Boston College Collection of 1876-1966 (bulk 1896-1962) MS.2006.023 http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2815

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Summary Information ...... 3 Administrative Information ...... 4 Related Materials ...... 5 Biographical note ...... 6 Scope and Contents ...... 7 Arrangement ...... 8 Collection Inventory ...... 9 I: Created or collected by Thompson ...... 9 II: About Thompson ...... 30

Boston College Collection of Francis Thompson MS.2006.023

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Creator: Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907 Title: Boston College collection of Francis Thompson Collection Identifier: MS.2006.023 Date [inclusive]: 1876-1967 Date [bulk]: 1896-1962 Physical Description 24 Linear Feet (34 containers) Physical Description 6 Gigabytes (11 files with 3 hours and 43 minutes of audio) Language of the English Material: Abstract: Collection documenting the literary career of British Catholic author Francis Thompson through his correspondence, financial records, and manuscripts of book reviews, essays, plays, and poetry. Of note are notebooks spanning his career, in which he recorded daily thoughts and formulated the ideas and structures for what would become his published works. In addition to Thompson's own papers, the collection documents his impact on other scholars and artists via their biographical works, criticism, translations, and performing and visual arts inspired by his poetry. Preferred Citation

Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Boston College collection of Francis Thompson, MS.2006.023, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Boston College Collection of Francis Thompson MS.2006.023

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Publication Information Processed by Lynn Moulton in 2019. This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace.

Conditions Governing Access Collection is open for research.

Recordings on audio cassette and phonograph disc have been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room. Recordings on audio reel and motion picture film are not available for playback due to format impermanence and can not be reformatted by Burns Library at this time. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; when it becomes possible we will schedule reformatting.

Provenance Most of this collection was acquired prior to the establishment of the current accessioning system in January 1986. However, library files show that the bulk of materials were gifts of or purchases from in the 1930s and 1940s. Another portion of the collection was purchased from the collector Seymor Adelman in the late 1930s, subsequent to its exhibition at Boston College. Many translations of the "Hound of Heaven" were listed as a gift of Mary O'Connor, who may have been a relative of their collector, Daniel O'Connor. Many benefactors of Boston College donated dedicated funds to purchase individual items over time.

Processing Information Prior to 2019 the Boston College collection of Francis Thompson was available for research as multiple collections: Francis Thompson collection, MS.1986.101; Francis Thompson papers, MS.2006.027; Meynell family-Francis Thompson collection, MS.2006.028; and the Seymor Adelman collection of Thompsoniana, MS.2006.058. This finding aid represents reprocessing all those collections into this single one for ease of use.

At the time of reprocessing, papers belonging to Wilfrid Meynell and former Boston College Librarian Terence Connolly, SJ, regarding Thompson were separated for reintegration with their papers also held by Burns Library, Boston College. Materials remain in the collection which could not conclusively be determined to be Meynell or Connolly's transcriptions rather than Thompson's typescriptions. Connolly's indices to Thompson's notebooks have also been left in the collection for context.

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- Page 4 - Conditions Governing 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.

Related Materials

Related Materials Boston College collection of , MS.1986.061, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Coventry Patmore collection, MS.1986.062, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Viola Meynell letters, MS.1986.035, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Wilfrid Meynell collection, MS.1986.042, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Separated Materials Published works associated with this collection have been transferred within the Burns Library and can be found in the Boston College Library catalog.

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Francis Joseph Thompson was born on 1859 December 18 in , , to Charles and Mary Turner Morton Thompson. Thompson's sisters Mary (later Sister Mary Austin) and Margaret were born in 1861 and 1863 respectively. After Mary Turner's death, Charles Thompson married Anne Richardson and had one more son, Norbert. Both of Francis Thompson's parents were converts to Roman Catholicism, joining the faith in support of Cardinal Newman as a result of the Oxford Movement.

Beginning in 1870, Thompson attended St. Cuthbert's College and then in order to pursue an education that would lead to the priesthood. While at St. Cuthbert's Thompson began his life-long habit of keeping notebooks documenting his daily activities and his literary efforts. These notebooks would total over a hundred by the end of his life.

Thompson decided against pursuing a religious life and left Ushaw College in 1877 to follow in his father's footsteps as a doctor. He began medical school at Owens College, University of but struggled with his studies. After a long illness, followed by the death of his mother in 1880, Thompson became addicted to opium and ultimately left medical school.

In 1885 Thompson moved to where he was unable to obtain work and began to live on the streets. In 1887 Thompson sent manuscripts of several poems to Wilfrid Meynell, editor of Merry England, a Catholic literary journal. Meynell published the poem "The Passion of Mary," which began a lifelong friendship between the two.

In 1888, due in large part to the support of Meynell and his wife Alice, a poet and critic, Thompson went into a rehabilitation center in order to overcome his opium addiction. During this time, Thompson wrote two of his best-known poems, "Ode to the Setting Sun" and "The Hound of Heaven," both of which explore the theme of Christian rebirth and a rediscovery of God's goodness.

Throughout the 1890s Thompson worked closely with the Meynells, writing poetry, book reviews, and essays for Merry England as well as other London literary journals. He also spent time at the Guildhall Library and the National Gallery researching ancient belief systems and their symbolism.

By 1892 Thompson was again taking opium, and the Meynells suggested that he spend time at a Franciscan friary in north in order to recover. Thompson spent the next four years there, where he was greatly inspired by the scenery and was immensely productive. Thompson's first volume of poetry, Poems, was published in 1893 to mixed critical reaction. Sister Songs followed in 1895 and New Poems was published in 1897. Both volumes received somewhat poor critical reception. In 1898 Thompson joined the staff of The Academy, and he began contributing to Athenaeum around the same time. His publications after 1897 shifted from a mixture including poetry to become predominantly literary criticism and scholarly essays, including on St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. John Baptist de La Salle, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

During the late 1890s Thompson developed a close friendship with Katharine "Katie" Douglas King. Thompson shared King's concern for the London poor and her love of writing. King's death in 1900 left Thompson in a state of depression and he once again began to take opium.

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- Page 6 - Thompson died on 1907 November 13 at the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, London, and was buried on November 16 at Kensal Green Roman Catholic cemetery. His papers, including manuscripts and notebooks, passed to Wilfrid Meynell, who edited the poetry and prose for a posthumous publication, Works of Francis Thompson, in 1913.

Sources:

Boardman, Brigid M. Between Heaven and . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.

Boardman, Brigid M. "Thompson, Francis Joseph (1859-1907)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. 24 Jan. 2006 [http:// www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36489].

Thomson, John. Francis Thompson, The Preston-born Poet. 2d ed. London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent, 1912.

Scope and Contents

Collection documenting the career of British Catholic author Francis Thompson, through correspondence; manuscripts of essays, plays, poetry, and review manuscripts; notebooks; works by others regarding Thompson in the form of biographies, criticism, translation, and performing and visual arts inspired by his poetry.

Insight into Thompson's life is provided by his correspondence with publishers and friends, particularly the editors at The Academy and the Meynell family. His financial reality is demonstrated by royalty statements and pawn tickets, while his activities and interests are captured through ephemera from libraries and social events.

Thompson's poetry manuscripts include draft and fair copies of many individual poems, as well as complete manuscripts of his two books of poetry assembled for the publisher. His creative writing is further documented through five unpublished plays. Essays cover topics from literary criticism to religion and philosophy, and his views on contemporary authors are summarized in his reviews of their books. All of this writing also appears throughout Thompson's notebooks, along with his reflections, daily observations, and research, particularly on mythology and symbolism in classical literature. Highlights of Thompson's writing include drafts of his poem "The Hound of Heaven," his essay on the British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and reviews of his peers Alice Meynell and .

Thompson's literary influence is documented through scholarship--ranging from newspaper articles to book-length critical theses--analyzing his life and works. Thompson's poetry inspired art, drama, and music, which are substantiated by scores, audio and video recordings, and photographs in this collection. Also included are translations of the poems "The Hound of Heaven" and "To W.M." into more than fifty languages.

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Organized in two series: I. Created or collected by Thompson, and II. About Thompson.

Series I. is further divided into five subseries: A. Correspondence, B. Drawings, C. Ephemera, D. Finances, and E. Writings. Subseries E. Writings includes seven sub-subseries: 1. Biography, 2. Essays, 3. Notebooks, 4.Plays, 5. Poetry, 6. Proofs, and 7. Reviews.

Series II. is further divided into six subseries: A. Biographical, B. Correspondence, C. Critical, D. Ephemera, E. Images of Thompson and his circle, and F. Works based on Thompson's poetry. Subseries F. Works includes four sub-subseries: 1. Illustrations, 2. Sheet music, 3. Performances, and 4. Translations.

