (J.M.) ALS 1933 MS 2515 (E91.35) Murry (J.M.) ALS 1943 MS 2515 (E88.2) Murry (J.M.) ALS 1950 MS 2515 (E95.21) Murry (J.M.) ALS to D.Attwater 1941 MS 2515 (E93.42) Murry (J.M.) ALS to H.Palmer 1924 MS 2515 (E94.25) Murry (J.M.) ALSs to S.Lawson 1929 MS 2515 (E93.84) Murry (J.M.) Letter to ? 1931 MS 2515 (E97.20) Murry (J.M.) Letter to Collins n.d. MS 2515 (E97.52) Murry (J.M.) Letter to Peacock 1949 MS 2515 (E97.46) Murry (J.M.) TL(carbon) to S.Morris 1949 MS 2515 (E91.112)

[MS 2516 Reserved for expansion.]

MS 2517

6 albums of press cuttings, five of which are from Peace News 1939-1947.

MS 2518

Album of press cuttings, and folders of loose press cuttings, with some issues of periodicals in which Murry material appeared.

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