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Series I: Created or collected by Thompson, 1876-1911, undated

Subseries A: Correspondence, 1886-1908, undated Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Sub-Subseries 1: From Thompson, 1886-1908, undated

The Academy (C. Lewis Hind and Wilfred Whitten, editors), box 1 folder 1-2 circa 1896-1903, undated

Archer, William (photostatic copy only), undated box 1 folder 3

Blackburn, Vernon (draft), undated box 1 folder 4

Doubleday, Arthur, 1898 January 12 box 1 folder 5

Hayes, Alfred, after 1896 box 1 folder 6

Lane, John, 1895 May and July box 1 folder 7

Meynell, Alice, 1890, 1906 box 1 folder 8

Meynell, Everard, 1905 July 26 box 1 folder 9

Meynell, Wilfrid, circa 1886-1907 box 1 folder 10-11

Patmore, Coventry, 1895 July, undated box 1 folder 12

Patmore, Harriet, 1896 November 30 box 1 folder 13

Sub-Subseries 2: To Thompson , 1891-1907, undated

The Academy (C. Lewis Hind and Wilfred Whitten, editors), box 1 folder 14-15 1897-1903, undated

The Academy and Literature, 1903, 1905 box 1 folder 16

Adam and Charles Black publishers (Office of "Who's Who"), box 1 folder 17 undated

Anselm, Father, 1896-1902, undated box 1 folder 18

Archer, William, 1897, 1900 box 1 folder 19

The Athenaeum Office, 1903, 1904 box 1 folder 20

Austin, Sister Mary, 1897-1906 box 1 folder 21

Banfield, Frank, 1897 November 19 box 1 folder 22

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Bell, Mackenzie, 1896, 1897 box 1 folder 24

Benson, A. C., 1897 December 13 box 1 folder 25

Blackburn, Vernon, 1899 March and June box 1 folder 26

Bliss, Geoffrey, SJ, 1905 August 22 box 1 folder 27

Boothroyd, A. E., 1895 January 28 box 1 folder 28

C. & E. Brown, Rare Books and Engravings, 1905-1906 box 1 folder 29

The Catholic World Magazine, 1896 April and June box 1 folder 30

Christie, Robert, 1898 March 12 box 1 folder 31

Cuthbert, F--, No year, April 30 box 1 folder 32

The Daily Chronicle, 1901-1902, undated box 1 folder 33

The Dante Society, 1899 September 14 box 1 folder 34

Delany, P. J., 1899 November 30 box 1 folder 35

Edward Lloyd Limited, 1902 June 6 box 1 folder 36

Fielding, Everard, 1897-1899, undated box 1 folder 37

Fulham, P. H., 1904 July 10 box 1 folder 38

Gardner, Edmund G., 1898 August 30 box 1 folder 39

Gibson, William, 1898 July 14 box 1 folder 40

Greene, Michael, 1893 December 29 box 1 folder 41

Hayes, Alfred, 1896 May 31 box 1 folder 42

Kenyon, Fred, 1905 May 25 box 1 folder 43

King, Katherine Douglas, 1896-1900, undated box 1 folder 44

Leighton, Gerald, 1901 September 23 box 1 folder 45

Lemperly, Paul, 1900 March 11 box 1 folder 46

Mann, Horace Kinder, 1894 March 3 box 1 folder 47

Mason, Eugene, 1896, 1899 box 1 folder 48

Massingham, H. W., 1897 June 1-6 box 1 folder 49

McMurray, Lida B., with quote from "Memorials of Burne- box 1 folder 50 Jones" in Thompson's hand on verso, 1905 January 23

Meynell, Everard, undated box 1 folder 51

Meynell, Olivia, 1903 August 3 box 1 folder 52

Meynell, Wilfrid, 1902-1905, undated box 1 folder 53

Moulton, Louise Chandler, no year, July 16 Boston College Collection of Francis Thompson MS.2006.023

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Phillipps, Evelyn M., 1902 August 21 box 1 folder 55

The Outlook, 1898 February 25 box 1 folder 56

Parsons, J. B., 1904 May 14 box 1 folder 57

Patmore, Coventry, 1895, undated box 1 folder 58

Patmore, Harriet, 1897-1898 box 1 folder 59

Plowman, Max, 1905 December 7 box 1 folder 60

Prudential Assurance Company, 1905 January 24 box 1 folder 61

Purves, John, 1899 August 30 box 1 folder 62

Randle, Mrs., 1905, undated box 1 folder 63

St. Anthony's Shrine and Guild Center, 1900 June 5 box 1 folder 64

Sharp, Farquharson R., 1903 February 21 box 1 folder 65

Sichel, W., 1902 May 27 box 1 folder 66

Stourton, Alison, 1907 April 3 box 1 folder 67

Taylor, John F., 1898 January 3 box 1 folder 68

T. C. & E. C. Jack, Publishers, 1902 January-March box 1 folder 69

Thomas, Louis (includes a copy of Thomas's poetry chapbook box 1 folder 70 The Lily), 1907 October 16

Thomas Nelson and Sons' New Encyclopedia, 1902 May-June box 1 folder 71

Thompson family, undated box 1 folder 72

Tynan, Helena M., no year, March 21 box 1 folder 73

Tynan, Katherine, 1891 January 12 box 1 folder 74

The Unicorn Press, 1898-1899 box 1 folder 75

Walter-Madge, Elliot, 1901 July 17 box 1 folder 77

Young, James C., 1901 November 19 box 1 folder 78

Von Holst, Gustav, 1902 August 26 box 1 folder 76

Unidentified, 1897-1907 box 1 folder 79

Subseries B: Drawings, undated box 2 folder 1 Scope and Contents

A small selection of sketches, many on notebook pages, one with the inclusion of the poem "The Ascent of Song."

Subseries C: Ephemera, 1859-1904, undated

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Alphabetical.

British Museum Reading Room admissions tickets and book box 2 folder 2 request slip, 1899-1904

Coventry Patmore's characterization of Ralph Waldo Emerson, box 2 folder 3 single page of manuscript owned by Thompson, undated

Map of Paris, maybe 1893 box 14 folder 1

"Noguchi's Song Unto Broather Americans" broadsheet, signed box 2 folder 4 by Noguchi to Thompson, 1897

Owens College Union rules booklet and Biological Society box 2 folder 5 program, 1880, undated

St. Ingatius' church, Preston, baptismal certificate, 1859 box 2 folder 6 December 20

Society of Women Journalists invitation card and lecture ticket, box 2 folder 7 1903 January, March

"Some Reminiscences" by Edward Healy Thompson (Francis's box 2 folder 8 uncle) in Merry England, 1887

Subseries D: Finances, 1893-1907 Arrangement

Alphabetical by document type.

Account statement from the Illustrated London News, 1901 box 2 folder 9 September

Pawn tickets, 1902-1904 box 2 folder 10

Receipt from P. F. Collier, Publisher, 1898 March 29 box 2 folder 11

Receipt from The Academy, 1899 February 13 box 2 folder 12

Royalty and book stock notices from John Lane, Publisher, box 2 folder 13-14 1893-1907

Subseries E: Writings, 1876-1911, undated Scope and Contents

Thompson's writings are in manuscript except where otherwise noted.

Sub-Subseries 1: Biography, before 1907

Saint Ignatius Loyola book manuscript, before 1907 volume 1-3

Sub-Subseries 2: Essays, 1897-1904, undated

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Alphabetical by title.

"An Enemy Hath Done This", undated box 2 folder 15

"The Fourth Order of Humanity", undated box 2 folder 16

"Health and Holiness" manuscript and annotated proof, 1904 box 2 folder 17-18

"Infera", undated box 2 folder 19

"John Milton" fragment, from essay for "Academy Portraits" box 2 folder 20 series in The Academy, 1897 March

"Metaphysics of Science (from Blavatsky)", undated box 2 folder 21

"Modern Men. The Devil", undated box 2 folder 22

"Our Literary Life", undated box 2 folder 23

"Out of the House of Bondage" manuscript and typescript (or box 2 folder 24-25 transcript), undated

"A Poet's Capacity for Suffering", undated box 2 folder 26

"A Remembrance Remembered", undated box 2 folder 27

"A Renegade Poet" see also Notebook 14-A, pages 12, 14-40, box 2 folder 28 undated

"Shelley: an Essay" complete manuscript plus partial box 2 folder 29-31 additional drafts, undated

"Terrible London" outline, undated box 2 folder 32

"A Threnody of Birth" manuscript and typescript (or box 2 folder 33 transcript), undated

"The Trecentisti Up to Date", undated box 2 folder 34

"With Catullus in Suburra" fragment, undated box 2 folder 35

Untitled, facetious letter to the editor regarding Mr. Le box 2 folder 36 Gallienne, undated

Untitled, on analogies between God, nature, man, and the box 2 folder 37 poet, undated

Untitled, on marriage and virginity, with transcription by box 2 folder 38 Wilfrid Meynell on verso, undated

Untitled, on mysticism, undated box 2 folder 39

Untitled, on the poetry of De Quincey, undated box 2 folder 40

Untitled, on symbolism (two different essays, see also box 2 folder 41-42 Notebook BC 18 for another draft), undated

Untitled, proposal for essay on Shakespeare, undated box 2 folder 43

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The existing numbering scheme for Thompson's notebooks was maintained during reprocessing in 2019, as these numbers were the only description available to researchers for many decades. The first set of notebook numbers was established by Wilfred Meynell, and where gaps in the numbering exist, those notebooks were not acquired by Boston College. Notebooks with a "BC" number indicate acquisitions from other sources than Meynell. Dates on notebooks have been derived from known publication dates of selected contents. As Thompson does not appear to have filled his notebooks front-to-back or in chronological order, some contents may have been created far from the known dates. Content description has been taken from indices created by Boston College Librarian Terence Connolly, SJ, a Thompson scholar and the person responsible for the acquisition of much of the collection.

Arrangement

By notebook number, with unnumbered notebooks by subject at the end.

Notebook 1: On Harley, Edward III, Ruskin, Poushkin, and box 3 folder 1 Providence, includes 1900-1901

Notebook 2: Autobiograhical notes, and on poetry, George box 3 folder 2 Wither, "John, King of England," Woman, Congreve, and actuality in art, includes 1903

Notebook 3: On Stephen Phillips, brilliance and politicians, box 3 folder 3 Conan Doyle, and poems: "Ode to the Setting Sun," "Hollow man," "Butcher", includes circa 1903

Notebook 4: Review, The Book of the Sun-Dials by Mrs. box 3 folder 4 Alfred Gatty, probably 1889

Notebook 5: Autobiographical notes, Patmore, English box 3 folder 5 language, Dante, Goethe, and poems on: ships, spring and autumn, insects, and nerves, includes 1904

Notebook 6: On cricket, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, box 3 folder 6 and poems on: nerves, Jack Kincaid, Marchand, and a right king, includes 1905

Notebook 7: On Shakespeare, sex, Vondel's Lucifer, the moon, box 3 folder 7 common-sense, drowning, Diderot, Garrick, and Hellenica by Evelyn Abbott, probably includes 1898

Notebook 8: On Charles Lamb, "Resurrection of the East," box 3 folder 8 Carlyle, "democratized criticism," F.P. Stearns, and poems: "E's kiss," "England, Old and New," and "I, a monk", probably includes 1897

Notebook 8A: On audience, aims and reasons for writing, box 3 folder 9 the 'Business' nation, Balaam's Ass, and poems: "Earth," "Autumn," and "Threat of French Invasion: 1896", probably includes 1896

Notebook 9: On Shelley, metre, Catholic poets in Victorian box 3 folder 10 England, and poems: "May Burden" and "Laus Legis", probably includes 1909

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- Page 14 - Notebook 9A: On William Meredith, ciphers, Pater, St. box 3 folder 11 Jerome's Vulgate, Johnson, and poem: "Memorat Memoria", includes 1901, 1906

Notebook 11: On Dora Sigerson, stars, Coventry Patmore, box 3 folder 12 painters, Living Saviour, metre, and poems: "Manly Women," "Clement Shorter," "Bright locks," and "An Allegory", Probaly includes 1893

Notebook 11A: On England and literature, play on Byron and box 3 folder 13 Rochester, and poem: "O what do ye see in me", probably includes 1905

Notebook 12: On Montaigne, "Rod," Dante, Patmore, Rosetti, box 3 folder 14 "Tennyson Re-considered," Siberian railway, and poems: "France and England" and "love", includes 1898, 1902

Notebook 13: On Mr. Bingham and bad poetry, Montaigne, box 3 folder 15 Samuel Butler, The Enchanted Woods by Vernon Lee, and Emerson, Poet and Thinker by E.L. Carey, includes 1905

Notebook 14: On drama of Dumas, Hugo, Shakespeare, and box 3 folder 16 Isben, Music of Spheres, Wordsworth, artist stigmas, and Heywood, includes 1902

Notebook 14A: On Podesta, Satan, Catholicism, Freemasonry, box 3 folder 17 lines from play Venus Fly-Trap, and poems: "Gardens of Phospherus," "Stellis Matutinis," "Ad Castitatem," "Nisi Dominus," "Manus Animam," and "Henley", undated

Notebook 15: On John Bull, England as non-musical, box 3 folder 18 Jacks, microbes, French Revolution, Wordsworth, cricket, harmonies, and poems: "Vessel Man," "Finkle," "Boer War," "Railway Accident at Bridgeport," on Alice and Wilfrid Meynell, and tornado & hurricane, probably includes 1903

Notebook 16: Autobiographical notes, and on David Garrick, box 3 folder 19 Cassandra, Health and Holiness, war, Kipling and Chaucer and poems: "Winston Churchill" and "Eight Seconds", probably includes 1906

Notebook 16A: Autobiographical notes, and on Dante and box 3 folder 20 Aeneas, 19th century literature, story on a man with a ball, beetle, mummers, and prefixes, undated

Notebook 17: On poetess' baby-language and reviews of an box 3 folder 21 anthology and The Works of Lord Byron, includes 1900

Notebook 18: On M. Arnold, E. Barrett, Music of Spheres, box 3 folder 22 European history, savage men, Goths, English, puberty, modern novelists, Shakespeare, and fragment of a play, probably includes 1904

Notebook 19: On English gone to the cats and quotes from box 3 folder 23 George Herbert and his Times by A.G. Hyde, includes 1907

Notebook 20: Autobiographical notes, and on Mme. Calve and box 3 folder 24 M. Bois, English syntax, shamming, Celtic poetry, diction, and poems: "The Moon" and "English Poetry", undated

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- Page 15 - Notebook 20A: On Caveliers and Roundheads, Schoolmaster box 3 folder 25 for God, Freemasonry, nature, and poems: "To turn the back," "Weakness of woman," "Battle of Ladysmith," "Faithless Sword," "The water to the star," "Chillianwallah," "Wake not", includes 1903

Notebook 21: Autobiographical notes, and on Patmore, box 3 folder 26 Wordsworth, and poems: "Lady and Tiger," "Right Hon. Joe," "Old Man in a Tree," "Untrained Genius," "Stars are Out", undated

Notebook 23: On Woman's truth and untruth, scorn or box 3 folder 27 indifference to expert, Cosmopolitanism death to poetry, and review of Essays of Montaigne, includes 1900-1901

Notebook 23A: Poems: "John of the Cross," "House of box 3 folder 28 Sorrows," "Man & God," "Tom Pearse," "Arab Love-Song," "English-educated Irishman," "School," and "Voice of the Turtle", includes 1902

Notebook 24: Autobiographical notes, and on Beowulf, box 3 folder 29 spiritual eye, Jacob, Nietzche, and Shakespeare and His Forerunners by Sidney Lanier, includes 1903

Notebook 24A: On sacrifice, Montaigne, "robe pontifical," box 3 folder 30 the moon, Shakespeare's sonnets, religion, and characters, and quotes by James Clarence Mangan, includes 1899-1901, 1903

Notebook 25: On pot-herbs, quotes from Ecclesiasticus, and box 3 folder 31 poem: "The sooner the wave rise", undated

Notebook 26: On Modern poets and religion, the classics, and box 3 folder 32 poems: "Corymbus for Autumn," "Dedication," "Judgement in Heaven," " Ballad of Judgement," and "Snowflake", probably includes 1891

Notebook 27: On lip-reading, U.S. frontier, love and death, box 3 folder 33 and quotes of French poems, undated

Notebook 28: On London, Idylls of Theocritus by Hallard, box 3 folder 34 and poems: "Bird," "Le Pont du Nord," "Storm," "Versifier," "Brotherly love," and "Mouse", includes 1901

Notebook 29: On Evil, Woman, Wordsworth, Samson, box 3 folder 35 the Cross, Coleridge and poems: "Light of dawning," "Schoolmaster for God," "Fairy," "Boded Thought," and "Drift of Stars", includes 1903, 1905

Notebook 30: On Women, Love and Truth, Unemployed box 3 folder 36 kings, Samson, Unclassicality, dogs, and poems: "Strong Passions," "Tories," and "Love and Hate Thee", includes 1900

Notebook 31: On ant-satire, Englishman, Metaphysical poets, box 3 folder 37 Marlowe, Democracy, Martians, and poems: "Pefridy," "Priest Urban," "J.P. Loquitur," and "Deaths of Shylock Hums", includes 1903, 1907

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- Page 16 - Notebook 32: On terminal pause in reading poetry, Leigh box 3 folder 38 Hunt, stars and flame, and poem: "The King and Queen of Sorrow", undated

Notebook 33: On Latin, constellations, unity of nature, French box 3 folder 39 prelates, style, Peace, Fancois de Fenelon, William Strode, and poem: "No singer of his time", includes 1901, 1907

Notebook 34: On George Herbert, child and mental processes, box 3 folder 40 and materialism, "Eve of St. Agnes," prosaic and poetic England, and Sidney's prose, includes, 1901, 1905, 1906

Notebook 34A: On parts of speech, Old Testament, Coventry box 3 folder 41 Patmore by Edmund Gosse, and poem: "Your eyes I knew afar", includes 1905

Notebook 35: Autobiographical notes, and on epigrams, box 3 folder 42 cricket, poets as critics, Protestant sympathy and Catholic apathy towards poets, and primitive men, probably includes 1905

Notebook 36: On Hadow and poems: "Days of a man" and "A box 3 folder 43 Ballad of the Baralong", includes 1907

Notebook 37: On Geroge Eliot, snobbery, Boer War, Abbott, box 3 folder 44 and poems: "Chastity," "Olive Garlanded Lady," "Japs," "Spring," "O my sweet," and "Yesterday", includes 1903

Notebook 38: On rhetoric, critics, Englishman's beliefs, box 3 folder 45 teaching poetry, Newman and Lytra Apostolica, and poem: "Dost thou trust thy wings", undated

Notebook 38A: On Russians, metre, history, Milton, Roden box 3 folder 46 Noel, Samuel Waddington, Satan, women, and poems: "Little Shining" and "May Burden", includes 1902

Notebook 39: On the press, spread-eagleism, and Letters of box 3 folder 47 Walter Savage Landor by Stephen Wheeler, includes 1899

Notebook 40: On The Pilgrim's Progress, The Soul of A box 3 folder 48 People by H. Fielding, and poem: "Lo, here a miracle!", includes 1898

Notebook 40A: On Leigh Hunt, clouds, Nabbycodnaser, box 3 folder 49 drawings, musician, and poems: "Girl with Blameless Eyes" and "The Sign Shall Be Set", undated

Notebook 41: Poems: "Bethlehem," "He came to me, box 3 folder 50 disguised," "Modern Colour," "The Last Day," and "England", includes 1900, 1901

Notebook 42: Poems: "Fragment of Hell," "His Straining box 3 folder 51 Side," and "Dormiam et Requiescam", undated

Notebook 42A: On James Russell Lowell by H.E. Scudder, box 3 folder 52 includes 1902

Notebook 43: Quotes of "Cupid and Christ" by L. Housman box 4 folder 1 and poem: "The Nineteenth Century", includes 1899 Boston College Collection of Francis Thompson MS.2006.023

- Page 17 - Notebook 43A: On Byron, De Vere, technique, the Sun, box 4 folder 2 Congreve, Death, a Cheschire cat, Enlgand, war, "Byron in Venice" and poem: "The Joy of Life", includes 1900

Notebook 44: On royal distinction, beaty and wings, and box 4 folder 3 poems: "Song of the Hours," "The Sere of the Leaf," "Sister Songs," and "To Daisies", probably includes 1903

Notebook 45: Play on Aphrodite and Eros and poems: "If," box 4 folder 4 "Alone," Epithalamium," "Ecce Ancilla Domini," "Chanson," "Witch-Babies," "Depths of the Sea," "Sunshine on the Sea," "Lord Randolph Churchill," "Girl's Bridal," and "Night and Fate", probably includes 1890

Notebook 45A: On British power in India, military events, box 4 folder 5 Scotch verses, Death, Darwin and Spencer, Swift, and poems: "Young Man of Seringapatam" and "The General Girl", includes 1898, 1899, 1902

Notebook 46: On Symbolism, Kim by Rudyard Kipling, and box 4 folder 6 Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle, probably includes 1901

Notebook 46A: Autobiographical notes, and on a lecture box 4 folder 7 on poets, critics, and Appreciations and Adresses by Lord Rosebery, includes 1899

Notebook 46B: On chemistry, Boswell and Johnson, Keats, box 4 folder 8 Shakespeare and DeQuincey, and poems: "Napoleon I," "Adversity," "Child-Faërie," "Fragment of Hell," "Witch- babies," "Wrath of Aphrodite," "After Love's End," and "Night and Fate", probably includes 1890

Notebook 47: Autobiographical notes and on Cancer, Milton, box 4 folder 9 Saint Paul, parody of Chaucer's language and Kipling, and poem: "God came to me", undated

Notebook 47A: Poems including "Dom Paul," "O the fellow to box 4 folder 10 annex he," and "Birds & Women [Girls]", includes 1900

Notebook 49: On Masterworks, Absence of message, box 4 folder 11 Consonants, and poem: "Unfurl my backward sails", undated

Notebook 49A: On a book on Egypt and Confessions of St. box 4 folder 12 Augustine, includes 1900

Notebook 50: Autobiographical notes and on Patmore's box 4 folder 13 death, feminine figure, wit and poetry, nature, false and true love, dialogue, modern life, Clan-na-Gael, and laisser-faire, includes 1903

Notebook 51: On Memoirs and Correspondence of Coventry box 4 folder 14 Patmore by Basil Champney, includes 1900

Notebook 52: On Cockle, The Mediaeval Empire by Herbert box 4 folder 15 Fisher and poem: "Holy Ground", includes 1899

Notebook 53: On Wordsworth in prose and verse, dialogue box 4 folder 16 on Holy Ghost, and poem "To the English Martyrs", includes 1906

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- Page 18 - Notebook 100: On Coventry Patmore, Alice Meynell, box 4 folder 17 Thackeray, genius, love, and poems: "Because she feels that way," "Equitatus Gallicus," and "Our Lady", undated

Notebook 101: On Franciscan Simplicity, symbolism, box 4 folder 18 Characters of Nations, British artist, Ruskin's early style, life, and poems: "The few" and "Russian Overtures for Peace", undated

Notebook 102: Quotes of Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, box 4 folder 19 Sidney Godolphin, John Hall, Patrick Carey, and William Brighty Rands, includes 1906

Notebook 103: Poems: "Stands in the gate," "Cloud's Swan- box 4 folder 20 Song," "And half the things," "Ultimum," "My flesh grows old," and "Body and Spirit", undated

Notebook 117: On English metre, praise, Henley, China, box 4 folder 21 Dante, Poetry and Patriotism, Crashaw, Hugo, Sidney, and poems: "The Body," "My owene swote," and "A Girl's Sin", includes 1898, 1901, 1902

Notebook 122: On stories, and poems: "Victoria Regina in box 4 folder 22 Memoriam" and "Threat of French Invasion: 1896", includes 1896

Notebook BC 1: Clippings on Browning, Robert Louis box 4 folder 23 Stevenson and Father Damien, and quotes of poems by Donne, Thomas Watts, W.S. Blunt, Coleridge, and Stevenson, includes 1890

Notebook BC 2: Quotes from Greek, Latin, French, and box 4 folder 24 English as well as from Holy Scripture and on the soul, truths, women, horses, and the function of poetry and natural love, undated

Notebook BC 3: On Shakespeare, Bacon, and Charles Knight, box 4 folder 25 and poems: "Cricket" and "Last Post", probably includes 1905

Notebook BC 4: On Life of Richard Wagner by Glasenapp- box 4 folder 26 Ellis and Wings by M.E. Ashton, includes 1901

Notebook BC 5: On Arcadia and Defence of Poesie by box 4 folder 27 Sir Philip Sidney and Life and Letters of J.H. Shorthouse, includes 1901, 1905

Notebook BC 6: On History of Intellectual Development by box 4 folder 28 J.B. Crozier, includes 1901

Notebook BC 7: On hospitality, prose, Shelley, Vernon box 4 folder 29 Blackburn's sonnets, Hugo translation, and poems: "To-day" and "A Dead Astronomer", undated

Notebook BC 8: Ironic sermon on the text "Be good box 4 folder 30 and you will be respectable" and on Alice. Meynell and Patmore, dialogue, Susan Ferrier, Walter Savage Landor, and Marysiencka by K. Waliszewski, includes 1899

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- Page 19 - Notebook BC 9: Poems: "Heaven and Hell," "The Singer box 4 folder 31 Saith of His Song," "Hermes," "Body and Sprite," "The Cloud's Swan-Song," "Beauty is Truth," "A Fool by Nature," "Patmore's Death II," "Love thou has suffered," and "On a Reviewer", undated

Notebook BC 10: Poems: "Form and Formalism," box 4 folder 32 "Desiderium Indesideratum," "An Allegory," "Her feet are earth," "Franciscus Christificatus," "Elevaverunt Flumina," and "An Homage", includes 1893

Notebook BC 11: On St. Nerses' hymn, sword-fight, and word box 4 folder 33 tasters and word-swillers, undated

Notebook BC 12: On pain, "Moestitiae Encomium," "Mistress box 4 folder 34 of Vision," "The Making of Viola," "A Fallen Yew," "Anthem of Earth" and poems: "Death" and "Unamiable Darling", undated

Notebook BC 13: Memos to self, on Much Ado About box 4 folder 35 Nothing, review of The Psychology of Saints, includes 1898

Notebook BC 14: Poems: "To Cecilia," "Epitaphium box 4 folder 36 Scriptoris," "A Poet's Testament," "After Her Going," "Unto This Last," "My Lady the Tyranness," and "The New Woman", undated

Notebook BC 15: Translation of "Horace's Ode on Lyce" and box 4 folder 37 poems: "The Mistress of Vision," "An Unamiable Darling," "The Making of Viola," "Domus Tua," and "Lord Langley", undated

Notebook BC 16: Poems:"The Road's Rede," "Poppy," "July box 5 folder 1 Fugitive," "A Hollow Wood," "Health and Holiness," To Stars," "Cuckoo," and "The Making of Viola", includes 1891

Notebook BC 17: Poems: "I sat with Nature," "Night of box 5 folder 2 Forebeing," "Over," "St. Anthony of Padua," "Retrospect," "King of Song," "House of Bondage," and "Against Urania", undated

Notebook BC 18: On Good and Evil, Shakespeare, medicine, box 5 folder 3 Symbolism, drawings, and poems: "Learn of the mouth," "St. Anthony of Padua," "Anima Simplicitatis," and "To a Child", undated

Notebook BC 19: Pencil portrait of Thompson and poems: box 5 folder 4 "The Pentagram," "Preparation of Panacea," "The Mothers," "Phoenician Alphabet and its Daughters," and "The Magician's Wand", includes 1901, 1905

Notebook BC 20: Autobiographical notes and on Patmore, box 5 folder 5 proposed lecture, Browning, Coleridge, women, and poems: "Victorian Ode," "To Daisies," "Bear," and "Veteran of box 18 Heaven", probably includes 1903

Notebook BC 21: Biblical drama Saul and poems: "Sing, box 5 folder 6 bird, sing," "Light and Sound," "Infera," "Land of Dreams," "Peremptory Time," and "To England", includes 1897 box 19

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- Page 20 - Notebook BC 22: On Truth, melody, Carlyle, modern box 5 folder 7 English education, Dante's angel, and poems: "Sister Songs," "Dedication," and "I recoiled", includes 1903

Notebook BC 23: On Brutus and Caesar, England, Pianola, box 5 folder 8 woman's intuition, and poems: "King Edward III," "What once had kept," "Catullus in Suburra," and "Ave", includes 1982

Notebook BC 24: Poems: "New Year's Eve," "After Love's box 5 folder 9 End," "Lost," "Witch-Babies," "Not Even in Dream," "Night and Fate," "Fragment of Hell," and "Ballad of Fair Weather", probably includes 1890

Notebook BC 25: On Freemasonry, Macbeth, Darwin, devil- box 5 folder 10 worship, women, and poems: "Ode to the Setting Sun," "Aqua Regia," "Samson's strength," and "But most boughs", probably inlcudes 1903

Notebook BC 26: On Choice of Achilles, and Other Poems by box 5 folder 11 A. Gray Butler and poem "Sunt Lacrymae" by Butler, includes 1900

Notebook BC 27: Autobiographical notes and on stage box 5 folder 12 conventions, painters, Ruskin, Sainsbury, Salvation Army, Job, Spain and England, and poem: "Irregular Ode", includes 1900, 1905

Notebook BC 28: Autobiographical notes and on childhood, a box 5 folder 13 dog, Carlyle, young ladies, and poem: "God! If thou sitt'st in Heaven", undated

Notebook BC 29: Autobiographical notes and on Vanity, box 5 folder 14 frescoes in Royal Callery, London derelicts, Shakespeare and Scott, and poems: "London at Night," "Cricket," and "Death", probably includes 1905

Notebook BC 30: Poems: "Assumpta Maria," "Laus Legis," box 5 folder 15 "St. Anthony of Padua," "New Year's Chimes," "Dread of Height," "Night of Forebeing," and "Mistress of Vision", undated

Notebook BC 31: On Swinburne, Boer War, new poetry, box 5 folder 16 Mysticism, Shakespeare, and poems: "Retrograde Fancy," "Pegasus," "Sad Mischance," and "All things are joy", includes 1901

Notebook BC 32: On Symbolic language, pronunciation, box 5 folder 17 France and England, assassins, Caesar, color symbolism, Women, and poems: "Rome and London," "Cricket," and "Kissing", probably includes 1905

Notebook BC 33: Fragment of play on the Soul and Apollyon, box 5 folder 18 and poem: "Ballad of Lenore", undated

Notebook BC 34: On Symbolism, intellect, Art and Death, box 5 folder 19 French democracy, rise and fall of nations, Progressive age, nature and man, matrimony, and skit on "Madmen", includes 1902

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- Page 21 - Notebook BC 35: On Englishmen not eligible for heaven, box 5 folder 20 Materialism, Symbolic and factual origin, Kant, vision, George Bandes, Sir Richard Tangye, Spencer Wilkinson, and G.H. Pike, includes 1899, 1901

Notebook BC 36: On Wordsworth, Emerson, self-protection, box 5 folder 21 Chatham and De Quincey, political figures, and poems: "A Pretty Notion" and "Valley Gaudy Green", includes 1902

Notebook BC 37: On B. Marsden, Adria: A Tale of Venice box 5 folder 22 by Alexander Nelson Hood, and A Dead City by Gabriele d'Annunzio, includes 1900, 1904

Notebook BC 38: On Life of St. Ignatius by Thompson, box 5 folder 23 undated

Notebook BC 39: Autobiographical notes and on architecture, box 5 folder 24 Lewis Hind, and poems: "The After Woman," "O sweet!," "Bed Fordone," and "In Water Face Answereth", includes 1901

Notebook BC 40: On the public and literature, Asiatic box 5 folder 25 literature, copy of the Greek alphabet, and poem: "Her violet locks", undated

Notebook BC 41: On Norman English, Marital Love, the bear, box 5 folder 26 vowel sound, and poems: "Cynddylan of Uricon" and "There came posts", probably includes 1903

Notebook BC 42: On Shakespeare's plays and Americans, box 5 folder 27 Cockney, the power of the Saints, and poem: "A torrent passage of flagrant brass", undated

Notebook BC 43: On Carlyle, 20th century materialism and box 5 folder 28 superstition, Carlotta, Modern authors, Daemons, play on Pyrrhus and Anaximenes, and poem: "The Sonnet", includes 1902, 1903

"Ad Amicam" sequence and other poems notebook, facsimile box 5 folder 29-31 made with Wilfrid Meynell's permission, undated box 6 folder 1

Autobiographical notebook fragments, undated box 6 folder 2

Commonplace book, 1907 box 6 folder 3 box 20

Early poems (fair copies), 1889-1890 box 6 folder 4

Natural phenomena notes, undated box 6 folder 5

Notebook fragments, undated box 6 folder 6

Symbolism notebook (formerly "Small Commonplace Book"), box 6 folder 7 1878-1881

Symbolism notes, undated box 6 folder 8

Ushaw College notebook, before 1877 box 6 folder 9

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- Page 22 - Writings by others copied by Thompson, undated box 6 folder 10

Sub-Subseries 4: Plays, undated Arrangement

Alphabetical by title.

"Man Proposes but Woman Disposes", undated box 6 folder 11 box 21

"Napoleon Judges" manuscript and typescript, undated box 6 folder 12

"Pastoral Play" two manuscripts and a transcription by Monica box 6 folder 13-14 Meynell, undated box 14 folder 2

"Saul: a Play" (scenes 2-3 only), undated box 6 folder 15

"Venus' Fly-trap: A Comedy", undated box 6 folder 16-21

Sub-Subseries 5: Poetry, 1880-1911, undated Arrangement

Alphabetical by title. Titled individual poems are listed first, followed by untitled poems by first line. Books are arranged at the end of the series.

"Absence" manuscript (pages 1 and 3) and transcript box 6 folder 22 (complete), undated

"Ad Amicam," "Friend," "A Moment Unforgot," and "Of My box 6 folder 23 Friend's Aura", undated

"Against Woman Derogating from Herself", undated box 6 folder 24

"An Allegory", undated box 6 folder 25

"All Flesh", undated box 6 folder 26

"An Athem of Earth" and "Ode to the Setting Sun" fragments, box 6 folder 27 undated

"Assumpta Maria", undated box 6 folder 28

"Ballad of the Baralong", undated box 6 folder 29

"A Ballad of the Boer(ing) War", undated box 6 folder 30

"Ballad of Charity", undated box 6 folder 31

"Ballad of Judgment", undated box 6 folder 32

"A Bitter Friend" and "Alack my Deep Offense", undated box 6 folder 33

"The Bride of the God and Thee" typescript, undated box 6 folder 34

"Buona Notte" manuscript and clipping of published version box 6 folder 35 from Athanaeum, 1909

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- Page 23 - "Canticum Novum" typescript on Burns & Oats letterhead, box 6 folder 36 undated

"Carmen Genesis" manuscript fragment (lines 49-78) and box 6 folder 37 typescript, undated

"Cecil Rhodes" manuscript fragment and typescript, 1902 box 7 folder 1

"Choric Song of the Fauns", undated box 7 folder 2

"A Chorus from Isaiah", undated box 7 folder 3

"Cor Meum" transcription, not in Thompson's hand, undated box 7 folder 4

"A Corymbus for Autumn", undated box 7 folder 5

"A Dead Astronomer" and "Love Declared", undated box 7 folder 6

"Deeply Sinning Man and a Lost Friend", undated box 7 folder 7

"De Mortuis", undated box 7 folder 8

"Dilectissimo", undated box 7 folder 9

"Dormium et Requiescam" typescript or transcript, undated box 7 folder 10

"A Double Need", undated box 7 folder 11

"Ecclesiastical Ballads," "An Epigram from Ecclesiasticus," box 7 folder 12 "The Wise Man Answers," and two unidentified poems, undated

"An Echo of Victor Hugo", undated box 7 folder 13

"Elegy on a Cut (or Departed) Stick", undated box 7 folder 14

"Elevaverunt Flumina" manuscript and corrected proof box 7 folder 15 (published as "St. Monica"), circa 1904

"Elijah," "Waiting," and "Forgoing", undated box 7 folder 16

"Epitaphium Scriptoris" transcription not in Thompson's hand, box 7 folder 17 undated

"Ex Ore Infantium", undated box 7 folder 18

"Favoured of Heaven", undated box 7 folder 19

"Franciscus Christificatus", undated box 7 folder 20

"From the Night of Forebeing", undated box 7 folder 21-22

"Fuit", undated box 7 folder 23

"Gilboa", undated box 7 folder 24

"Her Portrait", undated box 7 folder 25

"A Hollow Wood" manuscript and typescript (or transcript), box 7 folder 26 undated

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- Page 24 - "The Hound of Heaven," original manuscript submitted to box 7 folder 27-29 Merry England, a fair copy, and a photostatic copy of the corrected proofs, undated

"The House of Sorrows", published 1911 January box 7 folder 30

"In the Gardens of Phosphorus," with title page for a proposed box 7 folder 31 volume of poetry "First Fruits and Aftermath", undated

"In Her Paths", undated box 7 folder 32

"Incipit Canticum Novum", undated box 7 folder 33

"The Kingdom of God" (includes notes on Studies in box 7 folder 34 Mongtaigne by Grace Norton on reverse), undated

"Kruger Addresses the Raad", undated box 7 folder 35

"The Larger Hope", undated box 7 folder 36

"Laus Amara Doloris," two manuscripts, undated box 7 folder 37-38

"Laus Legis," two manuscripts, undated box 7 folder 39

"Lines (for a drawing of Our Lady of the Night)" and "To St. box 7 folder 40 Anthony of Padua", undated

"A Lost Friend", 1896 July 27 box 7 folder 41

"Love Divided against Itself" fragments (two manuscripts), box 7 folder 42 circa 1885

"Love's Almsman Complaineth of His Fare," two manuscripts box 7 folder 43 (published as "Love's Almsman Plaineth His Fare"), undated

"Love's Varlets," two manuscripts, one possibly not in box 7 folder 44 Thompson's hand, undated

"A Lullaby," two manuscripts, undated box 7 folder 45

"Manus Animam Pinxit", undated box 7 folder 46

"Marah Amarior", undated box 7 folder 47

"Maria Intra Limina Aestuant", undated box 7 folder 48

"Marriage in Two Moods," two manuscripts, undated box 7 folder 49

"Messages," complete and fragment manuscript, undated box 7 folder 50

"The Mistress of Vision," two manuscripts, undated box 7 folder 51

"The New Woman," two manuscripts, undated box 7 folder 52

"Nocturns of my Friend", undated box 7 folder 53

"Orison-Tryst", undated box 7 folder 54

"Outline of a Projected Poem" (includes original Burns & box 7 folder 55 Oates Ltd. envelope), undated

"A Passing Song", undated box 7 folder 56

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- Page 25 - "Past Thinking of Solomon," transcription only, undated box 7 folder 57

"Patmore and New Poems" and fragment "The gentle box 7 folder 58 moon…", undated

"Peace," notebook pages with additional notes, undated box 7 folder 59

"The Portait" (published as "Her Portrait") and "Epilogue" box 7 folder 60 typescripts, undated

"Preludes", undated box 7 folder 61

"A Question", undated box 7 folder 62

"Rejected Lovers," transcription not in Thompson's hand, box 7 folder 63 undated

"A Retrograde Fancy," manuscript by Thompson and copy in box 7 folder 64 Harriet Patmore's hand, undated

"A Rhyme of Dom P.", undated box 7 folder 65

"Rime o' bat O my-sky'em" typescript (or transcript) only, box 7 folder 66 undated

"Sad Semele", undated box 7 folder 67

"Saturnia Regna", undated box 7 folder 68

"The Schoolmaster for God" and "De Mortuis" with additional box 8 folder 1 notes, undated

"The Sere of the Leaf", undated box 8 folder 2

"Sidereal Musings", undated box 8 folder 3

"The Singer Saith of His Song", undated box 8 folder 4

"Si Quaeris Miracula" hymn translation by Thompson, box 8 folder 5 undated

"Sister Songs" preface, 1895 box 8 folder 6

"Song to Chastity" (variant of poem published as "Ad box 8 folder 7 Castitatem"), undated

"This is my Beloved Son" manuscript and typescript, undated box 8 folder 8

"A Tick-lunch", undated box 8 folder 9

"Tis Holy Ground," transcription not in Thompson's hand, box 8 folder 10 undated

"To Daisies" (includes original envelope from Elkin box 8 folder 11 Mathews), undated

"Tom O'Bedlam's Song" partial Thompson manuscript; full box 8 folder 12 transcription in another hand plus an envelope addressed to Thompson; and photostat of Harvard University full manuscript, undated

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- Page 26 - "To Monica Mary Meynell" (includes original envelope sent box 8 folder 13 to Monica Meynell), 1900 September 27

"To a Poet Breaking Silence", undated box 8 folder 14

"To a Snow-flake", undated box 8 folder 15

"To a Wind," two manuscripts, undated box 8 folder 16

"Two Poets", undated box 8 folder 17

"An Unamiable Child", undated box 8 folder 18

"Valete," copy sent to F. Connolly, undated box 8 folder 19

"Verses on Feminine Vanity in Dress", probably 1903 box 8 folder 20

"Victoria", 1901 January 26 box 8 folder 21

"Victorian Ode," includes original envelope with note by box 8 folder 22 Wilfrid Meynell, undated

"The Way of a Maid" and untitled, "Ah poet, narrowing box 8 folder 23 glorious gaze", undated

"Wild-flower", undated box 8 folder 24

Untitled, "Behold," typescript (or transcript) only, undated box 8 folder 25

Untitled, "Boom! Boom!", fragment, undated box 8 folder 26

Untitled, "Cry to the woman of the days to be," fragment box 8 folder 27 (pages 5-8), undated

Untitled, "The flowers, that with [their taper glad?]", undated box 8 folder 28

Untitled, "For little love asks least of love", undated box 8 folder 29

Untitled, "Go book thou shalt be happier," "Lo, at the first, box 14 folder 3 Lord, I took from thee," "I showed to all the goodly fruit," and "Lines on Patmore's Death II", undated

Untitled, "He spake my speech," given the title "Lines on box 14 folder 4 Patmore's Death III" by Terence Connolly, after 1896

Untitled, "The loftiest worship would'st thou know," given box 8 folder 30 the title "The Bride of God and Thee" by Terence Connolly, undated

Untitled, "The night, the mystic night was dense", undated box 8 folder 31

Untitled, "Now Doris Biggs was a pretty maid", undated box 8 folder 32

Untitled, "Of little poets, neither fool nor seer", undated box 8 folder 33

Untitled, "Of thine [enraged?] spirit", undated box 8 folder 34

Untitled, "O how I miss you any casual day", given the title box 8 folder 35 "Lines on Patmore's Death" by Terence Connolly, undated

Untitled, "O Lord Jesus on the tree," transcription (from one box 8 folder 36 of the notebooks) not in Thompson's hand, undated

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- Page 27 - Untitled, "O thou, who say'st" given the title "Weep for Him" box 8 folder 37 by Terence Connolly, undated

Untitled, "The perfect woman? Who may she", with note "To box 8 folder 38 follow Domus Tua", undated

Untitled, "Seen by your solitary style", undated box 8 folder 39

Untitled, "That have their process from the happy skies", box 8 folder 40 undated

Untitled, "Thou, sole declaired Prophet of Christianity," box 8 folder 41 given the title "Prayer to Saint John the Divine" by Terence Connolly, undated

Untitled, "'Tis wintry on our loftiest brows of song", undated box 8 folder 42

Untitled, "To turn the back upon a person", undated box 8 folder 43

Untitled, "'You are aging, C.B.' did the Young Man box 8 folder 44 commence," with other notes on front and back, undated

Untitled fragments in a hand that is not Thompson's, some on box 8 folder 45-46 Burns & Oats, Ltd. letterhead, undated

"Lyrical Poems," full manuscript arranged for the printer box 8 folder 47-65 (published as Poems), 1890-1893

"Poems: partly Mystical," full manuscript arranged for the box 8 folder 66-87 printer (published as New Poems), 1893-circa 1897 box 9 folder 1-30 Shared box folder 4-5 14043

Sub-Subseries 6: Proofs, 1895-1905, undated Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Reviews by Thompson for The Academy, galley proofs box 17 folder 15-32 with some corrections (not in Thompson's hand), probably 1897-1905 box 9 folder 31 box 14 folder 5

"Sister-songs" corrected proofs (here showing two early title box 9 folder 32-33 variations, "Amphicypellon" and "Songs Wing to Wing"), undated

"Sister-songs" galley proofs (here with original title box 17 folder 1-14 "Amphicypellon"), undated

"To the Sinking Sun," galley proof for Harrison & Sons, Shared box folder 1 Printers, 1895 June 7 14043

Sub-Subseries 7: Reviews, 1876-1906, undated

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Chronological.

"To a Poet" by Alice Meynell, fragment, after 1875 box 9 folder 34

The Unknown Eros and Other Odes by Coventry Patmore, box 9 folder 35 missing first page(s), after 1877

St. Bernard on the Love of God translated by Marianne and box 9 folder 36 Coventry Patmore, 1884

Things Seen by C. Lewis Hind, fragment reply to Hind box 9 folder 37 regarding his work, probably 1890

"On Obscure Books" by Coventry Patmore (in Merry box 9 folder 38 England), 1892 December

"A Poet's Religion," review of Religio Poetae by Coventry box 9 folder 39 Patmore. Published version from Merry England, with Thompson's notes, 1893

A Study of St. Paul by S. Baring-Gould, notes, 1897 box 14 folder 6

Handbook of English Literature by Austin Dobson, 1897 box 9 folder 40

A History of Sanskrit Literature by Aruthur Macdonnell, box 9 folder 41 translation of a section of "Sakoontala" used in the review only, probably summer 1900

"Pegasus in Harness," review of The Testament of Man Forbid box 9 folder 42 by John Davidson, 1901 December 13

"A Poetic Disciple of Nietzche," review of Testament of an box 9 folder 43 Empire Builder by John Davidson, 1902 May 22

Alice Meynell's poetry, fragment (pages 13-18), 1902 box 9 folder 44

Aqua-marines by Nora Chesson, 1902 box 9 folder 45

Literature in the Century by W. B. De Mille, 1902 box 9 folder 46

St. Augustine and His Age by Joseph McCabe, 1902 box 9 folder 47

The Story of Chartres by Cecil Headlam, 1902 box 9 folder 48

Alfred Noyes's poetry, fragment (page 3), circa 1902-1906 box 9 folder 49

"A Past English Woman's Letters," review of The Love-Letters box 9 folder 50 of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple edited by Israel Gollancz, 1903

"The Seventeenth Century in English Literature" Clark box 9 folder 51 lectures at Trinity College by Barrett Wendell, 1904

Peace, and Other Poems by Arthur Christopher Benson, 1905 box 9 folder 52

The Poems of Ernest Dowson, 1905 box 14 folder 7

"Our Latin Bible" and "Holy Latin Tongue" articles by box 9 folder 53 William Francis Barry in the Dublin Review, 1906 after July

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- Page 29 - "The Church and Kindess to Animals" author unknown, 1906 box 9 folder 54 before October

Review of Spurgeon's sermons and Mr. L's poetry, fragments, box 9 folder 55 undated

Review of an unidentified collection of poetry, undated box 9 folder 56

Review of an unidentified work by Mr. Balfour, fragment box 9 folder 57 (pages 12-14), undated

Series II: About Thompson, 1876-1967, undated

Subseries A: Biographical, 1908-1962, undated Arrangement

Chronological.

"In Memory of Francis Thompson," typescript address by Agnes box 10 folder 1 Tobin at the Caedmon Club, probably 1908

"Francis Thompson, the Poet," genealogy of Francis Thompson box 10 folder 2 by Perceval Lucas, published in the Pedigree Register, 1913

"The Gates of Luthany," play based on Thompson's life by Felix box 22 Doherty (published as Song Out of Sorrow), 1938

"Poet and Mystic: Francis Thompson," script for a theatrical box 10 folder 3 radio production by Southeast Catholic High School students, 1948

"The Story of Francis Thompson," script for a theatrical radio box 10 folder 4 production by Jean Eicks, presented on the Ave Maria Hour, 1948 May 25

"They Found Fame," episode two "Francis Thompson," script box 10 folder 5 for a theatrical radio production by Maurice Gorham, on the North of England Home Service, 1951 December

"Down the Days and Down the Nights with Francis Thompson," box 10 folder 6 typescript address by Margaret E. Kielty at the Catholic Women's Club of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1962 February 9

"Installation Ode, for the placing of the death mask of Francis box 10 folder 7 Thompson in the home of Yone Naguchi in Japan" typescript, by James H. Cousins, undated

Subseries B: Correspondence, 1893-1943 Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Le Gallienne, Richard to John Lane (readers report on box 10 folder 8 Thompson and others), 1893 May 6

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Spencer, J. H. to Father Page, 1943 June 2 box 10 folder 10

Subseries C: Critical, 1894-1966 Arrangement

Alphabetical by author.

Danchin, Pierre. "Francis Thompson, the Life and Work of a box 10 folder 11-13 Poet," doctoral dissertation, translated from French by Martha Dubay, 1955

Mercedes, M. "A Study of the Sun-image in the Metaphysical box 10 folder 14 Poetry of John Donne and Francis Thompson," masters thesis, 1961

Meynell, Wilfrid, probably. "Poems, etc. contributed by Francis box 10 folder 15 Thompson to Merry England," notes, after 1894

Nicholson, F. Bentley. "Contribution towards a Bibliography of box 10 folder 16 Francis Thompson," typescript, after 1909

O'Connor, J. "A Commentary on Francis Thompson's 'The box 10 folder 17 Mistress of Vision'," typescript and proofs, 1916, 1966 Shared box folder 2 14043

Subseries D: Ephemera, 1889-1967, undated Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Clippings, posthumous articles about Thompson, 1913-1967 box 10 folder 18-20

Clippings, reviews of Thompson's poetry, 1901, 1909 box 10 folder 21

Flier and programs for plays and a lecture about Thompson, box 11 folder 1 1924 and undated

Mass cards from Thompson's funeral (7 copies with two box 11 folder 2 different versos) and Charles Thompson's funeral (1 copy), 1896 April, 1907 November

Scrapbook of Thompson ephemera, entitled "Hound of Heaven," box 11 folder 3-4 bound by Katherine Adams, 1905-1932 Processing Information

At the time of reprocessing, most the the materials had been removed from this scrapbook. A few remain, and a few could be reassociated due to the notations in the scrapbook. They can be found in folder 4. The book itself,

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Scrapbook of Thompson's works in Merry England, kept by box 11 folder 5 Sister Mary Austin, 1889-1894

Subseries E: Images of Thompson and his circle, 1876-1945, undated Arrangement

Alphabetical by subject.

King, Katherine Douglas, portraits. Cabinet card photographs, box 11 folder 6 circa 1896

Lytton, Neville and Mrs. (probably Judith Blunt), photographs, box 11 folder 7 circa 1900

Thompson, Francis, class photograph. Ushaw College, 1876 or box 11 folder 8 1877

Thompson, Francis, painting by John Lavalle, Francis object Thompson, based on a 1907 sketch by Neville Lytton, oil on Painting canvas, 1938

Thompson, Francis, pastel by Neville Lytton, Francis Thompson object Pastel in a London Street (from an earlier sketch), 1945

Thompson, Francis, plaque with bas-relief of his head in profile box 23 by Allison Macomber, in commemoration of the centennial of Thompson's birth, 1959

Thompson, Francis, reproductions of photographs, and portraits box 11 folder 9-12 by Neville Lytton and Everard Meynell, undated

Thompson, Francis, woodcut portrait, unknown artist, undated box 11 folder 13

Subseries F: Works based on Thompson's poetry, 1923-1962, undated

Sub-Subseries 1: Illustrations, 1956, undated

Gammell, R. H. Ives. Hound of Heaven Pictoral Series, color box 14 folder 8 photographs of Gammell's 1956 paintings, undated

La Roche, Gerard. Illumination of Thompson's "Lumen Shared box folder 6 mundi," ink and paint on paper, 1939 14043

Sub-Subseries 2: Sheet Music, 1954-1955, undated Arrangement

Alphabetical by composer.

Bowles, Michael. "Arab Love Song," "Envoy," and box 14 folder 9 "Threatened Tears", 1954-1955, undated

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Jenkins, Edward W. "The Hound of Heaven", undated box 14 folder 11

--, Sister Rose. "The Kingdom of God", undated box 14 folder 12

Sub-Subseries 3: Performances, 1952-1962, undated Arrangement

Alphabetical by event type.

Dramatization, "Hound of Heaven" at The Grail theater, box 11 folder 14 London, script, undated

Dramatization, "Hound of Heaven" by Family Theatre, film box 16 recording, undated Physical Description 1 film reel Conditions Governing Access

This film reel is not available for playback due to format impermanence and can not be reformatted by Burns Library at this time.

Musical performance, "Hound of Heaven" musical setting Shared box object 8-9 for chorus and orchestra by Maurice Jacobson, performed 4593 by the CBS Orchestra and Peloquin Chorale, introduced by John J. Dougherty, president of Seton Hall University, with Digital a reading by Donald Harron, recording by CBS-TV, gift of content Joseph Chomyn, 1962 April 22 111048 Physical Description 2 phonograph records Conditions Governing Access

These recordings have been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Musical performance, "Hound of Heaven" musical setting Shared box object 1, 4 for chorus and piano by Maurice Jacobson, first American 4593 performance by the Peloquin Chorale, with speeches by John J. Burns and Terence Connolly, recording from WGBH-FM Digital broadcast, 1956 November 4 content Physical Description 111049 2 phonograph discs Conditions Governing Access

These recordings have been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to

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Musical performance, "Hound of Heaven" musical setting box 13 for chorus and piano by Maurice Jacobson, performed by the Peloquin Chorale. May be the source recording of the musical Digital performance used in the WGBH broadcast, probably 1956 content November 4 111050 Physical Description 1 audio reel and 1 audio cassette (DAT) Conditions Governing Access

The audio reel is not available for playback due to format impermanence and can not be reformatted by Burns Library at this time. However, it is believed that the audio cassette contains a copy of the same recording. It has been digitally copied; the original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room. Images of both pieces of media have been included with the digitized audio.

Reading, of "Hound of Heaven" by J. Robert Barth, SJ, audio box 13 cassette 2 recording, before 1994 Physical Description Digital content 1 audio cassette 111051 Conditions Governing Access

This recording has been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Reading, of "Hound of Heaven" by Terence Connolly, S.J., box 13 solo and with piano accompaniment, audio recordings, 1952 May 29 Shared box object 10 Physical Description 4593 1 audio reel and 1 phonograph disc Digital content Conditions Governing Access 111052 The audio reel is not available for playback due to format impermanence and can not be reformatted by Burns Library at this time. However, it is believed that the phonograph disc contains a copy of the same recording. It has been digitally copied; the original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room. Images of both pieces of media have been included with the digitized audio.

Reading, "A Voice of the Poet" series, Rudolf Melander box 13 reading ten Thompson poems, 2 copies on audio reels, undated

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These recordings are not available for playback due to format impermanence and can not be reformatted by Burns Library at this time.

Talk by for Boston College Thompson box 13 Centenary Exhibition, audio recording, 1959 November 15 Physical Description 1 audio reel Conditions Governing Access

This recording is not available for playback due to format impermanence and can not be reformatted by Burns Library at this time.

Sub-Subseries 4: Translations, 1923-1939, undated Scope and Contents

Contains translations of "The Hound of Heaven" and the short poem "To W.M." The bulk appear to have been collected by Daniel O'Connor of Essex, England, probably with the intention of publishing them. It appears that additional languages were added later by Wilfrid Meynell and Terence Connolly. Many translations include a portion of the original envelope, a label made by Terence Connolly, and a photograph of the translator. A few also include correspondence to O'Connor, Meynell, and Connolly.

Arrangement

Alphabetical by language. One translation which was not part of the "Hound of Heaven" and "To W.M." translation project has been placed at the end.

Afrikaans by Gregorio Bonazaier and Dr. de Roover, undated box 11 folder 15-16

Annamite by Phan Tan-Ton, 1939 box 14 folder 13

Armenian by Merobe Djanachian, undated box 11 folder 17

Basque by Rev. J. Elissade, undated box 11 folder 18-19

Bengali by B. S. Banerje, undated box 11 folder 20

Bernais by M. Michel Camelat, undated box 11 folder 21

Bohemian (Czech) by Dr. Otto F. Babler, 1938 box 11 folder 22

Breton by Roparz Hemon, undated Shared box folder 3 14043

Catalan by Maria Manent, undated box 11 folder 23

Chinese by Tso Chow Liu, undated box 11 folder 24

Chinese by -- Cheng, undated box 11 folder 25

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Corsican by Carulu Giovoni, undated box 14 folder 14

Danish by unidentified translator, undated box 11 folder 28

Dutch by G. Voskuilen, includes published copy, 1923 box 11 folder 29

Finnish by Elina Vaara, undated box 11 folder 30

French and Creole by two unidentified translators, undated box 11 folder 31

French and Latin, "To W.M." only, by unidentified translator, box 11 folder 32 undated

French by Madame la Comtesse Montbenoit, undated box 11 folder 33

French by Auguste Morel, undated box 11 folder 34

French by Amy Sylvel and Sully-Andre Peyre, undated box 11 folder 35-36

French by unidentified translator, undated box 11 folder 37

Georgian by Georges Gvazava, undated box 11 folder 38-39

German by Elizabeth Kawa, clipping of published version box 11 folder 40 with an introduction by Wilhelm Grenzmann, undated

Greek (classic) by L.T.O Richardson, "To W.M." only, box 11 folder 41 undated

Greek (modern) by Demetrius Caclasmanos and George box 11 folder 42-43 Mitsides, undated

Gujarati by H. F. Burfoot, 1938 box 11 folder 44

Hebrew by Saul Tchernichowsky, 1939 box 12 folder 1

Hindi by H. F. Burfoot, probably 1938 box 12 folder 2

Hungarian by unidentified translator, undated box 12 folder 3

Icelandic by J. Jegflydi, undated box 12 folder 4

Igbo by E. Strub, undated box 12 folder 5

Irish by Liam Gogan, includes clipping of version published in box 12 folder 6 The Irish Press, undated

Japanese by Takeshi Saito, undated box 12 folder 7

Kanarese by K. V. Puttappa, 1939 box 12 folder 52

Ladin by Dr. Men.Gaudenz, undated box 12 folder 8-9

Lamba by C. M. Doke, undated box 12 folder 10-11

Lankisher by Rev. J.B. Brooks, undated box 12 folder 12

Latin by W.W. Sket, 1941 box 12 folder 13

Lettish by Dr. Alice Carlson, undated box 12 folder 14-15

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Maltese by Edward Coleiro, undated box 12 folder 17

Mende by F. W. Migeod, 1937 December 19 box 12 folder 18

Nepali by David Macdonald, Jr., undated box 12 folder 19-20

Norwegian by Ewald Sundberg, 1923 box 12 folder 21

Persian by Mojtaba Minovi, undated box 12 folder 22

Polish by Stanislaw Helsztynski, undated box 12 folder 23

Portuguese by Senhor Luis Marques (includes 1938 letter box 12 folder 24-25 from Leonard Downes), circa 1923

Portuguese by Dr. Paulo Quintela, undated box 12 folder 26

Provencal by Sully-Andre Peyre, undated box 12 folder 27 box 11 folder 36

Punjabi by Dr. Balbir Singh, undated box 12 folder 28

Romanian by Christina Galitzi, 1938 April box 12 folder 29-30 box 15 folder 1

Scotch (Scots Gaelic) by John Mac---, undated box 12 folder 31

Sechuana (Tswana) by D.M. Ramo, undated box 12 folder 32

Serbo-Croat by Svetislav Stafanovitch, undated box 12 folder 33

Serer by Reverend J. F. Ezanno, 1938 box 12 folder 34-35

Slovak by Peter Pridavók, undated box 12 folder 36

Slovene by Grisa Koritnik, 1938 box 12 folder 37-38

Sotho by Reverend R. Ellenberger, undated box 12 folder 39-40

Spanish by Christina Galitzi, "To W.M." only, undated box 12 folder 41

Swedish by Eric Palemtienes, undated box 12 folder 42

Tibetan by D. Macdonald, undated box 12 folder 43-44

Walloon, by Jules Feller, undated box 12 folder 45

Welsh by T. Gwyn Jones (includes 1927 letter from Dr. box 12 folder 46 Evans), undated

Xhosa by S.E.K. Mqhayi, undated box 12 folder 47-48

Yiddish by Mosheh Oved, 1937 October 25 box 15 folder 2

Zulu by B.W. Vilakazi, undated box 12 folder 49-50

"Lilium regis" French translation by Lydia Obolensky, box 12 folder 51 undated

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